Goals Met
I’m currently in week 7 of the 16-week semester. The interesting news is that I have completed my master competencies and required number of procedures for the entire semester. I have logged 304 procedures, and I needed 300 for the entire semester for the maximum grade. I have also completed 22 master competencies this semester, which is the requirement for the maximum grade. I consider myself extremely lucky to have been placed at my current clinical location during the first half of this semester. I’m in an orthopedic office that only has one x-ray room and one tech, so I’m involved in every procedure that comes through the door. That makes life rather easy, and it allows me to stay on top of what’s going on when it comes to collecting comps. I don’t have to chase multiple techs to let them know what comps I need. There are a couple comps I didn’t get that I had hoped to see in the ortho office. I did not get the femur, forearm, or humerus. I need all of those so I’ll just have to keep looking for those opportunities.
I’ll be moving back into a hospital environment for the second half of the semester, and there are still plenty of comp opportunities that I can get there. Hopefully, having completed my requirements, I can focus on some areas where I think I’m weak when I get back into that environment. After my last rotation in a hospital, I consider myself weak on portables. I really want to be effective and efficient with portable radiography, so maybe I can spend some extra time pursuing that skill this semester.
I think I might write some of my thoughts on portable radiography over the weekend. I have a lot of things rolling around in my mind about that topic…