Fieldwork experiences
Level I
Rusk Rehabilitation Center
Columbia, MO
Dates of Attendance
Niles Township District for Special Education
Skokie, IL
Dates of Attendance
Columbia, MO
Dates of Attendance
- March 3 - 7, 2014
- Inpatient Rehabilitation - Brain Injury Team
- Adults (90%)
- Adolescents (10%)
- Hailey Wolf, OTR/L
- I observed various therapists working with clients who had a brain injury, spinal cord injury, various muscular surgeries, and amputations.
- Special observations: wheel chair fitting, water/pool therapy for SCI, group exercise class
- I planned an implemented an intervention through cooking with a young man with a brain injury and ataxia.
- I performed massage and ROM on an older adult who had undergone a shoulder surgery and had a tight pectoralis major.
Niles Township District for Special Education
Skokie, IL
Dates of Attendance
- October 13-17, 2014
- Various schools
- Adolescents (100%)
- Lara Barros, OTR/L
- Donna Smith, OTR/L
- I observed Lara and Donna work with a wide variety of clients and use various intervention strategies
- I observed interventions in a special education classroom, outside the classroom, and within a general education classroom ('push-in')
- Special observations: Individualized Education Plan (IEP) meeting, client post-hemispherectomy, client with dwarfism
- I was an active assistant throughout therapy and often worked one-on-one with students when doing group sessions or 'push-in' (in class) sessions
Level ii
Memory Care Home Solutions
St. Louis, MO
Dates of Attendance
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta: Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit
Atlanta, Georgia
Dates of Attendance
St. Louis, MO
Dates of Attendance
- May 18 - August 8, 2015
- Community Practice
- Older Adults (90%)
- Adults (10%)
- Dementia (100%)
- Sheila Lynch, OTR/L
- Jill Cigliana, OTR/L
- I conducted interviews with caregiver and care receivers to find out what difficulties they were encountering day-to-day
- I helped in finding and providing resources to caregivers
- I assisted in developing treatment plans to assist caregivers in areas they deemed as priorities to help them keep the care receivers at home for as long as possible
- Treatment included: home safety modifications, environmental modifications, education on disease and disease progression, education on communicating with individuals with dementia, developing activities that the person could participate in during the day
- I created a urinary tract infection information sheet
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta: Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit
Atlanta, Georgia
Dates of Attendance
- June 27 - September 16, 2016
- Pediatric Inpatient Rehabilitation
- Anoxic brain injury
- Traumatic brain injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Cancer
- Dorsal rhizotomy
- John Tilley, OTR/L, SIPT, CPAM, CBIS
- Performed initial and discharge assessments
- Developed and implemented treatment plans including: retraining activities of daily living, cognitive retraining, fine motor skills, bimanual coordination, visual perception, splinting, and caregiver training
- Documentation using EPIC database
- Participated in daily floor updates and weekly team/family meetings
- Worked as part of an interdisciplinary team
- Observed and assisted in the implementation of Functional Electrical Stimulation via RT300 bicycle
- Created resting hand splints and observed serial casting
- Trained families/caregivers in: performing activities of daily living, adapting tasks to support success, performing transfers, adapting the home environment for the care receiver