VA CA

Today was kinda a weird CA day because we only had 4 clinicians show up at the VA today and me the CA, so when all five patients showed up in the morning and in the afternoon at the same time it was chaos. One patient in the morning forgot his premed and so he was ok because we had to wait an hour to see him anyways, but the afternoon patient I had to see because the other students all had patients and we didn't think it fair to make him wait til another patient was done, but it worked out, I just had extra work to do, and it was just an interesting and not too boring day.

Makeup

Today has been a good day so far. I have at least got all of my class 3 exams done so I don't have to worry too much about that. All of them were at the VA so I am going to have to talk to professor Alexander about that. I'm just relieved that I'm almost done and I still don't need nine more like I did yesterday. I got four yesterday at the VA that took me about 3 hours to complete. It was a long day but well needed and today I have 2 quads so far so that will be good. It's kinda frustrating that the class 3 quads get to transfer over because I still need class 3 patients and now no one wants to give up their patients.

rescheduled

my patient had to be rescheduled yet again. The thing that made me really sad was that she did have her doctor's consult, it just wasn't clear enough for what the clinic would like. I took her glucose again and it was higher than last time at a whopping 313. I was just hoping for her as a class 3 patient, but we'll see if I can get ahold of her physician and get her scheduled back before the end of the semester so I can finish my 9 class 3 quads that I have left.

bad day

Today I got to watch my patient get a tooth extracted in my chair. It was so infected that I gave him three injections and Dr. Hopkins tried to give him some but he still wasn't too numb. The patient was however very dramatic. He would not let me get him numb but flinched with every tooth I scaled. I have never felt so worthless with my skills as a DH as I did today. I missed stuff on every tooth and it was just terrible I came away feeling that I have failed even though technically since we had to get his tooth extracted, I didn't even finish a quad. I guess I just will definately need instructor assistance when this patient returns since I can't do it myself.

excusing patients

So this afternoon I had my mock board come in to complete her other 2 quads, but she was excused because she had a cold sore on next to her nose. I almost didn't notice it I thought originally it was a sore from rubbing the nose when you get a cold. I called another patient who got here in less than fifteen minutes, she too was excused, not because she had a cold sore but because she had uncontrolled diabetes. I had to test her blood glucose and it was 286, and we can only treat patients who are under 200 so today was an unlucky day.

CA

My CA day was almost more stressful than actually having a patient. I know it shouldn't be that way, but I felt like I was doing everything wrong and it was so stressful. I felt like I couldn't go help out my fellow students because I got in trouble for not being at the front desk to check patients out, but I was trying to help out other student chart and clean up their chairs for another patient. I'm probably the only person who feels that way though.

Mock board exam

Today I completed my first mock board exam. It was a really good experience and was a good practice for me for the real one. I forgot to fill things out and made stupid little mistakes which hopefully with practice I won't make anymore. I am excited to have gotten it done this semester and I even passed with an 80%. I know I'll be much more stressed out for the real board exam, because this exam I was just happy that I found a patient to qualify the week before. I heard one of the instructors saying when she was in school they didn't get practice and I couldn't imagine going into my boards not knowing what to do so it was really great to experience for the first time even with the stress of trying to find a patient.