9/18/2013

Well I was going to have a productive day in clinic but that fell through by 8:45. I was interrupted just as I was collecting notes to start my paperwork. Instead we had 2 seminars this morning both useful one was on acquired brain injury and the other was on depression and suicide in elderly patients. I lead a cardiopulmonary rehabilitation class this morning and I did one assessment before lunch, got a 15 minute lunch and then had another patient.  After that I tracked down community services and went to a case conference. Where I was told after the case conference started that I needed to have made and documented functional goals for a patient that I needed to talk about right that moment. In this placement I feel that my largest barrier is my supervisor's disorganisation and lack of time management. It is quite frustrating. On my bike ride home I thought about how I could take responsibility for my own time management.  I have decided that tomorrow when my supervisor starts talking at me instead of staring blankly ahead, I am going to politely remind him that I am endlessly behind on paperwork and ask if we can continue this discussion later. If I stack everything up and leave it for the end of the day hopefully he forget one of his points, realises how repetitive he is, or is anxious enough to go home that I save myself some time. I really wanted to go running this evening but it's cold and rainy so I opted for writing my paper instead. I completed several smaller projects and 500/2,000 words are written. I realise that I haven't had many pictures recently especially of food, so....dessert grilled banana roti with peanut butter icing and Nutella