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 feel pretty confident as an ATS, however there are times when I second guess myself. To me, I feel like I have to be perfect, which isn’t possible, I know. However, I feel the need to meet that goal. Which sometimes I am really hard on myself, so I know I am doing things right I just want to be perfect. I believe when I perform evaluations I get sort of hesitant in myself, even though I know I am doing the right thing or at least on the right track. I think the big issue for me is that I know which special test tests for which ligament or muscle, I just don’t know how to perform the test correctly. Its hard for me sometimes because I have little hands and I can’t hold a football players large leg to perform a lachmens tests. So having to adjust to perform these test is what makes me hesitant in myself. I know how to perform them, just performing them correctly is my issue. However, I have been working towards improving my confidence, and I do feel like throughout this semester I have been improving my confidence. I feel the most confident when I am asked to perform any type of modality on an athlete. I believe I have really grasped the concept of it. I believe what will help me get my confidence up to the same point as when I perform evaluations is more practice. I performed my first evaluation in the spring of last semester. So I did not begin in the fall like everyone else. I just never got the opportunity when I was in the clinic. However, I have been using modalities since I first began in the program. If I had more practice performing evaluations on athletes, I believe my confidence would go up. This semester I have performed more evaluations then I have ever done in the past, so I know I am improving with my confidence a little at a time. I have also been learning a lot throughout my evaluations because of the more practice I do. This week I performed more evaluations than I have the entire semester. I was working on my book and practiced going through evaluations to get masteries. I was given scenarios and had to work my way through an evaluation to diagnosis my patients. This week I received around 30 attempts. I wrote down all my attempts because there were times I was trying for a mastery, but it was not completely correct. So I recorded all my attempts for practice. I also receive 30 masteries this week. This is a really good feeling to begin having a ton of masteries written in my book at one time.
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April 2019
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