Bright New Faces and Familiar Faces

Hi there, everyone! I hope you guys all missed me because I sure missed you. For some reason, it feels like forever since I’ve made one of these posts. Maybe it was the fact that this week was mostly much of the same ol’ process, but every week is progress and I’m still very excited to share it with you all :-).

So here’s the thing. Just when I thought we finally reached consistency within our clinical team, I see two new bright faces walk through the doors. I think it’s safe to say now that there’s always going to be students coming and going for their respective clinical rotations, and there really is no predictability as to how long a certain staff group may stay intact. Nonetheless, I still would like to introduce you guys to Chandra and Marissa. Both of these women are extremely driven and dedicated to their craft as they strive to work their way up in the PT realm. Each were able to connect and work with patients in their own unique way as I was there in the background steadily taking notes :-P. I think it’s safe to say that after my stay here I will have met so many new people, all with diverse traits and methods, yet all equally important to me and my growth as a person :-).

Also, I don’t know if you guys still remember Joe from the first few weeks of my internship (the guy with the amazing beard), but he came back to visit us all on Wednesday. I really got a chance to catch up with him and was able to get advice for college and other aspects of my not-too-distant future. But in case you guys wanted an update on him, he’s currently preparing for a presentation that he has to give in May (just like me!) and entering that final stretch of PT school, eventually making him a free bird :-). He mentioned he’ll also be coming back to visit next Wednesday so I’ll definitely be looking forward to that. But in all, good luck to you, Joe as you begin the end of PT school! :-)

SURVEY UPDATE: So the surveys have been coming along pretty smoothly. I talked to my faculty adviser, Ms. Kaur, and she told me not to worry about the sample size having decreased a bit (phew!). Essentially, since the data of the sample of patients I did manage to survey all seem to prove my hypothesis, there’s really no concern :-). But this week, I managed to compile all my data into a spreadsheet and over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be creating graphs and tables from that data and work to display a correlation between patient compliance and improvement.

Alrighty, that should just about do it for this post. I know this was a kind of shorter than usual, but this week was mostly the same routine as we continue to inch closer to the end. I can’t believe it’s almost here and I’ll definitely miss the family I have at Synergy. But for the next two weeks, I’ll make the most of my time with them and hopefully bring you guys some more exciting and lively experiences :-). As always, thank you all for taking time time out of your day to read my post and I’ll see you guys next week!!