Team work

Whilst on my rural placement I was required to complete an initial assessment on a stroke patient. When I asked for a copy of particular stroke assessment the physiotherapist said that they did not have a copy of it. Being a regularly used stroke assessment I was surprised that they had not used it in the past and questioned their supply of resources to run a rehabilitation ward. I was able to access the university website and gain a copy of the assessment and complied a file of the assessment and other commonly used assessments.

At first I was taken aback by the lack of resources that the ward had and annoyed that I had to create a resource file. Although, I did not take into consideration that it was a rural hospital and it was a project to complete to benefit the other physiotherapists as well as the patients.

I BELIEVE THAT IT IS IMPORTANT TO BE ACTIVE IN CREATING AN EFFECTIVE AND WELL RESOURCED WORKING DEPARTMENT. IF WE ALL JUST SAID THAT WE COULD NOT BE ‘BOTHERED’ TO CREATE SUCH RESOURCES THEN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT WOULD NOT EXIST. IF I HAD TO CREATE OR SERACH FOR ANOTHER RESOURCE AGAIN I WOULD HAPPILY DO SO KEEPING IN MIND THE ADVANTAGE OF TEAM COLABERTAION AND INPUT.