Monday, February 23, 2009

MAJOR Platue

I believe last week I had my internship meeting with Mrs. Kretchman, Jordan ( a fellow classmate of mine who will be interning at the Canterberry facitly with me), and Bobbi-Jo my mentor.
Everything went well at the meeting and I am excited to get started with it. While we toured the facility I learned that there was a Dementia Care unit located in the building next to where I would be interning. Mrs. Kretchman and Bobbi-Jo also made it clear that there would be opportunities to complete some of my hours within the unit. I was Fasinated with the idea, seeing how I am hoping to put together a documentory on what life is like inside a facility like that for patients suffering from Dementia. Within the documentry i hope to inteview those who are responsible for treatment, and those who run the unit.
Today I am trying to put together the interview questions for my "documentry/interview." However, im having a little trouble getting started because of my lack of knowlegde. Im not sure who I will be interviewing, nor am I sure whether or not they will be able to coroporate with my project.
This project started off great, but now im starting to hit some kind of platue and I hope it blows over soon because im really starting to loose all patients.
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