Disruptions to the prac

Last week our facility supervisor resigned due to wanting to change jobs, and so we were transferred over to another physiotherapist to be our supervisor. At some stage, everyone in the office, was off sick for days at a time, and so the 1st 2 weeks of this prac were very disrupted. This meant being organised and getting bac into the swing of things was made a little more difficult. During my mid -placement assessment, my facility supervisor, who was about to resign, stated that it would help for me to be more organised with notes, to have a clearer picture of my patients in my head.

I found being organised at this stage pretty challenging, as I had just come off 2 days of being very sick, and was still a little confused with the filing system. Having all elderly patients, with similar problems, and similar physical appearance, made it harder to be clear in my head my different patients.

I feel, as mentioned in an earlier post, that taking more responsibility to learn the filing system would have helped to be more organised.
Distinguishing similar patients, may be achieved by rememebering more unusual characteristics about them , that separate them from others.
I would be open to any other's ideas as to how to recall geriatric patients who have very similar presentations.