Limited materials + no planning time + high productivity demands
Once upon a time I worked evenings and weekends as a PRN (per diem) clinician in skilled nursing, acute care and a tiny inpatient rehabilitation floor in the basement of the acute care hospital. Transitioning to providing treatment to an unfamiliar patient took time and had a learning curve. Sometimes the patient’s short term goals provided by the primary therapist were broad and planning time was non-existent.
I created this list of quick therapy ideas to be a reference tool of treatment tasks that don’t require much more than a few scraps of paper or a maybe a memory book. Most activities can be discussion-based and then are more flexible to use in functional situations.
DOWNLOAD: QUICK LIST OF THERAPY TASKS HERE
I hope someone finds this useful – please leave a comment below if you have more ideas to share with others!
This is amazing! I am a CF that just finished my first week in a SNF. I’m slightly overwhelmed but I think (and hope) I will catch on quickly and become more confident in my skills. I just wanted to let you know that I LOVE your blog, and I will definitely be using some of your great ideas during my treatments!
I am currently a 2nd year graduate doing her field placement in a SNF… your ideas are brilliant! thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you for making life simple for us who always work on the “fly”. You have wonderful ideas and you’re able to put together tasks we all wish we had more time to do.
Thank you so much for this!!!! I’m a CF, it’s my first month in a SNF and materials and ideas are a STRUGGLE!!! I can’t thank you enough!!!!!
Great job! I’ll be starting to treat 7 dementia patient tomorrow (2nd grad practicum), and I’m already finding your tips very handy!
I’m a cognitive rehab therapist and we use this kind of metacognitivie approach often in our sessions. This list of tasks and treatment focuses is spot on and very helpful! Thanks for posting!
I am in my CF year at a rehab hospital and still struggle with documentation (or at least, intelligent sounding documentation) and would LOVE some examples of how the patient response to therapy should read. I don’t know why this is so difficult for me, because I have always been good with words, but I really struggle. For example: documentation of OME performance by the patient . . . “patient completed facilitative technique to increase lingual and labial strengthening for improved intelligibility”. “patient demonstrated immediate recall of five-word list targeting improved attention/focus and to practice encoding of new information”.??? The struggle is real . . .
I’m so excited that I have found this site. I’ve spent the last 10 years in pediatrics and am moving to a SNF. This information will be so helpful. Thank you so much for putting the effort into making this, and bless your heart for sharing it!
Can I just tell you how amazing this is?? And pretty much everything on your site. I hope you never stop posting. I’m in my last semester of grad school and doing my last field placement at a rehab hospital. This list is amazing for when I really just don’t have time to plan anything and need a quick idea. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Thanks for sharing!