Superviser Trouble

I’m going to use this weeks blog to vent some frustration towards my superviser on my current placement. Over the past week and a half there I have been in situations where I’ve come out feeling as if I’d done something wrong, and felt as if I’ve presented myself as being irresponsible and incompetent.

During the first 2 weeks of the placement, there was very little for me to do, I spent most the time just tagging along, and watching. So the senior physio organized for me to see an overseas client that would be coming in for the entire week, and wrote the times down in advance. So I let my supervisor know the arrangement that had been made, she then organized hydro sessions for me, however it coincided with when I’d be with the overseas client. When I pointed out this clash to her, she simply told me to go ask the senior physio to change the clients appointment. I felt really bad, having to go back and ask for the change, especially considering this was organized first. When I approached the other physio, he said he couldn’t change it, because this was the only time to suit the clients. I spend the rest of the day chasing up the physio who ran the hydro session, to ask if she required extra help. But after all that, I ended up being sick, and took the day off.

However this situation has come up again this week, and this time she was like, you need to prioritize, you’re the physio, you need to sort something out. Its just frustrating because I didn’t get myself into this situation. But I’ve decided that the client is my priority, because I was told about it first, also because the hydro session will run without me, and I feel I’d learn more assessing and treating the client, rather than assisting in a hydro class.

Another thing that’s really got to me this week, is the mid-placement assessment. The superviser made the comment that she didn’t believe I have a “positive attitude to learning, and I need to take more responsibility towards my learning”. I was quiet upset with this remark, because I know its not true. The superviser thought that I hadn’t been taking enough notes during tutorials, and during clients sessions. I told her that it was difficult writing down notes when your hands on with the clients, and that I usually wrote my notes afterwards. As for taking responsibility for my learning, for the tutes I’d missed, I got the notes off the other student, and because I’d been sick a couple of times last week, I’d offered to come to prac for the whole day Monday. Also I’d been faxing through my Soapiers, exercise programs for patient, whilst I was at home sick. But obviously all these efforts have been ignored. Again this is frustrating because we spent 15 minutes discussing this little point that appears in the assessment form, and also because she seems to ignore other efforts I have been making.

Sorry for this being so long & winded, but I just needed to vent. Please don’t get me wrong, aside from prac, my superviser seems like a really lovely & nice person, but just as a superviser, I feel is being very pedantic. If you guys see it from a different point of view, and think perhaps I’m over-reacting, please let me know.
Rev