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 greatest strengths and weaknesses seem to keep changing each semester since I have been in the program. I believe my biggest weaknesses are modalities and clinical evaluations. I have struggled with modalities since sophomore year. I made a goal in my clinical book for the past year now to become more confident when using modalities. I do feel like I have become more familiar with the concept, but there are times where I am unsure which modality is best for the injury. I have been reviewing my modalities book every Sunday to try and get more confident with the subject. My second weakness is performing a full evaluation. My brain sometimes feels swimming and I begin to mix up my words when I speak. I know what I am talking about, but I have trouble putting it all together. I think this really effects me in my exits because I want to say the most important part of an evaluation, but my brain jumps ahead and wants me to say the most important part of this injury. I was able to improve when I retook my exit because I took my time, and I was able to begin by expressing the history and ending with functional testing. I created flash cards over winter break, and I have been reviewing those once a week. I believe I have gotten better with my evaluation skills, however, I just need to reassure myself to take my time. My greatest strengths include being dedicated and wound care (which I just recently found out about). Being in the program has taught me that I am going to be wrong a lot and its ok. I used to be a perfectionist. Now, I like being wrong because it’s a learning experience to me. Its allowed me to become dedicated because even though I am wrong, I still want to keep trying until I get it right. I consistently reread my notes from classes, and I will keep trying until I get the correct answer. If there isn’t something I know or can do, I will go to the lab and keep trying until I can do it right. Lastly, I just figured out today wound care if one of my strengths. How ironic (because my mom is a wound care nurse)?! Now that I look back over the past semester, I can say I am very confident when dealing with wounds. My favorite sport I have clinical experienced was wrestling because of how much blood I got to work with.
I was able to get 10 attempts and masteries with Bre this week!
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BFunk
4/20/2018 04:30:39 pm
I love this. This is growth and being mindful of the process!
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