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.
Every semester, I have shaped my goals the same because I never feel like I have accomplished them. Each semester I realize that I could have done better with my goals, and I figure out different techniques that help with those goals. The more I use the same goals, the better I feel like I am accomplishing them. This semester I wanted to challenge myself because hopefully I will be certified after this semester, so I knew I needed to reach my goals this semester. My clinical goal this semester was to start becoming my own athletic trainer and to stop relying on my preceptors to guide me. I want to be able to do things on my own without any hesitation. I have been trying to perform my own treatment and rehab techniques without reaching out to my preceptor because eventually I will not have them. I have actually been doing a lot better than I thought I would. I think I was scared to be on my own, but I actually am very knowledge on all of this (shocking, right). Recently, I have been coming up with my own treatment for all of the athletes with Chaypin and confirmed them with her when I am finished. I believe I have gained a lot of confidence in myself from this, and Chaypin has believed in me a lot more. This has shown to me that I am capable of doing this on my own. I have obtained the skills and knowledge to be a great athletic trainer. This week I actually performed an evaluation on my own, performed treatment on the that athletes injury, and created a rehab for the rest of the week for them After performing my evaluation, I asked Chaypin to come over and explained to her the injury and my diagnosis, and she was able to check my work and agree with my diagnosis. I told her what type of treatment this athlete should receive and since the injury is a weakness in a muscle group that a rehab program should be written up for this athlete to perform. Chaypin let me make the treatment and rehab and was impressed with what I came up with. This was a really good feeling to be able to diagnosis the injury and create a rehab for them. I felt like I actually could take care of that athlete on my own. What a great feeling.
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Beth
4/4/2019 05:38:11 pm
Not shocking at all actually! ;-)
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