A Good Day

Today has been a good day I got to sleep in and lay around in my pjs before I came to school. so then I came to clinic and learned more about adapation, angulation and  activation. I was not really sure what these terms ment or how they applied untail today. and I think I am starting to seeing the 70 degree angle that I am suppost to be using. I also passed off my intra oral exam. and now its time to go home I m so excited.

2 days later

I have the hardest time rembering to blog. so this blog today is for what I learned how to do on mondays clinic. on monday we learned how use are explorer and explore around someone in our pod. I felt really bad for adrienne because I was her pt and I have braces so It way making it even harder for her to explore. she only made be bleed once so she did a good job. then I got to explore her mouth and pocked her a few time too so I guess you could say I git her back. I felt like exploring was a little harder than the probing concept. well that it for now.

Today in clinic I passed off my health history PE I cant even tell you how thankful I am to have it over with. it was not as bad as I thought It was going to be I think after doing the huge case study I felt like I knew alot more and felt more comfortable with being able to pass the health history. but I am truly glad to have it done with.

mondays ahhh

toady we learned how to do an intra oral exam, so inside the mouth. I am kinda slow at doing extra and intra oral just cause I am still learning the different landmarks but with time I will get faster. we also had a guest speaker she was so nice today and at convention they talked alot about us being members of our assocaition. which makes since why not be member if you truley love your profession the number amase me. well that it for today on to radiology class....

Fulcrum Day

Today in clinic we learned how to do an extra oral exam and also we learned how to fulcrum on something. I really like do the exam part of the screening I learnd how to kinda do it at the womens helath clinic which was way fun by the way. I feel like I really understand the extra oral exam lot more now then I did at the health clinic. I actually know aht I am looking for and feeling for. it was a good day:)

Clinic

Today in clinic we learned the right way to take blood pressures. I have know how to take BP for along time but I was taught a little different I was not taught to pump it up and feel for the pulse to stop first and then let it out again and wait 30 secs. pump it back up and go 20 over of what your number was when you did it the first time. this makes total since to me I wish I was taught this along time ago.

Health historys (AHHH)

So after clinic was over today I was totally lost. I never thought a health history would have to be so confusing. to tell you the truth I think I only remember a 1/3 of what I learned today, that is not good!. Well I guess it will come with time and practice doing them. oh one bonus for me today was that I already knew how to take vital signs so that  was nice. well I am going to try a link both of my blogs together I hope it works.

Another Day.

My laptop in my unit was down on wed afternoon so I could not blog right after clinic so here i am doing it now so I dont forget what  I learned in clinic. Wed was awesome I actually learned something new. I learned the clock position from 8-12 oclock and what teeth you could scale sitting at each of the different positions. I was so excited about this concept because I am not starting to feel like a real hygienist. all night long all that I could think about was teeth and if I was scaling toward or away and what clock time would I be sitting at. by 1030 at night i was staring to get annoyed with myself but I just could not get it out of my mind. so next wed here I come I know my PE inside and out and could do it with my eyes closed.