Sarah W's Senior Project Blog
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Project Title: Are We Prepared to Stop the Bleed? BASIS Advisor: Trent McDowell Internship Location: Northern Arizona Healthcare Onsite Mentor: Shawn Bowker & Paula McAllister & Floye Bradford |
Project Abstract
People can die of uncontrolled hemorrhage in 5 to 7 minutes and is the leading cause of preventable deaths so it is important that the public knows how to control bleeding. That is what Stop the Bleed hopes to achieve. In this project, I will explore how prepared “Stop the Bleed” training program participants feel after completing the training.I have decided to address the effects of the training through a survey that will be emailed out to previous participants in the Stop the Bleed training. This will be able to assess a wide range of participants due to the accessibility of surveys. I will be participating in the data analysis, however, my main focus will be creating and sending out the survey. I will be partnering with Northern Arizona Healthcare where the team in charge of Stop the Bleed in Flagstaff is. By the end of this, I hope to contribute to a survey that will be used for a long time at the hospital.
5/9 – The End
The project is finally over! It felt like a long time, but now that it’s over, it didn't feel that long. I’m just glad the presentation is over. Internship: We were provided a nice office space to work and nice people to help us along the journey. It was fun and now that it's done,... Read More
5/1 – We’re Almost Done!
We are almost done! Exciting yet sad at the same time. Getting ready for the presentation has been very stressful, but it has to be done so that is basically what I did this week and what I will be doing next week. Meetings: I had my weekly meeting that we have almost every... Read More
4/24 – Hokey Reliability
Hokey Pokey You know it is going to be an interesting week when one of the first things you see in the morning is Kei and Nathan doing the Hokey Pokey. One of our external advisors also walked in when they were doing the dance, so, interesting to say the least. Its not a great... Read More
4/17 – Interrater Reliability
I had meetings to figure out more details about what to do next. Here are the main points: Interrater reliability My final presentation Interrater reliability: A measurement tool needs to demonstrate test reliability, which is consistently producing results when used again and under similar circumstances. Interrater reliability is a measure of the consistency and... Read More
4/10 – After All the Emails
What my week has been like: I am kinda in a dry spot right now. I don't have much to work on while Kei is analyzing the data. My project is about making the survey and Kei was more focused on analyzing after the results come in. You probably already heard it from Kei’s blog,... Read More
4/3 – More Emails
The first part of the week, I was sorting emails…again. I did send out the first reminder email to complete the survey. You can read it below: Subject: Friendly Reminder: Stop the Bleed Training Program Survey Dear recent participant of the Stop the Bleed Training Program, I trust this email finds you in good... Read More
3/27 – SURVEYS
We finally sent out the emails! It was a lot more work than I thought it would be. Sending them out: Kei and I had to group all the emails into 12 groups of 50 email addresses. We already typed up all the emails from the sign-in sheets into a spreadsheet the first few... Read More
3/20 – The Other Half of Spring Break
There wasn't much going on the past seven days because we were still on Spring Break, but I did things on Monday and Tuesday of this week. On Monday, I learned a lot about excel in a meeting. We learned how to organize the data as well as summarize it by creating a table. I... Read More
3/13 – Important IRB Stuff
This past week, I really only worked on my project for about two days because of spring break, but I still learned a lot! During the two days I worked, I mostly focused on IRB. Last week, I told you I had a problem with logging in and thought there was never going to... Read More
3/5 – Meeting, Surveys, and Housekeeping.
Meetings Throughout the week I have had various meetings. The first one on Wednesday was just a check- in to make sure we were on track and if there were any trouble. By the end, I gave them a rough draft of my survey questions. The next meeting was specifically for the survey, so we... Read More
2/28 – The work at the hospital starts
Ethics training This week I finally completed my ethics training. It was pretty simple. All I did was read a paper and take a short quiz after. The mandatory modules I took were History and Ethics of Human Subjects Research, Informed Consent, Populations in Research Requiring Additional Considerations and/or Protections, Research and HIPAA Privacy Protections,... Read More
Week 0 (2/21) – Are We Prepared to Stop the Bleed?
About me: Hello! I am doing my senior project on the Stop the Bleed program. I have always wanted to do a senior project since I heard it was something you could do at BASIS. Even though I have always wanted to do one, I had no idea what I wanted to research until this... Read More