Blog 14: Independent Component 1

·       Literal

o   I, Stephanie Soriano, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 33 hours of work.

o   My mentor helped me complete my independent component.

o   For my independent component I worked an extra 33 hours at my mentorship, Loma Linda Animal Hospital. I did the same thing I would usually do. For example, I helped with treatments of animals, cleaned the kennels, helped with surgeries and gave vaccines to different animals.

·      Interpretive

o   Working extra hours at my mentorship has helped me learn more about veterinary medicine including working with different types of animals I could have never imagined at an animal hospital like ferrets, snakes, pigs, goats, birds and chickens. It has also helped me answer my EQ by giving me more evidence to my Answer 1, which was the answer I gave for my Lesson 2 presentation. All of the work I did is under a link called “Independent Component 1” under the links section. I decided to make a different link so I wouldn’t confuse it with my other senior project hours. Due to having to get permission from animal owners to take pictures of their pets, I was not able to acquire any pictures.

·      Applied

o   As I said before, my independent component 1 has helped me better understand my EQ and has helped me come up with answers to my EQ. One example of what I see every time I go that my mentor and his nurses do to help an animal calm down is by first putting a muzzle on the animal for safety precautions and later providing a sedative to help an animal calm down. If the animal is aggressive, they use a long pole with a rope at the end to handle the animal. This rarely happens at the animal hospital because we usually try to provide a calm environment so my mentor is able to work on the animal. These types of scenarios has helped me learn more about animal restraint and handling, which is another one of my answers to my EQ. As I continue mentoring at the Loma Linda Animal Hospital, I believe I will better understand my topic.

Here is a picture of where I did my independent component #1 at.