Thorax Cavity

This morning we started out with a presentation from Chris about competencies for entering graduate schools. Some of the competencies for medical school are interpersonal, intrapersonal, thinking and reasoning, and science. On the other hand, the competencies for nursing school are leading yourself, leading others, and leading the organization. This lecture allowed me to see how customer service relates to patient care. I have been a server for about five years now, and something that I have learned the most about the job is about how to treat customers so they leave happy and satisfied. This job will help me in the future to treat patients and interact with them. Since a big problem in health care is apathy and burn out, I think exposure to customers will allow me to aid future patients.

For Dr. Eprights lecture today, we learned about Law and Ethics and how they are related but not interchangeable. An example that is first perfect with this point are masks and if the government has the right to force you to wear one. Religion and ethics also play a role. You do not have to have both at all times. We also learned about emotion and argument.

• Emotions can be biased, prejudiced, unreflective, alone it is insufficient

• "Pure reason" is a myth

• emotion makes us care enough to ask deeper questions and reason permits us to seek new solutions

Right after anatomy lecture, we had anatomy lab! For lab we were exposed to the throax cavity of the donor. Thoracic cavity, also called chest cavity, the second largest hollow space of the body. It is enclosed by the ribs, the vertebral column, and the sternum, or breastbone, and is separated from the abdominal cavity (the body's largest hollow space) by a muscular and membranous partition, the diaphragm. It was amazing to see what is inside a human body and is hard to process what is really in front of me. I was able to hold the heart while we studied the different parts of it. Lab was so cool today.