How to approach placement situation
Hello, I'm in my final year of my degree and my second last placement and initially I found it very insightful and was learning lots. However over the past 2 weeks one of my mentors has started micro managing everything and it feels like nothing I do is ever good enough. I'm just not sure how I go about raising this. A few examples are:
- says "hey student XYZ, you can run this case if you would like" then proceeds to not let me get a word in and dictates the whole interaction and just asks me to get vitals. However, because I've been task focused with vitals I've missed 90% of the story but still expects me to do handover - then takes over handover because I'm blundering through it. It just feels like such a stitch up.
- whenever I'm doing patient care, interjects with asking the same questions I've already asked or restarts assessments that I am midway through eg starts ascertaining a GCS and PEARL when I'm midway through a neuro (I'm also verbalising the results so they can hear my thinking and see how far along I am but they're either not listening or just don't like the result)
- I will be running a case and completing documentation and they will rewrite the whole thing, but the style is just a literal block of text and just so disorganised. Whereas I try to give things sub headings.
For context: no one has really shown me how to do this before and it is something I've always been overwhelmed with. I really wanted some extra guidance and mentoring on how to do this and all I get is really a visualisation of their rewrite, while I'm left on my own to fumble my way through it whilst they chat with their friends on the ramp - I made a specific point that both documentation and handovers are something I really want extra support in and it just feels like I've been ignored. Meanwhile, I look at other students on the ramp and their mentors are guiding them, instead my mentor snatches the iPad and silently typing away. It just makes me feel disheartened - because I'll ask for feedback on how to improve but they just state that it was really good but they spent 15 minutes rewriting everything.
I just don't know what to do or how to raise it - because they're a lovely person, but can't train or provide the structure that I need. Now it is getting to the point I'm literally dreading shifts.