Virginia Beach Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center located close to the Oceanfront, caters to mostly older adults, although there are patients who can be in their lower twenties. Many of the patients stay within the facility for the rest of their lives. However, some patients are rehabilitated until they have recovered or they can move to another location, such as a home facility.
Cindy Halonski, one of the recreation therapists, gives every patient who comes in a welcome page. This paper lists information such as different rooms such as the courtyards, different activities available, where a television is located and letting the patients know that there is also a beauty shop on location. While this welcome sheet is not required, it introduces beforehand what is available and the patient can be reminded by looking at the page.
All patients must have an Oral History Interview by a certain time period (the current one must be done by December). The purpose, according to the paper, is to get to know the patient better. It goes through different aspects of an individual’s life. The interview paper is divided into three categories: Childhood, Adulthood, and Life Interpretation which are then further divided. The oral history is another way to build rapport with a patient and find out more about them than what a CTRS can get from a medical chart or from an assessment.
All assessments given at the Virginia Beach Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center do not come from the Assessment Tools for Recreation Therapy and Related Fields. Due to funding and what patients’ health insurance will cover, all assessments are provided by the MDS3. MDS3, which previously was the MDS2, is Medicare Documentation. Halonski stresses the point that some...
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...ess to a van, administration is a bit hesitant. I feel that a van would be beneficial because it opens the doorway to other activities that cannot be provided at the facility. For some of the healthier, long term patients, it may be the first time they have had in a long time to see beyond the grounds of the building. It can lead to new experiences and be as therapeutic as working within the center. I know that the assessments cannot be changed due to the MDS, however I feel that the Monthly Activities Participation Record can be changed. I think that this particular part can be redone to make the sheet easier to understand. Especially considering that the sheet itself is rather hard to read and some of the activities had to be handwritten in. I did however think that having a welcome flyer was a wonderful idea and I hope that they continue using that in the future.
The “Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton, is a novel about a young boys journey through life after a horrible tragedy. When Ponyboy's parents died, he struggled with living alongside his two older brothers. Darry, Ponyboy’s older brother, was his legal guardian. Pony should stay with his older brothers, Sodapop and Darry, because they are all each other have. The only family Pony has left is his older brothers and the greasers. Taking him away from his family when he needs it most is wrong.
Throughout the book Johnny reflects the theme of the story in his actions, which is something he is taught from a young age, to respect others, but mainly the elders, he was made fun of by other kids for being “weak”. They thought he was weak because he respected the elders and cared for them instead of going and getting stronger all the time. Because of this he ends up gaining advantages and being wiser himself.
In S. E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, all is well until the end of this section; the innocence of Ponyboy of Johnny lost to the murder of Bob.The loss of Johnny’s innocence is the heavier surprise. He has mainly been the victim of his problems with his situations, showing the innocence, before
Boom! Johnny drops to the floor. Kids are screaming. This is when Johnny is a hero for the second time in the story, The Outsiders. Johnny is a hero because he saved kids from a fire and Johnny saved Pony from dying.
Who is the TRUE hero of The Outsiders? To most people, this book has many heroes that are all held in our hearts. Including Dallas, Darry, PonyBoy, and even Two-bit. But none can come close to our hero, the REAL hero, Johnny Cade. As he seems to be the strength in the group, takes all the abuse and continues to stand up, and shows a bravery that is hard to find anywhere.
The Outsiders by SE Hinton is a great coming-of-age novel that is about gangs, violent but also at the same time about love and brother ship. In the book, the society suddenly thinks the greasers, Pony, Johnny and Dally, are heroes. That really got me thinking. What is a hero?
Recreational therapy works with populations such as mental health, gerontology, pediatrics, veterans, and many more populations that involve individuals with and without a disability, allowing their scope of practice to be very broad. Recreational therapists work with clients to restore motor, social and cognitive functioning, build confidence, develop coping skills, and integrate skills learned in treatment settings into community settings. Intervention areas vary widely and are based upon client interests and needs. Examples of intervention modalities include creative arts, sports, adventure programming, dance, movement, and leisure education (The Recreational Therapy Professional, 2012). Recreational therapy services are recognized in some health care fields, as well as throughout the community depending on the population they specialize in. Through the use of recreational therapy, individuals receiving treatment would be able to reach a better quality of life through the facilitation of activities that are designed to benefit the individual in all aspects of his or her
A hero is someone who is admired for his/her courage and his/her need to help others. Some examples of heroes are Spiderman, Superman, Ironman, Superwoman, and Batman. However, the real heroes are strangers that risk their lives to help others. The book, The Outsiders, shows several heroes that sacrifice their own safety for the greater good. This book centers around the gang, greasers, and the feud between the greasers and Socs. Three characters that show enormous courage and save multiple lives are Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dally. In S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders, Johnny, Ponyboy, Dally emerge as heroes because they all risk their lives for another.
made by staff for residents in advance. As Jeon Y.H. et al.(2012) told that ,” The association
This author met with a patient named JB to assess her current health status as well as her needs to ensure her health and well being or as she put it to “make sure she is her in the future for her children”. JB was an engaging and honest patient that had the eagerness and desire to improve her curren...
Johnny once was a teen who wasn't cowardly, and stood up for his gang. He was a good man in a rumble and kept his mouth shut around the police, but things changed when he was jumped by the Socs. The assault left him more anxious than ever, and ended up carrying a six-inch switchblade in his back pocket, despite that he was the most law-abiding of the gang. In addition, Johnny didn't do well in school, he had failed a year in school and never made good grades (Hinton 65). But even so, Johnny is more than a quiet, anxious kid who does poorly in school. Notably, when Ponyboy and Johnny were hiding in the church, the pair occasionally read a book called Gone with the Wind in order to pass the time. While they were reading, Ponyboy remarked, "It amazed me how Johnny could get more meaning out of some of the stuff in there than I could--- I was supposed to be the deep one... and I guess his teachers thought he was just plain dumb. But he wasn't. He was just a little slow to get things, and he liked to explore things once he did get them" (Hinton 65). This shows that he is able to comprehend the message and/or significance of a story or concept, albeit it takes him a long period of time. Although he was high-strung, quiet, and seemingly believed to be dumb by his teachers, Johnny is, in truth, quite reflective and
Because a great deal of my time on the last clinical day will be spent on the first floor, I wanted to ensure that I knew what information I needed to retain from my assigned resident, so I could properly manage my time, and discern when the best opportunity is to go upstairs to speak with my resident. I wrote out the information that needed to be collected this week and any last questions I had for my resident before we leave the long-term care facility. Besides preparing for this week’s clinical day, I charted last clinical day’s requirements. In SimChart, I completed: Admission history (Nutrition and Activity/Occupational Therapy Screen), Safety assessments (Pain, Cardiac, Respiratory, and Gastrointestinal), basic nursing care, and miscellaneous nursing notes. With my SimChart complete and feeling prepared for this week’s requirements, my partner and I sat down to nearly complete our resident’s concept map. During the break, we were able to fill out all of the concept map boxes, discern and elaborate on both our direct links and cross links, and distinguish a priority pattern for our resident. When completing the concept map, we included references to back up our statements, ensuring that the links we constructed did indeed correlate. The last component
Jarvis, C. (2008). Physical examination and health assessment (5th ed.) with skills DVD. St. Louis: Saunders.
Health history is designed to assess the effects of health care deviations on the patient and the family, to evaluate teaching needs, and to serve as a basis of an individualized plan for addressing wellness (miller-Keane, 2003). The primary purpose of health history is to attempt to find out as much about each patient as possible, so that health personnel can treat the patient safely and
The first thing I notice when I walk in to the center on an early Monday afternoon is the smell, that acute smell of spray-on cleaning solution used in hospitals. Everything is completely static clean, and the entrance lobby reminds me off my dentists’ office. Tasteful blue chairs and maroon couches surround a large waiting area in full view of a receptionists’ desk on the side. The magazines on the coffee table are of the inconsequential type, stuff like “Parenthood” and “Popular Mechanic.” A couple people are casually waiting; pleasant, normal looking people. The whole effect is of a pleasant doctor’s practice, and on first look you would never be able to tell that this is the waiting room for a chemical dependence treatment center. A rehab center.