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.
