Week 2 #2 (25/10)

Another week down. Definitely feel the second week went a lot quicker then the first. Pretty much doing everything at the quad centre, the reidents come in and if we're not busy we set up their sling, use the hoist to transfer them to their plinth/tilt table and then do stretches before setting up their tilt table. Feel pretty confident with most of the treatment procedures and feel my communication skills are pretty good. Because we see the same patients every week its a great opportunity to build up rapport with the residents and each time they come in i try and chat to them about what they have told me they are interested in.
Wrote up our first patient notes in the second half of this week-this may seem a little bit delayed compared to the rest of you guys but at the quad centre the physios very rarely write in the patient notes unless there has been some sort of big change in the patient situation. This is mainly because there is no time in between treatment procedures, you just go from one patient to the next. so id probably work with about twenty patients a day.
Main aim for the third week is to get my manual handling and hoisting skills 100% tip top. Just so I am confident enough to do it without getting a staff member to give me the all clear before lifting, think its just a little bit of fear because if its not right then the consequences can be pretty severe (i.e. their is one resident who has a broken leg because he fell out of his sling)
Anyway thats next weeks goal and also to write in as many patient files as i can.