Show Notes
Today’s Guests:
Brett Baird, PT, DPT, CSCS
IG: bbaird3
Tito Castillo DPT
Guest Quotes:
6:18 Brett: “something I recommended that if they (students prior an acute care rotation) could get a day in a hospital setting and actually put their hands on some of the different equipment and see it and see it being used so that they kind of internalize what it is used for.
It’s not just on a PowerPoint side with a picture. You memorize what it’s for for the test, but it’s completely different when you actually see it. Use every. Item for the most part. Once I seen it once in a room with a patient, I knew what it was. I could describe it. I knew what it was used for, but it was just gaining that experience that took a lot of time.”
18:06 Brett: “I think the biggest thing to focus on is just getting comfortable with the lines, the tubes, the rooms, and the setting in general. For me, practicing in the setting wasn’t that difficult. There was a lot of things to learn once I got comfortable in the room, but when you’re worried about things, you can’t think, and then everything else just doesn’t go well. Yeah, so that’s for me that that would be the biggest thing to focus on is spending a lot of time being intentional with the, the room set up, the lines, those things so that you can gain confidence right away.”
28:05 Tito “But that one just exposed me to it, like a different aspect of acute care that had to do with a lot more, with like how to coordinate interprofessionally and then dealing with at least on where I was, there’s less resources just more poverty. And just being on an island, there’s less that people have access to. So it brought on kind of more of the people skills as well. And just like communication was like the biggest thing there too.”
36:03 Tito “I think as students we tend to feel like embarrassed or even like, kind of ashamed that we don’t know certain things or that certain things aren’t coming to mind right away. So so just asking (questions) because like why not? And if, and they could always open up the conversation for a CI to be like, Hey, like, you should know this. You should spend some time reviewing. So like asking questions for sure.”
37:15 Ashley “I think students expect to go out there and they’re just gonna know how to do it because, oh, I had all these classes, I should be able to just go out there and apply it. But it’s not easy and it’s okay. To not to know. Right. It’s okay to need practice. It’s OK to make mistakes.”
Rapid Responses:
What type of music do you have on your exercise playlist?
Brett: “5 Finger Death Punch”
If somebody was gonna play you in the Tito Castillo movie biopic, who would play you?
Tito: “Timothée Chalamet”
You know, you work in acute care when…
Brett: “Bodily fluids and bad smells no longer bother you.”
Tito: “You do your best not to get refusals.”
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