2-24-10

Again, I am writting this post a little late. This is for Wednesday. It was awesome. I had a class 2 come in that I am going to use as my exam patient. I was able to do the blood glucose PE on him as well as get a full set of X-rays on him. Things went really smoothly. Once again I failed at my goal of how long it took to probe, but it would've been a little skewed anyway because I can't lay the patient all the way back. That was an experience. I was a lot slower and my arms are so sore now! I learned at the end of the day that I can use an assistance chair to get a little higher so that I don't have to give up my posture so much. I think that will really help, so I'm going to try that for next time. I won't be seeing this patient again until the end of the month, but it will be interesting trying to clean his mouth while he is sitting up. I will try to scale in under an hour, but we'll see how it goes. That is just the goal.