Hey Guys
This week I would like to share with you my experience with preferred learning styles. I would also like to request your opinions and experiences.
Throughout my current placement I have had two great ongoing patients. I’ve found these patients both challenging and unique. I have had to delve into the Neuro genre to implement techniques specific to each syndrome. It has been great to be able to track and observe their progress since almost day 1 of admission. It has meant that I have had to use different approaches in order to treat each patients syndrome.
On this placement I have two supervisors which has been fantastic. One has been involved in Neuro for 30 years!! The other 5 years. I must admit the first week, I felt very incompetent when all they needed to do was gently touch a patient and they moved in the right direction. My forceful hands however, were not so fluent, unfortunately they just haven’t had the time to develop that skill. As both patients had different syndromes, different techniques were required. I literally pulled and requested advice and suggestions from both of my supervisors. I realised that the Neuro from uni only skims the surface of everything that is out there.
I had a discussion with one of my supervisors in regards to the advantages and disadvantages of having more than one supervisor on a prac. Personally I feel it’s a great opportunity to have more than one. It meant that I could learn different techniques and approaches and continued to do so over the weeks.
I’m just wondering how everyone else feels about this? Is it a good opportunity to have more than one supervisor or is it just overwhelming at the moment with everything we are required to remember?
It would be great to hear your opinions.
Heidi.ience....
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Hey Heidi,
Don't know if you saw my post a few weeks ago. I found it really difficult having so many view points on my neuro prac. I think neuro is such a subjective area, basically 5 different physios will look at the same patient and come up with 5 different treatment plans, and each one will be right, and get results.
I think at this stage, we just need to take in all we can, have an open mind, and then take what we know and make up our own mind as to what we prefer.
I agree with what you said as to what we learnt at uni just being the tip of the iceberg, but i think it covers enough to give us a good base to learn from in the future.
Not sure if i've actually said anything meaningful in the last couple paragraphs, but good luck for the rest of your prac :-)
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