Hello there bloggers,
Sorry for the late blogg.
Ok, currently I am on cardio prac at a hospital with another student. After a week and a half things were going great and we felt really comfortable with our facility supervisor and were learning heaps!! Because we felt so comfortable with her, when she asked us one lunchtime what area of physio we wanted to get into when we graduated we were honest with her. I said I wanted to work in the mining sector or corporate health/ workplace health and safety, and the other student said she wanted to travel for a couple of years and maybe didn't want to work as a physio at all. Our supervisor looked shocked and commented to me "Do you really think a new graduate will be able to get work in those areas? ha ha" which made me feel about an inch tall, and commented to the other student "Well do you think you'll be able to maintain your physio skills over 2 years and come back and get a real job?" Anyway, after this we found that the supervisor who had initially been quite happy to show us as much cardio stuff as possible (ie suctioning, crazy attachments and monitors, really critically ill patients) suddenly had us just walking the most basic patients up and down the corridor. It was almost like she had decided that if we weren't interested in working in cardio, then we didn't need to be shown any on the really interesting more difficult things. I'm wondering if it would have been better to have just said "I'm not sure what area I want to work in, but I'm really enjoying this placement" which is technically a lie, but might have kept us on side with our supervisor?? What do you guys think? When you get asked, do you say what you actually want to do, or do you pretend that you are really interested in the area you are currently on prac in??
Cheers
Ez
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Thats really disappointing that the supervisor would just change like that. Its not like we get to choose which placement or where to go. We get them allocated, we attend, do our best, and try to pass. The reason we come to pracs, (regardless of whether were gonna work in these areas in the longterm) is to pick up on basic skill incase we come across similar patients. It was wrong the superviser shut both of you down, because of what you guys really wanted. I think wiht the other student the superviser prolly felt she was wasting her time, if the student decided she deosnt want to be a physio after all. The superviser prolly felt she didnt need to make the effort if the student wasnt interested. But when other supervisers have asked me the question, my answer has been very vague "i'd like to start off in hospital setting, to get more experience, before i decide what area i wanna get into". Not really a lie, because i'm still undecided, but still vague at the same time. But if ive certainly enjoyed a placement, then i initially tought i would, then i would say it.
Rev
I agree with what Rev said. It's such a pity that your supervisor shut you guys like that. But you must remember that teaching students on top of your normal workload is a very difficult and tiring job. If she was doing it out of pure passion, and has come to realise that the both of you were not going to be utilising these "added" skills in the near future, she must have felt rather demoralised and possibly disappointed as well. She's human after all.
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