Friday, February 16, 2007
Motivation......anyone?
We are only 1/2 way into our third clinic now and I am having trouble staying motivated. Every day is an absolute drag getting out of bed in the morning and the days just seem to just be getting longer. Then I think of the PCR then the other whole clinic we havent even started yet. The struggle to stay perky every day and actually interested in interpreting yet another CXR or taking another pt for a walk is further zapping my enthusiasm. How do you fake interest in a topic you have absolutely no interest in? Apparantly sometimes my non-verbal communication (despite my greatest efforts) shows I am "a little bored"! Some may say I may need some skills in cardiopulmonary in the future. For those who know me, they know this will be over my dead body. I have no interest in applying for a public hospital job, just in case I get rotated to cardiopulmonary! So....does anyone have some motivating words, any words of wisdom or any tried and tested techniques to help me find my motivation? Am I alone out there???
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Hi Leah,
I partly know how you feel. I’m not all that excited about cardio, and I also have no intention to work in public hospitals. I have also heard some say that a stint in the public system would be good once we graduate to make us more complete physios. I have considered that they might have a point, so I’m trying to take in as much information from the hospitals placements as I can and considering that as my hospital experience. We will see patients in private practice who have COPD, cardiac disorders and other cardiothoracic problems. It may be a bit of self trickery and mind games, but in two weeks you’re probably never going to be in a cardio ward again. So try to know everything you can about your patients and their problems, so when you see them in pvt three months later you can feel as competent as a physio who has been rotated through the cardio wards.
Mike
LIZARD, I am at POINT BREAK! Last week was a struggle. I have noticed it definitely comes in waves. I will have a pretty good week of walking and coughing…then the following week is as cloudy as pulmonary oedema on CXR’s! We (well I know I haven’t) had a break for a complete year…wait…correction, 2 weeks off over Christmas and New Years. It is only natural for us to become numb to this career…yep…right before we get STARTED! Sorry, I haven’t much of a strategy to concur the motivation. Just need a vent myself. I guess one thing I tend to do is chat up the patients. Though they may get a bit SOB, they are pretty entertaining characters. At least for me, when I get a smile out of my patients…that keeps me going. I know this isn’t the case for some (those that pretend to be asleep when you walk in the room) but that happens less often. Here is some motivation…think of all those NEW GEMS who just started up one month ago…whew…I sure am glad that’s not me!!!
Hi Leah, I am having the same problem and I don't have any strategies either. I agree with Tara, though, and you should just try to be interested in the individual pt's personality and not dwell on their condition.
Aunty Ho, I feel your pain. I'm hanging by a thread of sheer exhaustion. I love most of my patients and I really am enjoying this placement but the tiredness is strong and growing!!! And the PCR......well I don't know a bout that....maybe we should strike?? ANyone else up for that??
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