Patient Meeting Reflection

Today, February 7, 2017, I was able to participate in another fairly typical day with Missy on the medical/surgical unit. In addition, I had my weekly meeting with Missy, where we followed up on my goals and I received great feedback regarding my weekly goals. I had two main patient interactions today and various check-ins. The first patient interaction I participated in today was with one of our unit’s long-term patient, a 7-year-old female. Prior to bringing the patient to the playroom, I planned and set up the activities. I planned two art activities and decided that I would let the patient decide what we would do if we had leftover time in our hour long session. We had previously made glitter calm down bottles, but this patient had …show more content…
I had worked with this patient before in a group setting, but he didn’t appear as receptive to me then as he did today. This patient mentioned enjoying science experiments so I planned two diversional science activities and invited him to the playroom. The first activity we completed was creating a lava lamp with water, vegetable oil, food coloring, and fizzing tablets. The patient thoroughly enjoyed this activity and made an extra one for Mr. Guy as a belated birthday gift. He also displayed pride in his social interactions and his accomplishments in making the lava lamps. Reflecting back, I think that this activity went well because I offered as much control/choice over the activity as possible and just gave vague instructions as to how the website suggest completing the activity. Next, we made Oobleck out of cornstarch, water, and food coloring. The patient enjoyed this activity was well and continually played with the different states it made (i.e., liquid vs solid). In all, I thought that these normative/diversional science activities acted as a good introduction for the patient to Missy and