Good Day

I've been meaning to blog about my amazing day on Friday! Here's the scoop..

Music therapy was referred for procedural support for an IV start with an infant. My supervisor let me lead the session and I will admit I was a little nervous. I started the session prior to the procedure and continued distraction techniques until the procedure was over. The wow moment was the comments received. The nurses said the patient was doing so well, one nurse said it was because of me :) The mother also said that the patient did so much better this time then the previous IV start (Mills canon suggests that music therapy is the reason for this) :) After the procedure I charted on the session and kept hearing a patient crying. I couldn't tell if it was coming from the room I just left as it was down the hall. I was packing up to leave the unit and noticed it was from the same room. I looked in and asked the parents if they wanted me to play some music to calm the patient down and they agreed. I used iso-principle (meeting the patient where he/she is and gradually leading them to where you want them to be), played louder music matching the patients crying then slowly transitioning to soft lullabies and was able to get a crying baby to sleep. I snuck out after that and the parents were so thankful. It was such a rush leaving that room. I was so happy to have helped them and calmed their child down. It’s magical watching how music can change everything right before your eyes. I was able to show this magic to the nurses as well as the parents.