E30 - Chapter Updates with President Nick Weber

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Welcome back to the APTA Nebraska podcast.
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I'm Brad Dexter, and I'm joined by Nick Weber again today for our esteemed president's update.
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Nick, how are you doing?
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Doing great, Brad.
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How are you?
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I'm doing pretty good too.
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We've uh we've talked a little bit before we started recording here, but you know, the school year has started up.
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Um, so many of you listeners probably have your kids going back to school.
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Uh certainly we're both in the swing of uh teaching.
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Well, I'm in the swing of teaching again this fall.
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Nick is uh full like service mode, probably scholarship mode a little bit right now.
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Um, so yeah.
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That's the plan, yeah.
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It's a little different for me this semester, but uh hoping to find my way into those things as well.
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I I think you'll do just fine.
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But uh we we do have a little bit of like a learning theme, you know, with school starting up.
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We have a bit of a learning theme today and some of the uh the things that we wanted to talk about, right?
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So um I know we have student conclave coming up this fall.
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Do you want to talk a little bit more about student conclave and any other events attached to that?
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Yeah, so this is our annual event for the students.
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Uh it's Friday, October 23rd this year.
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It's happening in Omaha on UNMC's campus.
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Uh, there's four great talks lined up, and uh we're excited to just offer the students content that they've requested, uh things that you know are a little bit outside of a curricular topic, but still very relevant to the profession.
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And um so really excited about that opportunity for them.
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We've we've had some good turnouts and hoping to continue to grow on that.
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Uh, but then to add on to that, uh our early professional group has uh scheduled a PT pub night after the event.
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So uh just an opportunity for a great evening, uh, opportunity after some learning to come out, have a good time, uh, socialize with peers.
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And then uh, you know, we're welcoming obviously clinicians to come out as well and uh meet this next generation of providers.
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Uh sounds like it will be a good time.
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And so you are you are welcoming in other clinicians from the community to uh to also meet with students and young professionals, correct?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I think it's just a good opportunity and kind of a uh little less formal, you know, environment to just get to know people and uh maybe identify a future colleague or a future mentor or you know, whatever.
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Um, but just it's a fun event.
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And uh, like I said, we've had some good turnouts the last few years and hoping we could just continue to grow on this.
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Do you want to talk about any of the speakers that are coming in at all?
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Yeah, I know uh off the top of my head, there's uh gonna be a talk on pelvic floor, there's a talk on some like pro bono care in the like Native American um health space that that occurs in Omaha.
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So things like that, just you know, obviously professional topics, uh, but maybe things that don't get as much time in a traditional curriculum.
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So uh the students will have an opportunity to identify uh two different talks that they can attend.
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And so we just encourage them to take a look at the list and uh pick out things that are uh of interest to them.
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Excellent.
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Uh so student conclave that's happening October 23rd.
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The pub night is following, just as reminders there.
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Uh let's switch gears toward uh conference.
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So there's certainly we had a podcast a couple weeks ago talking with our education committee, Amber and Jen, and they were sharing a lot of the details for getting ready for conference and just some of the things that they're thinking about as well.
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But September is the month where uh abstracts are due, posters, presentations.
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Uh, do you want to share any more there?
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Yeah, I guess I just want to put out the last call here to uh uh get those turned in.
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We hope to have a another really competitive group of uh presenters uh and posters, as you said.
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We hope to accept as many as we can this year.
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Um again, just we we've had some great conferences in the last few years with a variety of topics.
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We try to uh set it up so that we have learning opportunities for clinicians from all disciplines.
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And so uh again, just want to put the call out to all the great clinicians out there and and educators and just share your knowledge uh and give back to the state.
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So hopefully we'll have a good itinerary for this year's conference as well.
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Excellent.
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Uh, and that's uh September 13th is the deadline for uh for all those abstracts.
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So just a few days from now, like Nick said, last call, last call.
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Uh again, if I had some kind of like a bell or something, it's like you know, last lap of the race.
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I need to get one of those boards to actually make these sounds within the podcast.
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That would be fun.
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Oh gosh.
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I I don't know if I trust you with a soundboard and uh a variety of those things.
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Start pushing buttons, right?
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Um, all right.
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PT flash action strategy.
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Uh I know at least at UNMC, we have a couple students that are working on this and have uh sent information out to the what the rest of their colleagues and students here on campus, but can you share more about what the flash action strategy is, the purpose behind it, and then specifically this year, what's being focused on?
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Yeah, so every day or every sorry, every year, APTA identifies um a topic that they feel is relevant to the students.
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And it's essentially like a nationwide social media blitz where we're trying to put out an advocacy message.
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And so it's really that first opportunity for students to kind of step into the advocacy space.
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Uh so this year, as you said, I think it's September 23rd and 4th.
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And the topic that's been identified this year is around the PT workforce, um, specifically in rural and underserved areas.
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So there's uh some legislation that's been presented in both the House and the Senate called the Physical Therapy Workforce and Patient Access Act.
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And what this would do is allow physical therapists to join the list of providers on the National Health Service Corps, which is the uh support for loan forgiveness.
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Uh so for providers that are willing to step into that space and work, commit to two or three years, um, they can get some help on their loans during that time.
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And so it we're just trying to facilitate getting providers into those spaces and help with the debt-to-income ratio that our profession faces.
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Uh so we're hoping this can get across the finish line this year.
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And and you know, I think APTA's goal is to get 10,000 letters sent um from students out to their legislators across the nation this year.
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And you know, if we can do that, I think it really kind of tees up those of us uh like myself that are out uh meeting with legislators, uh really trying to drive home these points.
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And if they're hearing from not just me or or my counterparts across the country, but um for the students and to be able to speak to the impact that these types of things would have to get them, you know, into a quality job and and hopefully help them with their with their loans early on.
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Excellent.
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Um, I know that that's gonna be happening on a couple of different campuses, at least between um, or with the students rather, but uh thanks for sharing the the news as well with us.
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Um anything else top of mind for you, Nick?
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Yeah, I mean I think uh not too far away is uh PT month, right?
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October's coming up here too.
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And so uh we talked about the student conclave and and a variety of uh other there's other things going on in October as well.
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I want to just put a pitch in for uh global PT Day of service is October 10th this year.
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I know our early professional group is uh working on coordinating some events.
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We've done some cleanup events, we've uh we've volunteered at a number of places across the state.
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Um, so I really appreciate the early professional SIG working on um setting up opportunities for everybody.
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And and even if you know one of those events is not convenient for you, or you know, just hope people will get out um and just contribute to their communities outside of the clinic.
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I think it's such a great day and an important thing for us to be out in the public.
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Fantastic.
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All right.
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Nick, is there anything else on your mind?
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Otherwise, I've got some questions for you.
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I'm throwing I'm just throwing you a curveball.
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Well, that's okay.
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Let's go.
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I'll let you know.
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I've I've been trying to close out some of these these conversations with um the good life lightning round, okay?
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These are some PT specific questions for you, but it's just it's rapid fire, so you just gotta go with the flow, okay?
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A little bit of fun.
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All right.
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Um, Ronza or Valentinos?
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Valentinos.
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Okay.
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Are you a coffee, tea, or energy drink guy to get the the day going?
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100% iced tea.
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Ice tea, sweet or just regular?
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No, no, just regular.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Um, this one might hit home a little bit, but goniometer or just eyeball it?
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Ooh, I know this is not gonna be well accepted, but eyeball it for sure.
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Uh okay, what's the one exercise you assign more than others?
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The one exercise I assign more than others.
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Um being that a lot of my clinical time is spent uh around the spine, it is some form of a isometric, abdominal isometric.
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Okay.
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Uh hey, you're you're you're heading home uh from Creighton.
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Windows are rolled down.
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What song's planned?
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Oh, right now?
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Uh Olivia Dean.
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Something Olivia Dean.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Last one for you.
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Best part of my job is Oh, it's interacting with students, no doubt about it.
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Yeah.
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It's the best part for sure.
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I love it.
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Now I keep getting older, right?
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Yeah.
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So I'm doing my best to just uh stay in tune with what's uh what's cool, hip, all the things, and me saying those two things makes me yes, exactly right.
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So clearly I'm not doing a good job of it.
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Uh but yeah, no, the student interactions is by far, in my opinion, the best part of teaching.
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Agreed.
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Agreed.
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Uh hey, thanks for your time.
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Thanks for all the work that you're doing.
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Uh, thanks for the updates as well.
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Listeners, thank you for listening into this.
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Uh, I hope that it was informative, uh, keeps you up to date, up to speed, what's going on in the organization and across the state as well, and hope that you can find ways to continue being part of it as well.
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