Week 15

4/21

I worked on a Tuesday instead of a Monday this week because I was unable to work that Monday. Today involved continuing to keep up-to-date with COVID-19 news and relevant public information. I have been looking the the NIH website pertaining to the coronavirus because they are constantly posting about new findings and this is an incredible reputable website. They posted about a new clinical trial beginning with hydroxychloroquine as a potential therapy. I constructed a short social media post with the most important information from the study. President Trump has been speaking on this therapy in news reports many times so being able to explain in short what it is seemed important to do. Dr. Leach also emailed me a list of FAQs from the ACOG website with regards to coronavirus and womens health/pregnancy. I skimmed through them to figure out which ones I felt would be important to address questions that women are having at the moment. Thus, I posted about getting pregnant during this pandemic and whether someone should wait or not. Again, I also posted the daily status report from the Georgia Department of Public Health to add to the trends worth noting on the WHA Instagram Highlight.

Another overarching project I was focusing on accomplishing in my last week was updating parts of the website. On Friday, Dr. Allen and I acknowledged that the website did not look updated and needed some big changes. Today, I focused on constructing a portion on WHA’s new policies for COVID-19 to put on the homepage so that patients are updated and know that WHA is still open. I spent a considerable amount of time simply trying to navigate editing this website and trying to make everything look congruent on the page. Website editing can definitely be a challenge when using different software from what I have used in the past. I also emailed Cheryl in hopes to obtain pictures of the providers to add to the website. Dr. Allen and I talked about this as a necessary change because none of the patients are really seeing these doctors without masks and we want them to feel comfortable knowing who they are receiving care from. Per usual, I worked for 5 hours.

Competency 1.6.1– Determine the extent of available health education programs, interventions, and policies

4/22

Today entirely involved trying to figure out the website once again and sifting through the small details Dr. Allen wanted checked or changed. I compiled a list when on the phone with her this past Friday of changes she wanted to see made. The biggest one was someone getting an announcement about Telehealth services to pop up. I went to go figure that out just to find she had already figured it out herself! So next I began going page by page to make sure all of the hyperlinks went to actual pages. I also deleted portions of information that Dr. Allen said they no longer offered at their office to make sure patients weren’t reading false information and having false expectations coming into the clinic. This mainly included Essure and other in-office surgeries that are not actually available. The most tedious part of today was going through just about every paragraph and word on the website to check for grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors. In order for a business to look reliable, the website is one way for patients to immediate evaluate the care they take to their services. If things are misspelled, for example, that demonstrates lack of attention to detail which is not favorable when choosing an OB/GYN. I also checked with Dr. Allen to make sure the staff on the website was up-to-date and communicated with Cheryl about needing biographies for new employees since the website was last updated. I worked for 5 hours.

Competency 5.3.2.– Analyze an organization’s culture in relationship to health education goals

4/24

Today marked my last day at this internship- wrapping up with 161 hours with working for 5 hours today. To begin, I finished up going through the different pages on the website checking for typos and other grammatical or structural issues. I then spent a considerable amount of time trying to get pictures incorporated next to the physician’s biographies on the website. Each time I thought I got the picture aligned with the bio, when I put the website in view mode, it looked all messed up. It took forever to get these to look like they fit on the page correctly. I also received an email from the RedCross with resources they are providing during this time. One of these is a FREE mental health course people can take to help them as well as others cope during this time. This course is supposed to allow them identify stress and other mental health issues in others to be able to help them when they notice differences in their behavior. I put together a post for social media with information on this course. In this same email, they sent resources for parents to occupy their kids at home with activities that are are beneficial for them. These activities included color books for the younger age group and an activity book for the older age group all dealing with emergency preparedness plans in case of a health hazard. I compiled a social media post on this as well so that parents can have a way to occupy their child during this pandemic while they are busy working or something else of the sort.

Competency 6.1.4– Convey health-related information to priority populations