Empathy

I believe that I am a very empathic person and can relate to or understand hardships that others are going through.  I always do my best to listen if someone needs advice or sympathy.  The findings on the empathy test revealed my score to be average.  This score is somewhat accurate, however I believe it did score me lower than I would have thought I would be.  Sometimes I have trouble listening to other people’s viewpoints because I am so strong in my beliefs and morals, which could explain why the score was just average.

 Empathy is somewhat genetic but a great deal of a person’s empathy is influenced by their environment.  For instance, if someone was raised in a home where love is unconditional they will be more apt to give and accept love.  On the other hand, if someone was raised in a home where there was no empathy or love toward each other, then they will shut down and become hardened by their negative experience. 

My AP Statistics teacher is an amazing example of someone who shows empathy to everyone.  For example, she always is ready to listen to anything that is troubling you and is generous to people who are struggling financially. However, I also know another teacher that is lacking in empathy.   Instead of trying to understand why students are having trouble in a certain area she doesn’t care to listen or understand.  She presses her views unto the students and doesn’t care to listen to anyone else’s view.

 

Whom Do I Envy? What Do I Lie About?

Sometimes I find myself envying other students that are more successful than me.  For instance, I feel like I have failed or I could have done better if someone gets a better grade or gets accepted into a better college than me.  Also, whenever someone asks me if I did good on a test or not I tell them I did good even if I didn’t do as well as I would have liked.  However, by envying and telling white lies I recognize that I need to own up to who I am no matter what other people may think about me.  I realize that all I can do is my personal best and past that I shouldn’t let other people’s success intimidate me.  I should be proud of all my many achievements and learn that you can’t always be the best in life.  I will strive to be the best me that I can be!

One Word Resolution

Patience

I chose the word patience for my one word resolution, because I often struggle with tolerance and waiting.  I wish to become more patient with people and things that are to come in the future.  I hope I will be able to slow down and enjoy life, instead of being impatient for the day to end.

Project Questions

 

1.      I need and want to know this:

I need to discover how different fields of medicine relate to cardiology, such as anesthesiology.  I want to know how cardiology can branch into different types of medicine.  This way I can discover what field would better suit my career interests.

 

2.      What is your current essential question?

Which healthcare profession should I choose, in order to prioritize my needs of working in a career that assess criteria of something that would validate my reasons for choosing to research the medical field?

 

3.      How do you envision using technology to best show case your project?

I envision using technology such as; PowerPoint, Word, Pictochart, graphs, pictures and statistics to best show case my project.  These will help me showcase the best facts and pictures in an abstract way to help answer my essential question.

 

4.      What will you do for your "real inquiry"?

First I will start off by asking the question of what medical careers branch off from cardiology, specifically does anesthesiology.  Then I will research the careers that relate to cardiology.  Next, I will draw my own conclusions on what careers best fit me and my wants and needs.  Then I will present my findings in an abstract presentation to draw my conclusion.

Running May Speed Ones Progress to the Finishing Line of Life

While participating in my mentorship in the cardiology department, I discovered a very interesting fact.  My mentor made a comment, while reading an article on a man who keeled over and died while running a marathon, about how running can be very unhealthy for you.  I found this very intriguing since I am an avid runner, so I discovered an article on the subject from Medical News Today.  The article stated that running for too long or too fast doesn’t do any more good to health than a moderate vigorous session of 30-50 minutes.  It proceeded to explain that it is a common misconception to think that more intensive and longer-lasting exercise can only do you “extra good”.   Researchers stated that evidence shows that activities such as marathons are more likely to cause harm to heart health.  Chronic extreme endurance seems to cause excessive wear and tear on the heart, along with adverse structural and electrical remodeling.  This article made me think twice about running for a long period of time and reconsider doing short spurts of moderate exercise.

 

Nordqvist, Christian. "Beware of the Dangers of Long Term Marathons." Medical News Today. Academic Journal, 30 Nov. 2012. Web. 4 Dec. 2012.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/253400.php

Mentor Q and A

1. How would you use technology in the day to day operations of your career field?

            We use technology every day in everything we do! That’s what keeps this field exciting! We use technology such as data to document patients and all of the equipment to administer cauterizations.

2. What technology do you use to communicate with other professionals?

            The nurses are the ones who usually communicate the information and data to where it needs to go.  They use charts or send it via the computer.

3. When presenting to other professionals, what do you use to do so?

            We use computer data, charts and diagrams (either manually or technologically) that display a visual of the heart where we draw in any findings we come across while we cath the patient.  We also have an inventory data sheet to document the equipment we use during the procedure.

4. What is your theory about the type of technology that will be used in the future in this profession?

            Professionals are actually working on a robotic device that will assist in caths, so that the nurses and doctors are more protected from the radiation.

5. As a student and future professional, how can you imagine technology being incorporated in this profession?

            I can imagine technology getting to the point where advanced high-tech robotic devices assist in the cath lab, so that radiation isn’t an issue for the nurses.  Also, advanced catheters that are less invasive and computers that are able to document the necessary information automatically is also a possibility.

How will you incorporate technology into your final presentation for HMP?

                  I will use technological programs such as a Prezi or PowerPoint to display my final presentation.  Then I will incorporate the technology in my mentorship in the presentation in a unique way to display all of the tools my mentors use day to day.  I will also use videos to demonstrate my career field and the technology that it requires.

This is broken...

There are many things that are clearly broken in today’s society that could be fixed, but no one takes initiative to fix the problems.  I have had experience with a system that was clearly broken this past weekend.  I went to my region cheer competition and was very exuberant at how we performed.  It was clearly our best performance as a team; however the judges gave us the worst scores we had ever gotten for the season!  For other sports, like football and basketball, the scores are put on the scoreboard based on how many touchdowns or baskets they make.  On the other hand, judges use their opinions to score how good a team did.  This leaves room for bias, personal opinions and human error.  The system is clearly unfair and broken, thus someone needs to make a point to make it their job to fix the system of cheerleading judging.