What does a typical workday look like when conducting Outreach visits?
A typical workday looks and feels more like a typical road trip. You don’t have to get up and go into the office. Instead, you get up, pack the car, pack your food, put on a playlist or a podcast and hit the road.
When you arrive, it’s a quick set up of your clinic space and the patients arrive. But it’s a different world. All the people you meet are living different lives to you. The jobs, places and injuries you talk about are different, and your treatment plans are different.
Outreach visits are usually busy clinic days, and you become a bit of a generalist physio treating a range of conditions. Due to the location of Outreach work, the lack of access to services and facilities can create new challenges at times. But it is rewarding and fulfilling to come up with creative solutions to the patients problems.
One of the best perks of an Outreach visit in my opinion, are the multi-day clinics. Getting to stay the night, rolling out the swag for a night under the stars and heading to the local pub for a beer and a meal. A very nice typical work night.
