Sunday, 27 May 2007

Another difficult situation

On one of the occasions when my Curtin clinical tutor came to visit, my patient was not ready so a new patient unknown to both of us had to be seen instead. After the session with the patient, my clinical tutor advised me to handover on the following Monday to the physiotherapist who was initially treating the patient we saw, about the details of what we did in that particular session only and to not bother about any other information, and my tutor had informed my supervisor that I would be doing this on Monday. So, the first thing on Monday I was asked by my supervisor to handover to the physiotherapist.

We sat down together and I did a quick handover of who the patient was and what we did in that particular session. I was interrupted a few times to be told that I did not know what I was talking about and had said that I knew nothing. I was quite embarrased when that particular comment was said and heard by other staff members around and I had tried to explain that my clinical tutor had only asked me to give a quick handover of what our intervention was and the plan, however my supervisor had thought I was required to do a full detailed handover. I tried to explain myself but unfortunately I was too "shocked" from those comments said to me.

At that present time I felt that the best thing to do was to agree with the supervisor and convince the supervisor that I will do better next time. In the end the relationship between myself and the supervisor was resolved and everything was back to normal, however I am still having difficulties understanding whether I did the right thing or not, was I in the wrong all this time? If so, what should I have done?

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