Tuesday, March 01, 2005

1st day.

realised tt if i dun post this now i can't post any complains becoz i'll disrupt the flow. so here it is...


drafted: 28/02/2005 10:45pm

having slacked the whole of sunday away, i didn't sleep well. woke up at 5+ at the sound of my dad n bro leaving the hse. forced myself to slp again.

::0605am::
woke up. went to kitchen n had the encounter w oh-mighty-survivor (refer to [The Prehistoric Survivor] for more details). had bad feeling about clinical sup.

::0810am::
reach hospital w fren. explore. felt physiological response of increased heartrate n perspiration. realised tt i'm nervous.

::0828am::
realise tt supposed to meet supervisors at the center's reception, NOT the hospital's reception. raced to center.

::0830am::
was told tt supervisors not there yet.

::0832am::
supervisor suddenly appeared from no where. fren's supervisor looks like a nice person. my sup left me wif my fren's sup for orientation.

::0840am ~ 0900am::
orientation. also got to know tt my sup has lotsa caseloads this week. my heart goes *uh-oh*. fren's sup handed me over to my sup.

::0900am ~ 1115am::
1st hands on- help client cut nail
2nd hands on- passive ranging
3rd hands on- help client bandage hand into tenodesis position
4th hands on- help take blood pressure
thereafter- i forget le.

::1120am::
went for case conference

::1130am::
realise tt i'm not seeing any sense in sitting in when i dun even noe which client they're toking abt. also recognise the physiological response of truncal muscle spasm = i'm freezing.

::1200nn ~ 1230pm::
fighting with myself not to yawn / fall asleep

::1230pm ~ 0115pm::
complaining to my fren tt i have ABSOLUTLEY no idea wat i've been doing for the whole morning.

::0120pm ~ 0200pm::
attended the cannot-reject invitation to lunch party w fellow team members. did my best to be sociable by sitting with them. managed to exchange 4 lines of conversation. gave up when topic became one on [How to feed my kid] n went exploring the center.

::0200 pm ~ 0515pm::
another round of dunno-wat-i'm-doing session. although i did enjoy the geriatric clients tt always complain "cannot!!! here pain!!!" or "cannot!!! very tiring!!!". felt proud of being able to motivate one elderly lady to complete her 20min of leg bicycle exercise =)

::0515pm ~ 0540pm::
at last a chance to talk to my sup. idea i get is he not expecting alot from my practical skills *phew* but nagging feeling says tt he can't even imagine me doing practical well on my 1st day... says alot about his impression of my skills rite?? *sad*


Problems i had:

1. i wasn't given case notes... n even if i requested for it i won't get it b4 i see the client anyway --> its all in the computer system which can only be assessed by relevant personnel.
2. i am readily discarded by my supervisor: i might follow him on his 1st case of the session, but just when i'm chatting w the client, he'll go on to another case, making no indication of whether i should follow him or not. Feeling bad for leaving the 1st client alone, i carried on w the same client. which is when i realise i'm actually missing out alot of the cases, since he REALLY multi-task several clients at a go.
3. he turned out to be my 1st supervsisor that really expect me to take initaitive for my own learning ba. (tt's my impression). n being a blur queen i usually drown when i'm thrust into the deep end of the pool.
4. having had 1 day of dunno-wat-i-am-doing, i also have totally no idea of what to do tml.
5. n since i have totally no idea of wat to do tml, i need to prepare for everything that i can possibly think of.
6. n hence i shd stop chronical-ing my day since its sapping too much of my time tt's meant to read up.

華子 yawned @ 7:47 PM

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