Tuesday, 5 June 2007
Too many supervisors too little time!
We have about 6 physios who work on rotation in ICU (3 nights on, 3 days on, 3 days off) which means that we are constantly being swapped around between supervisors and never spend more than a couple of days with anyone at once. I am struggling to figure out the different standards between each in terms of note-writing, etc and its beginning to frustrate me a lot. One took me aside today and told me that I need to become more independent with my treatments and another told me I couldn't do any interventions until she was there to assist me! We have our midplace assessments this week and the lady who is doing mine has only spent about 4 days out of the 12 so far with me and so i feel like it's not an accurate represnetation of how I am day-to-day on clinics (I guess that could work either in my favour or against it!). Is anyone else in a clinic where they have lots of supervisors, or have any tips? :)
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Hey Amanada, Im currently on a neuro placemenr and we are experiencing the same thing. We have a number of physios on the ward, which like you say is difficult to judge wgat they like and where your at with them, but over the past week we had two different curtin tutors aswell because Steph was away. My gosh this was hard, as all of them would tell us different treatment options, hand placements, order of priority and the list goes on. Steph is back this week, which means we don't have our mid placement ax till a week before our final (but guess thats a point for another blog!). Bewtween us students we discussed it and decided that the best idea was to just deal with each one as they come and do as they say!! Not much help I know but i feel your frustration.
Hi Amanda,
During one of my pracs in RPH, I had 2 supervisors who rotated on different days of the week. From the beginning, they had told me to inform them of any discrepancies in their teachings as this would help them to iron out differences and ultimately improve each others' knowledge. Of course, this is a dream team of supervisors, which really seldom exists, so I was lucky.
In a situation like yours, where the supervisors are most probably not interested in sharing their knowledge, perhaps you could feedback to them every time a new supervisor turned up, and ask what he/she would like to do about discrepancies in teachings, since they are bound to surface. This would highlight to them that there is a potential issue of differing opinions and that you're maybe not as incompetent as they think.
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