This document summarizes Jennifer Shone's field experience completing an internship at HealthSouth Chattanooga Rehabilitation Hospital. It provides details about the hospital, her preceptor Delilah Hughes, and her objectives and contributions during the internship. She gained exposure to various departments and projects, including planning for National Patient Safety Awareness Week. Overall, she found the experience very beneficial for listening, attending meetings, and meeting staff, and she plans to pursue a career in rehabilitation or assisted living after graduation.

1. HealthSouth Chattanooga
Rehabilitation Hospital
Jennifer Shone
College of Public Health, ETSU

2. HealthSouth Chattanooga Rehabilitation
Hospital
 Physical Rehabilitation hospital
 50 Beds
 Joint commission Accredited
 Certified in Stroke and Hip Fractures

3. Delilah Hughes, RN
Director of Quality and Risk Management
 Member of the Senior
Leadership team.
 32 years HealthCare
Experience
 26 years in HealthCare
Management Experience

4. Objectives
 Get an overall feel for the function of the hospital by spending time
in every department.
 Be involved in Process Improvement
 Update the policies on the Idrive. (Shared Drive)
 Plan National Patient Safety Awareness Week
 Assist Pharmacy in implementing new pharmaceutical waste bins
and training staff to use them.

5. National Patient Safety Awareness Week

6.  Designed Daily Focus
 Designed Activities
Game of Jeopardy
Designed Handouts
Word Searches/Crossword
Puzzles
 Fall Rate Focus

7. JAR Joint Annual Report
 Overall View of the Hospital
Patient Demographics
Financial information
Payer information

8. Education Fair
 Environment of Care
 Patient Safety
 Case Management
 Regulatory Compliance
 Defensive Documentation

9. Benefits
 I listened a lot
 How to handle different situation
 Attended lots of operational meetings
 Met some Amazing People

10. Contributions
 Time
 New way of thinking
 Small Efficiencies

11. Suggestions
 Class order
Advise to take more specialized classes later in the program
 Group Projects
More Group Projects in long term and short term
Teach better student interactions for working together
 Examples to give to my preceptor

12. Future Plans
 I graduate in August
 Move to Atlanta
 Career wise
Rehab setting
Small size of the hospital
Probably Assisted Living Facility

13. Any Questions?
 Thanks for listening!