I am a newly qualified Occupational therapist who has landed herself a job working on a rotation in my local city. Beating 150 people to the post is a pretty impressive feeling and a lot of added pressure-must live up to it!
So today I went to visit what will be the place I spend 37 hours of my week for the next six months.
It. Was. Scary.
No word of a lie, I felt so clueless and out of my depth. I think i'm meant to feel like this though, because the girl who i'm taking over from said that she felt the same.
I'm going to be based mainly on two wards, although will duty cover other wards in the hospital once a week. The current OT gave me a tour of the wards and such, the hospital is ridiculously massive and if someone left me in a corridor, I'm not entirely sure anyone would see me ever again because id be lost for eternity! Apparently this happens to everyone, so I shall be given a map on my first day.
I'm feeling so completely overwhelmed yet excited; I really do love a challenge and working hard (which is lucky really!). I also feel incredibly lucky to have landed myself on a rotation within months of leaving University.
This space will be used to document my journey through my six months of this rotation, and probably other rotations. It will be used as a place for reflections and lessons, looking back at the end of the rotation I am sure that I will have developed profoundly.
