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Kat Fulton, MM, MT-BC: So many of us work as silos. We are the solely music therapists at our facility. We work alone. We by no means see one other music therapist in our day. If we do work with music therapists, we’re fortunate if we see them as soon as a month or no matter it is, so it’s powerful to keep self-disciplined in accumulating information and producing stories. How do you do it? Is there something you have to add?
Brittany Tachkov, MT-BC: We have to query, or I have to query, am I actually alone? Am I actually alone in placing these numbers and stories collectively? Am I actually the solely one that is accumulating this information? Typically the reply is, sure. There are events the place I’m the solely one that has sure data. I’m the solely one who can put the ending touches on a report. I’m the solely one who may accumulate the information of how many visits I made.
Brittany: Typically there are different individuals who can really assist us with some of these little bits and items, whether or not it’s our music remedy community, whether or not it’s a division, wherever we’re working or contracting with that may really already have that information on hand, or it may simply be that we want to encompass ourselves with cheerleaders. That may be a household member, that may be a good friend, that may be a music remedy peer, somebody that you can even simply textual content. You don’t essentially have to be proper there in individual, however simply to textual content and say, “I want one extra push to get this accomplished. What recommendation do you have for me proper now?” That has helped me push by some of these difficult moments the place I do get caught. I do want to push a little bit additional by that.
Brittany: The different piece that helps is when it’s normalized, when it simply turns into half of the routine. Now, that doesn’t occur in a single day, however it can occur about a month in, two months in, three months in the place, okay, each Monday I’m writing down these numbers. Each Tuesday I ship this report to someone. Each Friday I’m going to write these numbers out once more. And then it’s simply like how we have to chart after each consumer contact anyway. So it’s simply one other piece of the music remedy puzzle.
Kat: Yeah. I like what you stated earlier about questioning “am I actually alone?” as a result of we are half of a greater –documentation. The lovely factor about that is getting to share our documentation and getting different disciplines, different professionals, coworkers, to learn our documentation.
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