The prac that I am on at the moment is interesting and I am learning alot; however I am getting frustrated that I am struggling to keep up with the patient notes. In order to keep up with patient notes (because we are not given ANY time to do them during the day as we are booked out with patients) I have had to come in half an hour early and stay back an hour every day this week. On top of that we are only given a half hour lunch break everyday. Patients are often running late etc so we are lucky if we do get the full half hour, and not just 15 mins, which is bearly enough time to scoff down our lunch.
This leaves me quite exhausted by the end of the 9 1/2 hour s that we spend there each day. It wasn't such a problem this week but I will be starting back at my other job this week coming and I m worrried it will just be too much.
One of my fellow student collegues mentioned this to our supervisor (who is also our clinical tutor - which makes it impossible for us to discuss this with an outside party) and she advised the student that this is just how it has to be and there is nothing she can do about it. She knows and understands that it is a heavy workload but thats how it is in real life and you have to get it done. Fair enough, but we are not in the "real work force" yet, we are students who are meant to be doing 32 hours of prac a week with an hour lunch break every day. When we are actually working we wont have week night and week end jobs so it wont be such a problem to stay back an hour. We have also got a heavier patient load then the previous student s becasue they've had to squueze patients from 5 students into 4 students time slots.
So discussing this with the tutor/supervisor came to no reasonable conclusion, so I decieded to try something else. I decided to try writing the patient notes whilst I am in with the pt. This works ok sometimes, but other times it has been too messy and my tutor has asked me to re-write it, and if it is a new patinet we have to write up a full SOAPIER which is impossible to do whilst you are in with the pt. Doing this also means that the Ax and Rx dont flow smoothly because I am continually stopping to write things down.
Has anyone else been in a similar situation? How did you handle it? Has anyone got any other ideas of how I can manage this situation and my time more efficiently?
Thanks
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Hey Kelly,
I really don't think there's anything that you can do but slog through these 4 weeks. I'm currently at Msc outpatients, and most of us have been coming in at least half an hour early to get through the paperwork. I know how you feel...
Persevere and it'll be over before you know it.
Mark
Ha ha thanks Mark!
Actually it's getting easier as we go along becuase Im just getting faster at writing my notes. Plus it helps to think that Im over half way now! :)
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