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.
My progress this semester has been kind of like a roller coaster. I have definitely had my ups and downs this semester, which I guess every student goes through, but I think I had more than normal this semester. I began this semester off really strong because I was eager to get back into the roll of coming back to school. Then by the end of volleyball season, I noticed myself starting to slack a little bit, which isn’t me at all. I had a rough patch this semester, and I tried really hard not to make it noticeable, but I know there were times it was shown. However, I did overcome this situation, and I believe I have taken a different viewpoint on bring more motivated for class. I think this was a good experience for me because I was able to pull myself out of a slump. This also proved to me that I can do better, and I know how to help myself get out of those bad holes. My preceptor was really helpful this semester. She taught me that no dumb question was ever really dumb, and this was probably the best advice I received all semester because I was never afraid to question a question. This also help me with my biggest weakness, my confidence. The more I was able to open up and ask questions, the more comfortable I felt to do things and ask things on my own. My goal for the spring semester is to come completely out of my shell. I would compare myself to a turtle, right now I am poking my head out of my shell, but still not completely out. For my last semester, my goal is to completely come out and do things on my own because I will need to in the future. My spring semester is the last semester, hopefully, that I am going to be student. So I need to take this last opportunity this semester and become the AT I want to be. In a previous email, I was paired with Joe for my spring semester. I am already preparing myself for the skills I am going to need to use to be with the rugby team. This is going to allow me to have many many evaluations because most every game at least one player is hurt. Which probably isn’t a good thing to look forward too, however, the more injuries I am able to experience the better experience I can have on my own. So my goal in the spring is to get as much experience with as many injuries that I can experience. I am very excited for my last semester as an athletic training student, and I feel like I have learned how to handle different situations and as my last semester I am ready to be the athletic training student I was made to be.
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I personally think the progress of my goals started out really good, and then I started to slack. My goals are shaped to help advance my confidence and to get more experience in the clinic. With more experience the more confident I will in myself. At the beginning of the semester, I was performing a lot of evaluations. This was either real evaluations from the men’s soccer team or scenarios that my preceptor would make up to challenge me. There was a lot of extra time spent during practices where I was able to get my goals completed. Because of the environment of the soccer practice field, there was more opportunity to talk about scenarios. So this helped me to continue working every practice on different situations. When I transitioned over to basketball, it was more difficult to get more scenarios because of the practice environment. Women’s basketball practices are inside and are very serious, and this makes it harder to start talking about scenarios. However, there is also more rehabs that are needed to be performed which makes it harder to talk to Melissa on evaluations. So I have been slacking more on performing this goal. I think this goal was very achievable, but it also challenging because I need to find my own time to be able to get this done. I think my goals this year were also realistic because this is a great way for me to have more confidence in myself. I also think this was a good fit for this semester because I need to be preparing to start studying for the BOC. By performing more evaluations, I am able to learn from my mistakes and find areas that I need to start working on. This will also help with where I focus a lot of my studying on to make sure I am prepared for the BOC. I have used these goals for the past two semesters because I want to make sure I am completely prepared when I am certified on my own. There is no better way to get better then practice. Of course, practice makes perfect. So the more opportunities I can get with different scenarios the more confidence I will have in myself. I am going to continue these goals into the next semester, but I am going to challenge myself by performing a real evaluation once a week. However, even if I can not perform this on an athlete, I am going to ask one of the preceptors to be my patient.
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Reflective JournalsThese journal entries express my experience as an athletic training student Archives
April 2019
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