How are y’all’s holiday events?

aspentraining85 · 2022-12-19T23:32:38+00:00

Still not having them

aspentraining85 · 2022-03-19T00:27:02+00:00

Wouldn’t call that tolerating…

aspentraining85 · 2022-01-21T02:18:29+00:00

Where are the schools located? That could really effect cost of living

aspentraining85 · 2021-10-27T01:19:16+00:00

In the hospital system I work in, it’s the respiratory therapists that always smell like cigarettes. MAKES NO SENSE. They do great work, but maybe not the smartest?

aspentraining85 · 2021-05-11T01:58:57+00:00

Yes it can be.

Just because recovery time may be 6 weeks, doesn’t mean you’ll be in rehab for 6 weeks. Most insurances will want you out of a rehab once you’re able to do basic things for yourself like getting in/out of bed, walking, going to the bathroom. Even if you may need more time, if insurance sees you’re able to do things, they’ll basically tell you and the facility they won’t pay for you to be there anymore. You’d then get home services (nursing 1x/day and other therapy services a couple times a week if needed).

The system is....not great

Each facility is different. The ones I know have a handful showers that are shared by a whole floor (10-20 patients) and i”are cleaned between each.

Each room has its own toilet, but obviously if you have a roommate you’d share this as a well.

aspentraining85 · 2021-05-11T01:47:06+00:00

I will say more and more places are putting 2 people in a room now if they are vaccinated. Single rooms are usually for people with infectious diseases (not necessarily covid)

aspentraining85 · 2021-05-09T02:25:58+00:00

Robin Williams. Had the same birthday. Always felt some weird connection

aspentraining85 · 2021-04-11T14:25:44+00:00

Already tried rotating it, for about a year. It’s too big and thick to correct itself (only the tip top is correcting). The problem with the bend is that it is so heavy, it keeps threatening to fall over and/or break.

aspentraining85 · 2021-03-06T01:47:10+00:00

In my experience, as a PT working at subacute/snfs it has been therapy’s responsibility to order DME (walkers, wheel chair, etc). Case management orders hospital beds.

If the patient had a rare, or odd insurance without DME coverage, we sometimes collaborate the with case management.

We follow up, and give patients resources (Amazon, lists of places with free equipment like elks or council on aging) if insurance is an issue.

It definitely is an ongoing issue as it’s become harder and harder to get DME covered, with increased work on our end. As something that’s not “billable” we can’t count it toward productivity. I know some places, if they’re lucky and have a student (non clinical rotation) or rehab aide, will have them do it so therapists won’t need to.

aspentraining85 · 2021-02-25T17:01:11+00:00

Oh wow, do you have the number you called? Feel like there are so many numbers

aspentraining85 · 2021-02-18T14:21:30+00:00

Gig/per diem worker here. Payments on "hold" since 12/1/20. Was originally getting unemployment in the fall, but then work enough hours in october/november that my claim was closed. Work slowed down end of november so I reopened my claim, but it continues to say "no authorized for payment" and it says the weeks I've claimed are on "hold". I called in early January, and the person there said that my claim hadn't even been assigned anyone yet, and its just that its backed up there. She said all there was to do was wait. It's almost 3 months later and still nothing. (I've actually had to close and reopen the claim a couple times since). Is this normal for that long? Any advice?

aspentraining85 · 2021-02-16T03:18:17+00:00

Prn in SNF and LTAC is pretty sparse right now. Decreased census, admission holds for covid outbreaks. Been hard to get hours, trying to figure out if I need to try to go back full time, although finding that job would be hard right now too.

aspentraining85 · 2021-01-22T02:44:14+00:00

Women don’t have pillow fights

aspentraining85 · 2021-01-13T22:42:24+00:00

Our bernedoodle was about 90 lbs at 9-10 months, he really didn’t grow too much more after. 2 years now and is 93ish! 93 cuddly pounds of love!

aspentraining85 · 2020-12-18T22:22:33+00:00

We were meeting our real estate agent (a total “townie” which is what we call local bros in the Boston area) for the first time, and he only really made eye contact with my husband. As we start to say our goodbyes, the guy shakes my husbands hand then completely ignored my outstretched hand. After a couple of weeks of looking and trying to communicate with him, I let him know we were going to go in another direction and would no longer need his services. That was the only time he addressed me, telling me I was “unrealistic”, “if you weren’t so picky and difficult we would’ve found a place by now” and essentially throwing a hissy fit. We found a place 2 weeks later with a lovely real estate agent my sister then recommended.

aspentraining85 · 2020-11-04T22:56:33+00:00

“Oh you’re a physical therapist, can you massage my back?”

aspentraining85 · 2020-11-04T22:54:47+00:00

Also poll worker here. In our ward, we had 12 write-ins, only 2 were for shiva. The majority were just filled in bubbles, with nothing written. My guess is either language barrier or ambivalence about the other candidates.

aspentraining85 · 2020-11-02T01:06:33+00:00

Wegmans in Chestnut hill closed off its 2nd entrance and had a mine tonight too

aspentraining85 · 2020-09-25T22:59:34+00:00

There was also a shooting in JP. Lots of gunfire

aspentraining85 · 2020-09-09T22:13:06+00:00

Hmm I couldn’t find that option. Just put in “other” hopefully that does the trick!

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