Based on your job shadowing position, you will need to answer the following questions. You may have to be creative.
What is the position you shadowed?
Write a paragraph about how anatomy and physiology would be applicable in your position.
Write three questions that arose about A&P in your position.
Respond to at least two other people's posts. You may ask questions or answer questions.
Note that all responses and questions must be detailed
DUE: Monday at 11:59 (for those that shadow Thursday and/or Friday)
If you are not shadowing this week, the discussion board will need to be completed after you shadow.
Aeronautic Engineer at Lockheed Martin
Anatomy and physiology can be linked to the construction of Lockheed fighter jets in many ways. First is the design of the G-suits that fighter pilots use. These inflatable suits keep all of the blood from going into just their legs and help keep them conscious when pulling high-g maneuvers. Also, the controls in a jet fighter are arranged to suit the human size and shape, with fighter pilots only needing coordination between their hands and feet to control an aircraft.
How many g’s can the average person take before training?
How good does a fighter pilot’s eyesight need to be?
What is the average IQ of an aeronautical engineer?
From Addy:
Dental Hygienist
Anatomy and Physiology can be used for Dental Hygiene in many ways, for example it can be used for mouth and face exams and x rays used for treatment and evaluation. This also helps the hygienist determine what is wrong with the patient and where in the body it is appearing, or showing. They also need to know the different types of meds, and tools.
How do men with screwed in dentures clean the roof of their mouth and clean underneath the dentures?
How do you know when a patient needs a crown or a bridge?
What did yall do in clinicals during Hygiene school?
Project Manager in Construction
Anatomy and Physiology could both be applicable in the construction line of work. If someone were to hurt their shoulder or back I could assist in locating where the problem has occurred. Using my knowledge of the body and its functions, asking questions like where is the pain and what movements cause it to hurt would allow me to locate the source. With this knowledge I could help the subject better and help him or her understand what has happened to them.
What are the most common injuries in construction work and how to prevent them.
Have you ever had someone pull a muscle and had to assist them during a job.
Do you think using the anatomical position while helping an employee diagnose their injury would benefit in explaining it.
Physical Therapy
Anatomy and Physiology can be appicable through PT in multiple ways such as being able to have the knowledge of where certain bone are and in relation to specific tissue/muscle. You also have to respond and allow the body to go through rehab in order to build back the full potential to bones, so you must learn how to adapt a system to strenthen ones body. As a PT, you must be able to know the certain exercises to perform on a patient to help their injury heal.
How many years of school did you go through?
What is the most common injury you see?
What does the slang tearm "OB" mean?
ER
Anatomy and Physiology can be applicable in many ways in this position. For example if someone tells me their arm hurts and I need to figure out where it would necessary for me to know the names of the bones in the arm in order to figure out excatly where the pain is coming from.
When you get a g tube inserted how exactly does it go down and where does it go through.
What does a pace maker have to attach to in order to make the heart pump.
What all could a g tube be used for?
Physical Therapy
Anatomy and physiology is used a lot in the field of PT. For example, when we would do stretches and exercises to help work different muscles to retrain or work the body back up to its previous strength.
What does shocking the face muscles do?
Why do you have pain in his arm you if have a back injury.
What kind of exercises can we do to rework fine moter skills?
Radiology Technician
Anatomy and physiology is heavily applicable in radiology. This is due to radiology being used to see a patient's organs or organ systems without surgery. This can be done with a MRI machines to see sections of the brain, an x-ray machine to see bones, and many more.
1. Why does the patient have a gap between where their humerus and scapula meet.
2. How to recognize organs on an ultrasound machine.
3. Which organ systems work best with each machine.
General Surgeon and Radiologist
2. The O.R. room has many applications for A&P; body parts are being cut open and inspected or healed all day there. Everything from skin to bones to muscles is operated on in the O.R. room by surgeons specializing in different body part fields. In radiology, all sorts of scans are done mainly related to bone health but some are just to track movements in the body or the location of foreign objects. Personally, A&P helped me to understand the terminology used by the surgeon and radiologist I shadowed especially the medical terms for locations on the body.
3. 1. what is an endoscopy
2. What effects does the specific anesthesia have on the patient's ability to sleep and relax through the surgery?
3. what should the gaps between bones look like in a healthy patient versus an arthritic patient?
Graphic designer!
Anatomy and physiology may be applied in graphic design (aside from all necessary functions such as sight, cognitive processes, etc) in the use of fine motor skills since most of art is a brain-to-hand skill that can be trained. In the department I shadowed, there was also a reasonable extent of heavy lifting, so knowing how the body works and what risks injury may help to mitigate the extent of (or possibly even circumnavigate) injury. A general, visual understanding of anatomy can also help expand an artist’s repertoire of what they can draw (such as the human body or bones for Halloween).
1. How much of learning art is studying/cognitive and how much of it is in the physical movement of drawing?
2. What exercises would limit hand cramps from drawing or sketching for too long?
3. How could I relieve the visual strain working on an iPad or computer puts on my eyes? What would an optometrist suggest?