real patient yesterday...

So it's a day late but i really wanted to blog about having my real patient. It was so fun!! I felt like i did pretty well with my skills and my x-rays turned out great! no retakes! I didn't get to scaling though because I didn't know that i could move on to scaling before taking x-rays. I just sat there and talked to my patient for 15-20 minutes! what a waste of time! i could have got a quad done in that time! But I loved having someone in the chair that I could trust to tell me the truth about how i was doing (comfort wise) but had no idea about my techniques. it was a lot less pressure than cleaning another student!