2nd Draft of 3 Column Logic Chart

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0TrsAi92Qd1T1ByWEpITHFPb0U/edit

Blog 21: Independent Component 2

Literal:

a) I, Gina Thi, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

b) Professor Wajeeha Mazhar with Nutrition by Sizer and Whitney helped me complete my independent component.

c) Spreadsheet of Hours

d) I finished up my upper division Nutrition course. 

Interpretive:

Every week I would go to my nutrition class for about 4 hours a week for lectures. I would spend about an extra hour taking the weekly quiz. As it reached towards the end of the quarter, I spent more time studying for the final in order to achieve at least a B in the class. I also completed multiple assignments where I tracked my intake and found out which crucial elements I was missing in my diet. Here were my favorite assignments. 

Assignment 1: Food Intake for 3 days

Assignment 5: Genetic Risk?

For my final, I spent a considerable amount of time studying. 

Outline for Final

Applied: 

This component helped me answer my essential question by understanding how the body works. As we got more further within the course, I learned about different vitamins and other things the body needs in order to function. For example, I learned that a protein deficiency can lead to Marasmus or Kwashiorkor. These diseases strike early in childhood. Marasmus can be defined as muscle wasting as growth ceases and nutrition absorption fall. Kwashiorkor is a reduced disease resistance and large intake of fluids due to loss of protein. I also learned that excess can lead to a greater risk of heart disease. Knowing and learning these crucial facts, as a clinical pharmacist I can take these into account. This independent component supports my first answer, preparing for the consultation. By learning these health issues, a clinical pharmacist can then adjust the drug regimen if it does conflict with the patient's body. 

Blog 20: Three Column Chart First Draft

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0TrsAi92Qd1WWtwX2xwQksxd3c/edit

At Science Fair!

Finally at science fair! It is extremely crowded. I am so nervous! 

Science Fair Prep!

After waiting for two hours in line, I finally made it into my booth for science fair!

Blog 19: Senior Project and ESLRs

1. The ESLR that I have excelled in most for my senior project would be Effective Learner.

2. To excel in this ESLR as a senior, you have to take responsibility for your own learning. I have excelled in this ESLR because of taking a college class that is extremely demanding of time and requires a lot of brain power. I took this college class not only to just fill out my independent component hours but to really educate myself about something that is a main aspect of my senior topic. By taking this class, I am also able to educate myself about lifestyle and diet choices that can affect my health. Therefore, I am taking responsibility of my own learning.  

3. Here is a link to a PDF that was a part of our latest assignment. We had to track our diet and input into this diet analysis program where it would analyze what vitamins or certain aspects of our diet we were missing compared to what we should be having. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0TrsAi92Qd1Y2FHaGoxclNMdW8/edit

Blog 18: 2 Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. How can a clinical pharmacist best provide quality patient consultations?

2. My third answer is the patient being the pharmacist through follow up care.

3. In about a week or a month, a follow up care is necessary to really ensure that the patient's understanding and health. Each follow up care is different and customized to the patient depending on their disease state and drug regimen. The whole point of the follow up care is to review the first consultation but having the patient being the clinical pharmacist. They can do this by explaining what the drug regimen is to you. This can prove further understanding of the drug regimen and to make sure the patient isn't missing anything.

4. The source that helped me was talking to Robert Ngo. He is a clinical pharmacist. From him, I then did further research on the importance of follow up care. One article that showed how important follow up care was an article called, "Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative Change Package." It talked about the goals of clinical pharmacy and what can be improved. Follow up care was under those categories.

5. I plan to do more research on follow up care so that I'll be able to talk more about how important follow up care can be to a patient and how it can contribute to having a quality patient consultation.