Week5 day3

Today I had another visit from my clinical tutor. I went through my plan with the tutor about what I would assess and why with a new patient and I think I did this quite well. I did a subjective assessment, 6m walk test and COVS assessment. One of the issues identified by the tutor is that when I explain things to the patient my instructions are not always clear so I need to concentrate on simplifying my language when dealing with patients.

The second patient I saw had a patella # and surgical neck of humerus # I wasn't quite as well prepared for this patient as I had been expecting to visit a different patient but they were unavailable for treatment. I had a look at the X-Rays and did a COVS assessment for this patient and assessed ROM and was a bit thrown by what to do with the #humerus. I didn't do the Assessment of ROM very well and could have done it a lot better, I wasn't very systematic with it. I hope that I get another opportunity to show that I can do it better. However the tutor did say that I had improved significantly since mid placement, however I feel will still need to work very hard over the last two days of placement. I also need to overcome a propensity to be a bit inhibited when a supervisor is supervising and take charge instead.

1) Need to practise clear instructions
2) Need to try not to get flustered and inhibited when supervised
3) Need to continue with existing strategies to follow a more logical approach
4) Need to speed up
5) I actually know how to do an assessment I just need to do it.