Instruments!!

Today we learned the names and the uses of all of our instruments. It was good to finally learn the names because we have had our instruments for awhile and haven't known what they are. We also had a race with everyone to see who could set up our unit the fastest. Pod 1 won! Dang it not us ha ha! We had time to practice our exploring and probing, I didn't get much time to do this, I feel like i need a lot more practice so I am going to try and practice this weekend on my husband. I was able to pass off my intra oral exam. Today was a good day!

Today we were able to work on each other with our explorers! We first practiced on our typodonts. This task didn't come as easy as some others have done for me. I kept getting really confused on which way the working end should go. I am going to need some more practice on this, so I brought home my typodont and I have my husband so I will get it down. I was able today to pass off my extra oral exam,which went well. I was also lucky enough to be Jen's patient for her to pass off her extra oral exam and who wouldn't want to do that ha ha.

Intra Oral Exams!!

Today we learned how to do intra oral exams! I thought this was one of the more exciting things that we have done so far. The one thing I didn't like was the gauze touching my tongue when my pod partner practiced their intra oral exam on me! It was a gross texture! I feel like I will be ready to pass this off when the time comes. Today I also passed of my Vital Sign PE. I think it went ok I was able to get Jen's BP, P and R without a problem. This was my first time passing a PE off to Professor Costley, and I'm not going to lie I was a little nervous! Ha Ha. All and all a good day!

Extra Oral Exams!

Today we were able to perform extra oral exams on each other. I think performing extra oral exams will be very important to perform on patients to prevent cancer. After all of us taking turns we had a lot of time left over. My pod had time to sit and talk about the health history PE. I know for me the health history PE seems the most difficult so far, just because there is so much information that we have to know. Sierra was the brave one in our pod today and passed hers off! Way to go Sierra! I will pass this PE off next time!

Today was a great day in clinic! We learned to take each others vital signs. I learned my blood pressure was a little bit higher than it normally is, which mean I must be a little stressed! ha ha. It was kind of fun to re learn how to take blood pressure because I remember learning it a few years ago and had a hard time with it. So today was a good review and I felt a lot better about it from when I had previously learned about it. In clinic today I was able to do some of my PE's and pass them off. I was able to do the positioning PE and the instrument grasp PE! These have been my favorite PE's so far and it was fun to pass them off. Jen who passed the PE's for me taught me some techniques that we will learn in a couple of weeks and I thought it was cool to learn.