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Souvenirs from the Patient Safety orientation c:

On Thursday, October 24 I went to Casa Colina for the Patient Safety Orientation. Volunteers in patient safety make rounds to specific patient rooms to resolve patient safety issues. An example of this would be if a patient is fall risk and is trying to reach something that is out-of-reach. We don't want the patient to get up because there is a very likely chance that they will fall, so as a volunteer I would do things of the sort.

I am still trying to become cleared, and to do this I need to get my second TB done, which will be done Monday. After that I plan on coming in Wednesday and start volunteering. I'm looking forward to helping out and interacting with the patients at Casa Colina.

Blog 8: Research and Working EQ

Content

1) What is the best way an OT can evaluate a patient in transitional care post-brain injury? 
I'm most likely going to change my EQ because I'm going to be working with OTs for children. I want to change the question to What is the best way to improve a child with disabilities cognitive and fine motor skills?

2) EQ: What is the best way an OT can evaluate a patient in transitional care post-brain injury?

• Educated Observations & Assessments; the evaluations are different for OTs and for the patients depending on their conditions. Educated observations would consist of the knowledge of the brain because the brain does not function properly post-brain injury, affecting cognitive and motor skills. Observations would note a patients progress. After that an assessment could be given to test their progress of certain actions such as evaluating home management skills.

3) The most important source I've used that helps me answer this EQ was my interview with Keri Garcia. 

4) My mentor is Sarah Meredith at Casa Colina, I shadowed with her in the Transitional Living Center and this related to my working EQ by allowing me to observe patients in transitional care post brain injury.

Blog 7: Independent Component 1 Approval

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1) What I want and plan to do for my 30 hours is make a portfolio of the patients [but will only address them as Patient A, B, C, etc.] which will explain their type of brain injury and treatment that they need to improve themselves. This will show me different treatments that OTs use to help others. An example would be: Patient A's brain has been affected due to a stroke and has caused them to have short-term memory. Exercised that work Patient A's memory skill is blah. 
If I am unable to do this I plan to just do more hours.

2) To show the 30 hours of work if I do the portfolio activity I will document what I think is relevant and be as detailed as I can. I would do this by noting the patients' results after each treatment. And if I just to the hours, I will update my hours log.

3) This will help me explore my topic more indepth by showing me different treatment OTs use to improve a person's abilities post-brain injury.

4) Independent Component 1 log

Update (12/17/13): Instead I will be doing an online course about cognitive neuroscience because OTs help patients that have cognitive issues so by learning this I will be able to learn about the cognitive abilities. http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/biology/introduction-to-cognitive-neuroscience/index.htm