Slow Day
10/30/06
Today was a slow day. My patient that I worked on last week called and cancelled, so I worked with two other first year students working on a patient that I have worked on in the past. Only this time working on that patient I felt more comfortable. I was really comfortable transferring and doing the
ROM. I found I still need to work on positioning the patient and also knowing how hard to push the patient. I find that when I see this patient is in pain or discomfort, I back off the stretch right away. Not challenging the patient does not help them. When chatting with the patient and joking around with her, she seemed to relax more. It also helped take her attention off of what we were doing, so we were able to get more ROM.
Documentation went well today. We wrote the note during the treatment. We just had to write the assessment and plan portions after the treatment. For the second hour, I really had nothing to do because the second year’s patient cancelled and the note was already done. Hopefully next week is a little busier.
