Initial Entry- 3rd Year Placement

I'm on placement at Fremantle Hospital Inpatient Department which deals with the trauma and more high risk patients. I am nervous and excited as it's my first hospital placement and it's an acute setting.

I think the nature of this placement will entail getting patients out of bed, possibly for the first time, exercise prescription, gait prescription and referrals to outpatient department or possibly OT if they need asistance at home.

As a student, we would be expected to know about fractures (esp #NOF) and the basic surgery (total hip/knee), recovery times and appropriate exercises for the differernt presentations. Safety would also be a big thing especially with students so I will be very very very aware and cautious of that aspect of the placement. Professionalism and communication are also areas which would have great importance in this setting.

My main concern at the moment is that I may not have covered enough of the theory behind all these procedures, but I guess I still have four and a half days to learn as much as I can so I feel more prepared.