Blog # 7

A couple different things have happened since the last time I have updated on my internship. I attended a Health Fair at the Great Outdoors; the Great Outdoors is a golf/ retirement community. Parrish Medical Center was set up under a tent promoting our doctors. I don’t think we had a lot of traffic by our tent but its always good to attend events whenever you can to get your name out there. The Health Fair overall was pretty fun. The retirement community that resides in the great outdoors is a really fun and outgoing group of people. They looked like they were having a blast; I only hope to be that happy at that age. We stayed there for a couple hours in the morning and were out of there by noon. The following week we had a PALs (Police Athletic League) Gold Tournament to attend, I had a blast chatting with these people and trying to promote the HMI Program at Parrish. It was me, Gloria, Tara (Physician Liaison), and Tammy (Physical Therapist). We used a white board and were testing the guys grips throughout the day and posting there age and how good there grip was for there age. The results of doing this were amazing! There was an 88 year old man with 10X of a better grip then the younger guys. This was a fun way to get the guys to come over and for us to strike up conversation on who we are and what we do. This past week I met up with Gloria in her office at 8AM we discussed upcoming events and what our discussions would be next week at the meetings and what we needed to do to get some things done. Then Leanne, a woman from HR who helps get our notes and meetings put together, arrived for a meeting with us to go over the notes and discussion for next week as well. We want to start getting The Aging Workforce Conference on a role for July. One of my responsibilities was to get a hold of Alex Gutierrez in the education department to see if we can set a date were all of the conference rooms would be available. After we got all of the notes and discussion figured out for the meetings next week Gloria asked me to work on making a job description for hiring a new physical therapist. I spent the rest of the afternoon researching degrees and certifications needed to be a physical therapist, what the job responsibilities are, and how the therapist should spend its time by percentage for Parrish. I presented the finished job description to Gloria and she said she was very proud of it and we would bring it to the meeting next week to go over it with the physician and critique anything that needed to be changed. The day went by pretty quickly and I am ready for meetings next week to get some things that much closer to being accomplished.