Occupational Therapy
I'm a bad OT blogger
I've started cross training in vocational rehab which is like, I dunno, the epitome of OT, it's SO OT it hurts. It's awesome.
I also will be evaluating a burn victim soon and I am SCARED! Must. learn. asap. Am asking for advice and reading up etc, but wish I had some hands-on experience backing me up.
Am definitely going to AOTA conference, any of you readers going?! Meet-up time!!!! I promise I'm the biggest akwardest dork ever but I'm nice at least. Unless I'm stressed out and then I look a little blank.
So……um…….tommorrow will involve vocational rehab in morning, outpatient in afternoon…..
Need to update my sidebar with new OT blogs :)
how the OT time flies
I've blogged semi recently on OTconnections.org. Just got an e-mail from a new blog reader applying for an OTD program soon!
"You're dealing with shapes, I'm dealing with pain"
Yay for OT school
Hi UTHSC MOT Class of 20XX…..Neal informs me there may be some linkage so I guess I should pretend like I've been updating this regularly lately. Oops.
Throw the blog a bone…
I swear I have not forgotten your existence, oh bloggety blog. The real world isn't much fun – I much prefer the student world – but I do still love OT. I just wish I didn't have to go to work 40 hours a week, lol. I want to go back for my PhD in a few years I think.
Preventing healthcare acquired infections like MRSA…
Barbara
Barbara Dunn has been e-mailing me about preventable infections – I need to check out the website for more information as it looks pretty interesting. One thing I always wonder about is the clipboards that get carried around everywhere! Check it out. 🙂
I'd like to inform you and the readers of Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) about how to protect patients and healthcare workers from the huge number of preventable infections people are catching in hospitals and other medical care facilities.
I've created a useful site that you're welcome to check out and take any resources from you like:
That site is a summary of a bigger effort by Kimberly-Clark Healthcare called “Not on My Watch” which is aimed at eliminating completely preventable healthcare acquired infections like MRSA and ventilator-associated pneumonia. Complete information about the “Not on My Watch” campaign can be found at www.haiwatch.com.
Please let me know if there are any questions I can answer for you.
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Barbara Dunn
barbara@haiwatchnews.com
www.haiwatch.com
OT
My classmate Dori….(well one class below me) is doing an internship here….we were representin' at a sushi restaurant or Thai or something I think.
It KILLS ME KILLS KILLS ME KILLS ME I can't share specific stories….today I have some stories I'd really like to share!! ARGH!!! It hurts!! I guess I can say this much….I like to use rest breaks productively….for patients who are into self-expression I encourage them to bring in their stories, poems, pictures, scrapbooks, whatever it is they want to share about their life…. (this is especially interesting when working with victims of trauma) – so that during a rest break they can share…
My other goal is that the patient goes home and makes their family jealous of therapy because it's so awesome, haha. I don't have that hard of a time doing that with younger patients who need global training (like lots of deficits to work on). But when it's a patient with just a hand injury or something I find it harder to make it awesome even though I know, I know, a good OT would have no problems making that work. I wish I had an unlimited budget for craft supplies and stuff. Hmmm.
As a new occupational therapist (um I started Sept 1st so 3 months now!) it's so easy to feel utterly incompetent…but I'm sitting here doing adult outpatient physical dysfunction iin another state, whipping out 700s and learning more about the CRAPPINESS of insurance companies lol, and if I had been a student I would just now be done….so…I guess I need to be patient. I keep being told it takes a year, or five, ahaha, to feel okay…..
Hmmm
Better go prep for tomorrow…
I hope y'all had a nice Thanksgiving
PS I have 152 new mails to look at and over 200 to review/respond to, so um….yah 🙁
PS2 I need art ideas 🙂
Martha Stewart blew my mind today, oh and Glee's handicapped episode
So this has nothing to do with OT but it struck me as really ironic.
I follow Martha Stewart on Twitter along with a bunch of other random peeps, and my Twitter came up and she had a few Tweets up and they all had no grammar, ie did not capitalize “i”, no periods, commas, etc. I was like…..Really? Am I the only one who finds that hilarious, considering she is known for her attention to detail???
Oh but by the way, to make this vaguely OT related, I am listening to “Defying Gravity” – I just watched my first episode of Glee, called “Wheels”, after I think it was announced in AOTA's minute or something. It was relatively well done, having all the glee club have to use wheelchairs for a few hours a day to know what one of their members had to go through daily – they used the term “handicapable” which I haven't seen before. And I loved the song Defying Gravity. So I downloaded it on iTunes. I recommend the show or at least that episode….I know there is probably some talk over on OT Connections about what people did and did not like about the show.
Happy Thanksgiving!
booo
dang spambots with all their ads….gonna have to go back to moderating comments cuz of them! booo.
I'll try to post today!