Student: Eileen Sugimoto
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The student will develop a Health Management framework for addressing HP 2020 objectives (e.g., adolescent health, older adults) OR a Leading Indicator (LI) topic. Upon choosing a topic, the student will sign up in class so no topics are duplicated. They will then click on the particular objective--for older adults, they are health services, quality of life, injury prevention, and caregivers. For an LI topic, they are listed on the left margin here: www.healthypeople.gov/2020/LHI/default.aspx.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Nursing, clip 13 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: The thing that I really like about this class is that even though there was a set outline of what we had to do, professors really made it open so we could really explore what we wanted to explore and what interests us . . . because for me I have a really hard time writing if it's something not interesting to me and . . . through that I found things that I would be interested in and I really appreciated that the professors gave us enough wiggle room to be able to explore that.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Nursing, clip 12 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: My idea of maybe going to Washington some day: a lot of the Hawaiian population is going up to Washington, and they still need to know the culture, and it also makes me open to learning about new cultures like the Native Indian culture in Washington . . . so that way I can be respectful and sensitive to their culture as well . . . so I feel the information might not be the same but the way about to get the information is the same, so I'll definitely take that with me.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Nursing, clip 11 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: I haven't decided yet. I would like to stay here. I have family in Washington state so I do think about going to Washington to be closer to my family, especially because my mother is getting older. Also it's expensive here so that's another thing. I would like to stay here but it's an idea that my husband and I we've talked about but we haven't moved to it yet.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Nursing, clip 10 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: I want to work with people. We write patient information all the time and we have to write a whole history of them . . . Also communicating with other healthcare professionals in other departments. We have to have clear, concise communication . . . time is very limited so we have to learn to write very clear, to the point, short 'because we only have so much time . . . [G]etting the history from the patients and teaching them we have to be able to communicate with them and teach them properly so we have to write up things sometimes for that. We also do evidence-based projects so if we see a need for improvement in the healthcare field, we have to write papers to suggest changes using evidence.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Nursing, clip 9 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: The class helped me get to know the students in the class. Learning about people's personal background helps to make a bond, form a bond.The course itself, too, has strengthened me to meet more people to find out more about people . . . It strengthened my ability to help people. I feel more comfortable and more confident in treating . . . all different cultures. It also made me aware and realize that I still have a lot to learn about cultures, so I still am very open to learning and I want to read more and talk to people and learn more.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Nursing, clip 8 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: The class itself has strengthened my knowledge of different cultures that inhabit Hawaii. I wouldn't be able to tell you where the Chuuk islands were before, or I actually found out that one of friend's boyfriends was Chamorro, and I never even heard of that.I also learned the different traditions and rituals to respect and to expect to see in hospitals when I care for them . . . that's the population that I'll probably be treating a lot so it opened my eyes to more than just the Hawaiian, Japanese, and Chinese population and Caucasian population here, so I felt it was definitely worthwhile. [My friend who is Chamorro also hung out with a lot of Chuukese people and he told me that they chewed betel nut juice a lot . . . and finding that out like they're going to have teeth problems foreseeing that, so if I'm interviewing someone who is Chuukese, or Chamorro, or Micronesian I know to check their teeth as well because that's an important aspect about beteljuice . . . I never knew about that and that helps. I understand now, too, the high importance of the rankings of the community. In a Chuukese community there's someone that's an elder and they make the decisions.They make the health decisions for their community so even if I want to work one-on-one with this person who's ill, I need to work also with the elders so that way they give permission for this person to get treatment. Otherwise if I'm just working with the person who is just a community member and is sick and wants to get treatment--they won't be able to get it and . . . the reason why that is is the elder takes care of the community. They help pays for their bills. I mean everything is a community and it's kind of like a small society where the elder takes care of everyone. Money's pulled in from the community and they all help each other. It's amazing. It's their own little society.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Nursing, clip 7 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: As a writer, I don't know if it's changed me but it's just made me a better writer, because I feel that every time I write I notice my weakness, and I strengthen it. So with every writing assignment I have I feel that I become a better writer.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Nursing, clip 6 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: My weakness is when we are given free rein of what we want to write about, and narrowing down the topic for me is hard because there are so many different ideas that pop into my head. Do I go the easy route and go Hawaiian 'cause I know lots of Hawaiian people or do I want to challenge myself and look for someone who is Chuukese? or 'cause I don't know anyone when I have to go outside of my bubble to find somebody, which is what I did because I wanted to learn. I really liked my interview . . . I wanted to try a different culture just so I could learn about different aspects of it, and it was challenging because I didn't know where to start and so I just started asking people I knew . . . as a healthcare professional I'm supposed to be willing to just go and talk to everyone and I think it's comfortable when you're in a hospital setting or if you're in a healthcare setting that that's your job, but doing that in your own personal environment, it was hard for me. It was nerve-racking.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Nursing, clip 5 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: In the past I have had different types of peer reviews where the instructors have assigned someone to us to be a peer review for each other. I find that difficult because it's hard for me to take advice or criticism from someone that I don't know . . . they don't know what I'm trying to get at. With this class it wasn't required, but I did have a friend that we've gone through the nursing cohort together and I know that we work very similarly and think very similarly and so we would read each other's paper and correct it. And I found that very helpful because she knew what I was trying to say and she was able to sometimes say certain points better than I would or differently. Also just reading a paper with grammar is challenging sometimes because not everyone--grammar is a challenge here. I [think my grammar is pretty good] because I was raised by a Mainland person. A lot of people write the way they talk and so my mother never let me talk Pidgin at home and so I know not to ever write that way. [W]ith a peer review, one of the things that I think is important and especially--I am learning with health care--is we turn to people we admire, we look up to, respect. Because writing a paper is very personal, I think, and so to welcome changes to it needs to be from someone that you . . . respect and would welcome changes from. [My instructor] had a rubric . . . and grammar was a part of it . . . we had to follow the instructions . . . we had to do it in APA format . . . the length of the paper and following the rules for that and the big part was the content. Was it organized? Was it relevant information? Did we get the message across that we wanted to get across?
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Nursing, clip 4 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: I find it very easy to write. I like to write . . . about stuff that I'm interested in. I have a hard time with things that I am not interested in. For me, I was lucky that I'm interested in people. I'm interested in cultures so it was not difficult for me. I actually wanted to write a lot more. I found it more challenging to keep it--you know if projects had to be within like five to seven pages keeping it within that five to seven pages is difficult. I've learned some tricks along the way in school with taking English 100 and other writing courses that are kind of focusing. I just write and if the project requires six pages and I end up with ten, I just write until I feel like I'm there and done and then I read through it and make sure that I keep my main subject--my main topic--in mind, but I actually separate my paragraphs and my sentences so that way I think, ʻis this just me babbling or oh I'm going off tangent here?ʻ . . . It's an interesting type of information, but it has nothing to do with my paper so that's where I just write freely and then I edit. I'm a much better writer now than four years ago when I started school.