Geri/Psych Fieldwork Level I
Students will obtain clinical experience in geri/psych specialty area. FW I sites will be arranged by OTA faculty and will consist of 30 hours of off-campus observation and participation at a geri/psych rehab facility. Designated as a service-learning course.
Service Learning - Theraband Home Exercise Handout
For my Fieldwork project this semester, I was asked to make a handout for patients who were going home from the Woodland Park Rehabilitation and Care facility. My supervisor Casey Walker COTA, asked me to make a handout depicting 6 simple exercises that can be used with the Theraband. He wanted me to take my picture showing the starting and ending positions, the directions of how to do them, the muscles involved and the functional use of each exercise.
The cost to make it was basically free, but it took quite a bit of time to research all of the muscles used, and figuring out real life functions that would be appropriate for the population that was going to be using the exercises. I would estimate that it took me 10 hours to complete the project including the time to take the pictures.
This project will be very helpful to the clients at this facility. Most all of the clients could benefit from taking this with them as they are discharged. It is good for those who have general weakness, knee surgeries, COPD and everyone who just wants to keep up on their overall health. I tried to make it very simple to understand and relevant to those things that they may do in their everyday lives. I think it was a good project to do.
Reflecting back on the service learning project that I made for the Woodland Park Rehabilitation and Care Center, I am happy with the handout that I was asked to make. I learning so much as I had to research the specific muscles that were used for each of the exercises. It was a good refresher course to take, as I haven’t really thought about any of those muscles since last year in anatomy. It also brought to life the actual everyday functions that we do and the muscles that are important for those activities.
I was happy to make the handout at first, I thought it would be a piece of cake and not take a whole lot of time. I was wrong. I found out that I am not that computer savvy, and if you don’t have the programs on our computer that would make this very easy, it takes a lot of time. I didn’t really like using my own picture, but the ones that I took of someone else were too dark and had to be redone. All in all, I think the handout will be used very often, if not with every patient who leaves the facility, and I was happy with the final project.
The project turned out to be very meaningful, because right after I turned it in, another COTA saw it and wanted me to email it to her also, she had a patient who could use it right then. I think it will be a helpful handout for the facility, and was happy to help them in that way. I also left them with a digital copy to use and print out as needed.
The cost to make it was basically free, but it took quite a bit of time to research all of the muscles used, and figuring out real life functions that would be appropriate for the population that was going to be using the exercises. I would estimate that it took me 10 hours to complete the project including the time to take the pictures.
This project will be very helpful to the clients at this facility. Most all of the clients could benefit from taking this with them as they are discharged. It is good for those who have general weakness, knee surgeries, COPD and everyone who just wants to keep up on their overall health. I tried to make it very simple to understand and relevant to those things that they may do in their everyday lives. I think it was a good project to do.
Reflecting back on the service learning project that I made for the Woodland Park Rehabilitation and Care Center, I am happy with the handout that I was asked to make. I learning so much as I had to research the specific muscles that were used for each of the exercises. It was a good refresher course to take, as I haven’t really thought about any of those muscles since last year in anatomy. It also brought to life the actual everyday functions that we do and the muscles that are important for those activities.
I was happy to make the handout at first, I thought it would be a piece of cake and not take a whole lot of time. I was wrong. I found out that I am not that computer savvy, and if you don’t have the programs on our computer that would make this very easy, it takes a lot of time. I didn’t really like using my own picture, but the ones that I took of someone else were too dark and had to be redone. All in all, I think the handout will be used very often, if not with every patient who leaves the facility, and I was happy with the final project.
The project turned out to be very meaningful, because right after I turned it in, another COTA saw it and wanted me to email it to her also, she had a patient who could use it right then. I think it will be a helpful handout for the facility, and was happy to help them in that way. I also left them with a digital copy to use and print out as needed.