Half Way
I hit the half way point of my second semester today. We had our mid-semester clinical conference with our instructor, and I’m doing well so far. I got a very high evaluation from my clinical preceptor, which makes me very happy. My rotation in the orthopedic office is over and I’m going back into a hospital for 8 weeks starting next Thursday.
I got a lot of comps during the first 8 weeks. I collected 22, which is the requirement for the maximum grade for the entire semester, so I’m satisfied with that. I expect to get some more comps during the second half of the semester, but I’ll need to dig through my opportunities and decide which ones I want to focus on and get them done. As I posted earlier, I’m going to try to focus as much as possible on portables.
Clinical confidence as of today: very high.
Going back into a hospital will be more of a challenge to my confidence, so I’ll have to work on that quite a bit as well. The patients in the hospital are usually much more difficult to work with due to their conditions. In-patients aren’t usually as mobile, if they are mobile at all, so positioning and technique play a greater role in the process. This is one reason I hope to become a lot more proficient with portables during the next 8 weeks.
On Monday, I have a rather difficult test in my positioning class. We’re having the written test on the skull anatomy and positioning, so I’ll need to spend a significant amount of time studying for that this weekend.
To cap off a rather decent week in class, my desktop PC has crashed. I’m going to be stuck with just my laptop for quite a while unless I can figure out what’s wrong with the other machine and find a reasonably inexpensive fix for it. I’m 98% confident that the motherboard is bad, which is not an inexpensive fix. There is a very small chance that the power supply is the problem but it’s not a good chance… Hopefully I’ll find a solution for that. My photography is going to suffer tremendously at the hands of this underpowered laptop computer. I never intended this to be my primary computer and it’s not sufficiently powered to run much of my graphics processing software…
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