Blog 22 – Independent Component 2

(a) I, Mila Therese Reyes, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents thirty hours of work.

(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
One of my former mentors, Michel Daher, helped me complete my independent component.

(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)
Click here to view my hours

(d) Explain what you completed

I finished exploring one of my answers – educating the patient – by teaching students and testing them before and after my talks to see if education truly did have an effect on their willingness to comply.

(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work. Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc.) of the 30 hours of work.

One answer to my essential question is to educate the patient. It was originally “communication” but I changed it to “education” since that seemed a better fit. My independent component explored the area of education. I gave a talk to a group of students on the different kinds of medications used to treat different diseases and how they are abused. I also educated them on the harmful affects of drug addiction and how drug addicts can seek help.

I was going to attach a link to my presentation but it has been uploading to my google drive since last night and it still isn't finished. I will be happy to email it to you, though, as evidence.

(f) How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.

This helped me answer my essential question in that I was able to better understand why patient education is so important. At the beginning of my presentation, I asked the students if they would like to eat a can of worms for medicine if they were feeling lightheaded but suffering from peeling skin (some physical effects of being a drug addict) and they all said “No.” After I explained to them the repercussions of taking drugs, I asked them the same question again and the majority of them said “Yes” because they believed that it would make them better.