Real Exploring!

Today we had more formal teaching of exploring, it made so much more sense! I am still really hesitant of going fast due to the fact that these are real people! and they have access to my mouth afterwards! I just need to remeber to turn!!!! my goal for next time is to memorize the anatomy and try to pass off my extra oral and maybe my intra oral!

Exploring

We got to explore in our partners mouth today! It was very nerve racking but great to put to practice everything that we are reading in the books! I had a hard time making sure that the shank is parallel to the axis of the tooth! I will go home and practice with my best friend... my typodont!!! Oh joyous day!!!

Intra oral exam

Today we went over the intra oral examintation. I found that I had a hard time remebering the names of the structures, I think I will make some flash cards and illistrations to decide how to do this. I was confused at why we were looking at all these normal things, aren't we suppose to be looking for whats wrong? It made more sense when they told us that if we know whats suppose to be there we know when its wrong! Also it was really cool to look at tonsils! That is not what I thought they were! How stupid is that!

Oh wow!

Real teeth today! That was deffinatly better then those fake things! I was supprised that I was able to catch on to the fulcrom placement on the teeth. I have been trying to put together a little cheat sheet for clinic for quick reference for clinic and important things to remeber for my boards! I think I am going to list all the multiples of 4 so that finding resperations and heart rate so much better! Time to go home and practice my PE's!!!!

Need to memorize my 4 times tables!

Today we learned to take blood pressure, pulse, and resperations. I need to remember not to jump the gun and skip the pulse and resperation! Also I need to go buy a watch with a second hand so that I don't have to look up to look down at their chest! It was making me crosseyed! I passed off my positions! Studing helps a whole lot! I was scared but then realized it wasn't that bad! Now just to go through my manuel and texts to make a cheat sheet just for me fot the health histories, just so I don't forget to do something when I start seeing paitients!

Be healthy, it makes your history so much easier!!!

Today we learned how to look over and chart the patients health histories! I got the case senerio that took two papers and had all these heart problems but in the long run she couldn't even be administered becase her ASA 4, and had to be turned away! That was confusing! But then we did our pod partner and it turned out to be a lot easier! Oh good! My goal for the next class is to pass off my postitions!

A long day!

Wow has today draged on for ever, but for the good side I got a lot done! I learned a lot on how to start a clients chart! I'm glad that its not as hard as I thought it would be! I was able to pass off 3, yes that is right, 3 PE's today! That takes a lot of stress off of me! I had some great lab instructures and everything today just made so much more sense. I am still working on the postions for around my patient and which surfaces to clean, hopefully next time I will be able to pass it off. Its a big goal for me but I think I will get it!