Real Patient Day

On November 22, it was my first real patient day! I was way nervous and excited all at the same time! My Mom was my first victim, and I was really excited to show her where everything I did took place. Plus it was fun to show her all I had learned! So I did not, however do very well in my opinion! I was very flustered and not very confident. I made a ton of small errors that kept putting me behind. I guess I just expected more from myself, and didn't quite achieve all I had thought I would. I did however survive, and so did my Mom! :) So that is good! I am very glad to have that first experience over with and I am now really wondering h0w I will ever survive January and having patients after the long break! Oh well, I will just take it day by day! Life is still good, this next week will be tough, but first semester is almost OVER! :)

Wahoo......

So today is Monday, started the day as a patient to Maren! She is awesome! This week should be pretty chill, in clinic anyway! Get to sit back, relax and get my teeth cleaned and a few sealants! I passed off my LAST PE for the semester!! Wahoo!!! Pretty sweet! feels really good to have all of them done, and I passed EVERY single one of them! No re-do's for me! So Monday I have my first real patient. I am a little nervous for that, but we will see how it goes. I have a ton to do in the next few weeks. The count down is on for the final two weeks of school! Pretty exciting! Life is good! :)

Just finished Mock Patient Week!!!

So this week has been fun, interesting, and educational! I actually worked on Lovely Maren this week, she was a fabulous patient! We got to do a complete appointment from start to finish! The thing that was very eye opening to me was HOW LONG IT ACTUALLY TAKES!!! SERIOUSLY! Who knew that it would take this long! So Monday I only got to the OD. So today I was able to finish OHI and scale and polish the whole mouth! It was so much fun, for real! I loved it! AND I know for sure this is what I am supposed to be doing with my career! I got to use the Ultra Sonic scaler, which is awesome! I also did two sealants on Maren, and passed off my PE for that! So overall this week has been really good! I have enjoyed learning and actually applying my skills! I am excited to do my REAL patient in 2 weeks! Hope my MOM is ready! Life is good, no complaining here! :)

Wednesday Rocks

Well today was a rockin day! I was able to pass off 3 of my PE's today! And now I only have TWO more left for the semester! YES!!! I am very proud of myself because I have not failed one PE and passed all of them all off will mostly 4's, go me!! I expect it of myself though! So next week we get to work on each other, and treat them as a real patient! I am actually the clinician all next week, so I am kind of excited to be able to put it all together! Then the week after that I will be the pt all week! So it will be fun! Found out today that I still have 16 credits to take in upper division to graduate with my Bachelors! That is awesome, what a fun summer I am going to have! I will just be stoked to have a Bachelors though, so it will be worth it! Life is good, and I am glad it is almost the weekend! :)

November Already

I CANNOT believe it is already November! This year, and especially the last few months have seriously flown by! We are on the count down of our first semester! Crazy! Today was a fun day, we learned how to do sealants! I worked with Emily, she did three sealants on me, which was good, and totally needed to be done! I was able to get one sealant done on Miss Emily today! It was fun and I did a pretty good job, I think! I also passed off my selective polishing PE today which was pretty easy! So today has been a pretty easy productive day! Life is still good! :)