Thursday, October 16, 2008

WOW - another interesting interview

Im about buggard - but i felt that i had to get all this excitement out of my head so i can sleep!

Made a link between support and confidence

Intereting points about the new grads responsibility when they are feeling anxious, and chekcing things out before they do it

And developing the individual factors starts at having the attitude to want to work on them

Very interesting point around how new grads dont have the same caseload as a more experienced therapist in terms of level of difficulty and amount - and developing over time

Over confidence came up again - and a nice link between over confidence and patient safety
Being competent to practice you have to be confident
That confidence is not only related to new grads - but experienced therapists also - and the cycle confidence can go on

And that confidence is part of the communication style

Ohhhh - very very intereting data about clinical reasoning!!! And that you do alot of assess and discharge - but missing out on a lot of certain clinical reasoning skills to do with treatment becuase of that - and building on interactive reasoning - knowing how the disability impacts on the person - so yes clincial reasnoing skills develop to be really quick in some areas but missing out in others - not indpeth clinical reasoning

Being safe is the responsibility of the new grad

Prioritisation - doing it together in the morning - but "things change"!! Getting advice from charge nurse.

Possibly a link between priorisation and working at pace

And not giving to much to the new grad - but i think this is purely the type of program that this DHB offers...becuase this is certainly not my experience!

The role of pre experiences - a few examples

Team support in options/resources

The context vs the OT role and professional background
I like this quote "we are not promoting occupation, we’re promoting safety"

Disucssions around people occupations - and the OT role on the ward - and essentially what the OT is employed to be there for

And finally - using the OT models - basically none of the OT tranditional models that we learn about are applicable to the acute physical setting.

But anyways - i need to get some shut eye

Jess

1 comment:

Occupational Therapy Otago said...

Hi Jess
Think I lost the original post, so here goes again. I am interested to see how your final interview went and how it fits with the data you had to date, seemed to me that she was saying slightly different things??? but it is great to see the clarity that is coming. I'm interested to in hearing, once you finish the session with the learning center, what you think are your strengths in your writing and the traps you think you need to work on avoiding.
Jackie