Today’s Guest: Jen Ryan, Vice President, APTA Acute Care
Jen is the Assistant professor at Northwestern University Dept of PT and Human Movement Sciences; She serves as Vice President of APTA Acute Care and on the APTA Nominating Committee; She is a Board Certified CCS and is an Acute Care residency faculty member.
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Episode Takeaways
- Work continues towards Acute Care Specialization: if you’re asked to complete a survey, please do so!
- Starting conversations and building rapport with patients are valuable skills for acute care clinicians. Soft skills matter.
- Volunteer leadership helps you engage “in a whole new way”
- Being a member has more value than just getting a journal
Guest Quotes:
On the work towards Board Certified Acute Care Specialists: “We see an opportunity to recognize professionals who’ve been at the top of their license in an acute care setting”
On helping patients lacking confidence: “They can find like new abilities that they didn’t anticipate. That they didn’t see coming. Which is always so sweet to see that look in their eyes when they set up like, oh my God, I didn’t know this was gonna happen.”
On our responsibility to our patients: “But they trust us. We have to see that as a gift, we have to see that as a responsibility and an opportunity all at once.”
Rapid Responses
If someone was going to play your role in a movie, who would play Jen Ryan?
“I want Helen Hunt”
You know you work in acute care when…
“When most of your transfer training happened in the bathroom, but it happened and it’s documentable and they got better at it.”
Closing Thoughts
“So a, push your patients as hard as their exercise prescription can to be tolerated, but b, realize that you’re not the only person who’s working with that patient and be part of the team That encourages the other professionals to be part of that solution.” 56:06
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Our Hosts:Leo Arguelles is a physical therapist and educator at University of Illinois Chicago and Ashley Poole is a physical therapist and educator at Duke University. They have come together across time zones to build a space for conversation and support for other acute care therapists. Acute Conversations is the official podcast of APTA Acute Care and we welcome you to the official launch to join the conversation.
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