Stereotypes

I don't know about the whole test on that website. To me it seemed more of a finger exercise than anything else. I don't feel as though it really portrayed anything accurately. I kept getting confused as to where my good and bad was or what was assigned to what letter, 'i' or 'e'.
I know that I come along with my stereotype and biases, I think it would be impossible to get rid of them completely. There is so much in the world that influences me on what I should think. Yes on the opposite side education can make that gap of what is untrue smaller, but there seems like there will always be one person that sticks with you or one event that marks what you think of an entire category.
I think what would be important is not allowing those known stereotypes to be evident when you meet a person. Allowing that person to have the chance to change your mind/perspective on a category. Treat each person as though you have never known what raggedy clothes could mean, or what Aruba background stands for, or what overweight reflects, black or white says, tilted sideways hat poses. Take the time to see if it is true.

Nonverbal Communication

I was stuck in traffic along whyte ave having nothing better to do than look out the window and people watch. The way people communicated seems to depend a lot on their surroundings. There was a small group of people standing outside of a bar having a smoke, bodies angled only slightly towards one another, fidgeting with there hands, constantly getting pulled away from the conversation from the busyness that surrounded them. From my perspective it appeared as though either they barely knew each other based off of the uncomfortable stance, or their conversation was not engaging enough to keep their attention from getting distracted.
In comparison I was also giving the chance to observe two ladies sitting in a coffee shop. There body language was completely opposite of the small group out side the bar. Fully engage, shoulders facing one another, leaning in slightly. One lady had her hand on her lower part of her face, eyes glued to the words as they came out of the other ladies mouth. It made me want to be apart of, included in on the conversation. The way they used their heads to signify that they understood seemed so inviting. Two black and white situations.

Best/Worst Ultrasound

One thing that stood out to me is people's expectations. You go into something expecting one thing and if you don't get what you expected, immediately you are off to a bad start.
The girl in the worst ultrasound video expected to be able to take a video camera in because of what she has heard. When she found out that she was not allowed it seemed to start a chain reaction of mental negativity. Her focus then turned to how silly of a rule that is, to this sucks my husband is not hear, to she doesn't speak, to my baby is dead thoughts. A cannonball of emotions triggered by one event, which made the rest worse than it probably was (minus the sonographer not knowing how to take internal pictures, that is bad).
The girl in the best ultrasound video, she was warned a head of time about the ultrasound. She didn't have a good start to the day, but she expected that. She knew that to drink one liter of water was going to be uncomfortable. After that painful experience of an uncomfortable bladder was over, she really didn't have much to say other than it was a good experience. She saw her baby girl. The girl in the best ultrasound didn't seem to have a whole lot of other expectations other than potentially the thought of cold gel.
I feel as though to be able to deal with patients who come in with their own expecations of how the scan should be preformed, speaking very clearly right away on how you are going to perform the ultrasound will save the patient hopefully a lot of disapointment/frustration, as well as the ultrasound tech.

People who have asthma live with it day by day. Usually they can get by with out it affecting them to much, if they take the proper medication. Now and then however it can attack them leaving the person breathless and scared.

My friend deals with asthma and this is no different for her. Normally when she becomes short of breath she calms down and takes the proper steps to being able to breathe again, but one time she was not able to. Her parents took her to the emergency hoping that they would be able to find out what was wrong.

At this point my friend was feeling rather frightened as air was not coming easily to her. Feeling panicked they were able to get the nurses attention. When the nurse came over see her, rather than the nurse finding a way to calm my friend, by saying, “Everything is going to be alright, calm down, just breathe slowly”, she snapped at her, “Calm down! You need to calm down!”.

There is no way that I would be able to calm my self down by someone trying to bite my head off. Maybe this lady was having a bad day, but does she not know that she is working with people who are fragile, physically and emotionally? There are ways of getting an important point across to someone without cramming it down their throat. Using a gentle tone when speaking is a much better option, even if you are having a bad day, a busy day, or a whatever day. Speaking kindly will portray compassion and aid in achieving your outcome goal with a person, where as a harsh tone will ignite a negative reaction, not only to the patient but to those who use it.