Sunday, June 19, 2011

Therapy room

FW's therapy room really frustrates me. There are two rooms that PT, OT, and Speech share and when we all have patients in there, we are tripping over each other. I'm surprised that there has not been a collision of patients! We have equipment, kitchen stuff, mats, balls and parallel bars, and just the other week they added a television and a Wii! Talk about whole lot of stuff in a little space! How are we going to play with the Wii? Is this type of setup really effective and fair to the patients? It feels like everyone is invading your personal space. Even the therapists do not have their own space, even to write notes. The therapy room definitely does not promote health and wellness. The area needs feng shui. Some examples of how to feng shui your treatment area is at this link http://www.feng-shui-vibes.com/feng-shui-health.html

I know that nothing is perfect and we cannot get everything or in this case space that we want. Who knows, maybe the facility has grown so much that therapy has outgrown their space. I was told that the company is renovating, and that speech will be getting their own therapy room. I am not sure if I have the answers about space but as therapists we do the best that we can with the space that we have and the amount of people that we have to share it with.

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