Journal Entry 3 - Ivonn Otavalo

This week in my placement I continued reading a prenatal book. While reading it, I realized how helpful it will be for my research paper. This book is full of useful information, so useful that I decided to take notes on it while reading. I had a chance to tell Miriam how my essay will be planned and what topics I might include from the book. I found the following topics to be interesting:

Breech - when the baby is not in the right position when the woman is about to give birth.

Relaxation Methods - Methods that will allow the future mom to stay calm and patient when experiencing contractions and when she is about to give birth.

I also came up with topics my essay might include including prenatal exams in detail, pregnancy concerns, a healthy baby, do and don't during pregnancy, eating healthy during pregnancy, cravings, sex during pregnancy, breech and relaxation methods.

Journal Entry 3 - Ivonn Otavalo

Journal Entry 2 - Ivonn Otavalo

This week at my placement I continued typing the "Newborn" packet which was assigned to me. While typing, I realized how important the mental development of a baby is. I also realized that parents should be very attentive to their children.

Baby Facts:

- Like adults, babies need love and caring
- Babies love attention and are said to be very observant
- Babies are so intellectual and their intellectuality depends on the care of a parent from the day they are born.

Journal Entry 2 - Ivonn Otavalo

Journal Entry 9 - Zaire Smalls

I'm part of an organization called global kids. At global kids we hold an annual youth conference. The goal of Global Kids is to make NYC youth global citizens, making them aware of the issues the world around us faces and what we can do to help. So every year there is a different topic. This year our topic is "Child Rights." Since the US and Somalia are the only countries of the United Nations who haven't ratified the "Convention of Rights of a Child" (CRC), we used this as our purpose.

Our focus was to use the CRC to show the rights children should have compared to the rights they actually have in the world. In the workshop I created and lead, "Children's Health," we took a look at Zimbabwe, China, Britain and India's health care systems and what services children receive as well as how they are paid for. Why they dont match up wtih the CRC and how we can change this. It was a good workshop, people learned a lot.

The wholoe conference was wonderful and there was a petition and videos about the ratification of the CRC in teh US. Rosario Dawson came to the conference and spoke about her direct role in l I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World, written by the same woman who authored the Vagina Monologues.

Journal Entry 9 - Zaire Smalls

Journal Entry 9 - Tenzin Lhamo

This week me and my mentor were working on our final project. My topic is on Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and the reason why I picked this topic is because one of my family members has similar symptoms but the one she has is an unknown disease. There is some information I learned about RA:

- RA is a long term disease that leads to inflammation of joints and its surrounding tissue
- This disease is genetic
- This disease requires lifelong treatment

Journal Entry 9 - Tenzin Lhamo

Journal Entry 9 - Faith Fordjour

I did a lot of shadowing this week. Since I am having my final project on Hematology/Oncology, Sonia, my mentor allowed me to shadow two nurses on the HemOnc unit. I learned a lot about Hematology/Oncology. Hematology is the study of blood disease. Oncology is the study of cancer. The reason why they are put together is because they are kind of related. Even though I had a lot of information from the two nurses, Amy and Tenesha, there is a lot of research I need to do myself.

Some of the things I learned are that Hematology consists of Hemophelia, Sickle cell, Leukemia and vWD. These are all bleeding disorders except for Sickle cell which is a blood disease and Leukemia which is a blood cancer.

Journal Entry 9 - Faith Fordjour

Journal Entry 8 - Zaire Smalls

At my site I have been assigned a project to make and manage the resource books for all the social workers. This is a bit of a task - it is not hard but it is a little tedious. I have to put them in categories then make copies if the document fits into more categories. I did this for two binders and then put copies in 7 binders.

The interesting part of this is to see all the different organizations and their functions. Most of the organizations are in Brooklyn as well as Manhattan. They each do something different than the last, but having said that, there are many similar organizations as well. Honestly, I am fascinated.

Journal Entry 8 - Zaire Smalls

Journal Entry 8 - Tenzin Lhamo

This week my mentor taught me what I need to do in on order to get ready for college. The first thing she taught me was how to stand out from my other competitors. In order to do that she told me to write all the programs and all the after school activities I have attended so far. So I have made a list full of programs I have attended in the last 3 years along with the description.

Journal Entry 8 - Tenzin Lhamo