Independent Component #2

Literal

a) I, Dustin Stout, affirm that I have completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

b) Books that have helped me with my Independent Component #2 are books that my mentor helped me pick out. The first one is Inside Assisted Living: The Search for a Home, and Assisted Living and Nursing Homes: Your Guide to Making the Practical Choice.

c) Digital Spreadsheat is my Mentorship Logs to the right, I separated my hours so you can see the 30 hours for the Independent Component.

d) What I did was put in 30 extra hours of Mentorship. I helped my mentor, Erick Gochez, run the daily activities of Heritage Court. These include leading activities for him, helping to create the "Activities Calendar", and getting the residents to actually go to the activities.


Interpretive
I helped set up these activities and run them. It really solidified my answer #1, which is having a good activities director.

Applied

Doing this independent component really helped to solidify my answer #1, and well and help with answer #3, which are Having a good Activities Director, and having good quality facility. The way it did help was spending more and more time with a good activities director, it really showed me what a really good one does. It also shows me what good quality staff members do to a facility. It shows me that when the quality is good, then the residents really respond to good staff members, and how happy they are.

Senior Project Update

So time for an update I guess. I did my interview 4 with the same person I did interview 3 with, Sandra. She's been a major help to my senior project, and I really don't know where I would be without her. When Erick left Heritage court, she took over his job. I had talked to her quite a bit, but never really communicated too much. She let me keep staying and volunteering under her, and her perspective on things were different than Erick's. She was more compassionate, and bonded more with the residents. While this can be bad, it can also be better, because the residents will help you more. I'm gonna start posting pictures and everything too, Erick lagged it sometimes on sending me pictures, and sometimes never did. But now I have a big selection to choose from :D

Starting to actually blog

So I figure I'd jump in on this blogging phenomena and start using this thing. So an update. I love my topic. Went and volunteered today for the first time in a couple weeks. I took Spring Break off, because I was out of town, and before that I was sick for a couple of weeks. During my absence, I found that my main mentor, Erick Gochez, moved up and went to go to another facility. That didn't worry me too much, because I still have his assistant, who is now the full fledged activities director for Heritage Court now. I don't really know what to put in these posts, but as I do it more and more, I'm sure I'll get better :P