Clinical coaches help!

RE: Clinical coaches help!

Sierra Bravo — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 21:19:14 GMT

Hello, I am fully aware that your post is a little old now so you may have this covered but with the physical therapy am i correct in thinking its the one where they ask you to do active and passive exercises? If it is, it doesn't have to be on an orthopaedic case. I get my students to gently manipulation of limbs in arthritic patients and when walking them outside to toilet you can put that down as passive movement in older dogs to prevent them getting stiff etc. If that is not what you're thinking of (it's been a while since i had a student) then i apologise and ignore everything i said! Ahaha!

RE: Clinical coaches help!

Laura — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 17:45:56 GMT

Hi, I would also speak to the college she is training at just to confirm what they are happy using simulations for, and to see what support they can offer as often they can set up scenarios during teaching time, especially if there is a group of students who are all struggling to log the same task.

RE: Clinical coaches help!

Debs6 — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:38:41 GMT

Great ok thank you, we have asked nearby branches but not had much luck there either. I will look at doing some simulations for her then! :)

RE: Clinical coaches help!

Jo Mackenzie — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:26:39 GMT

I have done simulations in the past for things that we struggled to get in that particular practice. For the hospitalised rabbit I would use a cuddly toy, give her a scenario and get her to go through the motions as though it was a real patient e.g. write up a nursing care plan for it, set up the kennel appropriately, think about nursing considerations specific to the case you've given her etc. For physio you could do the same with a cuddly toy or with a tolerant staff dog. In the past I've created a patient file on the computer with the owner's name being "NPL Simulations" or something, and got the student to record what they did on each of the "patients" files, so that you have a case number etc to link it back to. It's worth checking with your college first though as they all have slightly different rules about what they'll accept, but the two colleges I've worked with were both more than happy for us to do this when the deadline was getting close!

Another option is to see if there are any local practices near you who do see these sorts of cases who would be happy for your student to spend a day or two with them to get the final tasks. It can work quite well if you partner up with a referral practice and swap students as things that are everyday in general practice may be difficult for students in referral to get e.g. nurse consults.