NEW GRADUATE’S GUIDE TO PHYSIOTHERAPY

Are you feeling excited about your career, yet uncertain about which pathway to take?

Do you feel prepared for professional practice in the real world?

New Graduate’s Guide to Physiotherapy: Avoid Burnout and Injury, Build Resilience and Thrive in Clinical Practice will teach you how to choose that first important role and negotiate a contract, understand medico-legal requirements, build positive relationships with clients and colleagues, find the right mentor, and work through personal and professional challenges as they arise.

This book contains practical tools to implement immediately if you are feeling stressed or burnt out, and tips for everyday self-care to help you grow in self-awareness and build resilience over time. Consider the words within to be the gentle reassurance of a mentor, friend and companion for your first few years of clinical practice.

Learn the ‘soft skills’ you would normally only learn through years of trial and error.

Or if you’re an experienced physiotherapist, deepen your understanding of how to best care for yourself while teaching others, and be the mentor that your new grads (and team) need you to be!

Each chapter in this book is evidence-based and full of advice and strategies that new graduates can add to their tool-kit to help them make those important career pathway choices and build resilience along the journey. Many of the chapters feature comic-style illustrations which were commissioned by New South Wales-based illustrator Megan Hills.

A portion of all book sales go to The Birthing Kit Foundation to help provide first-line childbirth care and much needed Birthing Kits for women giving birth in high risk and emergency settings.

Elizabeth Santos is a physiotherapist, naturopath and author living in the Adelaide Hills with her family. This book is the culmination of 13 years of clinical practice and has been designed to be a mentor-in-your-pocket style of guide book for new graduate physiotherapists. Elizabeth believes this book will truly help new graduates thrive in those first years of clinical practice and beyond.

 

 

“This book is exactly what students need in their final year of the physiotherapy degree. It provides much-needed clarity regarding what the first few years of practice may look like, and how to avoid burnout in the future. Would  highly recommend this book to fellow students also seeking guidance on their future physiotherapy career!”

– Jessica Gourlay, 4th year physiotherapy student