March 26, 2014
Today I had the opportunity to meet a Pediatric Oncologist. He informed of so many things that I never thought about; the various amount of cancers and treatments. Dr. Clarke Anderson, MD. works at City of Hope in Duarte, California. Dr. Anderson is knowledgeable in many aspects, he informed me all about what it will take to become one, the dedication it takes and the long road that awaits. He emphasized the various abilities a Pediatric Oncologist should have. I asked him for his opinion on my answers and he agreed that I chose the right answers. We talked about the research I have read and we discussed many concepts within it. It was really nice to know that my research was true and is applied now a days. He talked about many patients and gave me a documentary that one of his patients was a part of where it showed the life and treatment aspect of him while he was diagnosed with cancer. I learned so much from meeting a professional in the field, it was nice.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Third Answer
EQ - What is the best way a Pediatric Oncologist can increase the survival rate of a patient with a Primary cancer?
Answer #3 - A Pediatric Oncologist can increase the survival rate of a patient with a Primary cancer by conducting clinical trials.
3 details
1. Conducting clinical trials will help Pediatric Oncologist discover different things about treatments.
2. Clinical trials provide abundant amount of data so that Pediatric Oncologists know that the treatment ultimately works.
3. Clinical trials are meant to understand how the human body reacts to tests given.
Resource - Dr. Clarke Anderson, MD
Concluding Sentence - In order to figure out what needs to be used to kill cancerous cells Pediatric Oncologists need to conduct clinical trials so that they may better understand what effects treatment have on humans.
Monday, March 3, 2014
Fourth Interview Questions
1. What kind of things do you do so that your patient feels most comfortable?
2. What kind of environment do you aim for when treating a patient?
3. When about to reveal to the patient and their parents that they have cancer, what strategies do you use so that the impact is minimal?
4. Can you please explain the overall kinds of treatments that you as a Pediatric Oncologist use in order to attack cancerous cells? And what these treatments do? For example, Radiation and Chemotherapy.
5. Could you define what therapeutic play is and what it is meant to achieve?
6. Out of the whole process of recovery which is the most important?
7. What later effects can occur from treatments?
9. What kinds of diets must a child diagnosed with cancer follow?
10. What other kinds of therapies are there?
11. Describe the different stages of cancer and what stage can a certain treatment be done?
12. What are CT scans supposed to uncover?
13. Why is it that some patients react differently to cancer cells? For example why do most people taking chemotherapy tend to lose their hair while others don't?
14. What are the most common side affects a child with cancer gets?
15. How often is a child diagnosed with cancer and which is most popular?
16. Is it true that genders are more susceptible to certain cancers? Why?
17. How do you as a Pediatric Oncologist determine which treatment is best for the child?
18. What is the most gratifying part of your job?
19. What role do nurses play in the process of a child's recovery?
20. What do you tell your patients and their parents so that they keep hope?
2. What kind of environment do you aim for when treating a patient?
3. When about to reveal to the patient and their parents that they have cancer, what strategies do you use so that the impact is minimal?
4. Can you please explain the overall kinds of treatments that you as a Pediatric Oncologist use in order to attack cancerous cells? And what these treatments do? For example, Radiation and Chemotherapy.
5. Could you define what therapeutic play is and what it is meant to achieve?
6. Out of the whole process of recovery which is the most important?
7. What later effects can occur from treatments?
9. What kinds of diets must a child diagnosed with cancer follow?
10. What other kinds of therapies are there?
11. Describe the different stages of cancer and what stage can a certain treatment be done?
12. What are CT scans supposed to uncover?
13. Why is it that some patients react differently to cancer cells? For example why do most people taking chemotherapy tend to lose their hair while others don't?
14. What are the most common side affects a child with cancer gets?
15. How often is a child diagnosed with cancer and which is most popular?
16. Is it true that genders are more susceptible to certain cancers? Why?
17. How do you as a Pediatric Oncologist determine which treatment is best for the child?
18. What is the most gratifying part of your job?
19. What role do nurses play in the process of a child's recovery?
20. What do you tell your patients and their parents so that they keep hope?
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Advisory Meeting #2
EQ: What is the best way a Pediatric Oncologist can increase the survival rate of a patient with a primary cancer?
Answer #2: A Pediatric Oncologist can increase the survival rate of a patient with a primary cancer by developing specialized treatments that are effective in killing cancerous cells.
3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example):
1. Screening reduces mortality in the U.S.
2. Develop a systematic plan for screening, surveillance, and prevention.
3. Another approach to delivering Conformal Radiatian therapy involves arc therapy with photons.
The research source (s) to support your details and answer:
1. Thomas, Frieden. "The Oncologist." A Public Health Approach to Winning the War Against Cancer. AlphaMed Press, 17 Dec. 2008. Web. 06 Feb. 2014.
2. Oeffinger, Kevin. "The Annals of Family Medicine." Health Care of Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Annals of Family Medicine, 1 Jan. 2014. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.
3. Tarbell, Nancy J. "The Oncologist." Conformal Radiation Therapy for Childhood CNS Tumors. AlphaMed Press, n.d. Web. 20 Feb. 2014.
Concluding Sentence: Treatments are meant to fight cancer in certain ways, but narrowing them down further can increase the chances of a patient's survival rate since a specialized treatment will focus on each individual specifically.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Independent Component 2 Approval
1. For my 30 hours I will do mentorship, I feel that mentorship is giving me much knowledge to which I can always refer back to. I have learned some valuable information while being in my mentorship and I feel it will help me with backing up my answers.
2. This time I will provide pictures of things that relate to my answers. For example my first answer has to do with the psychological and emotional support of a doctor through their relationship with a patient. I would like to maybe take a picture of the bulletin board of patient's pictures at the office. That itself shows the relationship made between a doctor and patient.
3. Mentorship has been a great help with providing specific examples that relate to my topic and better yet to my answers. In my 30 minute presentation I was able to point out many situations that I witnessed in mentorship to help me prove my answer one's true validity. Mentorship will help me continue to grow in my knowledge of my topic.
2. This time I will provide pictures of things that relate to my answers. For example my first answer has to do with the psychological and emotional support of a doctor through their relationship with a patient. I would like to maybe take a picture of the bulletin board of patient's pictures at the office. That itself shows the relationship made between a doctor and patient.
3. Mentorship has been a great help with providing specific examples that relate to my topic and better yet to my answers. In my 30 minute presentation I was able to point out many situations that I witnessed in mentorship to help me prove my answer one's true validity. Mentorship will help me continue to grow in my knowledge of my topic.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Independent Component 1
Literal
a) I, Brianna Sigala, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
b) Jen Soto and the Chino Pediatrics team helped me complete this independent component.
c) Posted.
d) I completed 30 extra hours of mentorship. I shadowed my mentor and other nurses as well as helping them out with other tasks at hand such as grabbing files and inserting insurance information or how much due payment the patient has.
Interpretive
One of the most significant parts of doing 30 extra hours of mentorship is that I learn more and more about what it is like to work with children and their parents. It demonstrates 30 hours of work because since the beginning of the year I dedicated myself into going to mentorship and learning more than what was required of us for mentorship, these 30 hours give me the credibility of becoming an expert in my field. With working and seeing my mentor and others in action I begin to visualize and process what it takes to work with children, I become more experienced and an expertise in my senior topic.
Due to the fact that it's a Pediatric office I can't really openly take a picture of patients and the private information. I do have a picture of my mentorship.
Applied
Independent Component helped me understand the foundation of my senior topic better by giving me more experience in working with children. At first when we started researching articles I was bombarded with so much information that I didn't know what route I wanted to take. My mentorship helped me clear that up by consistently giving examples of the key components of working with children. For example my answer 1 derived from my research but was assured through my extra 30 hours of mentorship I began to observe how my answer 1 played out in mentorship and how it proved to be true. My answer 1 is "to touch base with patients on a near daily basis" and in my research it is proven statistically that the relationship between a patient and a doctor is vital to a speedy recovery but through my mentorship I experienced first hand how this was true.
a) I, Brianna Sigala, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
b) Jen Soto and the Chino Pediatrics team helped me complete this independent component.
c) Posted.
d) I completed 30 extra hours of mentorship. I shadowed my mentor and other nurses as well as helping them out with other tasks at hand such as grabbing files and inserting insurance information or how much due payment the patient has.
Interpretive
One of the most significant parts of doing 30 extra hours of mentorship is that I learn more and more about what it is like to work with children and their parents. It demonstrates 30 hours of work because since the beginning of the year I dedicated myself into going to mentorship and learning more than what was required of us for mentorship, these 30 hours give me the credibility of becoming an expert in my field. With working and seeing my mentor and others in action I begin to visualize and process what it takes to work with children, I become more experienced and an expertise in my senior topic.
Due to the fact that it's a Pediatric office I can't really openly take a picture of patients and the private information. I do have a picture of my mentorship.
Applied
Independent Component helped me understand the foundation of my senior topic better by giving me more experience in working with children. At first when we started researching articles I was bombarded with so much information that I didn't know what route I wanted to take. My mentorship helped me clear that up by consistently giving examples of the key components of working with children. For example my answer 1 derived from my research but was assured through my extra 30 hours of mentorship I began to observe how my answer 1 played out in mentorship and how it proved to be true. My answer 1 is "to touch base with patients on a near daily basis" and in my research it is proven statistically that the relationship between a patient and a doctor is vital to a speedy recovery but through my mentorship I experienced first hand how this was true.
Lesson 2 Reflection
1. I am most proud of how much information I gave during my lesson 2 presentation because it helped me move my answer along and inform my classmates very well. I was also proud that I did not freak out it was as if all the information just came out of my mouth naturally so that was really nice.
2. a. I would give myself a P
b. I think I deserve this grade because I met the requirements. For example, my research was cited throughout my presentation in which I used it to back up my answer.
3. What worked for me in my lesson 2 presentation was the capturing of my classmates attention and giving them interesting information that they cared about.
4. If I had a time machine and could have done something differently in my presentation I would have bettered my scenarios for my activity.
5. I don't really know yet, I think my answer #2 will probably focus more on the treatments aspect of Pediatric cancer.
2. a. I would give myself a P
b. I think I deserve this grade because I met the requirements. For example, my research was cited throughout my presentation in which I used it to back up my answer.
3. What worked for me in my lesson 2 presentation was the capturing of my classmates attention and giving them interesting information that they cared about.
4. If I had a time machine and could have done something differently in my presentation I would have bettered my scenarios for my activity.
5. I don't really know yet, I think my answer #2 will probably focus more on the treatments aspect of Pediatric cancer.
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