Attached is one of my discussion post’s from one of our units in Principles of Pathophysiology during the spring 2020 semester. Each unit/each body system we covered we had to write a discussion post regarding one particular disease. The system for this post was the cardiovascular system and I wrote about dyslipidemia.

Pathophysiology was a very challenging course for me. It was similar to anatomy and physiology, but nursing version meaning all tests and quizzes were NCLEX style. This was definitely a learning cure because I felt as though I knew that material, but knowing the material isn’t the only thing you need to know in nursing. It is important to be able to critically think as well. I learned how to really utilize my resources such as office hours and all of our text books. In addition, I really learned the importance of time management. Simply reading the textbook was not going to fly, but applying what I learned to what I was seeing in the clinical setting in NURS 230 was a very critical point in this class that I learned. My short term goal from this course if to really focus on my time management in my junior year. Long term, I hope to use these skills I learned through the nursing test taking tips that my professor in this class shared with us in order to pass the NCLEX.

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Attached is an evidence based research project for Foundations of Nursing Practice completed by Grace Ault, Hope Barnhart, Ryleigh Turner, and myself, Kelsey Swegle. This project was suppose to be shown at Research Day spring 2020 just like the HONS 490 presentation previously discussed. This was one of out final projects in the class as we brought all of our knowledge together.

Nursing research is consistently being conducted. With that being said, it is so important tot stay on top of the changing information and data because it is changing and altering everyday. We must stay on top of it so that we can give the best care possible that show the best results. This is why evidence based practice is so important. Evidence based practice is something that has be proven to work or proven to be true through research. In the health care settings I have seen restraints at use. I have seen both the positive and negative effects of these restraints. I have learned so much, yet there is so much more to learn and the only way we will learn it is if we conduct evidence based research on it. I hope to continue research throughout my time at Longwood. I know I have a research class coming up during my junior year specifically geared towards nursing. I am interested to see whether or not that will alter my career path. There are so many different ways I cant take with nursing, but like I said in one of my other posts, maybe I will end up getting my doctorate in nursing research in the future.

This course was also my first nursing school clinical rotation.  Though this course I have given my first real physical assessment. I have held a patients hand. I have talked to a patients family. I have held a patient when they cried. I had fed a patient when they couldn’t move. While I work in an acute care setting at home, this was a different experience. This was nursing. That alone has changed my life. I remember walking out of a patients room one day with one of my peers and we both looked over at each other and said “we made a difference today. We actually did that. I love nursing.” That is the feeling I hope to feel every single day of my life.

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Attached is a presentation by Grace Auld and myself from Microbiology for a Healthcare Professional in the spring 2020 semester. This presentation was a selected bacteria, Mycobacterium ulcerans, in which we conducted research on and then made a presentation about. This presentation was suppose to be conducted in front of the entire class, however due to Covid-19 the presentation became online with pre-recorded voices. While completing this project we had to research basic information, the disease it causes, signs and symptoms, transmission, occurrence, and treatment.

Microbiology had to be one of the coolest and most exciting classes I have had to take. I absolutely loved lab. During this time we made our own agar dishes, autoclaved our instruments, identified different types of bacteria, and so much more. This class gave me the background understanding as to how and why different illness and diseases occur due to the bacteria that caused it. It is a course that I will grow upon. It also correlated with Pathophysiology which I also took spring 2020. Because of that I was able to bounce off different objective and find connections in between the tow despite them being two different classes. In the future I hope to look at working in a heath care facility in a different light be focusing on keeping a healthy and clean environment. I also have been able to carry this into today’s current pandemic as we live through Covid-19.

Attached is my final portfolio for Culture and Story: A Cultural Approach to Writing course. This is a composition of two stories that I wrote and edited throughout the Spring 2020 semester. These were stories in which I had complete freedom to write as long as they had a culture. In class we focused heavily on what culture is and how and why different cultures exist.

This was a course that gave me a mental break from my other courses that were very content heavy. While it was heavy in writing and time consuming, it was well worth it because it showed me the importance of reading for fun and even taking a break from your everyday life to dive into a new challenge. I hope to continue writing different things throughout the years. I hope to reflect upon what I have writing one day and see the growth. I hope people know that even if they don’t think they can do something, as long as they try their best, they can accomplish anything because that was me with this class. I was not the best at writing fictional stories, but when I wrote from the heart, one could tell and that is when it was a success.