I had my first placement in November - December 2021 (in Belgium). OMG. No one loves to give a feedback! I mean, come on guys, we have shortage of nurses and you should be nice to people who already have a well paid job but willing to take evening classes to become a part time nurse to help the system. Anyway, what worked for me was to ask for a feedback just before I would leave for a lunch (at around 12.00 -12.30 during early shifts - 07.00 -15.06). I would already fill in my experience for the day and what I need to work on and would leave the paper on the desk and would tell my mentor that I would appreciate the feedback. I got it in 95 percent of the time! The rest of 5 percent I got the signature under what I have wrote just because it was extremely busy on the ward. So, try different strategies to see what works for you. Thank you Ben for your videos, I learn a lot from them!
Hello! I can totally hear and feel your frustrations with getting feedback - but your perseverance clearly pays off if you’ve gotten so much feedback. Really well done! I completely agree with finding what method works… it will be different with different staff too. ☺️ Hope you’re doing well in Belgium! Lovely to hear from you. Ben
Hi Ben, your video is good but doesn’t take into account those of us with ePad! These throw up different challenges and it’s not as easy to obtain feedback ‘in the moment’. Time, computer access, ePad format, not being a supervisor/assessor enrolled onto ePad, passwords, all create issues when trying to get it completed! I wish it was as easy as asking someone to write a few comments and sign!! I feel another video coming…..!!! Best wishes 👍
Hello Henry. Thanks so much for this. I did think about the differences with an ePAD vs the paper documents and yes the ePAD has a few additional aspects to getting feedback documented due to those technicalities. I still feel the main principles stand here even with an ePAD, as it is still about prompting staff, finding the courage to ask repeatedly, organising your time with your patient workload to free up the space to be able to sit with your assessor or supervisors. The issues extending to ePADs is more around the technical side of getting access to the document, rather than a student feeling empowered to know how to gain feedback in the first place. Maybe you have some tips here to comment to help other students with getting past these issues? Cheers! Ben
I had my first placement in November - December 2021 (in Belgium). OMG. No one loves to give a feedback! I mean, come on guys, we have shortage of nurses and you should be nice to people who already have a well paid job but willing to take evening classes to become a part time nurse to help the system. Anyway, what worked for me was to ask for a feedback just before I would leave for a lunch (at around 12.00 -12.30 during early shifts - 07.00 -15.06). I would already fill in my experience for the day and what I need to work on and would leave the paper on the desk and would tell my mentor that I would appreciate the feedback. I got it in 95 percent of the time! The rest of 5 percent I got the signature under what I have wrote just because it was extremely busy on the ward. So, try different strategies to see what works for you. Thank you Ben for your videos, I learn a lot from them!
Hello!
I can totally hear and feel your frustrations with getting feedback - but your perseverance clearly pays off if you’ve gotten so much feedback. Really well done!
I completely agree with finding what method works… it will be different with different staff too. ☺️
Hope you’re doing well in Belgium! Lovely to hear from you. Ben
Hi Ben, your video is good but doesn’t take into account those of us with ePad! These throw up different challenges and it’s not as easy to obtain feedback ‘in the moment’. Time, computer access, ePad format, not being a supervisor/assessor enrolled onto ePad, passwords, all create issues when trying to get it completed! I wish it was as easy as asking someone to write a few comments and sign!!
I feel another video coming…..!!!
Best wishes 👍
Hello Henry. Thanks so much for this. I did think about the differences with an ePAD vs the paper documents and yes the ePAD has a few additional aspects to getting feedback documented due to those technicalities. I still feel the main principles stand here even with an ePAD, as it is still about prompting staff, finding the courage to ask repeatedly, organising your time with your patient workload to free up the space to be able to sit with your assessor or supervisors. The issues extending to ePADs is more around the technical side of getting access to the document, rather than a student feeling empowered to know how to gain feedback in the first place.
Maybe you have some tips here to comment to help other students with getting past these issues?
Cheers!
Ben