I am currently on a prac where i was working solely with one patient for one full week. This patient is of aboriginal descent and the project i am working on in relation to this prac is specific to aboriginal people so it was in my best interest to get along with this person and get a lot of information out of him in a short amount of time as he was only in Perth for one week.
It was hard to balance both time management issues and achieving all of the things i wanted to get done in one week whilst trying to gain initial rapport with this person as this was the first time i had ever met him.
As the week progressed i thought i was achieving what i needed to in regards to the project and i also thought i was gaining rapport.
It became apparent towards the end of the week that i had achieved the rapport however i hadn't completed nearly enough of what i was supposed to get done on my project prior to the patient leaving. In fact it became apparent that i the patient, supervisor and myself had all had a different view point of the project i was to complete. Their opinion of what they wanted had changed since initially discussing the task a month prior and since we hadn't had another meeting to reiterate this point i was unaware. It meant that the final day spent with the patient was long and tiring.
In reflection i perhaps should have held a mini meeting mid week with my patient and my supervisor to simply ascertain if i was getting what they wanted done. If this had of been done earlier it would have provided some extra time for me to complete some of the extra tasks that i was initially not aware of.
It's a very typical example of different peoples expectations and how one should never assume anything. In hindsight another meeting would have been very beneficial. In the future clarification would have saved me a lot of time and stress.
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supervisor expectations are such a huge part of our practical experiences. Some of the supervisors I have had I felt like I could get away with anything, Others you feel you couldn't possbily ever acheive the level they want you to acheive. Getting to a point where you are aware of what their standard is and what you are comfortable doing takes a bit of time and definitely needs interaction with the supervisor. It would be very difficult to ascertain this without spending more time with them . I have also found that some supervisors seem very laid back initially and then really push you later on. This may have been what happened with your supervisor, the impression he may have given you initially may not have been what he meant, thus giving you the wrong impression.
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