Hasan M. Khan's Senior Project: Blog 14: Independent Component #1

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LITERAL
(a) Write: “I, Hasan M. Khan, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 32 hours and 10 minutes of work.”

(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

My independent component is possible because of the staff in the Cath Lab, the staff in the Cardiac Rehab, and the cardiologists and nurses that allowed me to be with them during procedures (surgeries).

(c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.

(d) Explain what you completed.

I volunteered, observed, and helped out the Cath Lab and Cardio-Pulmonary Rehab Center (Cardiac Rehab). And I was able to watch multiple cardiologists perform procedures (surgeries) on their patients.

INTERPRETIVE
Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work. Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.

My Lesson Plan #2 was mainly reliant on my experience at the Cardiac Rehab because I realized how crucial the post-treatment phase is in treating a patient properly. My being inside of Cath Lab gave me connections and opportunities to get to know the workers, staff, and Cardiologists and also to ask the Cardiologists if I could watch their procedures. Being able to watch the procedures gave me a whole new insight of the protocol and rules the cardiologists have to follow and go through.

APPLIED
How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better? Please include specific examples to illustrate this.

My independent component has helped me understand cardiology so much more because I have seen multiple viewpoints, paradigms, and observations of the "Cardiology World". By "Cardiology World", I mean what goes on and inside the various departments related to Cardiology. Through the Cath Lab, I was able to observe patients that were either about to go into surgery or be discharged and the cool thing about Cath Lab is that all patients are heart patients, so all of them have to do with Cardiology. I was also able to see how the staff does their job and how they handle their patients.

In the Cardiac Rehab, I was exposed to a whole lot. I was introduced to a new dimension of cardiology because I was able to watch the post-treatment phase of surgery. I was able to watch the patients and even talk with them about their experience of heart surgery. I was able to observe the staff once again and how they deal with their patients.

And finally, the last and most helpful part of my independent component: being able to watch procedures. This in itself was entirely new world to me. For my mentorship, I have been shadowing Dr. Muthiah and I get to see how he deals with his patients in the clinic. But with the procedures, I finally got to see how multiple cardiologists did their job out of the clinic and in the surgery room. And I am really blessed to have seen multiple cardiologists because I got to see how each individual cardiologist handled the procedure in their own unique way. I got to see how the cardiologist interacted with the people that were working with him on the procedure. I noticed how crucial teamwork and communication was in these procedures. Each and every worker in the procedure room has a role and all of them are very important. And another great blessing I had was that some of the Cardiologists actually let me be very close to the patient so I could actually see what was happening on the patient. I was able to see inside the patient's body when a pacemaker was being inserted.

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Dr. Discepolo inserting a pacemaker [*permission received by staff and I alongside the staff understand and follow HIPPPA Privacy Law for the Patients]