Sunday, 12 August 2007
Managing a minor panic attack!
Just wondering if anyone goes through those 5-second 'forget to breathe' moments when they find out they have a new patient with a random condition/forget to do their stats/are about to get feedback from a supervisor/etc :) On Friday I didn't get to see my supervisor all day as I was with my own patients, so i got back to my desk at 4.45pm and it had a note on it 'Amanda make sure you see me before you go home today' from my supervisor. Uh-Oh! I feared the worst...had I done something unsafe with a patient, treated the wrong condition?! I had a minor freak-out! However i just wanted to share with you guys how I learned to not always fear the worst when your supervisor wants to have a chat. Rather than having a minor panic attack, I should have thought logically about my treatments for the day and realised that I had not done anything that drastically disastrous! It turned out that my supervisor needed me to pose as an incontinent CF teenage girl for a PhD study poster (the things we have to do as a student!). So the moral of the story is that we shouldn't always fear the worst as a student... although there is a very very fine line between being over-confident and being comfortably confident, I think sometimes I stress out a little more than I should! Have a great last week of prac - Amanda the incontinent CF gal xx
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HAHA....you must have looked adorable as an incontinent CF patient! Fantastic example of how we all stress too much and always expect the worst. But sometimes if I wonder if that really is our fault. I think, unfortunately in this day and age, no one gives positive feedback or encouragement. Almost always all we hear is what we are doing wrong, what we need to work on, how we could improve etc. And its very sad to think that even when we have done a good job, we second guess ourselves and pick our brains until we find something that maybe wasn't quite up to scratch. I think as physio's also our standards are set much higher than others and we are way too hard on ourselves. I guess its getting to that time of year when we all really need to chill more and have confidence in ourselves as 'almost physio's.'
Hey amanda, I completley agree with what suanne said! I do the exact same thing..always fear the worst. I think it comes down to the fact well for me anyway that we always want to do things perfectly! I think that what we have to remember that in four weeks time there is no posiible way we could ever have the skill level or knowledge base that our supervisors do. After all they have been working in the area for yrs and yrs and have much more clinical expeience, so I think we just have to remeber no-one is expecting us to be perfect, but they are expecting us to try our best! Cant wait to see the poster hehe
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