4.1 Journal Field Log Report

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Workshop Four - 4.1 Journal Field Log
For this journal entry I will share two different activities which include doing some assessments and making some mistakes and working with high school students that came to the nursing home to work with the residents and play games in the activity room and sing Christmas songs for the residents at the nursing home.
Description of activity (what happened). One of the activities that I got to do was some assessments, however, because the forms have different things on them it is easy to get confused about what to fill out and I made some mistakes. In addition, because the forms were not explained in detail about what needed to be filled out and because of miscommunication some information was filled out wrong and some information was missed, however, that has all been straightened out and we also discussed other things such as daily activity sheets and some new things that we will learn which is doing things with residents that are more one on one for residents that have more serious health issues and doing activities with them such as reading to them for one example.
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In addition, many of this students are thinking about going to college and I shared that I am a college student and that also encouraged many students to ask questions and help them to think about their future which made me feel good and the students working with the residents made some people very happy for the day because it shows that people

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