Accreditation

While reading the ADA accreditation document I passed over "Patients with special needs." The school I went to was located across the street from government housing so we were very blessed to get a variety of patients. Patients being very easy to very difficult. I was very happy to be so lucky to work on a variety of patients but I thought it was just location. I always wondered why we needed a special needs patient, child, and geriatric patient just because we always had so many diverse people in our school. I now realize its nationally needed. For a good reason too because I think its better to be well rounded and ready for the real world. Another accreditation I thought was made up by teacher was ADPIE. I thought they made the whole acronym up their self. It was very good way for us to get information on each patient. We had to fill out an ADPIE sheet on each patient every day and it helped us to treatment plan each patient correctly. Other than those two I pretty much understood the other accreditations because our program administrator was a huge STICKLER for the rules. If anything was broken or misunderstood we were quickly reminded.