first 1B patient completed in one visit

My daughter was visiting this week on her way to New York. She is being transferred with the army. I had a goal to have her completed in one visit, and that was with 4BWX as well. I knew that she was a 1B, and that she did not have any restorations so I figured that she would not have a lot of build-up. I was rushing, but trying to be thorough. I had it in my mind that she needed to be walked out by 3:30 pm so I totally forgot to make a mental note in my mind that she needed to be ready for a scale check by 2:45. I was so focused on getting her done. I was able to get her all finished, though the time element was at least a half hour past acceptable time. I am proud of myself that I got her done without frustrating myself over being behind and instead focused on the end result. My daughter was a great encouragement to me along the way. We sure had fun!

1st CA

The duties of being a CA were extremely interesting and I found quite fun! It is interesting to learn what goes on behind the scenes of the office. I look forward to my next tern to be a CA.

2nd pedo patient

Today went great! I had my helps out and again familiarized myself with working with a 1A patient before clinic so that it would be fresh in my mind. I tried to be more consciencious with my time to have the patient out as close to 3:30 as possible. I still need to work on my time. I did have the patient done and ready to walk out by 3:40, so I was pleased about that. I am planning to make a card with the times that I need to be working on what so I can be more awarse of my time.

Peds patient

Today went pretty good. I reviewed over the clinic manual before class to have the proceedures and charting fresh in my mind before my patient today. I found that this helped me along with my case study notes from last semester. I found that things went a lot smoother and I was able to converse with my patient with out feeling frustrated and stressed. This previewing may help me become more comfortable working my clinic times.

Jan 14

Today was a disaster! I could not get any one to check off my x-rays and waited what seemed like an eternity. This set my behind quite a bit. I became flustered and went blank in the brain. I am learning that in order for me to get my own routine of things done I am going to have to get here a lot earlier so that I can be confident in what I am doing. I am going to have to review my clinic manual more often unitil the pattern of what comes next will be more realistic in my mind. I still think that I need to have my mock pt chart out to be my helpful reminder. I hope Wed. goes better!!!!!!!

Patient day

I found that today was really stressful in that I could not remember what I needed to do next. I know what to do at each step, I just struggled with what to do next. I think that if I had a mock chart in my clean area to look at like my case study from last semester that I wouldn't feel so stressed at doing everything right. Today I did learn that just because you can hear the sound of the instruments on the teeth like you are scaling calculus that it isn't necessarily there. I am trying to learn what if feels like to detect calculus.

first day back

I was nervous at starting back up, a little shaky and fumbling around with the instruments. I think we need the first week to get back in the swing of things before seeing patients already. We pacticed with the ultra sonics today, it was exciting to see a piece of calculus come out of an embrasure so it works!!! I was glad we did practice on each other, that gave me a cleaning after the holidays.