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 personally think the progress of my goals started out really good, and then I started to slack. My goals are shaped to help advance my confidence and to get more experience in the clinic. With more experience the more confident I will in myself. At the beginning of the semester, I was performing a lot of evaluations. This was either real evaluations from the men’s soccer team or scenarios that my preceptor would make up to challenge me. There was a lot of extra time spent during practices where I was able to get my goals completed. Because of the environment of the soccer practice field, there was more opportunity to talk about scenarios. So this helped me to continue working every practice on different situations. When I transitioned over to basketball, it was more difficult to get more scenarios because of the practice environment. Women’s basketball practices are inside and are very serious, and this makes it harder to start talking about scenarios. However, there is also more rehabs that are needed to be performed which makes it harder to talk to Melissa on evaluations. So I have been slacking more on performing this goal. I think this goal was very achievable, but it also challenging because I need to find my own time to be able to get this done. I think my goals this year were also realistic because this is a great way for me to have more confidence in myself. I also think this was a good fit for this semester because I need to be preparing to start studying for the BOC. By performing more evaluations, I am able to learn from my mistakes and find areas that I need to start working on. This will also help with where I focus a lot of my studying on to make sure I am prepared for the BOC. I have used these goals for the past two semesters because I want to make sure I am completely prepared when I am certified on my own. There is no better way to get better then practice. Of course, practice makes perfect. So the more opportunities I can get with different scenarios the more confidence I will have in myself. I am going to continue these goals into the next semester, but I am going to challenge myself by performing a real evaluation once a week. However, even if I can not perform this on an athlete, I am going to ask one of the preceptors to be my patient.
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Reflective JournalsThese journal entries express my experience as an athletic training student Archives
April 2019
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