Supervisor/Student Interactions

At the prac I am currently on, I have been allocated 3 facility supervisors. These are all with me at different times, and they are collaborating on my final assessment. Although I have worked with many different supervisors before, I found it very difficult in this situation, mostly because all three of my supervisors had very different ways of doing things, writing notes, assessing patients, etc. I found I was consistently uttering the words "oh, thats what 'other supervisor' said to do.." Only one of the supervisors acknowledged that this was occuring, the other two seemed ignorant of the fact that i was having to try an adapt constantly to whoever my supervisor was at the time (sometimes i'd go through all three in one day)

Eventually I mentioned this to the supervisor who had aknowledged the differences between their techniques, and specifically mentioned that I didn't think the other two were aware. That small initiative made my life so much easier.. the next day when i worked with the other supervisors, and they asked me to do something a certain way, they said they knew it was probably another supervisors preference. Although I still have to try an adapt to each supervisor's techniques, I now feel much better knowing that they are aware of this. I also feel more comfortable making my own choices about how I want to assess/treat a patient and letting them know that that is the way id prefer to do so.

So from this, I've learnt that if we do have problems and feel that we can't say anything or we will be looked down upon, sometimes our supervisors simply aren't aware of the issues, and by just letting them know we can save ourselves a lot of stress!