A Day in the Life of a PT Student

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A Day in the Life of a PT Student

Interacting with PTAs by Veronica Haywood: This week I was discussing the roles between PT's, PT students, and PTA's with my professor. I mentioned that, though I have had interactions with PTA's during my last two clinicals, it has been relatively limited in me directly supervising them. While 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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Constructive CIs by Veronica Haywood: I have been extremely fortunate to have two great CIs thus far. Though very different in their approaches, they have both contributed greatly to my nurturing development. I would just like to take the time out to thank the both of them... Diana Correa 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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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 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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Don’t Uphold Poor Standards by Veronica Haywood: I think a really good article to check out is the "Addressing Unequal Treatment: Disparities in Healthcare" by Gillian K. Steelfisher of The Common Wealth Fund. It hits a lot of the same points as the National Healthcare Disparities Report, but it also Read More...
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Disparities in Health Care by Veronica Haywood: Disparities in health care can be viewed from different perspectives. It can be viewed looking at the disparities when it comes to service and the disparities examined within each field. Now when I say disparities in service, this is more or less in reference Read More...
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Cultural Preference by Veronica Haywood: One more week before I start classes! Hope everyone had a great new year! While on my internship, I realized just how important the last thing that I want to talk about is: cultural preference. Though it doesn't apply to everyone and this is just based Read More...
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The End of an Internship by Veronica Haywood: My internship has ended and it was GREAT!!! I have had the wonderful opportunity to work with many health care professionals, but most of all I had the opportunity to work with an excellent CI. She was able to help me grow so much during the course of Read More...
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PT Takes a Toll by Veronica Haywood: I have just completed my second week at my internship! I cannot believe how fast time flies. I feel like I have learned so much in such a little time. The one thing that has become very obvious to me is that this profession takes a toll on your body. Read More...
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Week One by Veronica Haywood: I have officially completed an entire week of my internship. So far everything is awesome. It sort of took a few days to get used to the environment, since I am not used to being in a long-term care facility, but I have become much more comfortable there. Read More...
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Preparing for Our Internships by Veronica Haywood: I am now counting down the days until my internship. 25 MORE DAYS!!! I got the opportunity to speak with my clinical instructor as well as the director of my facility this week and they sound awesome. I am so excited. I almost want to start packing, but Read More...
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Internship Apprehension by Veronica Haywood: OK, this past week we had our PT Olympics. My wonderful class took second place. So... Lisa was right, the 6s won. Even though there was extreme competition between the two classes, we all joined together to have a great time at our annual gathering where Read More...
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