Blog 20: Exit Interview

Content:

(1) What is your essential question and answers?  What is your best answer and why?

My essential question is: What is most important to rehabilitating a skier or snowboarder after a traumatic injury?

My three answers are: 

1. In order to rehabilitate a patient after a traumatic skiing or snowboarding injury, the first hand responder needs to make sure they do a thorough initial assessment and management. 

2. In order to rehabilitate a patient after a traumatic skiing or snowboarding injury, the first hand responder needs to make sure they know the Mechanism of Injury(MOI) or Nature of Illness(NOI). 

3.In order to rehabilitate a patient the first hand responder needs to triage the patients correctly.  

My best answer is:  In order to rehabilitate a patient after a traumatic skiing or snowboarding injury, the first hand responder needs to make sure they know the Mechanism of Injury(MOI) or Nature of Illness(NOI) because when I interviewed Kelly Wolff of Loma Linda Medical Center, she stated that if you don't know the MOI or NOI you can't paint a clear picture of what actually happened and you can't give a detailed hand off report to a higher level of care. 

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

I first heard of MOIs and NOIs in my Outdoor Emergency Care class and I thought it was a key point in medical treatment. I thought it was interesting, and I began to research it more in my research checks. As I did my third and fourth interviews, MOIs and NOIs began to pop uo more and more. When I did my third interview with Kelly Wolff of Loma Linda Medical Center, she kept talking about recognizing the MOI or NOI so this is where I generated my answer from. I also asked my mentor, David Mix of Mt. Baldy Ski Lifts Incorporated about MOIs and NOIs during my fourth interview and he agreed it is a vital step in rehabilitation. 

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

I struggled with coming up with answers to my essential question. I resolved this issue by writing down potential answers to my essential question then I decided if they were good enough or not. I also had issues with coming up with questions to ask for my third and fourth interviews which I thought was vital in getting potential answers to my essential question. I resolved this by asking questions that went in depth about my essential question and everything that went along with my essential question like MOIs and NOIs. 

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

Outdoor Emergency Care: 5th Edition by Edward C. McNamara was a significant source for me because it was what got me started on my journey of my senior project. This book went along with my class and both of these generated a bunch of topics to research and look into. Another significant source for me was Nurse to Nurse Trauma by Donna Nayduch because this went into depth about a bunch of different injuries and what steps to take in determining the MOI or NOI. It also gave symptoms to look for which helps with determining the NOI. 

Be prepared with evidence and specific examples to support any response.  It is also significant to cite sources as you explain.

Blog 19: Independent Component 2

Due Date:  Friday 4/25 by 8AM

Content:  

LITERAL
(a) Statement saying: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”

I, Jackie Boyd, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component

For my independent component, I took an online anatomy course. There were a variety of sources included in completing this course. First of all, all of the lectures I watched, I was listening to Professor Marian Diamond of UC Berkeley. Also, there were a lot of readings in the Gray's Anatomy book by Henry Gray. There were also side readings by John Kimball and Michael Farabee. All of these sources helped me out with the course because I wouldn't have been able to follow along in the course and expand my knowledge without the combination of all four sources. 

(c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours).   Post it next to your mentorship log.

Look at blog under mentorship. Its called Independent Component 2 Log. 

(d) Explanation of what you completed.    

I completed this anatomy class which was 126 hours of work.  Every weekend I would sit down and try and complete one unit, sometimes I did more or less.  I watched all of the lectures and took notes on the lectures. All of the lectures were done by UC Berkeley Professor Marian Diamond, she was very knowledgable in the concepts of anatomy. Throughout the twelve different units, there were different readings, interactive labs, and assessments. For the readings, they were all online and for the most part it was mainly reading from the Gray's Anatomy book. There was also readings by John Kimball and Michael Farabee spread throughout the units. All of these readings were based off the lectures from Marian Diamond, so they went hand in hand with each other where if I didn't understand something the professor said I would read it later on in depth and I could see it clearly. The interactive labs were the visuals of the class. These were like worksheets, if it wasn't an online class. These labs for the most part were labeling exercises. This really painted a picture in my mind of what I had learned throughout the units. Finally, the assessments were there to check to see how much you learned throughout each unit. These assessments were all 40 questions long, and were helpful because I got to see how much I took away from each unit. 

INTERPRETIVE 
Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

The most significant part of my independent component was actually participating in this online course. This online course was very hard for me to commit myself every weekend to sit down and go through the motions especially because it was an online course where it's very easy to procrastinate. I learned a lot of valuable information through this course that will help me with patrolling, because understanding the anatomy of the human body can help you with identifying internal injuries better and even external injuries. Knowing the technical terms of the bones and body makes you look better as a patroller and you will get more respect as a more knowledgable person. Every weekend I sat down and went through the motions of this online class, where I learned various medical terms and anatomy of the human body, and learned about the different systems throughout the human body and how they work to help me get those 30 hours(which I exceeded) to complete my first independent component. 

Notes that I took in my notebook. 

More notes. All of my notes have the same format. 

More notes. 

Interactive lab where I had to label the different bones of the body.

Interactive lab where I had to label the different bones of the body.

Interactive lab where I had to label the different bones of the body.

Quiz from unit 5.

Quiz from unit 6. 

APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

This component helped me answer my essential question by building on the foundation of patient assessments because when you understand the human body's anatomy you can do your assessments much faster and more accurate and it will come more natural to you. For example, before I took this anatomy class I didn't know many technical terms throughout the human body. Now I can say oh this person has a fractured clavicle and I know that is the person has a fractured collarbone. This helps with patient assessments because I won't struggle for the technical terms of the human bones. Also, if there's a patient with an internal injury, I will now have a better understanding of what it possibly could be. 

Fun Day at Mentorship

I have officially finished my mentorship hours. Today I went up and finished up my hours. Since there is no snow, I just helped out with anything my mentor wanted me too. One of the lift operators is taking an Emergency Medical Response(EMR) class, and so my mentor had me show him how some of the medical supplies work. First, I showed him how to apply oxygen to a patient using different masks. Next, I showed him the Hare and Sager splints which are used to splint femur fractures. Then, I showed him different types of c-collars. Every c-collar is different in the aspect of adjusting them. I let him put the c-collar on me to get some hands on practice. Next, I showed him the different types of headbeds and how they work. Headbeds are used to secure a patient's head to a backboard.

This is an oxygen tank with the tank valve on. 

This is a Hare splint used for a femur fracture. You pull on their ankle with the device until they feel relief on the femur. 

This is a Sager splint used for splinting femurs. You pull on 10% of the person's body weight but no more than 15 pounds on the person's ankle so they can feel relief on their femur. 

This is a c-collar used for immobilizing the neck. 

This is a headbed used for immobilizing a patient's head to a backboard. 

After we were done messing with all of the medical supplies, I helped take apart the chairs from the ski lift. Every year, the ski resort has to maintain 10% of their chairs. I took off the cotter pins from the chairs with pliers. Next, I took off the part that connects to the chair off which is called the chair hanger . I did this by using a wrench to unscrew a bolt and then I took the pin out with all of the washers.

These are the chairs I dismantled. 

This is me taking out the cotter pin with pliers.

The cotter pin I took out. 

All of the parts I took off the chairs which include chair hangers, washers, bolt, and pins. 

The after result of the chair hanger coming off. 

Once I finished taking the parts off the chairs I cleaned up because it was a very greasy job. I helped unload and load people on to the chairs. I got to learn the different controls for the ski lift. like which buttons stop and start the chair and which buttons speed up the chair. Today was a really fun day at mentorship. I increased my knowledge tremendously.

Pretty view from top of chair 1. 

Looking down from the top of chair 1. 

Baldy bowl. 

Another picture of Baldy bowl.