April 25

Today was my last quad of a class III. Yeah I finally finished her. I was so greatful she was willing to come back so many times. She was very nice. I was also glad instructor vining was able to help me translate. She spake no english at all.
I am so glad to be done with all my reuqirements. It gets really stressful thinking about if your pt. is going to show up or if it is the classification you need it to be etc.
I did miss about 3 clicks of calculus I had to go back in and remove. But I am glad she got done and I hope I am getting better at it.
I will have to practice over the summer.

April 23

I saw a 1b today. It went very smooth and easy. The only thing I had a hard time with is the language barrier. It took a little longer because of the communication but it went well. She should have been a II but it didn't matter what she was since she was an extra quad anyway.
I'm hoping my pt. on Wednesday shows up since she is my last quad of a three and it is the last clinic day.

April 18

Today I had three quads of a class II and two kids. I am doing everything I can to get all my quads in and done with. I know a couple other students in clinic are having a very difficult time finding there requirements. So I am a little nervous about getting my done.
It was very stressful doing all of this in one day and leaving by 3:00 for a meeting I had to get to. I'm sure I will be getting a blue slip for my charts. But I will fix them tomorrow.
Good clinic day.

April 16

My patient today was 16 years old and smokes. He says he hides it from his mom and is not sure why he needs to hide it since his mom smokes as well. I talked to him about smoking cessation and the problems it is having and will have on his teeth and tissues now and in the future. He says he is dropping out of school and his teeth are his last concerns. I still stressed the importance of it.
He had a lot of build up to clean off and in my opinion needed to be a class II but they only gave him to me as a class I. Either way I did finish and hopefully he does consider to stop smoking.

April 11

I finished a class three quads of a class V and started and finished a 1B today. It was a great day in clinic. Since I need to get these requriements in I am doing everything I can to squeezed patients in in one clinic sesssion.
I was completely worried about it and doubting myself that I could finish and get these patients done with but I did. I guesse I need to have more confidence in myself.
I was a great clinic day.

April 9 (Later in clinic)

I decided to stay and help the other clinic session as well hoping I could a pano or a sealant or something to help me with requirements. And it paid off. I didn't see a pt. but I got my last sealant and a pano done. The day turned out better than I was feeling it was going to be.

April 9

I brought back my class III pt. today hoping I could get her finished. But that didn't happen. I only got one quad done in all that time. I think a lot of it had to do with waiting for instructors and the language barrier. Since I don't speak spanish I had to wait for the only person who was there that day to help me with translation and than I had to wait for anesthetic. So one more day I hope I can get her done.

April 9

I brought back my class III pt. today hoping I could get her finished. But that didn't happen. I only got one quad done in all that time. I think a lot of it had to do with waiting for instructors and the language barrier. Since I don't speak spanish I had to wait for the only person who was there that day to help me with translation and than I had to wait for anesthetic. So one more day I hope I can get her done.

April 4

Today I finished a class II and Scheduled and finished a child pt. She actually marked on her health history that she had active TB and I was worried I wasn't able to do her since I needed her for requirements, but her mother had brought a physicians consult saying she was ok to treat.
So today was a very productive day.

April 2

I finally have a 1b pt. today. It went pretty quick. Since I was done with the pt. a little early I got to so some more sealants on another students pt. So I almost have all my sealant requirements done with.
There are only seven more clinic days so I better kick it up a notch to get all my requiremtments done with plus some. I'm shooting for an A.

March 28

Today was my first class III patient. She was given to me so I wasn't sure what to expect since I didn't take her x-rays and her pockets depths didn't seem all that bad. But heh, is they called her a class III than I was ok with that. I need a class III for my requirements and I hadn't seen anyone but class II's and V's.
It went better than I thought it would. I was still very slow. I need to start scheduling more than one patinet at a time but I was told a class III needs all the time and I still won't get done. And they were right. I need to sched. her back.
But I did get some PE's passed off today as well. So I felt it was an ok day.

March 26

I did a couple sealants and a whole 1B today. She was an easy 1B. She does smoke so I was trying to get her cleaned so we could talk about smoking cessation. Since I know her I really wanted to talk to her about quitting. She hasn't done it for more than 8 months so I was hoping she would be up for hearing me out.
She seemed receptive to it and told me she would try quitting. I will call and see how she is doing a little later.

March 21

I had another class II today and she went ok. I didn't get finished so I will have to bring her back. Every time I need to bring someone back it stresses me a lot since I don't have that many more days until clinic is over. But it did go better today than my other days with my class II"s.
It seems all I am seeing are class II's, I really need to see more 1B's.
Even though I didn't get my pt. done today I did some PE"s passed off. So that is still one more step forward.

March 19

Today the kids I had scheduled were confirmed 2 to 3 times over the weekend. I had called to make sure they were coming since there has been so many no shows or cancelations lately with other students patients. And the mother said she was going to be there with both of her kids. When I was on my way to school for clinic today they (the mother) had decided to call and cancel 1 hour before they were suposse to show up. So I got a call from Mrs. Campbell telling me my patient canceled. AHHHHHHH!
Luckily my husband was on spring break and I hadn't finished him so he ended up being my back up pt. I can't beleive pt.'s do that when they know this is for our grade. I hope this won't happen again since I don't have another back up pt.

March 7

Today I was clinic assistant. I get so anxious when I have to take a day and be clinic assistant when I need to see patients to complete my requirements to get a grade. I can see how Mrs. Campbell might need an assistant since it can get pretty busy with 15 students seeing pt.'s but it still hard to give up that day.
Hopefully I still have enough days to get patients in and done with before the end of the semester.

March 5

Today I finally finished one of my class II's. She actually was my pt. from the end of last year. WOW it took my quite a few appointments to finish her. I feel really slow but my pt. was very patient and nice about it.
It went pretty well and I feel really good how clean she is. I guess I should since my instructors passed me and gave me the go a head to polish and give flouride.
I sure do hope I will get quicker as time goes on. If I keep up with this rate I will never get my qualifications complete.