I’m with 3 other students at the moment on my placement and we all have 3-4 very dependent pt’s who are 2x assist. We have different pairs for different pts so during the day we either work with 2 or all 3 other students and we have to all see our pts twice a day. The pts are also busy going off for investigations or on nasogastric feeds or being seen by other allied staff. So organizing the day becomes a very hard task.
I’ve had days where its been hard to organize firstly what times the pairs are both able to treat the pts and then after we pre-organized a time for the pts to be ready in their w/c with the nursing staff, we got to the pt who has either gone off for another investigation or is still in bed or has other issues which effect our treatment. This has caused times where we’ve been stuck unable to see any of the pts for a period of time and its been hard to then try get something constructive done in that waiting time and also means the treatment time with the pts decreases. To counteract this I’ve had to do treatments with the pt in bed or if waiting for another student who is busy with someone else I’ve taken the pt to the gym and started on preparatory treatments such as foot mobilizations or other treatments which don’t require 2x assist. Sometimes these types of things can’t even be done so I’ve found myself at times with spare time trying to think of something productive to do. I’ve generally then gone to look up different things like CT’s or read up a bit more on the pts notes or looked at assessment procedures in more depth. Any other ideas to fill free time?
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I've also had this problem and agree that it can be hard to coordinate Rx sessions around nursing care and other appointments. What i did in my spare time was to practice transfers with my partner and plan the next Rx session so I had an idea of what to focus on and could make the most of the time I had with my pt the next day.
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