Growing and changing
I've been on prac for the past 3 weeks and it's gone by so fast. This was my gerontology placement and was nothing like I ever expected. When I thought about gerontology I thought I would be dealing with people with dementia all day and the only thing I would do was walk them and give out the same boring bed exercises. The location of my placement was quite far and even further considering I don't have a car.
It took me 1hr 50mins, one way, and sometimes longer on the way back. It sounds ridiculous but the morning journey wasn't bad. The journey back was, at times, unbearable. Thank goodness one of the 4th years was also there doing her rural prac and offered to give me rides. I rode to her house so it was good that I got my exercise in for the day because there was no way I was going to the gym at night. I got up at 5:30am everyday.
It's quite a small hospital and they were forced to give me difficult cases that they usually would not give to students. The supervisors challenged everything I did and that really changed my learning curve exponentially. It got tiring and frustrating, at times, having to be on the ball at all times but great in hindsight.
On my last day of prac, I recieved my evaluation from my school supervisor as well as my hospital supervisor. Now that I've had time to reflect on their comments, I'm starting to realize how much I've changed since I started this program. They all said that my biggest strength was my ability to tactfully to approach differences of opinion extremely well. Even one of the 4th years said that they can see me as someone who is more aggressive and outspoken to get my point across. That's really funny because I was never like that before. Before coming here, I would have happily kept my mouth shut and not question my supervisors. I remember as a child, teachers always commented on how quiet and shy I was. Who would've guessed that I'm now the complete opposite. I don't know how this happened, considering this program has a reputation of killing people's confidence.
It took me 1hr 50mins, one way, and sometimes longer on the way back. It sounds ridiculous but the morning journey wasn't bad. The journey back was, at times, unbearable. Thank goodness one of the 4th years was also there doing her rural prac and offered to give me rides. I rode to her house so it was good that I got my exercise in for the day because there was no way I was going to the gym at night. I got up at 5:30am everyday.
It's quite a small hospital and they were forced to give me difficult cases that they usually would not give to students. The supervisors challenged everything I did and that really changed my learning curve exponentially. It got tiring and frustrating, at times, having to be on the ball at all times but great in hindsight.
On my last day of prac, I recieved my evaluation from my school supervisor as well as my hospital supervisor. Now that I've had time to reflect on their comments, I'm starting to realize how much I've changed since I started this program. They all said that my biggest strength was my ability to tactfully to approach differences of opinion extremely well. Even one of the 4th years said that they can see me as someone who is more aggressive and outspoken to get my point across. That's really funny because I was never like that before. Before coming here, I would have happily kept my mouth shut and not question my supervisors. I remember as a child, teachers always commented on how quiet and shy I was. Who would've guessed that I'm now the complete opposite. I don't know how this happened, considering this program has a reputation of killing people's confidence.
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