When I was on my Cardio placement on a surgical ward all my Cardio patients were going well and then I was given an outlier pt who had had a TKR. The only orthopaedic placement id had were the 3 hours ones in second year when you were on placement with 5 other people and didn’t learn a lot because you spent the whole time doing subj and obj.
I knew basic things like ROM exercises and IRQ/SQ etc but other than that I didn’t have much idea what I was doing. To make it even more complicated the pt was so far behind on her pathway because she had had a PE post surgery. I had to see this pt twice a day for 3 days which took up a lot of my time when I should have been seeing cardio patients.
I did this until I my supervisor asked how I was going with everything and I told her that I felt like I had no idea what I was doing with this pt. Immediately after this she took the pt off me because it was my Cardio placement and I shouldn’t have had to see ortho patients.
This has shown me that if id just spoken up earlier then I could have saved myself 3 days of feeling useless and the pt would have prob got better treatment from a physio/ student who knew what they were doing
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