Sunday, September 2, 2012

Summer Mentorship Component

Mentor: Emily Sevilla ( Physical Therapist)
at Emeritus
Number: 909)664-3835

Log:
Log spreadsheet

Literal:


What questions were raised because of the 10 hours of experience? List them.

I had many questions to ask while I was volunteering. Since I had been volunteering there for about 2 years I never really asked questions I just watched and helped the patients recover from their injuries. So I got to think about it and I asked the Physical Therapists that worked there what was the best way to help recover from an injury? They all gave me their opinion and they were very good answers. I also asked what was the difference between a PT (Physical Therapist) and an OT (Occupational Therapist). The easiest way to explain it was that the OT worked on the upper half of the body only and helped the patients do everyday things ex) get in and out of bed. While I was volunteering and helping the PT’s I started asking a lot of questions because I didn’t know what certain exercises did to help the patients and how it would benefit them and what area of the body it works out.


Interpretive:

I think that having a mentor a part of our project would help up a lot in many ways. They would help us by guiding and being informative by giving us the information that we didn't know. It benefits us to be in our mentors shoes by seeing what they do as well. My mentor is Emily Sevilla and she has been great to me! Whenever she helps a patient or lets me help too, she explains why we are doing that specific movement and tells me what the patient has and what they need in order to get better. She gives me terms that I should learn and I usually end up learning new things every time I go in to volunteer.

Applied:


Since like I said I had already been volunteering at Emeritus for 2 years and I got lucky that they had a rehabilitation center there so that made it very easy to find my mentor. As I go in to volunteer, in the beginning I was helping everyone in the room but then I knew I had to pick just one PT. So I ended up picking Emily since she let me help her the most and gave me descriptive information about everything that she was doing.
 

What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

 I think the most important thing I gained from this experience is understanding how each movement affects your body and how one wrong move and make you in miserable pain. Since my goal is to become a PT I learned the importance of stretching and keeping the body very mobile is a very important key to remember as we get older. As they say “if you don’t move it you will lose it”.  Also, since I was working with older patients who have many medical conditions and diseases there was so much more you have to know and you have to be very cautious so you won’t harm the patient.

 

How did what you did help you choose a topic?

What helped me choose this topic was when I fractured my foot sophomore year. I had to do physical therapy for a couple of months and that was it, I then knew that was what I wanted to do as my career. I love helping people and then to combine it with sports and injuries, it seemed perfect for me. That’s how I knew for sure that would be my topic for my senior project as well since that’s the career that I want to pursue in my future. Plus since I am going to be playing sports such as volleyball during the year I would hope to incorporate that into my project since I know what injuries you can get from playing but I don’t know how to treat them. So I think that would be a very good learning experience for me as well.

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