7. Rotation Blogs (1) NICU: Rotation 10 Posted by lauren hoebener at Monday, October 31, 2011 1:13:33 PM CDT This week I went to the NICU. It was a lot of fun. I got to listen to the baby's vitals and check his feeding tube. I learned a lot about the different things premature babies can have wrong with them. For example, underdeveloped organs/lungs, brain problems, skin being to thin, and many other things. I really enjoyed this unit. The babies were too cute.
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9. Continued..(3) rehab services: Rotation 7 Posted by lauren hoebener at Thursday, October 6, 2011 1:46:22 PM CDT I love love love love love this unit. I had a blast. The first day my mentor and I went to the burn unit and saw a guy who had been burned in a field fire. She made him a split to stretch out his fingers so that he could still move them. Then we went and helped a bigger woman walk like she sat up and was evaluated. The second day is what really made me love this unit. There was a little boy who was 18 months old. He was huge! When he was born some of his fingers didn't develop fully so the lady was making him a splint to separate his fingers so that they didn't get tight and he could still use them. He was so precious. He was playful and happy until she tried to put the splint on then he'd cry until she moved it away. He was so funny. I watched him get worked with, they moved his hands and helped him start to walk. Then my mentor had a patient come in who punched through a glass door and she stretched his arm out. Then finally she ended our day with walking an older man. It was so much fun.
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21. Continued Lauren Hoebener Dr. Singh and Mrs. Hang 11/28/11 Newman Paper This week we had a lady come to speak with us about becoming a nurse and the nursing program at Newman. I learned a lot of helpful information about both. Nurses can work in clinics, houses, or hospitals and can make up to thirty one dollars and hour. However they don’t just work with one certain age group, nurses can work with anyone. As a nurse you can never stop learning, you are required to keep up in classes to keep your license fresh. You must have people skills and be able to work as a team with anyone who may come into your line of work. Not to mention a nurse has to be a quick thinker. Nurses require a lot of special skills that can’t be learned in a classroom as well as those that can be taught in a classroom. There are two different paths a nurse can go through in schooling. They can go to school for two or four years. The two year schooling gives you an associate degree. Where as the four year degree gives you the Bachelor’s degree; sometimes jobs require this and it creates more flexibility. This also sets you up to enter a graduate program. At Newman the program’s curriculum is classroom and clinical. The size of the program also allows each student to work closely with the staff and better prepare them for their job ahead. They also have a high rate of students who pass the test to become nurses where as most of the bigger schools don’t. She also informed us that if we were interested that we could come and visit the classroom or lab. Lauren Hoebener Dr. Singh 12/5/11 Newman Class Paper Occupational Therapy The second speaker that came to talk to our class last Friday spoke to us about becoming an occupational therapist otherwise known as an O.T. An occupational therapist is someone who helps people turn disabilities into abilities. There are three different branches of an occupational therapist. These include physical which pertains to the body, psychiatric which pertains to your mental capacity, and developmental which deals with mental disorders. They also have three areas of concern they deal with. Self care, work, and play is what they work to make easier for the patient. Occupational Therapists can work in many places, thus making this job very convenient. They can work in hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and even some home care. Depending on where they work they can make 45,000 dollars per year or more. When contrasted with physical therapy, occupational therapy seems to focus more on calculating and improving a person’s functional ability. An occupational therapist really doesn’t directly treat a person's injury using techniques such as labor-intensive therapy or anything like a physical therapist would but more commonly helps a person utilize their independence and their ability to accomplish their daily activities following an injury or in situations of physical impairment. Occupational therapy or any therapy is a good career to go into thanks to the baby boomers getting older. A lot more care is needed to rehabilitate them. Lauren Hoebener 11/17/11 Lecture Paper over Dentistry I found Dr Troilo’s presentation very interesting. I have always liked the thought of dentistry (I want to be an orthodontist) and his speech made me like it even more. I learned that it takes only four years to become a dental hygienist which is a very noble field. You get to be around a lot of people, you have the ability to basically choose your hours, and the pay is great. Even though I don’t want to go into dentistry Dr Troilo had a lot of useful information about insurance companies. He said to be careful of the companies belittling you and not paying enough even though there isn’t much you can do about it. I learned that the densistry schools seem to treat you a lot differently than medical schools. The teachers tend to be demeaning and by no means do they evoke confidence. Also the school itself makes a difference. Students from UMKC (University of Missouri Kansas City) tend to have less confidence and are not as able as those from other schools. I also learned that having a relationship survive school is very hard to do. There is a lot of stress involved in going to school and a lot of stress in new marriages so the combination can be lethal to the marriage. Dentists have a high rate of suicide and divorce and are also more likely to abuse substances. However you can learn to handle these in many different ways and as long as you don’t let them overtake your life you will be fine. On the plus side you can limit your practice to what you want to do. You can open your own boutique or you can have a basic practice that deals with everything. You also have the ability to choose your own hours which is a great feature to being a dentist. There are so many pluses to being a dentist and working in this field.
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