April 21, 2009
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These days sure do by by fast!
Yesterday, my supervisor put me much more in charge of the caseload. Figuring out who to see when, who we could group together, and doing a half-dozen weekly progress notes proved to be quite the challenge. I felt pretty overwhelmed, but it went okay. Also, my supervisor isn’t of the “throw her to the wolves” mentality, so she was available to help with ideas and managing everything.
Really, that’s what it’s about….managing everything. Things aren’t cut and dry in the nursing home in terms of when and how we provide patient care. There may be a plan to see a patient and do a particular activity and then we get to their room and find they have a visitor, or are sick, or off for another therapy or are eating……Being flexible is one of the first lessons to learn!
Today we get to do it all over again, though our caseload is a bit lighter as we have a handful of patients we see on M,W,F so today should be a bit easier. However, I must point out just because it should be lighter doesn’t mean it will be. We also have a home evaluation to go and do and other things will pop up. Being off site for the home eval will throw a big kink in the day….And then there’ll be all the unexpected stuff….I can guarantee even though the caseload looks light, we’ll be hopping busy!!
