Faster

Today I realized that I need to be faster at everything that I do. I think that I need to keep my eye on the clock and think to myselft faster, faster, faster. I feel like I'm the slowest student here and I don't want to be. I want to be the most efficient. My goal is to be faster by looking at the time more often to be aware how long I'm taking.

First Mock Board

Today was a crazy day. First mockboards...what do you expect! So I missed 6 spots but I felt like I ran out of time for many, many, many reasons. Also I was frantic. I really need to take a chill pill and calm down and do better. It was a really good learning experience, one I am glad for. One thing that I learned was that I need to spend shorter intervals ultrasonicing and scaling with more intermitent exploring checks. So that I'm not going over and going over unnecesary spots. That's the big lesson of the day.

Pre-Mockboard

Well today I saw my mock board. I cleaned her left quads and boy do I have my work cut out for me on mockboards. For mockboards I definately need to be more aggressive. I also need to be more confident. I feel like my instrumenting skills and exploring skills are improving so I just need to keep that up. I just really hope she comes. I think she's pretty reliable though. Today was also the first day that I gave a pt LA. I did five injections today and it was so exhilarating. I need to remember to wait a few seconds for a positive aspiration. I had two positive aspirations so that was a good experience for me.