So you are close to graduating. You are getting ready for interviews and NCLEX studying. You are planning family time to celebrate pinning and graduation ceremonies. Then you are asked if you are bringing your portfolio to your interview?!
What portfolio? What should I include? What’s too much?
Where do you start? Here’s some tips:
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Over the last two weeks, our team completed the ROV education and mentoring module of the NOAA sponsored “Crossing the Channel” outreach program. It is embedded in the respective Marine Science Academies at Channel Islands High and Frank Middle Schools. The students successfully designed and piloted eight different PVC ROVs! 
For the final module, both the high and middle school students took a two day trip to our Santa Rosa Island Research Station! Last Friday our team went to pick up the students from the island aboard the NOAA research vessel, the Shearwater.
Once the students were aboard, our team worked with the crew of the Shearwater with the goal of collecting preliminary research on fish behavior using our OpenROVs. Unfortunately the weather did not co-operate, we had to anchor just off shore of the island, instead of in the Santa Barbara channel, which we had planned. Despite the wind, we were able to launch two of our units. We demonstrated how we use the ROVs in research, and then allowed the K-12 students to get some hands on experience piloting!
After about an hour, the surge and wind started picking up. In order to find fish, we were diving the ROVs near kelp beds, but the conditions and diminishing visibility resulted in kelp entanglement! We attempted to recover the ROV by navigating through, but in the end, we had to send down a diver to retrieve it. The ROV made it out unscathed; luckily we had a very experienced diver. The trip was a great experience for the middle, high and undergraduate students alike!
The semester is quickly coming to a close, there are roughly two weeks left, and the team still has a lot of work to do! The senior members of our team are preparing to present their projects and findings at the SAGE Student Research Symposium. In addition, they are working furiously to complete their final capstone project papers.
In exciting news, we have begun to collaborate with Dr. Mike Allen and his master’s student Guy Trimby, a team from Plymouth Marine Laboratory, which is located in the United Kingdom. They are working on methods of specific biological molecule detection near coral reefs, using ROVs. We hope to aid them with their OpenROV modification and development, and in the future, with data collection. We are also preparing for our upcoming trip to the Cook Islands this summer, where we will be characterizing some of the reefs surrounding the islands!
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Information for ATI remediation or if you want to review weakest areas!!
Log in to ATI – My Results tab
Review the Assessment Report for the exam, which provides a list of Topics to Review.
Obtain a focused review by selecting on the Focused Review next to the Assessment Report and click Create. On the next page, click % of your final score (eg 50-70%) in the ‘sections where percent is below __’ to obtain areas of focus review; then Create Focused Review.
Choose at least 2 content areas in which the results fell below Level 1; it is highly recommended to choose the 2 lowest scored areas, reflecting the need for further focused review relating to the specific content in the course. Identify the ATI study plan by choosing two or more activities identified by ATI and/or resources from the course (textbook, etc).
The hillsides of Southern California are notoriously prone to landslides. On January 10, 2005 the steep cliffs behind the unincorporated town of La Conchita, in Northern Ventura County crumbled into the community killing 10, injuring 15, and destroying 31 homes http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-la-conchita-20150104-story.html#page=1. The same hillside had failed, in the same area ten years before in 1995 destroying 9 homes, but the community had gotten lucky the first time being spared any loss of life. Now 10 years later, the community of La Conchita is looking back at what has changed since 2005, and members of the emergency response system would be well advised to do the same.
Though the two previous events occurred after significant rainfall, the US Geological Survey has authored a study of the La Conchita area, siting geological evidence of frequent landsliding in the past several milenia that suggests this area is at significant risk for landslide activity even in the absence of rainfall (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1067/508of05-1067.html#conchita07). And yet the community of La Conchita continues to grow, with approximately 300 residents including about 30 children. And though the community has made efforts toward increasing preparedness for future events with emergency supplies and a tractor stored in a safer location within the community, a proposed modification of the hillside itself that would significantly reduce the risk of failure, remains stymied at the state government level.
The types of disaster most likely to affect Ventura County are fire, landslide and earthquake and as we have seen time and again, and though landslides are fairly predictable they still manage to incur incredible cost to both property and human life. The website http://readyventuracounty.org/ is a great resource for learning how to be prepared for a variety of disasters. Nurses would do well to keep themselves up to date with resources such as this, and with the disaster response plans in place at the facility with which they are affiliated… Because it seems that the people most at risk of harm due to landslides are not planning on getting out of the way any time soon.
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