Looks great.
Look at that.
Beaches.
I haven't seen that.
I've seen the inside of the Hilton.
It's in the conference center.
Yeah.
That's the thing.
All right.
Live from CSN,
Rebecca Griffith is back on the show.
We do a live stream once a week.
We don't have a name for it yet.
We call it books and stuff.
We rarely talk about books.
We talk about more stuff.
How's your conference going?
It's going great.
I had some presentations yesterday and
just really excited to be able to enjoy
the content now.
All right.
Rebecca, you are the EDDPT.
How much do you see ED content here
outside of what you do?
Well, actually,
I put together some posts on my social
media for people who are looking for ED
content.
So there's content on Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday.
There are platform presentations,
poster presentations.
I think tomorrow there's a full-length
session specifically on BPPV in the
emergency department.
Isn't it great to see now?
It's got to be pretty.
It is.
There are other people.
It's not just you.
Well,
let me tell you the best part is
yesterday when we were giving our
presentation, I always say,
how many of you have heard of PT
and ED?
And in the past,
like only a couple of people have raised
their hand.
But yesterday I asked,
how many of you practice in the emergency
department?
And hundreds of hands went up.
And so that was like really exciting.
So we actually took a photo of the
audience because so many people were ADPTs
in that audience.
So that was really exciting.
So you go into health systems as well,
and people might say, okay, okay, okay,
you got us, convinced us,
and you help them sort of figure out
how to do that.
Yep.
And do it well.
So that's got to be pretty rewarding to
see this.
Yes.
Yeah.
What else are you looking for outside of
this stuff?
Because yourself and myself included have
said,
if you come to a conference like this,
make it a point to go outside of
your comfort zones, all the zones.
Yeah,
one of the things I'm hoping to go
to this afternoon is the Oxford debate in
the acute care section about float or
focus.
And one of the things I talk about
a lot is,
is it better for us to be specialists
as being generalists or for us to
specialize?
And I think that's a current conversation
in acute care.
Should we put therapists in one specialty
area in acute care or should we keep
the team and the bench versatile and keep
them moving throughout the hospital,
building those skill sets,
serving every patient that comes in the
door?
So I'm interested in that.
Okay.
One of your other things,
like if you were to have a tattoo,
I don't know if you have tattoos,
but if you were to have,
but I meant like a bicep tattoo.
If you were to have a work tattoo,
it probably would be top of scope.
A hundred percent.
Good.
I got it.
What is top of scope?
Rewind.
What does top of scope is a mindset
actually mean?
So for me,
top of scope really is what you bring
to yourself as a physical therapist.
It's your training,
it's your clinical experience,
it's your lived experience,
and it's the mindset with which you
approach patients.
So for me,
top of scope is mindset plus skillset.
So we take all of that together.
And the one-liner is,
who did you wanna be as a physical
therapist?
And why are you not being that person?
That's what top of scope is.
So top of scope isn't a destination,
it's the journey of your career.
Why aren't more PTs working in emergency
settings?
You saw a room today, obviously,
that people are now doing it.
But why aren't more?
Why don't we stop here?
I think part of it is there's just
not jobs available, right?
So when you come out of PT school,
is it something you even know about?
Or do you just look on Indeed and
look for a job?
Or do you come here?
Is there anybody recruiting for the
emergency department?
So I think the answer to that is
it's not easy yet.
And I'll know that my work is done
when you come out of PT school and
you're like, oh,
I'm going to apply for that job in
the emergency department.
It's just not there yet.
Yeah.
How could someone who's at an organization
without PTs in the emergency department,
how do they walk into a meeting and
not get shut down or eyes rolled at,
or what's the right way to,
there's probably more than one right way,
what are the right ways to do that?
I think the answer is to do a
PT evaluation on your hospital and your
emergency department.
We're good at that.
Yeah.
So you're going to receive a history.
You're going to identify the impairments
of the emergency department,
the functional limitations,
the participation restrictions,
and you're going to set short and
long-term goals of how physical therapy is
going to remediate that for them.
It can't be, oh,
it makes the patients happy.
Oh, the providers like us.
We can decrease x-rays.
It doesn't matter unless it matters to
them.
So figuring out what matters to them and
then showing how the value you can add
is the way to do that.
And we know how to do it.
We learned in school.
And it feels like it might be for
the right person, a more fulfilling day.
And you might keep that person around
longer.
And if you're that person,
you might be happier in your job.
Also,
just that like opportunity to be with
patients in some of those most like
vulnerable,
scary moments and giving them that
reassurance and that ability to go back
out to the world with confidence is
something it's hard to match.
All right.
Besides what you're doing here and the
things that you're seeing, trends, themes,
what people are whispering,
because all the real good stuff happens in
hallways or...
Hotel room parties or actual parties at
the House of Blues or wherever the parties
might be.
What are what's the buzz?
You know,
the other thing that I just keep hearing
is I'm feeling better about the
profession.
Okay.
Because I talk to a lot of people
kind of the first day and they're like,
oh, I'm not even sure why I'm here.
I keep telling people not to become a
physical therapist anymore.
I'm kind of looking to get my groove
back.
And so I'm hearing people say, oh,
today was so amazing.
I talked to so many people.
I'm feeling inspired again.
So I think the theme that I'm walking
away with is seeing people reinvigorated
and inspired.
Yeah.
I was talking to someone yesterday who
didn't understand that just a couple years
ago, there was a next conference,
then four months,
there was a student conclave,
then four months, there was CSM,
and then four months, and four months,
and four months, and four months.
But people can get a little hit of
dopamine, PT love at their state level.
Absolutely.
In states like Colorado.
Yep.
And I want to just plug APTA Colorado
Fall Conference is in Breckenridge this
year.
You don't have to be a Colorado member
to come.
So please come on out to Colorado.
We have outstanding programming.
We're going to have a payment form as
well.
And we're going to go out,
see the leaves and all the things.
I was going to say,
can you ski in Colorado in March?
It's in October.
Oh, you said October.
They say March.
It's in October.
You can if there's snow,
but usually it's peak leaf changing
season.
Everybody loves leaves.
Well,
also the hotels up there are a little
bit cheaper because it's not ski season.
So you can see the beauty of the
mountains at that peak moment for a great
price.
Since we're on the PT podcast,
you can have one drink and it feels
like two or three.
Oh, yeah.
Altitude.
Yeah.
Oh, drink economically responsible.
Exactly.
That's smart.
All right.
These are fast.
Normally we talk longer.
Parting shot.
What's your parting shot for today?
if you haven't met somebody new yet at
csm you've got to meet somebody and just
like go up to them talk to them
hey what are you clinically interested in
tell me about your background like who are
you what matters to you and you might
leave with somebody that becomes a
lifelong colleague the cheat code for me
is i'm gonna hold up your badge here
you got you got badges right and on
it your name and like where you're from
or where you're registered from
My cheat code is I look at where
someone's from and I'm like, oh, hey,
Becca, Colorado.
Tell me about that.
That's so smart.
Boom.
People love talking about themselves and
where they're from.
And then that shouldn't be the only thing
you talk about.
But from there, things can go to Chico.
I actually asked somebody to button my
shirt yesterday in the lobby because I
couldn't reach it.
So that was my cheat code for meeting
a new person yesterday.
Can you help?
So what you're saying is I should walk
around unbuttoned most of the time.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Perfect.
All right, Rebecca Griffith, the EDDPT,
will be live streaming next week again.
And thank you for doing all you do
in the state of Colorado.
You got it.