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Freshmen Project: Calcific Periarthritis PBL
Freshmen Project: Calcific Periarthritis PBL
This project was a resarch study done to see if shock wave theapy and a pain pump inserted into a patient's arm can be an effective treatment for calcific periarthritis. Our contribution to the project was creating the patient's insurance plan, and the juniors at the time were also involved as well as engineering steam students. Some difficulties were lack of communication, as we had trouble getting the engineering students to do their part and design a prototyoe for the pain pump.
The older health steam students were nicer and let us be more involved, but something I definitely learned from this project is that when a project is first assigned, the first thing you need to is establish an easy line of communication with group members.
Freshman Project.pdfCC PBL Insurance info.pdfPain scale.pdfSophomore Project: Pain Scale
Sophomore Project: Pain Scale
We all know how daunting the hospital pain scales are, so with that in mind, we were assigned to make a more accurate pain scale with comparisons to shared experiences. The weekend before this assignment, I left my iPad inside my dad's work car and he went to Columbia, so of course, my first thought was that I was going to fail all of my classes. We ended up getting it back, but my partner and I thought it would be funny to make that experience the 10 on the pain scale because of how much I was panicking.
This was a good project and a fun way to make the pain scale more relatable so that in the future, we could give examples like these to patients and get a better understanding of their pain.
Junior Project: Life-sized Models of the Respiratory, Cardiovascular, and Reproductive Systems
Junior Project: Life-sized Models of the Respiratory, Cardiovascular, and Reproductive Systems
Myself and my partners, Samantha Getchell, Catalina Lujan-Rodriguez, and Amber-Marie Carpintero were assigned a project in which we had to come up with a creative way to make models of body systems as well as comparisons to other types of systems (ex. the respiratory system is like a tree, broncioles are branches). We were each given separate roles, mine being that I had to set up our schedule and when/where we would work on the project, and it was my responsibility to remind my group members of due dates and keep people on track. It was my idea to make the life-sized drawings and the comparison between the respiratory system and a tree, the only probelm being that I was not able to help do the drawings physically, because my brother had COVID at the time and I was quarantined.
Other than that, the four of us worked very well together and this project was one of our best in terms of communication, as we were all very open to each others ideas and were very easily able to incorporate everyone's.
Senior Year: Inserting a needle for a Phlebotomy
Senior Year: Inserting a needle for a Phlebotomy
Medical students from Nova Southeastern University came to our class to teach us how to insert butterfly needles. The model arm was a piece of foam with a thick tube on one side and a thin tube on the other, surrounded by a piece of what I think was silicone. The medical student showed us that we have to insert the needle at a 15-30 degree angle in order to not puncture the other side of the vein. I could tell when I was doing it right because I could feel the give of the needle once it was inside the tube. I was able to get the hang of it very quickly because since I get my blood drawn so often, I see the process of sterilization, needle insertion, and tube changing so often.
After seeing it so many times, it was really fun to finally get to do it myself; and the medical students were very good to talk to because they let us ask questions about college and medical school and they gave us advice that was very helpful, such as participating in classes and establishing relationships with professors so that they can write good letters of recommendation.
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