Recently, a great OT student shadowed me at work in the NICU.
As I went through the day explaining the WHY and HOW of everything I do it made me realize 3 things:
- There is something about working with a great nurse and a fragile baby during 8am care that reminds me why I love my work. Teamwork. Fragility. Intensive Care. Present moment awareness. It’s all there. Seeing it through a student’s eyes makes it even better.
- I LOVE teaching how to mesh a developmental model with a medical model. It’s part of why I love working in acute care.
- There are 100 reasons to share knowledge and not one reason to hoard it. (My challenge is trying not to share everything I’ve learned in 18 years in one 8 hour day!)
Having a student is a great reminder of how fun it is to discover something new. And I would argue that being the teacher of that new thing is twice as amazing.
