I have a patient coming in who had lumbar surgery 3 months ago and she is unable to tolerate supine or sidelying positions due to increase in pain. She also cannot tolerate bike so we have been doing seated exercises in the chair (LAQ, marching, hip adduction/abduction). She can’t tolerate sitting down on the bed either ….. I am struggling to figure out what else to do with her.
Only been practicing for 3 months and was wondering if y’all had recommendations on literature or CEUs to take as a new grad. One weakness I have is I tend to struggle on navigating post-op patients as I haven’t really been exposed to a lot during my clinicals besides 1 or 2.
Hi y’all,
I’ve been at my hospital based OP clinic for almost 2 months and I’m struggling. I get along well with my patients, my manager, and the front desk girls but I’m struggling to get along with my other coworkers (PT’s). They’re close and I still feel like an outsider; I try to be friendly and say hi & offer to help them out with patients if I have an opening, but they just ignore me. I’ve also noticed that when I’m in the office they don’t speak much but when I’m on the floor, they’re always talking. I don’t really feel supported (my manager is my mentor but he’s been nice) and am dealing with imposter syndrome while also still learning billing/EMR/etc. I don’t know if I should try to stick it out for another month or request a transfer to one of the other clinics, but I’m also worried because I’m still so new🥲
Hi y’all!! Wanted to share my story/encouragement for those who didn’t get the score they wanted - one exam does not define the clinician you are & you will pass!!! 🤍
I bought FF in December and started going through the videos since I had about 5 weeks off before my last clinical started. I was doing pretty well with keeping up with videos until the beginning of March when my CI told me that I wasn’t close to “entry level on my CPI”, so I had to stop studying and focus on devoting even more time to my clinical. My mental and physical health were at an all time low; I didn’t even think that I was going to graduate in April. Thankfully I passed, but now I had less than a month to cram for the NPTE; I was contemplating on rescheduling to July since I had less time but decided to take it because who knows 😂
Rewatched all FF videos, especially the topics I struggled with the most (gait, other systems, ECG, etc) & used active recall by quizzing myself constantly.
Averaged 50-100 questions on TrueLearn & Typical PT; I created a Google Doc for questions I got wrong and explanations for the correct answer, referred to FF if I needed more explanation (ex: noticed a recurring pattern when I was getting a lot of SCI questions wrong)
Took 1 PEAT and 2 FF exams leading up to the NPTE; did not pass any of them. My scores were ranging from 595-598. It took me at least 2 days just to review the questions I got wrong, but also created a Google Doc for this to determine my content gaps.
I graduated with a very mediocre GPA, failed a class and got held back, I had a professor who told
me that I should consider a different career, and test taking has never been my strong suit. I worked even harder to prove my professors wrong and that I did belong in PT.
So if you failed the NPTE, please don’t let one exam convince you that you’re not meant to be a PT. A failed attempt does not erase the years of work, clinicals, sacrifices, and effort it took to get here.
You are way more capable than you think🤍 DM me if you have any questions!