Monday, July 19, 2010

Currently: I've been going through an emotional rollercoaster at my fieldwork facility. From my dickheaded supervisor saying that it's okay for my fieldwork coordinator to fail me for fieldwork because he won't sign the contract with my school, to my other supervisor telling me that they haven't been very pleased with me thus far...eventhough he KNEW that dickhead has been giving me a hard time from day one! The people at my facility are very hard to please too, and even if I write a note and look it over a million times to make sure I didn't miss anything, they still find SOMETHING to get on me for. Blah. But, as always, I kept what Jon (my other supervisor) had told me on friday in mind and made sure that it showed in my performance today. One of their complaints was that I don't "initiate" things enough and that I like to just kind of sit around and "wait" for them to tell me things with this confused look on my face. SO...today I made sure to find something for myself to do no matter what, and then approach dickhead or Jon whenever I either needed something to do or had a question. I promise, it'll be like this until the end of this fieldwork, cause I just CAN'T afford to fail this fieldwork and have to start allover and complete it again next semester...or even next summer. What's good about this though, is that Jon had also told me that my evaluating and treating skills are just fine and don't need any type of "work"...so that is DEFINITELY one less thing for me to worry about. I really have been enjoying my patients though. My one patient, Mary, is a sweet little Irish woman who always has some sort of advice for me.Haha As a matter of fact, today she was trying to see if she could get me a boyfriend!!HAHA! If only she knew my luck with men...My other patient is a little Korean man named Mr. Kim and he is HILARIOUS! For one, everytime he sees me he feels the need to say "Do the bike!" and then start laughing hysterically.Haha There were a couple of days where he refused to come to therapy, but he has been easy to work with otherwise. Anyways, i'm outie. Another day of no pay awaits me tommorrow!

Friday, July 9, 2010

Currently: Still hanging there.Haha I evaluated and started treating a woman named Mary this week, and that's been going well. She's a sweet woman, thankfully. A patient like her gives me the hands on experience that I need without overwhelming me, so i'm pretty glad that she ended up being my first patient ever. But on the downside, I do not like my supervisor at all. He seemed like an alright guy at first, but after two days of me being there he mutated into a mega dickhead! But luckily, now that i'm getting the hand of how to handle things at the facility, I don't have to talk to or count on him too much...only when I am absolutely positively confused about something. Anyways, tommorrow I will be at work again...long story short, though I was planning on working last Monday, since dickhead told me I could have the day off, I figured I would take it...but then the next day he flips out over me not being there the previous day...so I (swallow my pride) and promise that I will make up the time on Saturday. And there. Oh boy.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Currently: Yay, I survived!haha First week of Clinical rotations went well...though on Friday I got really overwhelmed for no reason and missed three evaluations I was supposed to observe. I'm never letting that happen again! But it has been going really well thus far. I have been learning a lot about the Nursing Rehab setting and feel like i'm getting a good hand on how to go about things at my facility. Tommorrow I had the option of staying home and taking the day off, or going to work...and I think i'm going to work. I want to show my supervisor that i'm there to be a therapist and get things done, and not just to show up and pass. I hope he appreciates that.haha Not only that, but this week I will be receiving my first batch of patients and just can't put something like that in the back-burner! I'm so excited though, and ready to learn some more. I am a little sad though that i'm missing out on 4th of July festivities this year, but Fieldwork is a more important matter to me...and that's that. So i'm going to rest up for tonight (as firecrackers are blasting off outside my window, haha) and start anew tommorrow. I cannot wait, and i'm going to try to be the best therapist I can be to my patient. Happy fourth of July to all my American readers!!!!