This iteration of the newsletter will continue the narrative type dialogue of the previous week, and the aim of this topic as well as the last one is to give a voice and a dialogue to something you may be going through that you aren’t sure if anyone else is going through and show you that you aren’t the only one going through it and that other people may be struggling with the same thing, and to show you my journey to see if something that I did could be helpful to you as well. Do ...

This iteration of the newsletter will be more of a dialogue and discussion based on my personal experience with finding balance and happiness in the workplace and my journey with the hopes that it either gives some people an insight on what others have gone through and it can get better, things to try to make your balance more manageable, or just know that someone else has gone through the same struggles you are and know you aren’t alone. How I eventually found balance:  The journey: ...

The previous editions of the weekly newsletter have focused more on research and data driven conversation, in this edition I’d like to take more of a subjective approach to the topic and make this more of a “food for thought” topic and maybe clue in to some of the things that I’ve talked to the nurses, case managers and social workers about at my particular hospital. Maybe you have a similar experience, maybe you can take something here and utilize it in your own place or work, or maybe ...

Have you ever wondered how outcome measures we learn about in school are utilized in the acute care setting? Have you wondered how reliable they are if you have quick patient turnover or inconsistent therapist testing due to rotating therapists between floors? Have you wondered how useful these measures are toward goals and functional outcomes? If so, you’re like me, so in this edition of the acute care crash course newsletter I’ll do my best to take a deep dive into functional outcome ...

From discussions on the acute care Facebook group to perusing the physical therapy reddit threads there seems to be such a significant variation in productivity expectations in the acute care hospital setting. But why is that? Why does one facility require a PT to only see X amount of patients a day, where others require you to meet a % productivity of say 50-80+% productivity, where others will give a unit requirement that can range anywhere from 16-32 units a day? Granted that higher end of ...

There is a common discussion or debate in the acute care PT world of whether or not early mobility in the ICU or with critical care patients is more beneficial and correlates to improved outcomes such as reduced hospital stay, improved mobility and strength outcomes at discharge, reduced risk of re-admission and others. This week’s iteration of the acute care crash course newsletter will go over the recent research findings in regard to early mobility in the ICU and whether it is beneficial ...