A Day in the Life of a PT Student

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A Day in the Life of a PT Student

Laugh, Play, Smile by Veronica Haywood: Senior Farewell and Massage-A-Thon are well on their way, and I can't wait! I am especially excited for Senior Farewell. It is the one opportunity that we get to make fun of all of our previous professors. This year however, our professors are apparently Read More...
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Outpatient Physical Therapy and Psychiatric Help by Veronica Haywood: OK, so I just want to start by saying I LOVE MARQUETTE PT AND ALL MY TEACHERS. Just as a clarification. While I was working in an outpatient practice I realized that it was not easy to handle situations where patients needed possible psychology/psychiatric Read More...
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Saying Goodbye by Veronica Haywood: As the start of the school year approaches, I have become more excited and worried all at once. This will be my last semester of classes and while part of me is excited, a large part of me will miss being at Marquette. My mom thought it was actually quite Read More...
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Ignoring Proper Hygiene by Veronica Haywood: So I have come to realize that although everyone talks about it often, something that is really important but not practiced often is good hygiene. It's something that I have noticed in the past, but it was brought to my attention more recently after having Read More...
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Wrapping Up My Internship by Veronica Haywood: My internship is coming to an end and I am really going to miss it. I am finding it harder and harder to have to tell my patients that I will not be seeing anymore. Some of my patients I have seen since the very first week of my clinical! As with all Read More...
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Treating Complex Patients by Veronica Haywood: The past week has been quite exciting. I now have patients with polymyositis, post reactive streptococcal arthritis that lead to a total shoulder arthroplasty, MS status post ORIF, and a post polio syndrome/post cervical fusion patient who is now fused Read More...
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Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork! by Veronica Haywood: My caseload is rapidly increasing and I love it! Well, most of it. For some reason I don't think I realized just how much paperwork is involved. There's evaluations, daily notes, progress notes, discharge summaries, billing. I'm officially convinced that Read More...
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Patient Compliance by Veronica Haywood: I am steadily getting more and more patients every week and it is awesome! The one thing I have realized, however, is that people just don't listen! I cannot tell you how many times I have told people that they have to do their exercises with correct Read More...
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A Different Perspective by Veronica Haywood: I am loving my internship! I have finally gotten to the point where I pretty much have my own schedule of patients. The ones that I evaluate independently are the ones that I treat in addition to some of my CI's other patients. I am not going to lie, Read More...
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A “Stand Up” Patient by Veronica Haywood: This has been an awesome week. I have had the opportunity to treat and evaluate a lot of patients. I was so proud today when I got the opportunity to discharge one of the patients I have followed since the beginning of my internship. It made me feel so Read More...
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Impacting Patients’ Lives by Veronica Haywood: I don't think that I realized just how much of an influence we have on our patients until this past week. I just started my internship 3 ½ weeks ago and during one of those weeks I was I was restricted to just observing due to contract issues, and then Read More...
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No Setting is the Same by Veronica Haywood: I was talking with a friend the other day that is also doing a clinical at an outpatient facility and realized how common our sites were. One big thing that we both realized is that just because you change sites, doesn't mean you change the type of people Read More...
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Why Don’t PTs Handle Wound Care? by Veronica Haywood: I find it amazing that even though PTs are more qualified to treat wounds and insurance companies pay out more to PTs, health care facilities still choose to utilize nursing staff for wound care. In our program we have an entire 16-week course dedicated Read More...
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Get Patients Motivated by Veronica Haywood: Exercise is a very important part of what we do as physical therapists, but most patients hate to exercise. I know that sometimes I even need the extra motivation to get up and go to the gym. So...what is a good way to get them motivated to exercise? Read More...
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More Than Massage by Veronica Haywood: OK. This is another side track from the disparities blog. But, why is it that the first thing people say when I tell them that I am a PT student or PT aide is "Oh, so you give massages?" The first few times it happened, I just thought it was sort of funny, Read More...
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