Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

1. What are the most significant factors in a successful angioplasty procedure?

2. What role does time play in a procedure like this?

3. Have you ever had a failure or witness a failure?

4. How does a distorted heart create a challenge?

5. Is this more individual or teamwork?

6. In the case of an emergency, what would be the first response?

7. When making decisions, in what premise do you base on whether or not a stent needs do be placed?

8. Are these decisions instinctual or meditated?

9. Does the patient's history play a role in the procedure?

10. What kind of preparation must be taken before even entering the procedure room?

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 hours

1. I am doing my mentorship at Keck Medical Hospital at USC.

2. My contact is Oralia Aragon. She is a nurse practitioner of cardiology.

3. I currently have 40 hours logged in my mentorship log.

4. The 10 hours I have completed include giving patients food, water and other things like pillows or to their visitors. I also have been with my mentor making rounds throught the departments for patients with problems pertaining to cardiology. At the end of the rounds, I often go back to her office and look at X-ray images and videos called angiograms to learn how to spot clots in the veins while she does notations for doctors.

Senior Project: The Holiday

1. I didn't do much of anything. I was bed ridden with a severe case of asthma and constantly on a breathing apparatus. I'm better now with the medication but still a bit sick.

2. The most important thing I learned is don't stay in the cold too long. I couldn't do much so there was not much learning.

3. I would talk to Dr. Shavel because he is one of the leaders of intervention procedures. I would also contact Dr. Mathews since he is head of the department and has a precise knowledge of my topic.

Monthly Blog: December

I haven't done much over this month because of my extreme asthma attack. I was diagnosed early on and couldn't really go to the hospital and get many mentorship hours. So far though, I am up to 108-110 hours. 50 of which are independent component.

November Extra Post

The mentorship has been going well. I've already help patch up patients cuts and delivered packets of blood to desired departments all over the hospital. I still make rounds with my mentor around the hospital, evaluating patients and consulting them of their upcoming procedure and/or risks. We also check up on them to make sure their vitals aren't fluctuating erratically and if they are, we try to come up with a possible plan to stop it whether it be medication or bed side observation.

Blog 9: EQ

1.I reviewed the rule-of-three of writing an EQ

2. a: It follows the frameworks of the rule-of-three.The reason is because it requires in depth analysis on types of weight loss and allows room for debate. It's clear and concise and gets the point across.
b: This follows the rules because it creates investigation and debatable information. The wording is clear and makes sense.
c: This doesn't really follow the rules because it is bias. The research can be very opinionated.
d: This follows the rule-of-three because information can be gathered from it and can be discussed. The wording is to the point and understandable.

3. What is the most important factor in a successful angioplasty?

Extra Blog 3

The mentorship is going successfully. I meet with me mentor, Oralia Aragon, every Tuesday from 2-6 and do a number of things. So when I arrive to do my mentorship, I ask Oralia if there is anything to do today. In this profession it's a joke because it is almost rare when there isn't something to do. On an average day we go and visit patients and diagnose and inform the patient. I take notes on how to great the patient and how to inform them as well as prescribing them for proper medication. Recently we seen a patient that had a heart attack and didn't know a word of English and was partially deaf and hard of vision. When asked if he had any family, he went on tangents of old stories of how he came to America from Cuba. As his attention began to come together, he told us we he had no family and his house maid is an "untruthful woman" and that she was the reason he was there, that she had poisoned his drinking water. The man was not deranged but confused and in a hospital you need to be ready for confusion, I've learned, and ready with an answer