Final semester. We are each going to be assigned a day (actually I think 2 days) during clinical to practice the "team leader" role. This is for a grade. There's a whole long list of objectives to meet, but the gist of it is that the team leader student is to get there early, make the pt assignments for each fellow student, make morning rounds on all the patients who will have a student, make rounds again later to make sure that each patient's needs are being met, troubleshoot, etc., probably a bunch of stuff I forgot.
Er, I'm scared! I'm not a very assertive or confident person to begin with and have no idea how to project myself as a halfway decent leader, even if it's in an environment with instructor backup. No idea how to make pt assignments. We're supposed to get there a half hour early...I would think I would need to be there MUCH earlier to have a chance to look over the patient census and make determinations. I realize I will probably find out more about what this will be like when the time comes, but it's just kind of scary. I want to do a good job, but this is just 101% out of my comfort zone. Anybody had this experience and what was it like?
