Sunday, November 16, 2008
pending employment:
My last placement was a geriatric placement and after completing six other pracs, I felt that this one would probably be quite easy and would give me lots of free time to study for PCR. On the first day my supervisor told me I was to perform a full stroke assessment on lady 3/52 post R) MCA infarct. I suddenly realised that even though I had completed a neuro placement, being an outpatient placement I hadnt completed a full assessment in just one session before. I also realised that alot of the knowledge I had gained on that placement ( which was in Febuary) had been pushed to the back of my mind as I made my way through the various other placements this year. Although initially I was quite freaked out, I slowly realised how lucky I was to get this placement and have the oppurtunity to practise a full stroke assessment before going out into the real world. This also made me think about all the possible areas that I may not have experienced throughout this year of prac. Although we do so much throughout the year there are so many areas of physiotherapy and many that we may end up working in with no prior experience. I also feel that the most important skill that we take from this year may be the ability to adapt to new environments and quickly assess the most important skill needed in each area. I also realised the importance of making the most of each oppurtinity we are given this year and learning as much as we can before going out to work as we wont have someone checking up on us all the time.
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Great post Cassie,
I've been finding that as the year goes on with clinic, i've been learning more amd more as time goes on. The funny thing is that a lot of recent graduates say that you learn more in your first two years out of uni working as a ohysio then you do studying physio at uni. I guess there is a lot more learning to be done in the years ahead!
that's so true Cassie. i've found that although i've learnt so much this year, it has been in quite limited areas. for example i did neuro outpatients and so i've never treated an acute stroke patient before. as i'd like to work in a neuro ward, i feel i've had very little experience up till now to help me deal with these acute patients. apparaently we do learn a lot in our first 2 years out so hopefully this is true and expectations of empployees arent too high! im glad someone else feels like this too, its reassuring that imi not the only one!
Hey Cassie.. i guess that is what this whole year is about.. LEARNING! i keep getting told on all my pracs that our first 6 mts out as a physio we will learn sooo much more than we can imagin! all this is very exciting.. but we just have to be open to this learning experiance and take on these challanges as we are definately capabale individuals!
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