Since this last prac has been the first one for me on an inpatients ward, it has really helped me to work as a team with the other staff. I have learnt how much easier everyone gets along if people help out even when a task isn’t really in their particular field. For example just little things like taking the time to help a nurse roll a comatose patient over so they could change them meant that the next day that same nurse helped me walk a day 1 post-op patient that needed x2 assist, when really it should have been the other physio student.
It has also shown me how important it is to coordinate tasks with other staff. Since walking is so tiresome for some older people, they can often walk only a few metres before being tired for the next few hours. This means that its really essential to time it so that when we get a patient OOB, it fits in with the nursing staffs plan of when to shower them, sit on the commode etc. It has just really opened my eyes to the benefits of talking with the other staff so that everyone knows exactly what’s happening and can work together to a job done the most effective way for us and the patient.
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Hi Laura,
I can't believe that's your first in-patient prac!?! But yeah I know exactly what your saying and you'll notice in some wards more than others, communication with the rest of the team is alot easier. The best example is the gerontology ward I've been exposed to, it was really easy to communicate with the whole medical team and your overall picture of the patient was very clear compared to other wards.
I agree. The most rewarding thing for us is knowing that you are contributing in giving the most optimal care for a patient because as a whole, the multidiscplinary team works as a functional unit. Also, the benefit of doing so means that we expand our knowledge far beyond the scope of physiotherapy..
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