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| Jennifer Barker | Spring 2000 | I was a mentor in an Adolescent Health Mentoring Program for middle schoold students whose primary language is not English. I mentored along with other medical, pharmacy, and other physician assistant students through fall, winter and spring quarters and plan to continue in the fall. Each week we go for one hour and make a presentation regarding health issues. We then break up into smaller groups and do a small group project that pertains to the main group project. The presentations are divided up between the mentors who decide what to present. | View Summary |
| Jennifer Barker | Spring 2000 | I volunteer as an RN twice a month at the 45th St. Clinic for Homeless Youth. The clinic offers free primary health care for homeless and street-involved youth between the ages of 12-23. The youth come in on a drop-in basis. | View Summary |
| Kellye Campbell | Spring 2000 | Attended lecture given by representatives of Hispanic and African American cultures, and by an ARNP who has worked with SE Asian refugees and immigrants for the past 11 years. The topic of the lecture was psychosocial assessment and treatment of clients and families presenting for evaluation at a primary care provider or mental health setting. | View Summary |
| Kellye Campbell | Spring 2000 | Clinical experience at children's psychiatric clinic. Spent quarter observing ARNP working with children diagnosed with ADHD. Also performed several clinical assessments involving the child and parent(s), taking into account information sent from school and, in some instances, double-blind, placebo-controlled medication trial. | View Summary |
| Keli Cosgrove | Spring 2000 | I attended a cultural competency workshop. | View Summary |
| bernadette creaven | Spring 2000 | Coordinated an interdisciplinary dental screening project that involved the School of Dentistry, School of Nursing, a local dental office, and personnel at Concord School. The school based dental screening program for kindergarten children took place at an inner city school. | View Summary |
| Bernadette Creaven | Spring 2000 | As result of meetings with staff members at Cross Cultural Health Care Program, I assisted in writing an outline for a grant in order to obtain funds to enroll uninsured Ethiopian (Gondar) children in a health insurance program (CHIP). | View Summary |
| Bernadette Creaven | Spring 2000 | As result of meetings with staff members at Cross Cultural Health Care Program, I assisted in writing an outline for a grant in order to obtain funds to enroll uninsured Ethiopian (Gondar) children in a health insurance program (CHIP). | View Summary |
| Bernadette Creaven | Spring 2000 | I Organized a focus group with board members from the Gondar Mutual Association in order to discuss some of the barriers the community encounters when trying to get health care for the Gondar children. Sixty uninsured children from the Gondar community were recently enrolled in health insurance programs. | View Summary |
| Hien Hoang | Spring 2000 | Participated in a process evaluation of the Ranier Beach Technology Center Project, a grass-roots driven project to establish a resource center for career development and education for community members of all ages and backgrounds. | View Summary |
| Hien Hoang | Spring 2000 | Participated in Healthy Homes Asthma Project (Seattle-King County Public Health Deptartment), working directly with low-income minority women who have asthmatic children to improve their home environment and thus prevent the exacerbation of asthma. | View Summary |
| Sasha Hull | Spring 2000 | Evaluation of dental carries and oral hygiene in the kindergarden classes at an Elementary School in West Seattle. | View Summary |
| Sasha Hull | Spring 2000 | Continued working as a volunteer at the 45th St Clinic for homeless youth in the Seattle area. Assessment and coordination of care for this population. | View Summary |
| Jennifer Ketterer | Spring 2000 | Volunteered to work with SafeLinks organization which delivers health care to homeless teens via a mobile van equipped with medical supplies. Worked in this multidisciplinary setting with a PA and an MD as a preceptor, and a social worker as a mentor. | View Summary |
| Jennifer Ketterer | Spring 2000 | Interviewed a homeless teen girl using the Region X Adolescent Nursing Standards Screen. Researched issue of trust as a factor in homeless teens, specifically girls, accessing health care. | View Summary |
| Jennifer Ketterer | Spring 2000 | Served as a member of a panel as a part of a presentation and discussion of SafeLinks program to medical staff at Harborview Hospital. | View Summary |
| Darcy King | Spring 2000 | Researched the screening and testing criteria for HIV in adolescents | View Summary |
| Darcy King | Spring 2000 | I worked on the Safe Links van providing medical care to homeless adolescents. | View Summary |
| Darcy King | Spring 2000 | I interviewed an adolescent using the Region X tool to determine the adolescents needs and then researched the teen's need--obesity in African American Adolescents. | View Summary |
| Darcy King | Spring 2000 | I worked with my clinical preceptor to file a CPS report for suspected abuse of a 2 month old infant. | View Summary |
| christina schwien | Spring 2000 | Continued asset mapping in Tacoma Eastside neighborhood as part of Communication for Child Protection project: Volunteered as classroom assistant for ECEAP program in this neighborhood. Assisted with developing social skills, teethbrushing, and encouraging physical activity during outdoor play time. Interviewed two child development specialists at this ECEAP site regarding ECEAP program components and the assets of the children and families with which they work.I summarized my experience and my understanding of their vision of assets and provided them with written copies and asked for feedback. | View Summary |
| christina schwien | Spring 2000 | Continued asset mapping activities for Communication for Child Protection project: I conducted key informant interviews with social service providers in the Tacoma Eastside that work with Cambodian, Laotian, Thai, Vietnamese, Hispanic, and Ukrainian families. During the course of each interview I asked about the provider's program, their responsibilities, and for their insight into assets of and for families on the Eastside. | View Summary |
| michelle turner | Spring 2000 | Prevention Works Forum: Attended an all day community-wide conference to promote awareness and activities which contribute to the elimination of substance abuse, child abuse & neglect, and violence. | View Summary |
| arlene vanderdussen | Spring 2000 | NMETH 700 Continued to increase my knowledge and understanding of the research process via literature review, synthesis of the literature and exploration of the issues involved with families with a child with a behavior disorder. MHE 518 Increased my knowledge and awareness regarding spiritual beliefs different than my own via participation in this course. Performed role-plays of patient situations wherein spirituality affects a person's decisions regarding their health care and wellness. Performed a spiritual history/spiritual intervention with a hospitalized patient. Spiritual systems studied include Buddhism, Native American spirituality, Islam, Sufi, Judiasm & Christianity. | View Summary |
| Karen Wilkinson | Spring 2000 | Completed revisions on asthma education booklet | View Summary |