Journals
These journals reflect my weekly experiences as an athletic training student. Each journal reflects either an actual patient contact experience, or something I am working on in my athletic training courses.
One of my clinical goals this semester was to perform more evaluations. I picked this goal because I feel like I haven’t performed many real evaluations before because of my schedule. During volleyball season, I am usually scheduled for just clinic times and not many people came in with injuries. However, this did help me with my rehab progression. I haven’t been able to be apart of many practices in the past few semesters because of my schedule. However, this year, I was with the men’s soccer team who practice every evening. Their schedule worked really well with mine this year, and it allowed me to attend at least three practices a week. Due to being able to attend more practices, I was able to start performing more evaluations. Melissa also has challenged me with scenarios when there hasn’t been an injury recently. This has been really helpful because each time I am learning something new. I like being able to see where I went wrong. It has really changed the way I have been performing my evaluations because I used to follow text book, but I have learned I need to follow the patient. I believe this is going to be really helpful for me in the future because it will help me better diagnosis injuries. This also helps me with my confidence because I am able to continue performing evaluations and learn from my mistakes. I also get really hesitant when performing them because I don’t wan to be wrong, so this really helps me to learn that I know what I am talking about. I have had this clinical goal each semester because I feel like this is my weakness. I have not had much experience with real life scenarios, so when I get one I get really nervous. This clinical goal allows me to get out of my comfort shell and start performing evaluations. In less than a year, I should be a certified athletic trainer. I need to have confidence in myself because I know I can perform evaluations. So this goal has kept me on my toes. I continue to either perform real or scenarios from Melissa at least once a week when I come into the clinic. This will help me in the future and also in the present to help me learn from my mistakes and grow as a student. I will use this goal again next semester.
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April 2019
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