#1302ftw

Arantxa but Ara for short. Biology major, and future pediatrician. Coffee enthusiast. Dancer. Sometimes i'm pretty funny. :)

[marinpriscila]

Arrivederci!...

What

I had the privilege of taking rhetoric and writing studies 1302 with Audrey once again! Just like last semester I got to learn many new things. This time around  we got to mess around with Tumblr! Not only was it a fun way to turn in assignments, we could also see our classmates posts and response to them, also, we could receive feedback from our classmates. 

So What

SO taking part two of rhetoric and writing studies has been a blast on getting to learn new things that I will apply for my upcoming courses. Writing my literature review taught me on how to create good research questions and interview questions. This assignment gave me the opportunity to interview someone professional in my filed and practice my communication skills. Even though I felt like this..

Now What

Now that I have completed this course I will apply all of the new things I have learned to the rest of my upcoming classes. This class has taught me very well on how to use the library data base, and I know for my upper classes I will be doing lots of research. I will also use my writing skills if I ever want to apply for graduate school..

Future Students of RWS 1302…

Well I just want to let all of the new people coming into RWS 1302 with Audrey that you made a great choice! Just like many of the students coming into this class worry about essays and quizzes, this class will make your life so much easier. There are study guidelines provided by Audrey that will make all of your essays be completed on time. One of the new features of this class is using Tumblr which I think is really cool. At first I was scared of using Tumblr because I had never used it before. I soon realized that it was not as hard as I thought, I just had to play around with it. One advice that I would give to upcoming students taking this class is to not wait until the last minute to turn in a Tumblr post. Trust me even though these post are not “hard” some do take elaboration and thought. Also, if you ever have a question don’t hesitate to ask Audrey, she will help you!  

[karmaadema-blog]

True, this class has helped us to properly  use the library database and how to find good scholarly articles. Professor Audrey is the coolest. 

Good Job! :)) 

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

Throughout the whole semester, your posts were some of my favorite to see and get ideas from! lol. I liked the way you organized your posts and approached each point differently. You were also rather creative! I agree with how this class taught us a lot regarding research, its a helpful skill to have. Nice job :)

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

It’s coming to and end... #Week16

What

RWS 1302 taught me a lot this semester. From doing educated research on the library’s database, to researching diversity within our future careers on articles, scholarly articles, and primary resources - interviews, I can honestly say I learned more than I ever expected. Using Tumblr as a way to write and post assignments as well as seeing other people’s assignments was new and odd to me, but after some time and some playing around with the site, it turned out to be a pretty awesome way to interact with other students and provide feedback to one another. 

So What 

After conducting so much research through out the semester, it’s crazy how much more enlightened I am towards “diversity in medical school”. Taking this class meant being more active and interested on current events and past events surrounding diversity in any field. I never thought I’d learn and improve my communication, research and writing skills through a class as I did in RWS 1302. I’m happy that I was able to learn and experience so much through this course... All the skills i’ve gained writing and research wise I’m sure I will apply in the future.

Now What

Now that I’ve completed this course, I will carry with me a great amount of knowledge regarding diversity itself. After this class, one thing I know for a fact is that diversity itself will grow and continue, and it’s up to society to see the upside rather than the downfall of diversity. I feel like my research and writing skills are way better than how they were before the semester and before this whole year in general. 

My advice to YOU

This class also taught me a lot about how to manage my time. There was plenty of assignments throughout the semester that at first were hard for me to complete but I somehow managed to get things done. My #1 advice to anyone taking RWS 1302 is to never leave anything for last minute. Whether it is a “simple” tumblr assignment, or a major 10 page essay assignment, always try to be ahead of the game. It took me a lot of stress and little to no sleep to realize how leaving my assignments hours or a simple day before its due was never a good idea in the end. Another important piece of advice is to be patient. Rhetoric Writing is not an easy class. Writing isn’t easy either. You’ll have days where you’ll feel like you won’t be able to finish an essay and the word count limit is hard to reach, and there will be days where you’ll have so much to say but you need to find the most salient parts to talk about. It’s all a learning process, learning experience. 

[ourmariacasas-blog]

E.P.L....Also Known as,  ETHOS, PATHOS, LOGOS

SECTION A: The Attention grabber

I will grab the attention of my audience with statistics pertaining the Health Disparities Compared to non-Hispanics compared to whites. This will exhibit that there is a need for Hispanic faculty to be acquired within health care institutions. This will overall create a sense of logos and pathos due to the seriousness of healthcare disparities and how they are undermining this minority population.

Also, I will incorporate images and quotes that can relate to disparity of the Hispanic community. For example,

SECTION B: The policy change

To solve the problems within the Hispanic community there are a lot of associations being created to give the Hispanic population an opportunity for a higher education which will ultimately lead to the enhancement of the Hispanic population within the health care system.

Such associations like the AHHE who states, that “While the Hispanic population is the largest ethnic minority population in America, Hispanics are still highly underrepresented in the undergraduate and graduate enrollments and graduation rates.” This association recognizes the problem and incorporates opportunities for the Hispanic minority by working with institutions of higher education seeking to address Hispanic issues in higher education in order to give this minority the opportunity they deserve.

I will provide statistical information to the audience demonstrating the need for Hispanics to receive a higher education, which will lead to the solution of this ongoing problem…

I will finally provide my policy change by providing facts and suggestions from an actual clinical educator of the future nurses within the El Paso area. For instance, Dr. Laura Rodriguez (2016), clinical educator, from the University of Texas at El Paso recommends that a principle for nursing staffing be taken into consideration, stating that nurses make it a point to integrate a diverse and bilingual nurse staffing developing into the decision making process based on specific needs of the patients…. associations now a day are enhancing more and more providing them an equal opportunity.

SECTION C: Call to action

JUST KIDDING GUYS!!! I DO CARE! 

We as global citizens should aid in the minimizing the diversity amongst Hispanics in the health care field. To achieve this goal, I will demonstrate the distinct opportunities such as, scholarships and associations that are making a change for the Hispanic minority, allowing them a chance to succeed. Finally, informing my audience the next step they may contribute to in order to help minimize disparities in the healthcare system.

Let’s follow Cristina’s wise words… shall we? 

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

I really enjoyed your post, Maria! I liked how you talked about a specific association (AHHE) that promotes and is attempting to raise awareness to the problem, health disparities. Shows how there’s so many ways to make changes out there, and we aren’t even aware of some of them! Great enlightenment. Nice job! 

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

Ethos, Pathos, Logos... #Week15

Section A: The Attention Grabber 

I will grab my audience’s attention with the use of ethos and logos by talking about how patients worldwide feel belittled or misunderstood by their physician because their physician isn’t the same race, culture or ethnicity as them. I’ll also introduce the need of diversity in the medical field, medical school in this case, and the benefits it gives to the work ethic of a physician in the making due to the engaging with students from different countries and different beliefs. 

Another way I will grab my audience’s attention is by showing a picture that could express the topic, “the need of diversity”. This is a way of using pathos.

Section B: Policy Change 

In order to solve the problems within the need of diversity in medical school associations such as the AMSA and students in Harvard Medical School are fighting for more programs supporting diversity in medical school, as well as starting organizations within their institution that promotes engaging with the diverse student body. 

Aside from advocating for a diversified education, there's many other ways to raise awareness for the need of diversity in the medical field, such as engaging people in various issues related to diversity and cultural competency, taking part in interactive exercises to encourage discussion about differences and similarities within our communities and how they can be addressed, attend workshops on issues of ethnocentrism, language and communication in health care and culturally appropriate medicine, among many more solutions.

Section C: Call to Action 

To be able to minimize poor health care treatment we need to change the views towards diversity, and prove how being part of a diverse student body will only enhance and facilitate the work ethic towards the future diverse patients. Many organizations within medical schools promote the growth of diverse study groups and are asking for diversity within the faculty as well. By doing so, not only are they engaging with diverse students but with diverse professors, allowing them to learn from different people and different ideas, ultimately bettering their work ethic by creating some sort of vulnerability, understanding and respect towards future patients. Patients worldwide are demanding the equal competent care they deserve and diversity is a major way to enhance this. 

[momof2boysohmy-blog]

Public Speaking, Opinion, and Outreach

Section 1 Public Speaking

 1.     Hugh Evans who spoke in the Ted Talks video opened with an issue, explained the topics he was going to cover and started into his speech with tying the issue to how it would be an impact for not only you and me but on a global scale. In our assignment this was very relative in the sense that we were required to present an issue, provide facts to back up the issue, and be an advocate by presenting a solution. Hugh Evans has had some practice in public speaking and is working on globally solving an issue that is affecting all of us indirectly and directly and presented his speech creatively, emotionally, and was very impactful. This is a good video to use as a tool or template on how a good impactful speech would need to resemble.

3.  In my experience knowing your speech forwards and backwards is your greatest tip to portray confidence, as said in the previous you tube video, and also gain trust from the audience. I was previously a loan officer at a credit union and had to advise people on their finances, being young worked against me. Knowing the products I was offering to my members really instilled trust in me and they were more receptive to the advice I was trying to give them.

Section 2: Public Opinion

5. Hugh Evan from the Ted Talks video states that there are people around the world that are for a global change in hunger, poverty, shelter, and basic human necessities but that people don’t act on it because we don’t know how or what to do. This would be a problem I have because I feel that I myself am a globalist and interested in doing my part to change the world but the solution is always the tricky part. I believe there is a connection between my topic, Diversity of Hispanics in Nursing, and the Op Ed article “We Need More Nurses” with the message that there aren’t enough nurses to patient ratio. The article helped back up the stance on the need for not only more Hispanic or a diverse nursing staff but more nurses’ period.

Section 3: Public Outreach

6.   I believe that maybe training many people basic medical skills can help alleviate patients going to the hospital and also globally have more people with skills to help others. Expanding this idea would need work and more information on how this would be possible or help I think is what Hugh Evans was trying to get across no matter how small or insignificant you feel your idea is to help others is to act on it.

7.   My idea on expanding basic medical knowledge to others around the world could possibly translate into a policy that could be implanted around the world. I believe that Op-Ed articles gives you the opportunity to express an opinion or idea you have that can possibly implement change and by providing information like tables or graphs can help backup your message you are trying to spread.

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

Expanding medical knowledge will definitely have its pros and cons! pros: anyone that might be in danger health wise will be able to receive help from anybody. cons: medicine wasn’t made for everybody! lol. i enjoyed reading your post! good job :)

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

Public Speaking, Opinion, and Outreach #Week14

Section 1 - Public Speaking

Hugh Evans killed it in his TED talk. His body language, voice of delivery and word choice were all key components to his speech being so great. His term “global citizens” which are people from “every country and among every demographic”, and his idea that “if more global citizens were active in the world, then every single challenge the world faces will become solvable”, and “global issues are ultimately to be solved by global citizens demanding global solutions” reminds me about the term “diversity”. This TED talks ties into our past group assignment and semester topic in general because what we are trying to get across is that diversity is needed for the growth of the world. Hugh Evans argues that if more people from all over the world were involved into the hardships and prosperities of the world, then the world would be a better, more understanding place. My group and I argued that if more Hispanics had the chance for a higher education then the future of these people will look brighter. I argue that diversity in medical school is crucial to the molding of a physician that can provide good health care to different patients. “Global citizens” are needed.

Some people may feel like the guy in the gif above... I also know most people have a fear of speaking in front of people. I do too, sometimes. I’m really good at public speaking but the nerves do get to me. I feel you, I do. BUT check out this quick TED talk video on how to be a good public speaker :)

One salient idea I found in this video is to accept your fear and fight it. Once you are aware that you feel scared or nervous, more power to you when you accept your fear and try to tell yourself to overcome it. Its easy to tell our mind to accept and conquer the fear. The more you accept you’re scared, the easier it should be to control that emotion.

Section 2 - Public Opinion 

This website will link you to my op-ed: 

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/07/05/osu-pushing-enrollment-of-minorities-in-med-school.html

Both this op-ed and the TED talk argue for a need of diversity. The op-ed talks about Ohio State is pushing the enrollment of minorities in medical school. A good example of a minority would be Hispanics in the US, which takes us back to my last group project and our argument on how its beneficial for such minority to prosper in higher education. The TED talk and the op-ed argue that diversity is needed for a better society, world.

This op-ed also ties in with my semester topic, diversity in medical school, because it clearly states how a well known medical school is asking for more minorities to attend. Diversity in medical school is shown to be crucial for a better physician-patient relationship. A med student who attends med school with different cultures tends to learn and understand what makes these cultures different but their goals the same, eventually leading to a more vulnerable/understanding relationship this med student as a physician will have with his patients.

Section 3 - Public Outreach

 Ways I could translate these connections to policy makers would be 1. Ensure that each minority community has an opportunity to apply to any med school of their choice 2. Ensure that each community with low income and resources get some financial help for the application and acceptance process to go smoother 3. Provide different minorities with information about different countries and places worldwide.

Ways that I could incorporate these ideas to this Op-Ed genre is by including statistics, data graphics, and interviews that will show my audience about the growth of different communities, the need for such and how these minorities didn’t feel as left out when they became part of the medical school student body.

[momof2boysohmy-blog]

Group Meetings-Documentary

1)   All in all for this project my group and I will put in the effort to work on our documentary Tuesday-Friday.

2)   Our group has decided to meet tomorrow on Wed between 8-11am, Friday 1:30-3pm, and we will work on our own today and Thursday.

3)    

·      Tues on our own we can get our parts together such as, our articles we used for the Lit review, our lit review papers, any graphs, videos or statics information we have, as well as our recorded interviews.

·      Wed we as a group can work on the title intro assign our parts to put in to the video

·      Thurs on our own we should have parts to work on to put in the video and get it ready to add on Friday.

·      Fri as a group we can add our parts to the video and add pictures, sound etc

4)   I can first contribute to the group by showing up to the group meetings to put in my part as well as work on my part  on my own to contribute to the documentary.

5)   I think the hardest part is putting the information together so that it flows and we can help by narrowing down information to add to our stance.

6)   I feel the easier part is adding the music or audio to the documentary because that is more of a fun part.

Tee her those last ones LOL anyways tight deadline but we got this guys :)

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

I’m so thankful I’m in a group with you, daniel, and maria because we’re actually progressing! lol. I’m pretty sure we’re gonna get this assignment done and we won’t come up short with it either! we got this. see you all tomorrow bright and early! thank you for being such a help so far, christina! :)

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

Wrapping Up The Film #Week13

My group and i have made some decent progress with this project! I think..

A) The days and times I plan to work on this project are tomorrow morning with my group, friday midday, saturday morning, and sunday afternoon.

B) My group and I have a group chat, so we decided to meet tomorrow morning from 8 am to 11 am. We all have tight schedules so this is the best we could come up with. Alone, I plan to work on this project during the weekend after I get two major exams out of the way.

C) As of tomorrow, our group’s main goal is to be able to put as much information we have together, such as any articles we used for last week’s tumblr post, articles from our Literature Review, any multimodal information we have gathered (like the one below), etc. As for the days where we are supposed to be working on our own, my group and I will still keep contact via group chat that way we can all somehow still work on it together.

D) To make sure I help out complete those aspects of the project, I will attend any group meetings we have aside from tomorrow’s group meeting, I will be as involved as possible in our group project, reply to all the messages in our chat, and overall help out as a team member.

E) I’m most concerned on how my group and I will make and put this video together. I know how to work iMovie, but making up a video itself is a hard process that I feel we need a little more time for.

F) I’m mostly comfortable with our topic and the information we have gathered to put together. We all have different info that equally contributes to the main topic.

[coolreddaniel-deactivated201606]

Week 12

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

You did such a good job hitting the points that tie into nutrition and education. I hope my post that spoke more about higher education for hispanics ties in correctly with our topic in general. And thank you so much for helping me and being patient with me!!! 

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

Building a Production Team, #Week12

Solution:

All in all, this post ties in with the other part of the topic which is “higher education” with hispanics. “The American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) is an agency of change for improving education, thus enabling Hispanic students to fully participate in a diverse society.” 

[momof2boysohmy-blog]

Reflection on research skills

Living in a border city it never occurred to me that there was a lack of people of my culture in the field I was trying to pursue. Learning about the diversity in my field of minorities, but with a focus on Hispanics, was eye opening and helped me understand the connection between the lack of minorities in my field and the health outcomes of minorities. My semester topic being “Diversity of Minorities in the field of Nursing” led me to research that I did not even expect; like the lack of Hispanics in my field as well as minorities as a whole, also about the effects of lack of diversity in the medical field, and how the lack of diversity is not only evident but is one of many contributors to minorities poor health care experiences that translate to poor health outcomes. I’m not sure when the last time I had my first RWS class but I don’t remember doing a literature review so this was a new process for me and it scared me honestly, but that we were doing it in chunks helped me to understand a flow especially because I have another one due in another class. Primary research was easy enough to find the professors but I did have trouble getting a response back, and I haven’t been able to get the full effect until Friday. Researching made me nervous at first but is now interesting to see what kind of research people all over the world have conducted on not just one aspect of a certain subject but on many. Thus far the research at the academic level was intimidating at first but I feel now I’m more prepared to be able to recreate more papers, if needed, in my academic future.

I believe what we are learning is not to take one answer as gospel and to pursue knowledge through our own research to form an educational decision on certain subjects. In my future as a nurse I will understand how to conduct research and write out a literature review paper on possibly future research questions or subjects that possibly need to have more information on.

After researching about my topic it gave me motivation to finish my higher education not only for my self but to also contribute to my races numbers in the game of nursing. Developing my rhetorical, research, and communication skills will not only help me in my daily life, with in depth conversations with people, but also being able to know how to research information and understand your position on a certain subject and being able to effectively communicate your research to spread informed knowledge.

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

Your research has been one of my favorites to follow! Diversity in the nursing field is somewhat similar to my topic on diversity in medical school, so I also feel enlightened for my future career as you do for yours. Great work! Hope you achieve all your goals! 

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

Reflecting on our Research Skills #Week11

These past months of research have felt rather eternal to me. The field that I am trying to pursue a career out of has brought me so many complications along the way, however, there is truly so much I have learned about my field itself. As a Biology major with a goal of attending Medical School after my bachelors, I felt it was only right to do research on Diversity in Medical school (big mistake). I learned that diversity between students is rather beneficial than harmful, that students all over the world feel that being in contact with people from different cultures benefits their future work ethic when they’re specialized physicians, that many Medical Schools have a similar way of getting their med students to go hand in hand with each other, it’s just been something exhausting yet interesting to learn about. Creating Literature reviews was something rather scary because I was always scared of someone who wasn’t my professor judging my paper, let alone, me taking a look and giving my opinions to someone else’s work. Nonetheless, it was always a helpful technique for the bettering of our final drafts. I have yet to conduct primary research; here is why I explain the topic I chose to do diversity on was a big mistake. Towards this part of the research process, I realized that I made a mistake by researching “Medical School” because I am still a biology major. I am still in the process of a bachelors, so I am still in the process of surrounding myself with scholars with medical knowledge. The scholars I have chosen not only stated that had no knowledge on “Diversity in Medical School”, but they also denied to conduct any sort of interview since that topic wasn’t in their field of study. At this point in this assignment I feel overwhelmed, because I haven’t been able to make progress, but I’m remaining as calm as possible... I’m still working on ways to contact scholars who can give me answers. As for conducting research at the academic level, I can honestly say I felt intimidated at first, but it’s been well worth it thus far; definitely a learning experience.

Everything I’ve learned will only be beneficial for myself once I become a medical student. After conducting so much research on medical students, I feel a little less oblivious to what is to come my way once I make it there. As for the importance of my research for this course, the process itself has taught me a lot for future reference. If I ever become a part of an internship or anything of that sort, and it includes research and interviewing, I won’t be so clueless on what I’m doing, or how I’m doing it.

This has been such a long and eventful journey of research and I’m happy with what it taught me and what I’ve learned out of it. Not only did I develop successful research skills but I’ve also gained a good amount of knowledge for my future career. I feel rather motivated to continue working towards my goal. Although my chosen scholars not being as helpful to my research, and trying to communicate with any medical scholars has been quite the let down, I will not use it as something that can let me down easily. Again, I’m very happy with everything I’ve learned thus fair. If I do end up in an internship and I’m required to do research, talk to scholars, write detailed papers, I’ll be able to do it with no hesitation. Rhetoric Writing has been extremely beneficial to my writing skills.

[mmnunez2-blog]

#WEEK 10

Cover Page: How to create an APA Cover Page

Found my information at Purdue Owl

Cover page requirements

Requirements for Abstract page. Information found in e-book page 37.

How to create an abstract page

Requirements for reference page.

Information found on Purdue Owl

How to create reference page

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

Glad we’re in the same group and continuously helping each other! our sources were also pretty similar so we pretty much know what we’re doing! 

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

Piecing Together the Literature Review #Week10

I am part of group 1, which focuses on the Cover Page, Abstract and Reference Page.

The requirements for the Cover Page, are as follows:

- Double-spaced on standard-sized paper (8.5" x 11").

- 1" margins on all sides.

-  12 pt. font, Calibri font.

- Include a page header (also known as the "running head") at the top of every page. 

- Insert page numbers flush right.

(Retrieved from Purdue OWL, https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Example from the e-book :

Requirements for an Abstract Page, are as follows:

- Separate page after, after the Cover Page  

- Word ABSTRACT should be centered. Don’t bold, italicize, underline, or all of them together. 

- Double Spaced

(Retrieved from  https://reader.brytewave.com/app/index.html#/book/NDA0NzU3/MjYx)

Example from the e-book:

Requirements for a References Page are as follows

(Retrieved from :

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/05/)

Example from the e-book:

Here are a couple HOW TO videos on how to do each section! I found them rather helpful but if you all still can’t figure it out, don’t hesitate to ask! 

& another tumtue completed :)

[marinpriscila]

So Close...

Now that spring break is over is time to get back on track! And one of the main things that I’m looking forward to (not really) is the interview with my chosen scholar. But first thing first, I have to send an interview request email. Which as you can see I have done:

Now I can move on to the next step!

And because the instructions ask nicely to read and download the “Interview Release Form” onto my Db, I shall do it :)

So far so good!

The next step in this TumTue post is actually creating my interview questions! I hope that these questions that I have created meet up to the standards of Dr. Kathleen O’Connor. If you guys think I should revise any of my questions please feel free to tell me!

Once again the instructions ask nicely to read and download the “Interview Confirmation”… soo i shall do it :)

Last but not least, I will now show you my recording material that I will use for my interview!

I am now done with this TumTues post! So close to finishing this assignment!

P.S. I can now go to my corner and cry because my interview is this Friday!!! But no worries I’m still going to class!!

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

Your questions are great! I think you should probably reword question 2 to “what are your thoughts towards discrimination playing a role...” that way you won’t repeat “how do you feel about...” other than that, awesome post! Best of luck on your interview! 

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

Documenting My Interview Preparation #Week9

Spring break is over so it’s back to School mode… *sigh* I’m actually a little nervous about performing these interviews! My first chosen interviewee is Dr. Renato Aguilera. I had emailed him yesterday and haven’t received a reply just yet… But here’s the e-mail I sent him, which I got from the e-book. 

Now to download & save the Interview Release Form to my Dropbox.

There it is, saved on my RWS1302 Folder.

Next are drafting my interview questions! Please give me some feedback on them! It’ll be greatly appreciated :)

So as I said earlier, I still haven’t gotten a reply from my interviewee...

But here’s the Interview Confirmation Form saved into my Dropbox for when I need it :)

Lastly, the materials I’ll be using for the interview.

My laptop to type out Dr. Aguilera’s responses, my iPhone to record the interview, my notebook where I will have my questions written down, and a pen just incase :)

Yay for another completed TumTue! And good luck to those of you who have received a reply and will be performing your interviews this week! 

[momof2boysohmy-blog]

#Week7

My major is Nursing:

I belong to the college: School of Nursing:

Contact info:

Advising: 

The academic advising online is understandable in that it lays out the degree plan with dates and info on when and how to apply when you are ready for the pre nursing part phase II. If I had read this before I saw an advisor I think the website provides clear steps. However i think in person with an advisor would be better to have someone knowledgable guide you.

Ok for the next part, trying to find potential scholars to be able to interview for my research paper, I thought was going to be easy however come to find out it wasn’t. Most of the faculty in the directory didn’t fill out their bio, research interests, or presentations for that matter so it was a smaller selection of what i thought I was going to have to choose from. I did find a handful that did fill out their bio, research interests, and some even their presentations so I picked 3 of them:

I chose Franchesca Nunez because she is a Hispanic woman in the field of nursing and has knowledge in the field due to having her baccalaureate since 1993. Her research is based on the nursing workforce, the nursing workforce culture, as well as patient/nursing outcomes, which are key points for my research. Since she has experience and knowledge in the field of nursing I hope to take good notes not only or my research paper but also for my future ahead.

When reading over Guillermina Rincon Solis, also another Hispanic woman in the field of nursing, it was encouraging seeing all she has accomplished with her education, which gives me motivation that it can be done. Her research is different then my research, since she is primarily focused on older people, but is on Hispanics and health care in a minority city, which are key points she can provide insight on for my research.  I would hope to gain some insight on her journey as well as helpful and useful research information for my paper on minority healthcare.

Lastly I chose Lisa Hennessy whom has also been in the field for many years and should have helpful knowledge in the field. Her research is primarily focused on student success which can be helpful in my research since competent care starts with the clinical practice stage since the student is learning everything they will need for the real world. I would hope to gain some knowledge on the student success rate for Hispanic women in the field of nursing as well as continuing education.

Done :)

[arantxakarinarws-blog]

Really liked your tumtue. College of Nursing is way better executed than College of Science! Your major and mine kind of tie in together since it all has to do with the medical field. Hope you find answers to your research!