Day 2 - Occupational Therapy

Today was day two of my internship at the rehab center in BVRMC and I very well enjoyed it. Things were a bit crazy with scheduling and getting together with Katie but we made it work. Katie was out at a safety fair in the morning so I got to follow another OT. She did a lot of the same things but their was new experiences with different injuries. Then when Katie got back I followed her around for the remainder of the morning until lunch. After lunch I got to experience some physical therapy work since Katie now had an AEA meeting that would take the remainder of my day there. The physical therapy work was done with patients that had gotten either a hip or knee replacement. They helped the patients get mobilized after just having surgery. One thing that I thought was special to this experience was seeing that the patients were so happy to see the physical therapist because they were able to get out of bed and walk after being in bed all day. Today showed me that nobody's day goes the same as the day before. For this work experience I arrived at the hospital at 8:15 and was there until 2:30.