Blog 25: Mentorship

Mentorship Log:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkM2Mkaeu-Y8dDhmUDdlM0stbDZRQzFzU2JnQ1JUR1E#gid=0

or you can go to the mentorship tab on top of my page to see the log as well.

Contact name and # :

Emily Savilla

(909) 394-0304

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

The most important thing that I have gained by doing my mentorship would be by expanding my knowledge in the physical therapy career field. That includes being able to have better communication skills with all different types of patients to being able to do hands on treatments with the assistance of my mentor or another PT. The staff at Emeritus were always friendly and helped me whenever it was needed. I aquired this interactive experience in order to realize how their role is during working hours. Instead of just learning from reading articles, I was able to see everything that goes on in their environment.

How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ? Please explain.

Just by simply observing has helped me further my knowledge with each of my answers to my EQ. I paid attention to when the physical therapists asked their patients questions, which would be part of the evaluation process. Then, it got to the point to where the PT’s would trust me and let me give directions to their patients on how to stretch. Once they started letting me do that, I got to lead exercises and monitor the patients to make sure they keep going and don’t stop abruptly. Also, I was able to see what kind of equipment was being used and for what types of injuries it was necessary for.

 

 

Blog 11:

1. Where are you doing your mentorship?
I am still doing my mentorship at Emeritus in San Dimas but now I am also starting to try and volunteer at other rehabilition places for specifically sport injuries as well.

2. Who is your contact?
Her name is Emily Sevilla. She works the morning shifts at Emeritus. I chose her since she made it so easy for my to understand what I am doing when I help her with the treatments.

3. How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentorship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)?
I have done 58.5 Hours total for my mentorship including the summer hours. You can see my log up on top on my home page labeled Mentorship Hours. 

4. Summarize the 10 hours of service you did
For the over 10 hours that I have one during school it has been really educational. It was a little hard being able to help out a lot since most of the paitents were morning treatments and I wouldn't get there untill after 1pm, so there wouldnt be enough patients around at that time. However, I did get ti help out a lot! It gave me more time to comunicate with the physical therapists since they werent as busy and could focus on me and my questions. All in all I got to help with the treatments, assist with the excercises, clean up the equipment and be able to talk to the staff for more understanding of what I was doing.

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.