the boring part of physio

on my last prac I was doing gerontology. I found that all I was doing was walking patients and doing basic exercise programs for them. As they were very elderly there was no high level exercise or anything too challanging. after the second week I found this to be be very mundane and boring. most of the patients didn't like exercising and as a result hated coming to physio, making my job vey hard. They would often be very difficult with me come physio time, and I would spend a good part of the session persuading them to come down and exercise and the benifits of exercise. After a while this became wearing on my enthusiasm for physio as a profession. I feel that we are too over qualified for a lot of the things that we do in the hospital system, and that we receive little respect from patients themselves.
I voiced this opinion to some of my peers and many were in aggreeance with this belief. I also spoke to my friend who is a physio and she said that it is just one field of physio, and that it is important to try other parts of physio before making a judgement based on my experience on prac as a whole.

I think it is important to ensure we don't become disheartened by the profession if we have one bad experience on prac, and to continue to stive to find an area that you find exciting and challanging. In the future I will remember this advice and try to maintian my positive attitude in all situations.