(1) What is your essential question? What is the best answer to your question and why?
My essential question is : "What is the most significant contribution of child life services to a hospitalized child's health?". After researching this past year about child life specialist I found that the most significant contributions are preparation, and support, The most significant contribution of the services to a hospitalized child's health is PLAY IN THE HOSPITAL. This contribution is the best answer to my essential question because although preparation and support benefit a child's mental and physical health, play in the hospital is more benficial because it benefits not only physical and mental health but the children gain a variety of social skills aswell, all at once .
(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
After commiting to the topic of child life specialist I began to more about the general idea of what child life specialist are. I became exposed to the foundation of the carreer aspects and achievments that the child life services take part of. After fully understanding the background of child life service, I became passionate with the idea of finding the right essential question that will help others recognize the child life occupation. Thus I came up with the eq "What is the most significant contribution of child life services to a hospitalized child's health?". I began most of my research online to find the potenial aswers to that question. Although alot of research articles had alot of supporting facts, I found my first answer: npreparation, and best answer: play in the hospital, bolded in a book called "emotional care of hospitalized children". After receiving two of my aswers, I noticed that I had a pattern. I found that the most significant contibutions that i found happen in the begining and middle of a child's hospitalization. After that finding, I was determined to find something significant that the specialist do toward's the end of hospitalization.While looking at the pediatric site of Maryland university children's hospital, I found my last answer: support, which concluded my pattern in the way that I expected.
(3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
For one mentorship was hard to find, then when I did a "trial" mentorship at the city of hope hospital, I felt as if what I was doing wasn't as relatable to my topic as I hoped it would be. I didnt have an oppurtunity to even be by kids, so I felt mentorship there was not effective enough for me. A few weeks after I got the okay to complete hours at a daycare. This issue was definately resolved because I was actually now going to be able to be hands on with the children there, and have the oppurtunity to learn from that experience.
A second problem that I faced had to do with research. Alkot of research was online, but when it came to finding books about child life specialist , alot were very outdated. I then resolved the issue by changing my focaus to the needs and care of hospitalized children. Since child life specialist deal with hospitalized children for a living, the book I found " emotional needs of hospitalized hcildren" talked alot on specialist.
(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
My 1st most significant source would be my mento JoAnn Namm (specialist at city of hope) because although my other mentor Gina Day Padre Vaughn was a big help as well, JoAnn not only gave me the output of great interviews, but she allowed me to witness the child life services at work . From the experiences that she has let me be part of, I have gained knowledge from the aspect and point of view of real child life specialist like her. In addition JoAnn was who introduced me to my second mentor, who has also been a great help.
My 2nd source is the book "Emotional care of hospitalized children". This book was the one I checked out at the cal poly libary, til this day I am really glad I checked out that book because it made it easy for me this year because I was able to find two of my asnwers to my EQ in there in bolded letters. The book not only discussed the basic needs of the children, but explained in detail about the contributions specialist make for the children.
(5) What is your product and why?
So far My product is that I gained The ability to be a much more understaning person in general &learn how to communicate with children effctively. From working hours at my mentorship (Delovely daycare) I have been much exposed to a variety of people of different ages. Each person and child has their own needs and personality. At first adapting to others needs vs mine was a challenge. From the experiences that I have been able to have, I have been able to be much more understanding of others ways, and forms of communication.
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