Well the past week has been the busiest so far!! We learnt how to do discharge letters. It was pretty simple as there was a template on the computer for us to copy. We didn't put enough detail in our first attempt but with a few pointers from our supervisor they have been getting better. We were aiming to discharge as many of out clients as possible. We have discharged 3 so far and are planning to discharge some this week. We will have to do handovers for the other clients which will take a bit of time to get sorted.
We have started seeing more clients each day and I prefer it when we are busy. I found I am getting better at doing the objective assessment and a lot faster with it. We easily managed to see 6 clients the other day. I asked my supervisor and he said it would be normal to see around 12 clients a day if that was all you were doing (i.e. no meetings or paperwork etc). I feel as if I could handle a few more a day but certainly not 12 just yet!!
There was one situation that occured in the past week that left me a little upset. One of our clients had a TKR and was told by the surgeon he could go back to work in approx 6 weeks. We gave him rehab and he was doing really well. I thought he could definatley go back to work. Unfortunately he went back to see the surgeon and was told he couldn't go back to work at all. He has had to retire. The surgeon said that the knee replacement was not made for work. The client said he would have liked to have known this before hand. He still would have had the op but would have been in a different mindset. The client said he was too scared to ask the surgeon why he had changed his mind. I just found this unfair and the client was clearly upset about it.
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