A Day in the Life of a PT Student

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A Day in the Life of a PT Student

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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Low Back Pain by Veronica Haywood: Everything at my internship has been going great with the exception of some contract complications. But otherwise my CI is great. So far I have seen a pretty wide variety of patients. The number one issue that tops the list is low back pain. I find it Read More...
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A New Setting by Veronica Haywood: This week I finally started my next clinical. This one is completely different from my last clinical experience! I am currently working in an outpatient orthopedic setting at a major Chicago hospital satellite clinic. No more 4-wheeled walkers (well so Read More...
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Coming to an End by Veronica Haywood: Finals are finally starting to come to an end. Two more today and I'll be DONE!!! Well not completely...I don't graduate till next year (Congrats to Lisa and the other DPT-6's). Nonetheless, I will be so happy when finals are done. No more late nights, Read More...
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Tests, Tests, Tests! by Veronica Haywood: I am currently getting ready for finals and I am going crazy!!! Three weeks of test and then one week of non-stop testing. Good thing it is almost over. One week left and I will be a DPT-6! As soon as finals are over I will be starting my second internship. 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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What Lies Ahead by Veronica Haywood: I'm currently trying to assess what geographical location I want to live in after graduation. While warm weather is definitely on my list, I am more concerned with job availability in certain regions. In addition to this, I am curious as to what state 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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Student Loan Debt by Veronica Haywood: So over the last five years I have accumulated a lot of debt... also known as student LOANS. It honestly makes me want to scream. I have had a few scholarships and grants, but nothing has compared to the federal and private loans I have. I know a lot Read More...
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