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The Morning After Pill: Emergency Contraception (Plan B)

Questions.

1. Is their a certain age group that rely's more on the Plan B method?

2. How popular has it become, now that people are aware they have this option?

3. How safe is the Plan B pill and what are its sideaffects?

4. How does Plan B- One Step work?

5. What are the emotional affects that come after you have chosen to do this?

6. How could your decisions affect your religious views?

Links.

Plan B One-Step

Frequently Asked Questions (Question Number Two on the Website goes with Question Number Four on my Blog)

Side Effects

Debate on Emergency Contreception

Our Cell Phones, Ourselves Summary

In the article "Our Cell Phones, Ourselves by, Christine Rosen, she explains how we rely so much on our cell phones. More than a billion individuals have cell phones, and in the very near future anyone will be able to afford a cell phone. She explains that cell phones are not only used to make phone calls but to turn the heat before someone comes home and to confirm tax returns in places such as Norway and Slovakia. Even paramedics send pictures to the hospital of incomming injuries so they know what to expect. When cell phones first came out they were large and not very compact. It was only until the 90's where cell phones became smaller in size and were built with extra features. Cell phones now a days carry camera on them, mp3 plavers, video recorders, and devices that let you talk without even having to hold a phone in your hand. Through reasearch it was found that most people feel safer if they have a cell phone with them. Emergency calls can be made at any place you are at with cell phones. Even though cell phones can be used to make emergency calls, they were also used by terrorists to cause an emergency, like the bombing in Madrid. Parents have also felt the need to buy their kids cell phones just in case of an emergency, but their at times when the parents end up panicing anyways because their kids dont answer their phones, therefore their parents are wondering what has happened. One cell phone developer labeled cell phones as the "Swiss Army Knife" with all the handy feastures on them, such as, calculators, alarm clocks, and radios just to name a few. With all the new feastures on cell phones it makes it easier for people to get attached to them, with that said, the rate of car accidents that have occured because of cell phone use while driving has dramatically increased. Some states even require people to use hand held devices if they want to use their phones while driving.Cell phones have other negative qualities about them too, think of all the bacteria that are on cell phones. Its even been reported that some students in highschool were found to be addicted to their cell phones and even got anxiety if they didnt have their cell phones on them. What about the people who use cell phones to send text messages to someone they are having an affair with. Many websites now let you see "candid pornography" where you can see pictures that were taken by peeping-Toms, they use their cameras on their phones to take pictures of people in bathroom and dressing rooms and post it online. Their are still people who cant stand listening to peoples conversations everywhere they go. Much aggrivation can be caused by this, some people just dont want to hear what two people are arguing about, or the latest gossip thats going around. Fighting can be a result of this, they just get so aggrivated that they actually fight. Social skills can also be affected by cell phones, we "talk but dont have conversations" with the cell phone use. We have convinced ourselves than an alternative option can be just as good as the real thing. Sometimes being connected, disconnects us from our community.

Ethnography: Rough Draft

CNA Station at A Nursing Home

For my Ethnography I decided to write about a CNA station the Nursing Home I used to work at. I haven’t put anything together really, but here’s what I have.

~Five CNA’s gather inside the little room behind the Nurses’ station so they can receive a report of what happened that day before they start their shift.

~Two CNA’s are talking about their kids and how they are struggling in middle school, and high school.

~Their uniforms are multicolored, one aide has a Scooby Doo scrub top on, another has a modern floral print on hers, two other aides have solid color scrubs on, one with a navy blue colored one on, the other in a lime green, with the same color pants to match. They have their nametags attached to their scrub tops, and they have there gait belts tied around their waists. Three had sneakers, and the other two had comfortable white nurses shoes on. All of the aides had their hair up in ponytails and one of the older aides had her hair up in a tight bun.

~After they receive report from the nurse they have to start the work they have to do. Most of them complain that its going to be a long night, and they cant wait to have a day off.

~Two of the younger aides talk about going out after they leave work at 11:15. They are going to Playoff’s Club on North Main Street in Fall River.

~Throughout their shift, they go back into their station to relax in between patients, they get some crackers and juice from the kitchen and eat their snack while they text their kids.

~When they are done with their assignment, the aides grab the documentation books, pull up a seat, get some more crackers and document what they did that day.

~Once they are done, some grab the newspaper and talk about the economy and the others talk about how much of a bad job the aides on the first shift do, how they are lazy and don’t do their job right, and then they have to fix their mess.

~As the time gets closer to 11:15 some change into regular clothes so they can be dressed to go out after work, another goes hide out in the bathroom so she doesn’t have to answer any last minute call lights, and the others patiently wait for clock out time.

~When 11:15 comes they all rush out of work, tired, dying to go home.

These are just notes, I didn’t put anything in an essay form yet, but am I going in the right direction with this, or is their something else I should add on to it? What other details could I add on? Should I leave out any of the details I listed

Personal Essay: Rough Draft

Visiting my grandfather in the hospital was a common daily routine for my family and I, as I grew up. Watching the nurses taking care of patients in the hospital and at a nursing home always inspired me to do something in the health care field. I went to Diman Regional Vocation Technical High School, in Fall River, Massachusetts. I was in the Health Careers Program, and throughout my high school career I spent two weeks in my academic classes and the other two weeks in my shop. We learned skills that we needed to become a Certified Nurse Assistant. Freshman and Sophomore year passed and I was finally a Junior, it was the year that I would hopefully be certified as a CNA. Part of the process is to go out on clinical, which meant that the Diman Health Career Shop class would go to a nursing home and perform the skills in while we learned and get checked off in all of those skills.

I was terrified, I had never been more nervous in my life. The first day of clinical was fine, considering the fact we didn’t have to perform any skills on real residents, the first day, orientation day was based on learning the rules of the facility and learning about the residents’ rights. The second clinical day came and I wanted to honestly barf. I had to get someone up and ready for the day. I remember being so gentle and taking my time with everything, being as friendly as I could possibly be and just try not to cry with nervousness. As clinical continued I got through it and became less nervous. In May, I was tested in my skills and finally was certified as a CNA.

That summer, the summer that ran into my Senior Year in high school I applied for a CNA job at a local nursing home. I was called in for an interview and got the job. I was so happy, I finally was about to do something I loved, helping people in need, and to top it all off it was my first job. I thought I was set for a while. At first the job was nice, I was an orienteer for two weeks, and basically I just watched an older CNA do her job and learn from what she does. As I started working on my own I started to quickly realize the job wasn’t anything like I expected. During clinical I had one resident to wash and get ready, at my new job I had seven. Even so I continued on and thought maybe Ill get used to this, after all I am new at this, right? Wrong! The job didn’t get easier at all, and I know work isn’t going to be easy, I mean it is work but honestly I never realized how much work there really had to be done.

I never realized that residents could be so demanding, and how much they depended on someone. How much responsibility and pressure is put on a CNA. With more work piled onto one person it was sad to see, with more residents added onto one aides assignment, the poorer their care got. You suddenly don’t have the time to pamper them, or do their hair in little braids anymore, or fix there makeup, and paint there nails. I didn’t have the time to do those little things anymore and it was sad to see. They didn’t feel as special anymore, like you didn’t have time for them, which is true honestly speaking. I didn’t have time to pamper and make every resident feel special anymore.

After a few months working at the nursing home, I was moved from an upstairs unit to a downstairs unit. I wasn’t assigned six residents a night anymore, I had twelve to take care of. It was hard. I had never been sadder in my life. I would cry before I went to work it was that bad. I would hate going in and be so understaffed and deal with other aides who just didn’t want to do the work. I could never stand up for myself, so when an older aide told me to do something I would suck it up and do it, even though they were the ones who were suppose to be doing it. I definitely didn’t have time to pamper any residents now. The residents health decreased due to natural causes and twelve residents a night became too much for me, and I just couldn’t do it anymore. I resigned as a CNA after working at that nursing home after one year.

Overall I think I forgot why I wanted to do something in the medical field. Doing the job wasn’t fun anymore and honestly I hated watching the residents’ being treated so poorly. I also learned that wherever I decide to work its always going to be that way. Life is life, and it really is unfair. I questions whether I made the mistake of choosing to center my high school career around the medical field and maybe I should of picked something else, I still want to become a nurse, I still want to help people, I know that’s something I just always was meant to do, I just need to realize things aren’t always what they are sought out to be.

Ideas For Personal Essay.

For my personal essay I have thought of two options:

-Becoming a Certified Nurse Assistant, my Junior year of high school.
*I went to Diman RVTHS and I was in the Health Carers Shop, I went to my academic classes for two weeks and shop for another two weeks to learn skills i needed to become a CNA. I spent three years in school learning the skills, and at the end of the third year, my Junior year, I was tested in my skills and was certified. My last year of high school i was on CO-OP which let me work at a Nursing Home for those two weeks of shop.

-Being diagnosed with Diabetes.
*the doctor diagnosed me with Diabetes the day before my eleventh birthday. I had been feeling sick for a few months before i went to the doctor but really didn't think anything of it. I had all the symptoms of Diabetes but I didn't know anything about it, so it never even crossed my mind. I went to Hasbro Children's Hospital and stayed there for a week and a half. I was terrified of needles and didn't know how i could handle having to take a needle three times a day, and checking my blood sugar four times a day.

For my essay I am thinking about writing about my Diabetes, because it is a really personal subject, but different opinions on what i should write about would be great.