As I'm sitting here all snuggled up in my fuzzy socks and blanket, wishing it were warmer than 40 degrees outside, I had an epiphany! Last year, I started creating a checklist for the students I was working with in clinic. It was mainly because the May grads had basically "checked out" mentally and continued to overlook or disregard things I had been repeatedly asking them to do...So, I made a checklist of all the things they needed to do prior to me coming in for an initial or final check. It is an extensive list, but I got so tired of the same small things not being completed. In my mind this told me that the students deemed these items as unimportant. I didn't feel that this was acceptable seeing as how these students would be joining the professional workforce in a few short months. I wanted to show them that each item we ask them to do is important and done for a reason.
I came across the checklist last week, and I am going to try to incorporate it into the Clinic Day Sheet we are developing for this class. Like I said, it is quite an extensive list and I doubt most of the faculty I work with would want to take this task on daily, but I thought I would give it a shot and see what type of transformations it can take before it is a final product...should be interesting! See you Monday!
