During the first seven weeks of the internship, there have been many valuable skills learned. There are 3 large and valuable skills that have been learned during this time. The first skill learned is how to take an assessment and create an individualized and comprehensive treatment plan. I have had experience creating comprehensive and individualized treatment plans while in classes but has been a valuable skill to learn to do this based off of a real patient assessment. The second skill learned during the first 7 weeks has been to notice when a treatment plan needs to be adjusted and how to make these adjustments. This skill has allowed me to be able to notice when treatment is not benefiting the patient as much as it should and how the intern
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Areas for improvement include confidence in my ability to come up with ideas for treatment session, to improve confidence in the ability to chart on sessions, the ability to give verbal directions, the ability to plan out sessions that are going to use all of the time allotted without running short or long, time management and the ability to remember patient’s names and what room they are in. During the beginning of the internship, I was struggling to come up with new ideas and original ideas for sessions with each of the patients without just repeating all of the session she had seen the supervisor complete. I have been working to be more creative and really take a look at the patient’s goals and interest and come up with the best activity for the session. Since this is a new way of documenting, I have had to get used to how the facility documents. I have made a point to work daily to improve this documentation by having the supervisor look back over the documentation and provide feedback on what can be improved for the next time. During the first 7 weeks of the internship, there have been many patients who have been visually impaired, this has required that I provide verbal directions as the main form or the only form of direction to these patients. The verbal direction was a difficult task to figure out how to explain each step in a way the
Areas for improvement include confidence in my ability to come up with ideas for treatment session, to improve confidence in the ability to chart on sessions, the ability to give verbal directions, the ability to plan out sessions that are going to use all of the time allotted without running short or long, time management and the ability to remember patient’s names and what room they are in. During the beginning of the internship, I was struggling to come up with new ideas and original ideas for sessions with each of the patients without just repeating all of the session she had seen the supervisor complete. I have been working to be more creative and really take a look at the patient’s goals and interest and come up with the best activity for the session. Since this is a new way of documenting, I have had to get used to how the facility documents. I have made a point to work daily to improve this documentation by having the supervisor look back over the documentation and provide feedback on what can be improved for the next time. During the first 7 weeks of the internship, there have been many patients who have been visually impaired, this has required that I provide verbal directions as the main form or the only form of direction to these patients. The verbal direction was a difficult task to figure out how to explain each step in a way the