10/9/08

Today I saw 4 patients! It was nuts and I didn't feel very good, but I had to forget that I wanted to puke and just keep going. Plus, all the girls in my pod and clinic are so sweet and helped me more than they realized. They were life-savers. In the morning I saw a 7 year old boy who was so well-mannered. I wish all the kids I saw were as cooperative and sweet. I passed off my diagnodent and sealant PE. Then I did an OD/mockboard screening on a Hispanic lady and she qualified! 13 'clicks' in the LL quad, yay! In the afternoon, I saw a class 2 who only had one quad left to scale. It was really cool because I gave my first real injection on her, an IA and long buccal. It was so awesome! My last patient was a 10 year old boy who was also very sweet. We did 2 BWX and got him finished pretty quick, mostly because I was mentally done for the day. Longest day of my life, at least it was productive!

CA@VA

Holy accronyms, CA at the VA and TA and... I always felt excited last year to be the CA, but this year I wish I could use the time to see patients. It was a crazy day, one of the students was 1 1/2 hours late because she slept in, so I took him back and started an OD, plus helping everybody else chart and re-stocking. I love staying busy at least. It was good to get to know some other girls I usually don't see very much!

9/30/08

I can't believe it's already the last day of september! This whole year has flown by way too fast! Today both of my patients came AND on time!! They were both 5's but it was good to get some practice cleaning around bridges and crowns. They are freaking plaque traps.

9/23/08

My am pt cancelled, but his wife showed up instead, which was good but she was a 1b. I already have an excess of 1b's. I took some really good BWX, which I was excited about because I feel like it's taken forever to feel adequate in radiology.

9/15/08

Today was pretty productive, I passed off 2 PEs and got a FMX done. 3 quads of a 2 and an od on a 2. It was good considering my 12:30 patient was an hour late because she walked here. (I gave her a ride home). I wish for one day, people could be on time and I could effectively comunicate with them. Every patient since the beginning of the semester is spanish-speaking only.

9/11/08

Today I was at the VA, I love the VA because it is so laid back and you are able to learn alot more things when you are not so stressed out. I absolutely love Connie and I think it will so beneficial to come here every other week! I saw 3 patients today, a 1b, 5 and 2 quads of a 2. My class 2 was sooo sensitive, even the thought of my probe made him cringe. It was a good experience though.

My first post

So the last 2 weeks have been really bad. I feel so frustrated because not ONE patient that I have scheduled have been able to come. Either they cancelled, no-showed or were over an hour late. I must have done something awful to bring all this bad luck on myself! My patient today was spanish-speaking and could not find the clinic, so at 9, I decided to go pick her up. Since she was late, she agreed to stay over the lunch break and I finished her by 1:30 because I had another pt scheduled at 1:30. I still had to take her home and my patient was late, so I figured it would be ok. I got back at 2pm and he had just left. What did he think? That it would take 10 min. to clean his teeth? Some people are just plain retarded (sorry McConaughy)...