The last day of my last placement was a low activity day - for anyone that has not experienced these, my understanding is that the hospital closes down all non-essential services for the day and the staff from these services help the other staff to complete their full day's workload in the morning; then everyone gets the afternoon off. This meant that neuro outpatients (where I had my final placement) was going to be closed and we would be treating patients on ward 2 (much more acute and dependent patients, than those that we'd been treating).
To be honest, I wasn't particularly looking forward to my final day, as I felt that I would feel like a brand new student in a new setting, rather than feeling like the therapist that I nearly am! When we arrived on ward 2 we were allocated patients, given a suggested treatment plan and had very little other info about the pt.. I was a bit cautious at first, somewhat anxious about having a catastrophe on the last day of my final placement. However, I was pleasantly surprised when everything went well (there were no disasters!) and I even felt I was able to progress and make small amendments to the treatment suggestions, which were relevant to the way in which each patient presented on that particular day.
I learnt that we have more skills than we realise! Our course is carefully designed in order for us to learn the basic skills and prepare us for situations which we are not familiar with, which are in addition to the clinics we were allocated. I now have more confidence that I will be able to transfer my clinical experiences to whichever new environment I find myself working in.
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I agree. We have more skills than we realise. It's just a matter of confidence in applying these skills and of course realising that we have these.
I think in any situation your put in you look for the possitives. I guess being put in a foreign setting on your last day was a good way to show if your ready to become a physio. At this stage i think you should be able to walk in and with a good handover be able to give a competent treatment session. Congrats on your last day and good luck for the future.
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