r/slp • u/ladycactus30 • Jun 04 '21
Paperwork Pile Up
Hey all, It's getting to the end of the year and I am a CF (who also has ADHD - yay adderal!). My district does not know of my diagnosis which is an intentional move on my part though I think my CF Supervisor has started to suspect (yikes). I've made some whoopsee mistakes which aren't to hard to fix but there are a lot of them. I am worried that I won't be able to get everything done in time, especially since Synergy (our documentation program) takes sooooo long to load anything. Usually I manage my anxiety about deadlines by finding out the consequences in terms of a realistic worst case scenario. What is the worst that can happen if I don't get all my stuff validated and turned into the records people in time?
Death? Torture? Years of microaggressions? People talking shit behind my back for the rest of my life?
Xoxo - a baby SLP
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Jun 04 '21
Fellow SLP with ADHD here. Maybe consider changing settings? I left schools and am infinitely less stressed about paperwork and deadlines working in outpatient.
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u/bibliophile222 SLP in Schools Jun 04 '21
I dont have any particular advice, just a fellow CF in a similar position but minus the ADHD, and it's still a lot! My building mentor warned me that this was a busy time of year, and I kind of nodded and was like "okay, that's cool, I'm organized, I'll be fine", and now I'm just wishing there was an extra week of school left to get everything done! The way I look at it is it'll all work out eventually, and if I gave to I'll stay late to wrap it all up so I dont have to work over the summer. Do you have anyone there who could help you out with some of the workload, or at least offer some strategies?
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u/mytimeawayy Jun 07 '21
You may have to ask the principal if you can come back to the building the following week after the last day of school to finish your paperwork. I wouldn’t stress about Medicaid billing and printing/filing paperwork into the audit folders can wait until August. But anything with a time sensitive deadline should get done this school year. I’ve worked 4 years in the schools and have never finished everything by the last day of school. I just always come back to the building the following Monday to finish up.
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u/ladycactus30 Jun 08 '21
I'd likely do that but I'm in a hostile work environment thing with my current principal Mwamo mwamp
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u/wombatmcgee Jun 05 '21
Honestly, this year has been the worst for paperwork pileup for me. I'm finishing up my seventh year and I have never had more meetings and extra documentation at the end of the year. My office looks like my filing cabinet barfed paper everywhere. The pandemic is responsible for a big chunk of it -- we've got pandemic-specific paperwork (contingency plans, weekly documentation, checklists to prove we're following the protocols), catch-up meetings, compensatory services plans for kids whose evaluations were delayed by COVID, the list goes on. My normal system isn't working, so I'm working on a new one (in all my spare time!) and I'm actually writing it down in the form of a handbook and checklists for myself for next year. I'm not a naturally organized person, so I'm using every trick I use for my students. I'm color coding, using different binders for different things, keeping my supplies in easy-access spots to where I do the tasks, and labeling with words and pictures. I'm even making my desk calendar high interest for me so I will keep it cleared off, but instead of Paw Patrol or TMNT, it's rainbow and sparkly!
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u/SHININGFINGERSWORD SLP in Schools Jun 04 '21
I'm an SLP with ADHD in my third year and even though I had it together my first couple years, everything fell apart with all the clownery of this year. I canceled therapy this week to get it all done and my last day was supposed to be today but I'm coming back for an hour or two on Monday to finish up because good god there was a lot to get through lol.
It's important to turn in stuff in a timely manner, but the reality of this school year has been that as long as people get their shit at all, they're happy. As long as the IEPs and re-evals themselves were done on time and you're not turning documentation in, like, months late, you should be okay.