Final Entry

End Placement One: Peel Health Campus- NEURO

Now that my first placement is completed I feel relieved that I made it through the last five weeks. I settled in to the placement quickly as the staff were very helpful and supportive of me and of what I wanted to get out of the placement.

I found that my nervous quickly disapeared after meeting all the staff and getting to know what my role as a physio student was. I learnt so many things on this placement that arent just written in our text books and this had a lot to do with liasing with the multidisciplinary team, patients and their families. I learnt alot about hospital protocols, the way medication effects patinets and certain diseases that i had read about but never seen. it made me really conect what was written in the text books to actual situations. I found that I was able to easily build a rapport with my patients and this helped boost my confidence.

My confidence levels have improved alot compared to 5 weeks ago yet I am sure I will be just as nervous and my confidence levels will drop again before starting my next placement which isnt a hospital. I think it is maily due to the fact that I was given the option to take control of assessmnet and treatment sessions early on but not forced to so I didn't feel as though I was thrown into the deep end at all. Yet after seeing evreything at least once I was eager to get involved and see patinets my slef to get the best experience possible.

I think that placement was perfect for me as my first placement and i learnt alot about neurologyy patinets as well as gaining an insight into orthopadics, cardio and general medical patinets and how it all works within a hospital. i couldn't have asked for a better, more furfilling experience.