Week 4 : November 7, 2008

Yo! Just a little recap of an event from yesterday.

I had to present to a group of 7/8 people a SOAPIER on one of the amputee inpatients. I had also previously been told however, that it was to be like a patient handover, which was causing me tremendous confusion, especially during research, planning and finally writing the document, because I came to the conclusion that I would do the 2 different tasks in slightly different ways. But not to worry!

Anyway, I stayed up way into the early hours of the morning to get my presentation ready and even then didn’t really feel confident with what I had to present. I ended up opting for a traditional SOAPIER style format, which was also the source of much anxiety. I had to present at 8.15, so no prep time before it! But I did quickly check with my supervisor on her thoughts about how I should present, she told me that I should just do it the way that I had written it up.

So I was doing the presentation, nervously, but my supervisor kept on interrupting and elaborating on points, which was alright, but did put added pressure on my time constraints. So I eventually finished and immediately informed my listeners that I had been quite nervous and unsure about a few things and asked what they thought of the way that I did end up doing it. They all said that because it was such an involved case, that it would have been very hard to do it in a traditional handover format, but that I handled and presented it very well. This was good!

I actually felt really crook for about an hour after I finished because I ended up getting so nervous and in such a state that the butterflies in my stomach exploded. It was pretty stupid to get so worked up, but oh well! Glad I got it out of the way!

Weekend it up people!

Ozzman out!