Students in Acute Care, Take Two | Acute Conversations

Show Notes

Today’s Guests:

Katie Cazes, SPT

katie97@cox.net

IG: dtx_asco

Abby Gibson, SPT

abigail.gibson@duke.edu

Linkedin: abigail-gibson-spt-0a0631274

IG: abigibsonkate

Guest Quotes:

8:56 Katie (on taking a role as an acute care tech): “I’m glad that I took that leap into acute care just because I’ve learned how like rewarding it is. And part of me feels like I’m really making a difference. Especially being like that first step for most patients.”

16:34 Katie (on a patient experience that got her hooked on acute care)

“But it’s just the fact that he went from, you know, I’m not doing it. I’m done. Get out of my room. Right. Yeah. We’re strolling down the hallway listening to Spotify, talking about his like four and five year old grandkids. Yeah. It’s just like, granted, I don’t know where he went from ltac. And that’s the unfortunate part is sometimes we just don’t know mm-hmm. Where these patients go, but just at least knowing that, you know, in the time that you were in their lives. They’ve gotten so much better…Sometimes being a physical therapist is more than just the physical part. You know, sometimes we’re kind of like those emotional cheerleaders too.”

21:05 Katie (on advice she received from her professor on acute care) “I would rather teach someone how to walk again than try and teach someone how to throw a baseball more properly. Those are just kind of words that she quite literally told me. Orientation day one. Its stuck with me now.

33:31 Abby “My mom was a physical therapist. But she was an inpatient rehab therapist. And so growing up, like that’s really the side of PT that I knew. Like, honestly, it was like backwards from a lot of people… She’s my origin story. Yeah. So she she did inpatient rehab and so then I was like, oh, I just kind of assumed. Physical therapy was like always more of like more acuity or more complex patients. And then it wasn’t until I was honestly like getting my hours in undergrad that I was like, Oh, actually outpatient is the biggest sector of this.”

31:34 Abby (on getting involved in a Student SIG) “I just would encourage students to try it because I was hesitant at the time. We were gearing up for our hardest semester and I was like, you know what, I can’t add another thing to my plate. But looking back, I’m so glad that I did. Once I kind of was able to get my time management and everything. So yeah, just go for it would be my advice and talk to people above you.”

43:36 Abby (on a patient experience that got her hooked on acute care):

“We were helping a patient who’s on mechanical ventilation. And it just really brought the humanity into the hospital room was kind of how I felt…

And we know why we’re doing it. Like, we’re doing it for, you know, cardiorespiratory system. We’re doing it for digestion system for skin, all of that. Yeah. But we did it so that the patient could hug their significant other. So we, like, got them to the edge of the bed, and they hugged each other.

And, like, so we know, like, we’re providing therapy, and it’s all these good benefits. But at the same time, like, it really is, like, optimizing their human experience. Like, they get to hug their significant other who they haven’t in weeks. And just, like, that moment, honestly, I get emotional even thinking about it.”

Rapid Responses:

What is on your workout playlist?

Both Katie and Abby: “Taylor Swift”

You know you work in acute care when…

Katie: “You have to bring extra clothes to work.”

Abby: “when you are constantly interrupting naps”

Links:

https://www.studergroup.com/aidet

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Leo Arguelles (LEE-O R-GWELL-IS)

Twitter @LeoArguellesPT

Ashley Poole