I have always wanted to write a "Do as I say not as I do" thread this is mine.

I am a CTA student at this point, how I gauge the CTA program effectiveness may be off but as this is my first time in the program I kind of feel like I am in a CTA program.<br>I have always heard that as a CTA you should always do what you are being told to do, just to get a feel for what it is like to go through the things you are telling your patients to do. <br>Pretty much right as CTA school started back up this fall I lost my job as previous employees were being called back. Thankfully my school told me I can stay on CTA if I choose this semester and not have to take a semester off. I decided to stay on as I was worried with the waitlist times of getting back on CTA if I took a semester off I would have to wait a semester and probably be sent to a site I didn't want to go to. <br>During my first clinical rotation I worked with some of the best people I will probably ever meet. I think the reason I worked so well with this clinical team because they believe in very similar methods of helping patients as I do. They have a high patient to CTA ratio but believe in making sure as much as possible is done to the patient to get them into therapy. I also feel like they enjoy doing as much of a CTA job as possible because they kind of believe in "Do as I say, not as I do" as they don't really do any of the work they are telling patients to do. This is not a bad thing, because how you interact with patients may be considered this. <br>This semester I am on a rotation that is very similar to this but with this team I feel like I don't believe in very many of their methods. This clinical team has a low patient to CTA ratio but doesn't take too much time getting anything done. They don't really do any of their own treatment during the day but seem to this team mostly that is what they want to be doing. I have not really interacted with any of the patients so I really don't know if this is a "Do as I say, not as I do" method of interaction. They also have patients that will do a lot of the CTA jobs through treatment. I try to do the more CTA work in the morning before I start seeing patients so I will have patients in therapy most of the day with a few CTA jobs in between. I do pretty much everything I am telling them to do. I don't think patients would want to do CTA jobs in their treatment if I don't do them when I am setting up for their treatment session. <br>So that is my "Do as I say, not as I do" thread. <br>TL/DR: Do you think there is a difference in patient response if CTA's are as involved doing their job as well as interacting with patients during treatment times or if CTA's as a whole only interact patients and just do their jobs as well.