First 1A

I got to see my cute nieces today! It was my first time seeing a 1A patient and I tried my best to look up what to do, but there really wasn't any information about what to do. Long story short, I missed a couple of things on OD and now I have learned that you OD like an adult. I'm a little worried about seeing the next 1A because I don't no how to get kids to do things. My nieces will do whatever I ask, but what if another little kid doesn't open his mouth. I also learned today that I have been more worried about getting things done on time and not enough about doing it right. I need to fix that. I need to realize that things will go faster for me if I do them the right way. I don't want to get fast at doing things wrong. My goal for my next patient isn't necessarily to take my time, but to do things the right way. And if I have a question, I need to ask for assistance to learn how to do it right. I need to learn self-master, not speed. That is all. It has been a rough day, but many lessons learned.

1-20-10

It was my goal to be faster at probing, which I was, but unfortunately I didn't keep track of my time to go faster next time, so now my goal for next time is to look at how much time it takes me. It was also my goal to scale a quad, which I could have done had my patient not been a half hour late. I'm sure I would've gotten to it had he been here on time. So in a round about way I made my goal, but not officially. So I guess my goal for next time is the goal that I set last time. I feel like I'm improving though, so that is good.

1/11/10

I have already forgotten to do two blogs. Already behind, yikes. I had a goal for today to finish my class two patient, which I new was kind of a long shot, but I did pretty good. I finish doing 3 of his 4 quads and and that was good experience. I thought I went pretty quick and I probably would've been able to finish him if her weren't a half hour late. Traffic was bad today. It took me from 8:40 to 10:30 to finish the 3 quads, so I guess that is a little less than two hours. It has been a long day and I can't really think so I will have to add up how long it took per each quad later and then make a goal based on that. I have a class 1b patient on wednesday so it will be my goal to get her whole mouth done in time. I don't know though. I don't think she will be as cooperative as my patient was today. I'll just make my goal to finish her anyway, and no big deal if I don't because at least I tried and hopefully I am getting faster. That is all for today.