Initail Entry Placement 4 - Cardio

Tomorrow is the last first day of prac!!!!!! So nervous especially it being at royal perth and being my cardio placement however my main nerves are due to the fact that this is our last chance to actually be out in the physio world practicing what we have learnt and then after a few weeks of uni and exams we are able to head out and get a real job.
I think that the expectations will be fairly high considering this is our last placement, I am always worried about how everything is done at each new facility and since I haven’t been exposed to many cardio patients until now that makes me very anxious that I won’t be able to quickly apply my theoretical knowledge to practice. However I feel that my general clinical reasoning has improved and that I have a good understanding of the patient types that I may come across, which helps ease my nerves a little.
I hope that once given an orientation of the hospital that will too allow me to relax more so, it is the fear of the unknown and the uncontrollable about a new placement and meeting new people, especially my supervisor and clinical tutor.
I am always worried about what my supervisor will expect of me from day 1 at each placement and I have found that the expectation level has risen with each one, so that would fit that the expectation for our final placement would be the greatest.
I expect that I would get a great understanding in the cardio physio area from the placement. In the end I would hope to be able to complete subjective and objective assessment with ease and that I would be able to clinically reason treatments based on the patients problems list.
Overall I am excited to get started on this placement despite all my nerves and do my best to learn and practice as much as possible as this is the last chance I’ll get before I am out in the big real physio world.