Evidence-Based Practice

So I have been crazy-busy this week, mainly because I somehow agreed to give two presentations on Wednesday, on two different topics! And then also said I would do a presentation this coming Monday, mainly because I have a soft spot for Cecilia (see my picture to the right of my "former supervisor..."). She managed to pull together a last minute holiday to the Maldives, and is not back at work until Tuesday, but was scheduled to do a presentation on Monday. So I volunteered to take her place. I swear, sometimes I am my own worst enemy.

Anyway, the presentations on Wednesday went well. I was a bit nervous for the first one, because for the first couple of minutes, it was just Claire (my supervisor) and myself staring at each other. The physios had already said they weren't going to be able to make it, and as I found out later, the speech therapist had forgotten. But then, bless them, the entire stroke rehab team came in, including my friend Laura who doesn't normally attend these teachings, but when she heard it was me decided she had to come along too. That talk was on Social Cognition, which I've discovered is an absolutely fascinating subject, and very much a hot topic too...a lot of papers and research around social cognition are being done right now and within the past few years. So not quite unbelievably given my track record (see above), I actually heard myself volunteering to compile a resource folder/binder on Social Cognition by the end of this rotation. As if I don't have enough to be working on around my objectives, I have actually given myself a rotation's worth of work! But then again today, I only had one patient I could actually work with (the rest were too ill or waiting for a nursing home bed), so I embarked upon my literature search, and turned up a fair number of articles. And was enjoying reading them. I know, I'm such a nerd. I think I would make being a student my profession if only they'd pay me good money to do it...