Palatka Health Care Center

Today was my first day of shadowing and it was with an occupational therapist at Palatka health care center which is a skilled nursing facility about 45 minutes from here.  It was definitely an interesting day and I learned a lot.  The best part of the day was actually getting to see therapy and see how it relates to the classes that I'm taking right now.  Joshua is the only OT at this facility so he sees pretty much every patient they have there at some point.  They have both long term and short term patients there and we got to see a pretty good range of both.  It was also a good experience because I feel stronger about my choice in leaning towards pediatrics.  Although I was more interested in the care I saw to today than I thought I would be, I still think I can cross nursing home off the list.  Still a good day that I didn't have to sit in a classroom though!