clinic Journal #3 and #4
Well, I found out that I am suppose to be writing on my blog each time I am in clinic but I think that I will just combine the two clinic days into one entry!!!
I love our senior year class!! I think that it is so awesome of us all to help each other out when one of us is running late or when we have gone overtime on our patients and we really want to get home but we have charts to do and cleaning of our unit still left to do. I just want to thank those individuals who helped me when I was behind on Thursday (Heidi Wilson and Melissa Rees) You guys Rock!!!
Wednesday at the VA was not especially crazy but it sure felt like it!!! I was surprised how rusty I was at taking x-rays and how much I have forgotten since the very first year when we had our radiology clinic!! The VA is such a great experience and I really like to get to know all the people and patients there. I think that it is a unique opportunity that we as students get to have because once we are in private practice we will not always have the difficult and unusual cases that are presented at the VA.
Things to remember from the VA:
The instrument should always go toward the face, toward the tooth, even my explorer. It should appear as if I was trying to pour something out of my instrument. The most difficult areas for me are the right side of every tooth.
Use extra oral fulcrums. Be all over the patients face!!
Thursday clinic was great also. I had wonderful patients who really thought that I did a good job. Both my patients wanted to schedule a recall appointment right there for six months. I guess they really want to be on top of their oral health. I think one difficult thing for me at the WSU clinic is the change in paper work from the VA to our clinic. It is hard to get into the clinic mode after the easy paper work at the VA. Our adjunct faculty is the greatest!! I have Professor Pocock in my area and she is really great at telling me exactly what I need to do better on. I love that she is straight forward in her approach and doesn't try to sugar coat anything. I would rather her tell me that I suck instead of me continuing to think I am the greatest hygienist in the whole world. She really gives good feedback also and tries to tell us what would be different in "the real world" being a hygienist compared to the ideal world of the clinic.
Things to remember from clinic:
Extend my instrument farther into pockets to get the calculus at the very bottom of the pocket.
Chart my calculus before I get my instructor for an OD check!!
MISC
DON'T STRESS OUT!!!
HAVE CONFINDENCE EVEN IF I DON'T FEEL LIKE I KNOW WHAT I AM DOING
FAKE IT UNTIL I MAKE IT
TRY TO DO THINGS ON MY OWN AND ONCE I THINK THAT I AM FINISHED THEN GET MY INSTRUCTOR TO COME AND EVALUATE HOW I DID
MAKE SURE MY PATIENT HAS CONFIDENCE IN ME
TELL MY INSTRUCTORS WHAT MY CLINICAL CONCERNS AND THOUGHTS ARE FOR MY PATIENT, DON'T WAIT FOR THEM TO TELL ME
REMEMBER THAT MY INSTRUCTORS ARE NOT ALWAYS GOING TO BE THERE AND I AM GOING TO HAVE TO BE A HYGIENIST ON MY OWN
I love our senior year class!! I think that it is so awesome of us all to help each other out when one of us is running late or when we have gone overtime on our patients and we really want to get home but we have charts to do and cleaning of our unit still left to do. I just want to thank those individuals who helped me when I was behind on Thursday (Heidi Wilson and Melissa Rees) You guys Rock!!!
Wednesday at the VA was not especially crazy but it sure felt like it!!! I was surprised how rusty I was at taking x-rays and how much I have forgotten since the very first year when we had our radiology clinic!! The VA is such a great experience and I really like to get to know all the people and patients there. I think that it is a unique opportunity that we as students get to have because once we are in private practice we will not always have the difficult and unusual cases that are presented at the VA.
Things to remember from the VA:
The instrument should always go toward the face, toward the tooth, even my explorer. It should appear as if I was trying to pour something out of my instrument. The most difficult areas for me are the right side of every tooth.
Use extra oral fulcrums. Be all over the patients face!!
Thursday clinic was great also. I had wonderful patients who really thought that I did a good job. Both my patients wanted to schedule a recall appointment right there for six months. I guess they really want to be on top of their oral health. I think one difficult thing for me at the WSU clinic is the change in paper work from the VA to our clinic. It is hard to get into the clinic mode after the easy paper work at the VA. Our adjunct faculty is the greatest!! I have Professor Pocock in my area and she is really great at telling me exactly what I need to do better on. I love that she is straight forward in her approach and doesn't try to sugar coat anything. I would rather her tell me that I suck instead of me continuing to think I am the greatest hygienist in the whole world. She really gives good feedback also and tries to tell us what would be different in "the real world" being a hygienist compared to the ideal world of the clinic.
Things to remember from clinic:
Extend my instrument farther into pockets to get the calculus at the very bottom of the pocket.
Chart my calculus before I get my instructor for an OD check!!
MISC
DON'T STRESS OUT!!!
HAVE CONFINDENCE EVEN IF I DON'T FEEL LIKE I KNOW WHAT I AM DOING
FAKE IT UNTIL I MAKE IT
TRY TO DO THINGS ON MY OWN AND ONCE I THINK THAT I AM FINISHED THEN GET MY INSTRUCTOR TO COME AND EVALUATE HOW I DID
MAKE SURE MY PATIENT HAS CONFIDENCE IN ME
TELL MY INSTRUCTORS WHAT MY CLINICAL CONCERNS AND THOUGHTS ARE FOR MY PATIENT, DON'T WAIT FOR THEM TO TELL ME
REMEMBER THAT MY INSTRUCTORS ARE NOT ALWAYS GOING TO BE THERE AND I AM GOING TO HAVE TO BE A HYGIENIST ON MY OWN
posted by natalie jones at 10:29 PM
1 Comments:
I enjoyed reading your blog. One of the most important things is that you contiuously stressed some of the really important instrumentation issues that I am sure you will not soon forget. You have really made a lot of progress this semester. Good job!
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