Exploring

We started kind of exploring last time, but I had a goal of really trying to work at it and figure it out. Sometimes when you are working at something that is difficult and you are getting frustrated at it it is good to take a break and return later. I felt like this really helped me coming back a couple of days later to try try again. I really feel pretty good after today and I am getting really excited to really get to work on a patient.

adaptation

Today my first goal was to pass of HHX PE. I was nrevous, but it went really well. We learned about agulation and adaptaion. I wasn't really sure how to do either of these so pretty much the goal was to learn the stuff. I was nervous becuase I didn't want to poke the pt. I was working on. It was a really good experience, but deffinately need practice. I did learn a lot, but as always I still won't get it until I get a lot of practice. This all kind of stresses me out and I get frustrated, but I need time to figure it all out. I get very frustrated with myself sometimes because I can't get it all when we do it. I am not sure how to get all the information, but I guess it will come.

Intra oral

Today I did okat except for the names of the structures that we were learnig for intraoral exams. I really need to learn those. I thought it was an awesome clinic though. I am starting to feel like we are really learnin a lot, but because we pretty much only have the one clinic session to learn it in it makes it hard and frustrating to have to learn it all at once. I am really starting to get stressed out. I am going to go home and study the structures.

Extra oral Examinations

My goal today was to remember all the parts of the extra oral exam. I didn't plan on memorizing yet the names of all the surfaces, but just the order and where to go. I know some of the surface names, but not all. Today though I feel confindant in feeling all the aspects of the structures. I think the clinic was really fun today. I feel it went really well. I liked how we got to apply the positioning that we have learned when we learn about fulcrum points. I thought it was very useful and it made for a fun clinic. Now I need to make sure I memorize the structure names, that go along with the extra oral exam.

Vital Signs

Today we learn how to take vitral signs, in high school I had a sports medicine course and we learned how to take BP P and R. But today I knew it had been a shile since I had taken them so I came with an open mind to remind me of how to take the BP. I had forgotten little details, but after we reviewed how to take them I remembered and figured it out. I think it went well, but I am going to take my bp cuff home and practice some more so I can be really good at it. I feel like I am starting to get the hang of things. Everything is starting to fall into place such as the TX entry records. I was confused, but we went over it again today and it is starting to make sense. It was a great clinic

HHx

Today I had a goal of understanding how to do a HHx because it will help me learn how to do the case study and start to learn how to chart. I think I probably learned a lot. I wouldn't say that I have totally got it sown, but there is always room to practice and get better. I came trying to learn and apply with the case study. So I had questions with the case study that I was either able to find out by just listening and if not then I would ask. I don't know it all, but at least I think I fould figure it out or I could work my way through it. I am still nervous about all this charting and everything. I am not exactly sure that I get it all, but that is why we are here and learning. I think that it would be easier to practive if we had HHx filled out on the actual sheets that we are using here. I think it would make more sense.

CA

Well today I had what I thought was the information to read, but it ended up being teh wrong module 3 so I was confused for a little while, but once we started to learn the tasks it was fine. SO my goal was to come prepared and becasue I did the wrong stuff I wasn't. I just hopped on and went with what was taught. It was good to learn about sterilization and how to make sure we got our instrumnets in the correct places to be sterilized. I also came with a goal to pass off my PE on post clinic tear down. Today was a good clinic session becasue it was good to learn things that are really important with what is going on.