May 3, 2014 ~ Adult Health and Gerontology

May 3, 2014 ~ Adult Health and Gerontology 

This semester has been a very busy and a very stressful one but it has also been one of the most enjoyable. We had Adult Health 1 with Kelly and Gerontology with Mary Hackie. Mary put so much time into the class and she made Gerontology fun, which probably would have been boring otherwise. Mary had hands on activities throughout the class. We fed each other baby food one class period because we were learning about the end of life and she wanted us to know how it felt to be fed. The person that was being fed had a blindfold on which made things more interesting. It was actually very weird being fed, having no control over how much food was being eaten and no control over how often a bite was taken. She also had us put sunglasses on with Vaseline on the inside to simulate how it would feel to see with Macular Degeneration. Every class period we had a "Rock Question" and whoever could answer the question correct first got a rock for their team. I was on Team 2 with April, Shuanna, and Asher. At the end of the semester whichever team had the most rocks won, and of course my team won! She gave the whole class fun mugs at the end of the semester but since my team won we got a mug filled with goodies. 

Adult Health 1 with Kelly was really good also. She taught us a ton of interesting material and she told stories a long with it so it made it more interesting. We had group projects in Adult Health 1 and lets just say one group was very entertaining and very creative. 

For clinical our group was at Summerlin hospital on the Med-Serg floor and Elita was our instructor. At first I was disappointed with clinical because there weren't very many educational nurses but once we got to know the nurses it was a good experience. I remember one clinical day when Jen and I were on a different wing of the Med-Serg floor and we were helping our nurse Shandy. Shandy had a lot of complex patients and because of that we had a lot of hands on experience and helped her a lot. We would hang IV bags for her left and right when they would run out, we helped change and fit an ostomy bag and we helped irrigate a CBI. It was a really good day and I felt more like a nurse because of the hands on experience. 

Team 2: Me, April, Asher and Shuanna, aka the WINNERS. Plus Jeff and Patti who photobombed the picture.

Asher and Jeff sporting the sunglasses with vaseline smeared on the inside to simulate Macular Degeneration. 

For one class period if you left the classroom you had to walk with a walker so you would know how hard it is to get around with one!

 Here are some of the pictures from the class where we fed each other baby food.

 Pati didn't really like the taste of the baby food.

She had us put toilet paper rolls in our hands for a whole class period to simulate having arthritis in our hands.

Every class period she had a rock question and here are the teams for the rock questions.

Here is our whole Gerontology class.

Who would have though learning about Cancer would be so entertaining. The Game Show group presentation on Cancer.

HL:     Shuanna: Vana White, Jeff:   Blair:

Our Summerlin Clinical Group. Jackie, Jen, HL, Elita, Kritcha, Me, Shuanna, Patti and Kevin. 

Here is the Cenntenial Hills Clincal Group.

April 30, 2014 ~ Pedicures and Purple Penguin

Before finals I had the privilege of going to get Pedicures and Purple Penguin with Mom, Diana and Rava. It was so much fun relaxing a little bit and having a girls afternoon before the craziness of finals. I love my family! 

April 20, 2014 ~ Easter Sunday

April 20, 2014 ~ Easter Sunday

This easter at the Tielemans household was filled with games and festivities again. We had an Easter egg decorating contest and then we had an Easter egg game. In the Easter egg game we rolled our Easter eggs towards each other and saw which one would survive the collide and not break. We also had an Easter egg hunt in the backyard. 

Lucas and I once again dominated all the Easter games. Lucas won the Easter egg decorating contest with his Monsters Inc. egg and I won the Easter egg game. 

April 19, 2014 ~ High Roller Ride

There is a new faris wheel on the strip called the high roller and Lucas was able to get free tickets! I was so excited to go because riding the "high roller" is $35 a night, so it would have been $70 with the two of us! It was an amazing view of the strip. The faris wheel is the largest one in the world currently, its even bigger then the London Eye. The faris wheel turns so slowly that it doesn't even look like it's moving. The ride is a 30 minute ride and you walk into the pod while the faris wheel is still moving, it never stops. It was an amazing experience thats for sure!

March 16, 2014 ~ Springs Reserve

March 16, 2014 ~ Springs Reserve 

The weather was perfect so we decided to make the trek to Spring Reserve as a family and spend the afternoon there. Sally was nice enough to bring sandwiches, fruit salad and snacks for us to eat. It's Jeff's birthday on March 19th so we also celebrated Jeff's birthday. We played frisbee as a family, ate good food and just enjoyed eachothers company. It turned out to be a beautiful day! 

March 5, 2014 ~ UNLV vs. San Diego

Lucas is a really cool Preist Qurom adviser and decided going to a UNLV game would be a great activity. Peter Anderson and Riley Beck were able to come to the game and Lucas managed to get them student tickets for FREE! Then Bryant and Jac managed to get student tickets and sat with us also! We got good seats because Lucas and I went an hour before the doors opened and stood in line, but the hour wait was completely worth it! It was an AMAZING GAME! In the student section they handed out free Elvis wigs, glasses and a free rebels shirt. It was a white out because all of the student section had white shirts on. The crowd was pumped and there were a number of slam dunks, we were standing the whole time!

March 4, 2014 ~ Lucas' Restaurant

For Lucas' capstone class, a class that is required before graduation, his final project was putting on a restaurant. His group had to come up with a theme (Greek), come up with a menu, and get people to come to their restaurant. They had to provide the recipes for the menu and the fellow classmates made the dishes on the menu. They also had to decorate the restaurant and make a Greek atmosphere for their greek restaurant. Throughout the semester Lucas rotated throughout the restaurant, he rotated through being a chef, a host, waiter, and a managed. Luckily Lucas was a floor manager on the day that his group did their restaurant so I got to see him when I came to his restaurant! His group had to get 60 people to show up or else he would get a bad grade so we spread the word and there was a good turnout! Unfortunately his restaurant day landed on a tuesday but luckily I have a pretty cool boss that let me leave for lunch! Our family supported us and Lucas in his restaurant and because of the support and love Lucas had a school record breaking customer amount at his restaurant. He had..... people attend his restaurant!

You could either pay at the door or buy a ticket a head of time. This is what the admission ticket looked like.

They had to make posters and post them around campus to advertise their restaurant. Lucas knew exactly what would draw peoples eye...a naked Greek large baby! He is a funny genius, and he knew a pretty amazing graphic designer to help him out (Tony)! The class loved it but the professor didn't. Lucas tried appealing the denial of the professor because he knew the poster would be a hoot but they rejected his appeal and his group had to make a new poster.

This is what the new poster looked like. Still funny and appealing but nothing compared to the first one! 

They had to make a menu for everyone to look at and order off of. Lucas was in charge of appetizers, so he picked humus because it's amazing! 

Lucas accidentally got his tie wet when he was inspecting the food as the manager. 

This is what the place looked like before everyone came. Once people started coming there was a line out the door! People unfortunately ended up leaving because the wait was so long.

Everything on the menu looked so delicious and you could only pick one entre, so naturally everyone got different dishes and we shared. Everything on the menu looked so good so of course we had to take a picture of every dish! 

The handsome manager and me. 

Everyone was so supportive and we made a fun afternoon of it!