I'm feeling very easy and at home here now on prac. I know the majority of every residents name in this facility so walking down the hallways i'm greeted with a lot of very friendly hellos!
The residents are getting use to seeing me day to day so there's no more struggles to get them to walk with me any more. Some people in particular i may have to sit and talk to them for 5-10 mins before bring up the subject of walking but I enjoy the little chats!
The cold weather really affects the residents and they experience all sorts of pains and won't get out of bed or their homes due to the coldness. Mr W was my only walker who declined today and I let it pass due to fact that I have to apprently go easy on him as he just got out of hospital but mainly because he said the following to me. "Tomorrow after our walk, could you please leave the walker behind so I can walk on the weekend?" This is a huge development for Mr W as he never ever gets out of bed and rarely leaves his room. I've spent a lot of time building rapport with this patient and it feels awesome when he actually gets out of bed for me or even thinks about it! We'll see how he goes tomorrow!
Hopefully this weather clears up again as the effects weather has on the older patients could be quite detrimental in the long run. I guess thats why so many residents die during winter.
Yesterday i forgot to mention that we got to practise using the hoists! April set up situations and the PTA's, Tim and I had to safely get the patient back into their chair. My situation was that the patient had fallen within the parrallel bars. We first couldn't decide the best way of how to manuver the hosit around the bars then with April's hints, we decided to slide sheet the patient across onto the floor (open space) and proceed per usual from there. It was a very useful learning X and I hope to use the hoist again soon! (without sounding like I want a resident to fall over and not get up)
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