Thursday, November 6, 2008
Supervision
I know there have been a few blogs about supervisors and what not but i thought i might share my experience. On my prac at the moment I too have 3 different supervisors, all of which have completely different ways of teaching. Ones very particular, ones very flexible and ones in between. Seeing my curtin tutor once a week is the most supervision i have as my facility supervisors usually just check what patients i will see that day and then they will go off to outpatients or to another ward. Anyway its getting to the third week and i think my facility supervisors are realising they haven't really had the oppurtunity to assess me because they haven't seen me much with patients. So today my 'particular' supervisor decided to tag along to one of my sessions. By now I have got my own routine of how and when I assess, treat and educate my patients. I am in burns and usually assess my patient first and whilst treating them I will educate them on how important it is to keep moving etc etc. While I was assessing the patient this morning, my supervisor kept interupting and asking me what else would I ask them and what education would i provide which i was eventually going to get to. His questions were so vague that I had to keep asking him what he meant. I could tell he was getting a bit annoyed and probably thinking this girl is in her 3rd week and still doesn't know what to tell her patients! I am still a bit baffled by this situation and for some reason find it really difficult to work with this supervisor because he doesn't give me feedback of what I need to improve on or what I am doing well. It made me realise how important feedback really is whether it be good or bad because it points you in the right direction on how you are going and what you need to work on. Luckily for me I have 2 other supervisors that give me feedback and that gives me confidence that I am doing well but they also give me advice on how to improve certain aspects of my assessment and treatment.
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there are so many situations like this that ive heard! i think that the curtin and facility supervisors need to communicate more to know how the facility is normally run and to discuss what is expected. On the 3 hours a week the curtin supervisor views our work, they expect things that might not be feasible to achieve in the normal working hours. Hopefully this can improve for future students (even though it doesnt affect us anymore)
My last placement i pretty much saw my 3 supervisors maybe 5x each. it can be hard especially when they do give you feedback and your like how would you know when youve only seen me a few times but they do discuss it amongst themselves and we found out that they were also talking with the patients and carers to find out how we were doing. if it still is hard dealing with it and you dont feel you can talk to a particular supervisor the best thing to do is talk to your other supervisors about it.
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