12.5.12-DPC: Today's Temperature

Education Tool I created in my Master's of Nursing Education course at JMU this past fall.

Today's temperature was smokin'.  Dad's Ablation was today, a milestone we had been praying about and had been in eager anticipation for it's arrival.  I have found some passions while paving my professional career path, one of those being Atrial Fibrillation.  Once Dad found out he had it in 2010, we have watched him struggle with it's frustrating nature, watching as it comes and goes as it pleases.  One of the most frustrating things was seeing Dad not being able to understand why.  He understood what to do, but not always able to connect with understanding why and how. 

Hence, inspiration for my Nursing 650 Education Project.  In one of my Advanced Practice Nurse classes at JMU, I was challenged to create a Patient and Staff Education Project to implement in a setting of my choosing.  I chose to take on the big task of ways to control Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke Prevention, and with the help of a friend and colleague, created this tool to use in education.  It's appropriate that it was finalized and completed the same day we conquered Atrial Fibrillation.

Dad's surgery went as expected and he is recovering.  It is much slower than anticipated, but he is doing well and we're grateful for that.