Tuesday - Handovers and Discharges

Today went very slowly as one client cancelled and one client didn’t show up for her appointment. This meant I only saw one client in the morning, and the one I was meant to see in the afternoon cancelled too. Such a slow day!! I did take the Peripheral Conditioning Class as well. I filled the rest of the time studying and writing handover summaries and discharge letters. I didn’t realize so much paperwork was involved in physio!! As we cannot discharge all our clients we are handing them over to the other physios. My handover summaries were brief but contained the relevant information. It was certainly handy having done them at uni in the labs (thanks Jo!). For the clients we are handing over, but they will probably only come in once or twice more, we have to start discharge letters for them. It would be hard for the physio we hand them onto to write a good discharge letter if they only see them once (although they would have all our notes). For this reason we start the letter now, with initial findings etc, and they will finish it when they discharge the client.