Blog 25: Service Learning

Content:

(1) LIA Response to blog:

    Literal

Log of specific hours with a total: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Alm-Z8n5yVdZdHpOUDFMN0s0TndwdW1makk5RFlHSUE

Kathy McIntire- 323 783 8109


At the Kaiser LAMC emergency room, I shadow Physicians, Nurses, and EMT's as they do their job. As a volunteer I also help keep the hospital running smoothly by restocking different materials such as linens and medical supplies in hospital rooms, I take specimens to labs, I assist with different tests such as EKG, blood pressure, and blood oxygen monitors.

    Interpretive

     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?



At Kaiser LAMC, I have gained valuable experience in the medical field. I was able to watch MD's, Nurses, and other health professionals do their jobs, and I had a unique experience to asssist, watch, and observe their daily lives.
By spending time at the emergency room, I have gained a much stronger understanding for what the health profession consists of. I have learned medical terminology, gained a better understanding for human anatomy, and I have noted some valuable advice from my service learning mentors.

   Applied

My time at Kaiser has helped me with my essential question because I had the opportunity to see psychiatrists and other specialists at work every week. By seeing them do their jobs, I  had been able to back up and confirm my final answer to my EQ.     


How did what you did help you answer your EQ?  Please explain.

Blog #12: Service Learning

Q:Where are you working for your service learning?

A: For my service learning I am working at Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center: Emergency Room. The head honcho in charge of my service learning is:

 

Kathy McIntire

Director, Volunteer & Chaplain Services

Kaiser Permanente, LAMC

Q: What is your contact?

A: Phone: 323.783.8991

Q: Services performed?

A: For my service learning I shadow doctors who do their rounds in the Emergency Room. So I basically follow them as they go from room-to-room. By shadowing these professionals, i learn many things such as medical procedures, techniques when dealing with patients, and I am even allowed to do hands on medical assistance since i received my basic first aid training from Red Cross. That means that I am allowed to take blood pressure and blood oxygen, place EKG machines on patients (and decipher the patients condition), and I help with bandaging. I watch as Doctors and nurses do surgical procedures in the ER (I have seen 4 penile catheters being inserted), and i learn how and why each procedure is done. Other than that, I chat with doctors, nurses, and EMT's and get a basic feel of the medical and helping profession.