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.
I believe my favorite part of clinical experience so far is being able to perform evaluations on athlete. Since I am with football this semester, there is a ton of injuries. I used to be very hesitant with injuries, and now I want to perform every evaluation I can. From the beginning of the year to now, I have grown a lot as an athletic training student. I was nervous to make mistakes, but now I am not afraid to speak what I think for certain injuries. Cole has been very helpful in directing me into the right direction when performing evaluation. So every evaluation I perform, I can feel my confidence boost. Its also really exciting when you perform an evaluation, and your preceptor agrees with your diagnosis. I believe as the semester continues, I am not going to be nervous when performing my exit interview. This semester has been preparing me a lot towards my exit interview. This is special to me because I used to be very conserved when performing evaluations. Now, when an athlete walks in and needs an evaluation I jump at the opportunity. I believe the more evaluations I perform, the more I learn how to perfect them. I have been clinical experiencing a lot during clinic times which allows me to have a lot of opportunities for evaluations. I have also been performing a lot of rehabs. I used to hate rehabs and everything to do with physical therapy, but this semester it has grown slightly on me. I’m not sure if this because I have performed so many and it seems to flow easier, or if I enjoy doing it. But I don’t think PT would be something I would want to pursue in the future. However, performing evaluations is what I want to do in the future, which is why I think I love doing evaluations so much. I want to become an orthopedic PA, which I would perform many special tests. So this is another reason why this has been my favorite part of my clinical experience so far. I also been slacking a lot on getting my clinical packet finished. I have been working on it, however, not as often as I wished I could have been. I have been focusing a lot of my time trying to get ahead in classes, which has been helping me a lot. My plan is to work over thanksgiving break to know all my injuries and can come back and get masteries. This week I was able to get 2 attempts.
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April 2019
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