Moreso the Covid unit. Even the covid unit isn’t full of strictly covid patients either. Confused yet? Well, I promise you will be by the end of this post. Let me start by saying that the rules/protocols were changing everyday, and they are still changing now. So something I say now, could easily be different…
It’s my last day, my car is all packed up and I am so ready GTFO. I’m halfway to the facility when I hear a *ping* , my tire pressure light suddenly comes on, and I can feel my car veering. I got a freaking flat tire in the middle of nowhere, Missouri on a…
Missouri, where do I even start other than to say it’s just another way to spell “misery” *insert punchline drum effect*. I was placed in 3 towns in what they call the “boot heel” of Missouri and each town had a population of roughly 1,000 people. I stayed in 2 air bnb’s while I was…
I loved the LTAC in Memphis. I was confident in my knowledge and abilities as a therapist. I went to the weekly interprofessional meetings to discuss patients as the face of the therapy department. And I loved the speech therapist. She was cool and very knowledgeable in both her field and diagnoses beyond her field.…
My first assignment was short and sweet, but I miss that setting all the time. It was a 4 week rotation in a Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTAC) in Memphis, TN. I was told I would be filling in for a PT going on vacation and I would be the only PT. Mind you,…
I’m often asked “what made you choose travel therapy?”, and this is a blog all about travel therapy after all isn’t it? During PT school I felt so lost with everyone knowing what setting and/or specialty they wanted to go into. All I can remember thinking is “Anything but a SNF” (this statement will come…
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