Journal #6

clinic sucks!!!!! What is the point if I have no patients!! Is it really worth all the stress that I am going through? Is it really worth health problems? Is it really worth all the reprimanding we get from our professors? They expect perfection from us and we are not perfect, lest they forget that they are not either!!
How am I going to meet my requirments when my patients no show or have too high of blood pressure. I run around campus trying to find patients and I get nothing for my efforts. I am trying!! All I can say is that I waited so long to get into Weber State because I heard that they were the best but now, I think that the wait was not worth what I am getting out of it. I am tired of being tired. I am tired of forcing people to come in and get their teeth cleaned. I am tired of the hypocritical professors who say one thing and then reprimand us for doing what they say. I am tired of of everything!!
Final thoughts: CLINIC SUCKS!!!

Try to have a positive attitude :)

journal #5

I was at the VA and I felt so bad for my second patient because he had relapsed back into drug and alcohol use and had been slacking on his oral home care and taking his medications. We couldn't even work on him because his BP was so high and continued to get higher with every check of his BP. He didn't want me to think badly of him because he kept referring to his substance abuse as "that thing that happened." He could hardly talk about it and he was so frustrated that he had let himself slip. I tried to encourage him but it didn't seem to help him be happy.
My morning patient I totally wanted to just knock out so I could work on him. He was so sensitive, even when I put a cotton applicator tip on his gingiva he freaked out. I gave him tons of anesthetic but it didn't help. I even gave him a Nasopalatine injection and the patient was totally freaking. But that didn't work because I couldn't even keep my bevel into the tissues because he kept wiggling and moving his body because it hurt so bad, I even tried pressure anesthesia, of course that did not work. I got through it the best I could and then kicked him out of my chair because I was so sick of him and his complaining. But of course I only got two quads complete. What an experience!!

journal #3 and #4

The va was the va, I had some pretty hard patients with very tenacious calculus. It really made me feel like I did not know what I was doing at all. Like I need to go to like two more years of school. It made me feel super scared to graduate. Oh well, just as long as the patients don't know, right?!!! But the Tuesday group at the VA should feel pretty lucky because all my patients are ending up not being able to come back on a Thursday so I have to give them away to others which is just fine with me as long as I get more patients!! I am a huge fan of hygiene assistants, I am definitly going to have one when I am practicing!! I know, how positive does that sound,"When I start practicing" meaning I am not even worried about passing the national exams!!




WSU was great also, because I was CA. I love helping others to get finished with their patients faster. I hope I wasn't too annoying because I kept going around asking people if they needed help. I also like watching others scale and watching the techniques they use to increase their speed at the entire appointment. It is a great opportunity. I also like getting to know Mrs. Campbell and Calena Miller better so that they aren't such strangers!! I also got a patient out of it so it was a totally worthwhile Ca rotation.

clinic journal #2 and #3

The VA is always such a great experience and I was fortunate to be able to pratice injections on my patients. It is so sad though, all the diseases especially mental diseases that the patients have. I was trying to teach one of my patients how to brush because he said that he never does and he couldn't remember anything that I said five minutes after I showed him how. And his family had the attitude that it would be easier to have dentures then to take care of their teeth so it is sad to see that they just don't care and that they are not helping those in their family who are in need of help.




The WSU clinic was great. I was kind of afraid because both my patients were late by like a half hour for their appointments. Therefore, I had to totally hurry to get them done on time, but I did and I feel very accomplished because of that. I am going to miss clinic so badly I think but right after clinic I am always happy to be done but I know I will definitly miss it after graduation.

Clinic Journal #1 spring semester

Today was a very relaxing day because I had a 1a and a 1B. It was a good start to clinic. I don't know if I am ready to get back into the whole school thing. I think the Christmas break was way too long because I got use to doing nothing and sleeping in and going out to eat and just chillin with my hubby and friends. It was so nice and I thought to myself that I could totally live like that!! OH well, I need to get back into school mode soon because I have a lot to study.