WEEK 5, Musculo... finally the world's most intense prac comimg to an end. You finally have good hold of the whole process then bang, your world is shut down once again!
I won't lie, I found this prac challenging. Time management.. 2 words that have been so prevalent, usually preceded by a lack of.. as such. So I was cruzing along about to rock up at preac at 1.30 knowng exactly what patients i was having, and feeling like i had done good preparation for them. Bang, rock up to prac at quarter past one, my patients had been scribbled out and i had a "newbie" closely followed by one that required a decent amount of time. As we all know, the "newbies" need some more time for the full Ax, Rx, Re Ax ... little bit scoundrel when your supervisor pulls a stunt whereby you have NO time to prepare, you've been given a condition you hadnt revised and oh, did i mention it was your assement with your curtin clinical tutor.
As far as i was concerned i could have a cry about it, or i could just get along and do the best i could. Admittedly, not the smoothest Ax, and treatment ever but sufficiant. i quickly go stuck into my next patient only to be told 30 minutes into the session that there was a gentleman that had been waiting for me for an hour and a half!!
initial reaction, panic! how on earth did i book another patient in today, the already pear-shaped day! second move, quickly rap things up with patient number two, apologise to patient number three and look as if i was calm . Luckily pt number 3 was the world's nicest man and he didnt mind at all, i felt terrible but i can guarantee i will check and double check with bookings from now on.. I learnt to always allow myself enough time, and to make sure you do things properly, ie. write in the appointment book and on the card that you hand to the patient.
At the end of the day, i was upset but i didnt dwell on it because i learnt something valuable form it so i concur its not always a bad thing to make a mistake
2 comments:
wow ash i thik you handled that very well, considering you had your day planned and then someone else goes and changes it, without asking, but then not doing it properly and double booking, i would have been peeved to say the least.
did you manage to mention anything to the person who muddled up your day?? i know that they probably didnt mean it but it still is an inconvieneience and these things will no doubtedly happen when we embark upon private practice, so good practice for futre sticky situations...
It was good that you were able to keep your cool and continue with what needed to be done. I had a similar problem with my final patient for my paediatric prac, except they didn't show up. This was an outpatient facility so there were no other patients to work with either so I ended up having to pretend with a doll in front of my supervisor. Not the best of circumstances. Afterwards though I did realise that it really does get you thinking about the basics of your assessment and what you should be finding. Often if you have heaps of time to prepare for a patient you kind of asume how they are going to be rather than looking from an unbiased perspective. And lets face it, it the real world we won't be getting that much time to prepare anyway.
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