10/16/12

I wanted to reflect on mock boards because someday i may think it is kind of funny how terrible i was. Of course today is not the day :( I was so worried about finding a mock board patient that i really wasn't too stressed about the actually cleaning. I had been seeing a lot of perio and i really thought that i was getting pretty good. I was a student examiner in the morning and i thought that was great to see the way the clinic flowed during the test. I thought that it would help me out a lot. It turns out it didn't help me much :( lol. I was such a space case that day i swear. Right before the test at 12: i though i lost my loupes. I ran to my car...they weren't there... called my mom....weren't at the house.... ran back to the car...still not there. It turns out i left them at my unit in the morning on the floor and there they sat the whole morning. I swear i would loose my head if it was not screwed onto my neck! Needless to say i was a little flustered when i started. Then i couldn't get the tray right that our patients bring up Soloman to check in. I literally went back 3 times to get everything that he needed. I guess i wasn't paying attention in the morning or something. When my patient finally got back i thought 2 hours would be plenty of time. I was rocking it....or not. Time flew so fast and i barely got her checked back in on time. I thought that i had done a pretty good job until i got my dreaded sticky with the million spots i missed. I was very shocked, mainly because i thought i was much better than that....turns out I'm not! Although it sucked and i felt about an inch big i did learn a great deal, especially that if there is any question, it is counted as calculus. For boards we do not root debride...we good old fashion root plane!!