LITERAL
(a)
“I, Olivia Pinedo, affirm that I
completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) Mentor: Emily Sevilla (Physical Therapist)
At Emeritus in San Dimas
Number: 909)664-3835
And
Mariaelena Mirador
At Emeritus
909)263-3728
(c)
Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours)
My log: click on the link below
(d)
Explanation of what you completed.
At
Emeritus there are two different sections that I volunteer in. There is the
memory care and the critical care section. In the critical care section, there
are all of the patients that need special treatments and care. It is basically the
hospital side of Emeritus and in that section in the physical therapy room.
Every morning when I could I would help my mentor Emily Sevilla. Not only just
her though, I would help everyone in that room. There was PT assistants, PT’s,
OT’s and even student PT’s coming in at times. I had a great variety of people to
work with and to also talk to. I got to interview my mentor and the head PT
Anne. What I usually got to do was to help some of the patient’s treatments. I
would assist with the stationary bicycle that they had in the room, make sure
their heart rate is good and that they complete their 20 minutes in there
without taking too many breaks. I also help the patients with weights, playing
ball with them, tell them what kind of movements to do, help them with the
weight bars and walk on the platform with bars. I got to do a lot of hands on
and I loved that because and most physical therapy places all I would be able
to do is observe and that would of gotten old really fast for me.
Next,
there is the memory care section. I’ve helped the staff there for many years
actually and now since I know everyone there and even the residents, they let
me do exercises with the residents all on my own. I have a sheet that has about
20 different exercises and it tells me how many times to do them. These
residents have a hard time remembering because they either have Alzheimer’s or
some other medical problem that lets them remember everyday stuff. But I love
working with everyone at Emeritus and especially getting to do a lot of hands
on treatments and leading exercises.
INTERPRETIVE
Defend
your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it
demonstrates 30 hours of work. Provide
evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of
work.
When
I do my hours I don’t really have time to take pictures so I usually make a day
to go and just take pictures. In the pictures that I have taken is where I have
been volunteering at. I have a picture of my mentor with her patient in the
wheel chair along with many other pictures on the physical therapy room. I have
mainly all the equipment that we use with the treatments and I got to use every
single one of them with the patients and with myself! I also wanted to know how
it felt to do some of the exercises myself so I know what the patients there
are going through, even though they are much older than I am, I can still feel
the muscles and parts of the areas of my body that I am using. In the room I didn’t
get a chance to take a picture of it but they have pictures of the human body
with all the muscles labeled along with bones, ligaments and tendons. Every
time I went in and didn’t have much to do I would sit and just look at the
pictures learning about the body. Like I said before the best thing I got out
of this was being able to do the treatments with my mentor and other physical
therapists. It is kind of scary because you don’t want to do anything wrong or
cause the person more pain but luckily I had such a great mentor that explained
every single detail about what I was doing and why so that I wouldn’t do
anything wrong. Most of the time when I went in to Emeritus I would split up my
time. Either 2 hours in the physical therapy room and 2 hours in memory care or
one hour there and the other hour in the other section. By doing that I made
new connections with the workers and patients.
My pictures: click on the link below
APPLIED
How
did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better? Please include specific examples to
illustrate how it helped.
This
helped me get the viewpoint of what a physical therapist has to do every day at
work. I went in the morning until the afternoon with the morning shift. I saw
them at work the whole time. Either they were with a patient doing treatments,
doing evaluations, paperwork, or consulting with the patient about their plan
to recovery. Plus, this is just one small room and all of that happens every
day! Well, there is actually more that goes into their days! They also have to
clean the equipment (that I sometimes do to help them out), do conference calls
(which I get to listen to), order new equipment, figure things out with the
patients insurance (which is mostly a problem because nobody wants to pay a lot
for physical therapy), and since they work with older patients they have to
know their everyday routine and appointments. I got to witness all of this plus
a couple of times I got to file their papers so I got to see all of the paper
that the PT’s have to do with every patient. By all of this is helped me
understand what a physical therapist actually is and does during their work.
