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Taylor Lynn Meadows
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -Walt Disney
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."
Andrew Carnegie
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“Colleagues are a wonderful thing – but mentors, that’s where the real work gets done.” — Junot Diaz
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Florence Nightingale is considered nursing’s most remarkable early figure and is accredited with founding modern nursing and creating the “first educational system for nurses” (Black, 2017). In Evolution of Nursing Concepts (NURS 212) I was taught about how Nightingale created a metaparadigm of nursing (most abstract aspect of the structure of nursing knowledge) which included: person (patient), health (as opposed to illness), environment (how the environment affects health and recovery from illness), nursing (as opposed to medicine), and within the last few years caring has been added (artifact one) (Black, 2017). Florence Nightingale, a wealthy aristocrat from Victorian England, decided to stay unmarried, and instead of birthing children, birthed the future of nursing practice. Nightingale raised what would soon become the nursing profession.
One of the reasons why she is recognized as the founder of modern nursing is because of her distinctive outlook on nursing practice that solely focused on the relationship of patients to their surroundings. Nightingale was very detailed-oriented and began the practice of taking comprehensive notes and tracking everything. The nursing saying goes, “if you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen”. She was very intelligent and had an excellent education in statistics.
After leading thirty-eight other women to help nurse the wounded soldiers in Turkey during the Crimean War, Nightingale founded the St. Thomas Hospital in London in 1860 (artifact one). By doing this she cultivated a place to disseminate knowledge for others to follow in her footsteps. Nightingale understood the significance of dissemination; which refers to the process of publication and presentation of findings to the public (Black, 2017).
Nightingale was a resource, teacher, and leader to those who came after her. Those attributes are just three of six roles that a hundred years later, Hildegard Peplau would use to comprise her theory of Interpersonal Relations in Nursing (artifact one). Like Nightingale, Peplau used the goal of a therapeutic interpersonal relationship to develop a greater understanding on the effect of universal stressors on the lives of the individual.
Florence Nightingale created greatly detailed mortality statistics during the Crimean War. The colors and size of the wedges have different meanings. She kept note of the month and place as well.
Blue wedges- deaths from contagious disease
Pink wedges- death from wounds
Gray wedges- deaths for all other causes
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In our daily lives, we spend a varied amount of time in each of these roles to the people in our life. Sometimes we are none of these positions, and are the ones benefitting from a peer acting in a specific role. I believe being a leader, surrogate, technical expert, teacher, resource, and counselor (Peplau’s 6 interpersonal relations in nursing) also describes the components of a mentor. Nightingale was a mentor to the thirty-eight women she led to the Crimean War then to the students who studied at St. Thomas. Peplau took that notion and used it on a more individualized front.
For my beyond-the-classroom experience, I utilized both, being a mentee and a mentor. I believe the best way to acquire knowledge is by learning form the best people. Particularly, I was a mentee to a peer who was more seasoned in research than I. She was a year older and had more opportunities (due to the time she had before I was involved). By working with her on many research-related things, I was able to develop new skills. Since my peer-mentor took the time to disseminate her knowledge to me, I have been able to accomplish similar tasks. I realized the process of writing abstracts and proposals would ultimately force me to understand my personal development of self-efficacy. According to Clinical Nutrition (NURS 220) successful people embody self-efficacy (artifact one). In turn, I would maneuver my thought process into thinking in a way that pushed towards perseverance and foster resilience. By working with my seasoned mentor, we wrote and applied for the Magellan Scholar (artifact two). I then used her for a resource, as a second author, on my GLD abstract (artifact three) for the purpose of peer-review. Peer-review is a concept that is used for all different types of published research. It is a process of a researcher turning in their findings, to a panel of experts in whatever field, and the experts evaluate the article. They then decide to publish it now (highly unlikely), send it back to the author with revisions, or completely decline the outcomes. In most cases the article is sent back with a number of corrections or revisions, and this can happen as many times as it takes to have a publishable article. A different experience I had was being the mentor on an abstract that was sent to the 2nd World Congress of Undergraduate Research (artifact four).In this case I was able to disseminate the knowledge I cultivated from my mentor to teach my mentees.
My mentor was essentially acting as Peplau’s interpersonal process nurse roles. Unknowingly, she was the foundation for which I built my knowledge from, just like Nightingale did on two different occasions. As a team, my peer-mentor and I are cultivating translational science to the body of knowledge. Translational science is a concept that is defined as the process of turning observations in the laboratory, clinic, and community into interventions that improve the health of individuals and the public (https://ncats.nih.gov/translation/spectrum). This is based on the interdisciplinary branch of the biomedical field and is supported by three pillars: bench side, bed side, and community. Its purpose is to take concepts and theories from the lab, and to utilize them at the bedside and within the community. Florence Nightingale utilized this process before we knew what it entailed. I believe that translation science is equivalent to peer mentorship and the idea of train the trainer. It represents that we need to constantly be acquiring knowledge and publishing knowledge as well.
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I was first author on the abstract labeled CUR that was sent in to the 2nd World Congress of Undergraduate Research Conference in Oldenburg, Germany. We did this abstract on data that was collected before our time in research. It was a different experience, not having a direct connection to the data we analyzed.
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Within-the-Classroom Artifacts
These are handwritten notes that represent knowledge acquired in order to make the connections between lessons taught in the classroom and experiences had beyond the classroom.
One set of notes has a reference to self-efficacy. This was my first encounter with this concept. This term means to value yourself, appreciating your mind, body, and spirit.
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