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 favorite part of clinical semester this year has been being with the men’s soccer team during their whole season. Throughout this experience I have been able to feel apart of the team, which to means a lot and helped me to feel more comfortable. This also made my experience a lot better because I enjoyed being there with the team. I was able to learn a lot about the athletes which made it a lot easier to come into my clinical experience every day. I knew every injury, rehab, and who was limited and not during practice. I was able to build relationships with the athletes which allowed them to trust me more with their treatment. This was special to me because it made me feel welcomed on the team, and I think this personally helped me to wanting to do more during my clinical time. Before I had days where I would dread doing my clinical because before I didn’t enjoy it. However, being with a team for a whole semester really changed my prospective. I have mentioned this before in my journals, but it really was a waking up moment for me and I am very glad I had this experience. This helped saved me from going off the edge with my major. I had fun when I was clinically experiencing with them because I knew so much about them. This is helping me reach my clinical goal of being more confident in myself. This goal has followed me since my sophomore year. However, I am doing a lot better with trusting myself. Being with a team for the whole semester has allowed me to have the athletes trust me. So I know if I made a mistake they would still allow me to continue treatment on them. This has shown to me that making a mistake is ok, and I don’t have to worry about the athlete thinking I am not smart. So this experience has allowed to me see that I am smart, sometimes. I am able to do the things I am supposed to do. I just needed the confidence boost to help prove to me that I can do these things. So this was a very special moment for me to be with a team for a whole season. It made my clinical experience easier, and it showed me how much I do enjoy this major.
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