Wednesday, July 22nd, I arrived to my scheduled clinical to find that TDH had arrived unannounced for their initial survey. This stirred up some excitement in this facility. It was the initial state survey which lasts 3 full days. I was all over the place from helping clear and straiten up the inpatient unit to helping locate policies and procedures in the hard copy manuals. The faciltiy I am completing my clinical time in is not fully automated yet. This means that everything is done on paper or, "downtime," forms. We did a million chart audits to make sure everything was in its place. My preceptor was on the cell phone constantly to troubleshoot everything from ER to OR. It was interesting watching her use her communication skills to make things happen. I stayed for 4 hours Wednesday and Friday as anticipated but, also added in 4 hours on Thursday to be of assistance and learn more out of the TDH survey process. This made up for Monday that my preceptor needed to pass on to take her son to the Freshman orientation at UNT. This made a total of 12 hours for the week.
The grand total as of now is 51 hours, leaving me only a little over two more clinical days this week.
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