great day!

It has been a really long time since I didn't have any mistakes or missed spots on a patient, but today was the day! everything went to smoothe! I even passed of two PE's which was desparately needed. I had shalyce watch me with my ultrasonic and she thinks that I am doing just fine which is a relief to hear because I was feeling like I was going at it blindly. It is nice to hear how I can improve and what I need to do to be better, but it is a breath of fresh air to hear that I am doing something right! anyway... it was a great day. I hope it continues to be as great!

sick

I got a case of food posioning and had to miss class! it was the most stressful thing to miss class. I missed a test and a guest speaker! it is all going to work out fine but I hate missing all that information! I really need to start to pick up the pace as far as staying on top of things! I feel like I'm falling behind in class.

uda

So this past weekend i went to UDA and it was pretty great. I missed the Udha convention because of swine flu so this was the first time i had been to anything like this. I Thought that the presentations that i chose to go to were really great! I learned a few new things and reviewed a lot of things that i already knew. It was also nice to be able to just go to a class and relax and not worry about a quiz at the end of class!
I'm in clinic today and I will be cleaning 2 1A's hopefully I will be able to finish! that would be awesome to have an 8 quad day! not that numbers are the only things that matter but it is nice to have a little more breathing room as far as requirements go!

a week without pts!

I have really loved this week so far. I love to have patients and do the service to them but the stress of... "are they going to show up?", "am i going to finish?", "do i have a patient", "I probably missed 12 spots!!"... thing like that! even though i am not sure if i'll finish my requirements but it is still nice none the less. yeah for this week! hopefully convention will be great as well.

1 patient in 1 appointment

Yesterday I finished a patient in 1 appointment! I am so excited! I really hope that I can get more done in 1. I am nervous that I am not going to meet my requirements... anyway that is the good news of yesterday.

what I have learned...

This might be ignorant, but I believe that of all the dental hygiene students I have the flakiest patients. I love all my patients and all of them have been really great to work with, but they never show up on time, they almost always move their appointments, and they always have to leave early! Now how is a girl to get anything done!? I have learned to never expect schedules to stay as you set them. I have learned that probing is not that bad. I have learned that no matter how crazy the start of the morning is trying to find patients the end of the day is always bliss because it has always worked out. I have learned that burnishing calculus is not a good idea and it is ok to open up the face of the instrument a little bit. I have learned that posture really does matter because I am already starting to feel the repercussions of my bad posture (gonna work on that). I have learned that I really wish I knew spanish. I have learned that I really do love what I am doing and I am glad I am at weber state. that is just the basics of what I have learned but I am getting better everyday!

this week...

This week I am going to set a goal to focus on the ultra sonic and get to the point where i feel comfortable using it. I use it and when I do it works well but I feel like I could be using it better and more efficiently. I am starting to feel really confortable with my universal instrumentation (there is still much room for improvement!). I am finally through with shakey hands though!! unless i'm passing off a PE, but i'm just exstatic that I won't always suffer from shakey hands! I feel like today is going to go great!

never on time!!

I am going to hop on my soap box today. I have only had one pt be on time... ONE! I am so sick of panicing at the beginning of every appointment. I worry that my pt is hurt or just plain forgot! i have all the bad luck in the world when it comes to clinic.
I have to clean all 4 quads today so i really hope that i can get done because i would hate to have him come back for a third appointment.