This is just short one.
During my curtin supervisor's visit on last friday she asked if i had any issues before she left. I said not with the prac i'm on as such but we got on to an in depth conversation about how it was hard for us to come into a work place where people have trained at all different uni's accross australia and have a diverse experience.
In summary i pretty much explained how many Neuro Physio's have their own ways of doing things (treatments/transfers etc) and while we have practiced for many hours the way we have learnt; you feel when you are at a neuro placement that you should suddenly adopt their methodology of treating. However it means we have no practice in the new types of transfers and handling etc.
We came to the conclusion that whilst we are best at using the handling skills and treatments that we have practiced lots at uni it is good to try someone else's way and all the other available possibilities of treating and see what works best for what patient. But perhaps explaining to your placement supervisor that if their way isn't quite achieving the result you want (i.e. you want the patient to adopt a neutral standing posture and they continue to have flexed hips) then don't be afraid to try the way we know best even if they don't use it.
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I think its a really good point you've brought up Erin, when having to perform transfers on patients knowing that we have to be 100% safe for the patients sake and so we dont fail the prac it is much easier to do it the way we've been taught. When it comes to rx i think we have a very limited approach and when presented with a problem we dont have the experience yet to adapt our rx strategies until we find the one which most suits the patient. So i think that you're right in saying that we need to learn as much as we can while on prac but use what we know best first up and in pressure situations.
Heya girls i completely agree with you. i was on my neuro prac and they were all about the "bobath technique" with treating patients. This was all completely new to me because we get drilled at uni about a whole other rehab method. Even thou these techniques have similar aims I just feel that this gives us an amazing learning exposure. I feel that when we come out to practice we will just have much more to work with and definately find the technique that best suits our patients... so here to being open to learning more...
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