I spent more time this week meeting with more patients with my mentor and on my own. I am continuing to work through medicine evaluations with service-users in order to assess the positive effect of their medication and any possible side effects they may be experiencing, whilst measuring their vital signs.
I am
beginning to build therapeutic relationships with my own patients now which I am
really enjoying.
On Friday I
spent time with the lead Occupational Therapist at the OT department. This was
a really interesting experience. Most of the assessment tools used are very
similar to that at home. Most of the duties of the OT’s here involve supporting
out-patients, however, within this municipality, there are also OT’s who work
with in-patients, and some who work directly with “youths”: people aged 18-25. There
is also an OT at the equivalent of the Job Centre.
The
occupational health department is an entire department purely for the work of
occupational therapists. Within this department is several meeting rooms, as
well as a large kitchen, an arts and crafts room and even a woodwork workshop.
As well as providing therapeutic activities, this use of space is also a great
environment for the occupational therapists to be able to effectively assess
service user’s ability to carry out these tasks and level of functioning.
Also this
week within the city centre of umeå was the Swedish Beachball Tour. An area of
the city centre was turned into a beachball stadium and over the course of the
week a tournament took place from 9am-9pm. The weather was nice last week too
which made it even better!
I am
continuing work in the rehab outpatient unit as well as spending morning shifts
on the inpatient ward and I’m enjoying the variation!
I’ve also
enjoyed some really nice cycles this week and managed to get some beautiful
photos which I will upload ASAP.
Julie J
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