Fieldwork

This past week, I started my fieldwork for occupational therapy. Fieldwork would be like an internship or clinical for other professions. All of my classwork is complete. Now I am putting my knowledge to work in the field. I have 2 back to back rotations, each 3 months long. For the past month, I have been excited and nervous, with that underlying dread of what if I don't measure up.

As a professional student, I am not suppose to advertise where I am doing my rotation on social media. Hence forth on here, I will call my location, "Rotation One". It's an inpatient rehab. In inpatient rehab, clients are required to have 3 hours of therapy daily. I am on a team that covers a wide variety of diagnosis. One day, it would be great to have one focus, but right now I love getting to see a little bit of everything that comes in the door. Its a great exposure and will help develop my clinical reasoning.

The first day put my worries to rest. My clinical instructor (CI) and I just clicked. She explains everything well, has straightforward answers to my questions, and listens to my ideas. Through my first week she allowed me to be hands on. THIS was monumental in helping me see that my fears were unwarranted. My heart had always known that these fears were unwarranted, that the Lord had me in the right place and He would provide, but sin told me that I wasn't going to be good enough. It is an awesome feeling to conquer doubt that comes from the devil.

I am SO SO SO thankful to the Lord for the circumstances I am in right now. I am looking forward to the next three months for the learning, confidence building, and experience. Yes, there will be days that don't go well, days I mess up,  and days that I leave extra late because of documentation. Those days are all apart of the journey along with the great days, days that I learned something knew, days that I share, grace, and the days I celebrate with patients when they get to go home to be back in their routine and as independent as possible.

~Mb