The third observation site I visited was my professor, Dr. Saltarrelli’s private clinic Autumn Oaks. Her clinic is a relatively new clinic, but the area around the building is old. Her clients range from toddlers to adults. Some of her clients see her for either speech therapy or for audiology. The clinic is quite small; there was a small hallway with a trophy case displaying equipment used for hearing aids and some pictures. Along the hallway there was a designated therapy room, two offices, a restroom and a kitchen. The therapy room was quite small it contained one adult sized table with two chairs, a children’s table with two chairs, a set of hanging cabinets, and a huge storage cabinet filled with board games and other play equipment. I was able to observe Dr. Saltarrelli and her one of her assistants perform therapy. Dr. Saltarrelli uses more of a client-centered approach when she is doing therapy with children, whereas her assistant uses the drill approach. It …show more content…
You are also able to dedicate the full thirty minutes to a client, even if the client is running late. Some of the clients that came to the clinic were running late but they still received the full thirty-minute session. Which would not happen in any other setting. Even though it did throw off the schedule for the day that is a major advantage of owning your own practice. Along with advantages there were disadvantages as well. Since the building was small, every room felt a little crammed. Trying to get into and out of each room was challenging, there would be either a table or a chair in the way of opening and closing the door. Because there was a lack of space, sometimes therapy had to take place in the kitchen, which was the most crammed space in the entire building. I would have to sit behind Dr. Saltarrellli and peer over her shoulder in order to see what was going on at the
The first thing I realized during my tour was that I was really uncomfortable. Mary explained that the inpatient facility we were touring which houses male and female adolescents and young women was once before a hospital and that is exactly how it felt. The front entrance to the facility was welcoming, but as soon as we stepped through the doors from the waiting room into the facility it felt cold, plain and scary. During the tour, I witnessed patients taking naps in their rooms (with their doors open), adolescent patients talking together in the game room, and patients of the young women’s program having group. Mary gave a very detailed tour and explanation of their inpatient program.
On November 17th, 2015 I had an observation clinical shadowing a Registered Nurse in Case Management. Case management is a side of nursing that is not brought up very often. We started off the shift in the nurse’s office. Morgan, the nurse, had a meeting to attend at 9:00am, so we stayed in her office to get organized for the day.
As I walked into the auditorium late, I noticed that audience was transfixed with their current preoccupation to notice anyone slipping in and out of the room. The first noticeable factor was the medical residence in white coats. Residences are doctors who had recently graduated from medical schools and are focused primarily on the...
Medical interns are surgical residents working to become doctors, so their jobs are very complicated and specific, which may have conflicts along the way such as competition between workers and an overloaded schedule. When Meredith finally gets to the hospital, she walks in while the chief of surgery is giving a very extensive speech that includes the words, “The seven years you spend here as a surgical resident will be the best and worst years of your life. You will be pushed to your breaking point. Look around you, say hello to your competition.” He then also mentions to them about the stress, the long hours, the pressure, and the deaths they will be experiencing throughout the years. He ends the speech saying how
Screech!!! The bus’ brakes scream upon stopping. I look up to see buildings that look like stone and marbled statuses. The buildings stood tall with tan shiny finishes. The grass was too green to be true and the atmosphere felt like home to me. I had embarked upon a journey that I never thought would be. I was here, here at Emory School of Medicine. Numerous of people walking around with white doctor coats, teal scrubs, and soft colorful crocs. I was a part of an elite group of about thirty high school students, who would soon be a part of Emory’s School of Medicine mentoring program, called Emory School of Medicine Pipeline Program. This program introduced intercity students, such as myself, to the world of medicine. This inspired students to become future medical doctors, nurses, and other medical professions. This program greatly influenced my interest for medicine.
Unfortunately, many lack tact and dive into things head first without providing a foundation for the reader to stand upon. The excitement to begin imparting all they have learned is endearing but ultimately, it is poor strategy. In order to understand anything regarding naturalistic observation and its research value, one must first understand the practice itself; both humans and animals can be subjected to naturalistic observation. The logistical issues tend to be availability of participants, ensuring that their privacy is respected, and whether the observations will be performed where the observer can be seen. Both approaches are used in animal and human naturalistic observation research. Being hidden, researchers are confident that those observed are not acting differently because they are being observed. This method effectively reduces or removes any chance of reactivity and this is goal, ensuring validity by allowing the subject to act in its most authentic nature without the interference of an outside force. Though this is ideal, there are times when observers cannot hide, and in those instances they must collect data over a long enough period to deduce whether or not their presence is affecting the actions of their research subjects. Privacy concerns greatly limit the use of naturalistic observation to places that are generally accessible to the public in the context of human observation but not chimpanzee, so the subject greatly effects the methodology.
Historically (before 1880s), only few hospitals were originated in some big cities of U.S. Initially, the hospital system mainly run by religious organization and it served a primary purpose of palliation. According to Shi and Singh (2010), the function of hospitals at that time was more of “social welfare” (such as taking care of homeless people and helping those without families) than practicing medicine (p.56). Over the years, the functionality and the services offered by the hospitals has changed dramatically. However, it’s primary function to treat sick individuals has remained the same. Nowadays, hospitals also function as a research center, a medical educational institution, and is a major source of employment in the community (Sultz
Ms. Phillips met us in the waiting area and walked us through the very spacious building to the elevator, taking us to her office on the third floor. She explained to us that the building was once a hospital (W. Phillips, personal communication, October 4th, 2013). This explained the wide doorways, spacious halls, drab atmosphere, and considerable amount of walking it takes to get from one place to the next. Ms. Phillips’ office had very welcoming in décor. Pictures of her child and what seemed to be his artwork, and the work of other children, decorated almost every available wall space. Because the room was once a hospital room, the layout was very strange for an office. Visitors have to sit perpendicular to Ms. Phillips’ desk. Because Ms. Phillips provides in home services, I do not believe this would aff...
I had been in hospital rooms many times before, but this was the first time that I was the patient anxiously awaiting their results. I sat on the hospital bed and nervously kicked my legs back and forth as I stared at the door, willing the doctor to walk through it. After a long wait I grew tired of this, and shifted focus to my surroundings. I had been admitted to Scottish Rite hospital, a branch of the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Being a children’s hospital meant that the nurses wore cartoon print scrubs, the walls were painted in bright colors, the televisions were always turned to either Disney Channel or Nickelodeon, and everyone treated you like royalty. They did everything they could to mask the fact that it was indeed a hospital. However, I was too old to be fooled. I knew exactly where I was and what that meant, and that was that nothing good could come from being here.
For my first clinical observation, I was assigned to the trauma unit and it was not what I expected it to be. I thought the trauma unit would be fast pace and there would be nurses and doctors rushing everywhere, however, I did not see any of that. Instead, it was quite peaceful and this was probably because my clinical observation was from 10-12 p.m. When I met up with my senior nurse, she showed me a binder that contained all of her patients’ diagnoses, lab reports, treatments, and vital signs, which was a lot to take in because most of the terms she used, I had no idea what they were. After looking at the reports, she showed me a patient who had gunshot wounds on his back and abdomen. I could tell he was in a lot of pain by the tone of
The traditional health care facility had certain spaces that had a standard layout such as the waiting room typically comprised of registration desk, flat screen TV, room full of chairs . One could assimilate that a standard health care facility/clinic would be the same across the board. The ambience did not create any kind of soothing effect that the patients would be able to feel while waiting for their turn. It is a normal routine to spend most of the time in the waiting room before one gets to meet with the doctor. It would be an ideal place for the patients to be in if it has been designed having in mind the state of the patients. The traditional spaces probably were designed like any other space and were not considered to be contextual. Taking into example any hospital that has been built years back has not been able to cope with the new challenges. One being the Lake Pointe...
The healing hospital paradigm primary focus is on a holistic approach and addresses healing the whole person physically, emotionally and spiritually. Healing hospitals also take into consideration the whole person’s body, soul, mind and spirit and their environment as part of their healing and recovery process. In a healing hospital, a holistic approach and a family-centered environment is crucial to the patients’ healing process. A healing hospital must embrace three important components such as an environment that fosters healing, a combination of technology and work design and providing a loving care culture (Eberst, 2008). This paper will discuss concepts of a healing hospital, the relationship that spirituality plays in the patients’ healing and recovery as well as challenges and barriers of creating a healing environment.
For our school visits we went to Barr Middle School in Grand Island, NE and Northeast Elementary in Kearney, NE. My first thoughts about Barr Middle school were it was the biggest school I have ever been in bar none. I couldn’t believe that it had three different levels and each level was for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. My step sisters and step brother went to Barr during their middle school years and they always talked about how amazing that school was, and that it was extremely big, let’s just say it didn’t disappoint. The other school we visited was Northeast Elementary and I loved the vibes I got from the school. The school was very visual with things like having things on their walls and made me think of my old elementary. The teachers all around were extremely pleasant to be around, especially the teachers I was observing.
“There are only two ways in which humankind can produce knowledge: through passive observation or through active experiment.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?
I visited the Body Exhibition, which is located in Buena Park, California. This exhibit allows a person to get a deeper look the inside the systems of a human body and it anatomy. It includes the skeletal system, muscular system, nervous system, respiratory system, digestive system, urinary system, productive system and fetal development, circulatory system, and lastly the threatened body. This exhibit contains more than 200 actual human bodies that have been dissected and preserved. During my visit I saw many things that changed my perspective. While visiting bodies I observed the exhibit itself, observed the people around me and asked the tour guide questions regarding the bodies.