What A Day

Screening after screening after screening... I must have the worst luck in the world. It is a good thing that other people are much luckier than I am.
My afternoon was a nightmare. Oh, I feel horrible. I know that I have never missed as many spots as I did today. A million and one things went into that, but there is still no excuse for how I preformed. I know that I am a better clinician then I demonstrated this afternoon. I do hope that I can pull myself out of whatever slump that I am in before the board exams come. I need to just pull it together.... How do I do that???!!!!!
Oh, what a day!!!!

Anesthesia Mock Board

Well, this is the one that I really thought that I was going to fail. I have tried everything that I know how to do to stop myself from shaking. I was so nervous before the exam but I will say that there is someone... some higher power... that truly does love me. As soon as the exam started my nerves were calmed and I wasn't really shaking. My hand steadied but that was jsut the beginning. I contaminated my needle right off the bat... I had to switch set-ups. I then went in the first time... positive aspiration.... another new set-up. Second try... positive aspiration... another new set-up. Third try... positive aspiration... yet another new set-up. I had to borrow one from my neighbor because I didn't have enough out on my tray. I was finally told not to try again due to the aspirations and I had to move on to the next injection. That one went well, but I guess that I touched the front of the card and I failed. Everything was perfect with the injection itself but I did touch the card.
I don't think that anything else could have gone wrong this morning, but now I know for the board, right?!!!!

This afternoon was also an answer to prayer... I FOUND A BOARD PATIENT!!!!!! I really was beginning to think that I wasn't going to be able to find one.

Oh what a day!!!

Mock Board Number 2

Today was the hardest cleaning I have ever done in my life!!!!!!! I have never had the ultrasonic not even touch the calculus. I had the orange tip on high with the tip completely against the calculus and it didn't budge. Oh My!!!! I thought that I was a gonner. I didn't really know what to do. I stopped using the ultrasonic because it was doing nothing and I took out my files. I had to file every surface before I then hand scaled and followed that up with the ultrasonic again. I really have never felt like I failed something in my life until I sent my patient over to have the scale check done. I really wanted to cry and I couldn't stop thinking it.
Well, the result....
I ended up missing 3 spots but one of them ended up being a CEJ, so I was only marked down for 2 spots, but that was only the beginning. I forgot to fill out some of my paperwork, and I missed a probe depth. I couldn't believe it. Oh heavens!!!!!
I did end up passing and did okay, but I really don't feel great about using that patient for my board exam.
What am I going to do?!!!!