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.
Throughout my experience as an athletic training student, I have faced multiple challenges. First, I have found it hard to plan enough time for my studies and to complete all my clinical hours for the semester. Each semester has gotten better, however, I am still trying to find the best way to plan my schedule to plan enough time to study and get all my hours in because each semester is different. When I am in volleyball season I lose a lot of time to get my clinical hours in, so that’s one reason I can not keep a steady schedule for each semester. Next, I have found it challenging to participate in outside clubs/activities because a lot of my time is devoted to getting my clinical hours or doing something for volleyball. Because of this challenge I do have difficulties balancing my time for studies and wanting to participate in other activities. Although, I have learned from previous lessons that it is more important to not participate in the activity and either study or do homework for the next day. Lastly, I believe my biggest challenge is officially breaking out my shell and being able to perform evaluations on athletes. I have come a far way from when I was a sophomore. However, there are times I still hesitant when I perform an evaluation. Not because I do not know what I am doing, but because I want to know I am going in the right direction with the injury. I want to be able to perform the evaluations without uncertainty and diagnose the patient. There a couple people that I do turn to for help in these situations. I have talked with Beth a lot about feeling more comfortable in the clinic. There have also been times where I just feel drained about being an athletic training student, and I have talked with Beth about what I can do to feel more engaged in the program. I have been able to use her advice and make my clinical experience a lot better. I also talk with Chaypin about how to approach certain evaluations. Sometimes the patient doesn’t give enough information (typical), so I find it hard to figure out where to begin. Last semester I talked with Cole. He was really helpful in guiding me in the right direction throughout the fall semester with rehabs. In the field house there is not a lot of rehab equipment, so there were a lot of times when I didn’t know what types of exercises to give the athlete, however, Cole showed me multiple exercises that can be done without equipment. This allowed me to feel more comfortable performing my own rehab for an athlete. He helped me to logically think what muscles I was trying to attack and just coming up with exercises that targeted that certain muscle or muscle group. I think the support that I need is just knowing that I know what to do. I lose a lot of confidence in myself, and I think that would help boost my confidence.
I did not get any masteries this week, but I did get 2 attempts!
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