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.
This past week I have been able to perform two evaluations, which is already more than I have done all semester. Every time I have been clinically experiencing I never had an athlete come in needing an evaluation. Due to my busy schedule last year, I was scheduled to come in the middle or end of practices which doesn’t allow much chance to perform an evaluation on an athlete. However, I wasn’t too upset about not doing an evaluation because I have been very timid about evaluations, so this year I wanted to challenge myself. As stated in my first journal, I made one of my clinical goals to perform at least two evaluations a week because I wanted to make myself branch out of my shell. This week I have been able to perform two evaluations, and I have learned so much from them, especially having Cole as my preceptor because he has taught me different ways to approach injuries. I was very nervous with my first evaluation because it was just my preceptor, the athlete, and me in the room. At first my confidence was down because I was afraid to mess up, however, Cole talked with me throughout my evaluation and reassured me I was on the right track. After the evaluation was over, I was able to talk with Cole about my thought process and he gave me a lot of feedback. Once I perform my second evaluation I was a lot more confident in myself, and I know the athlete felt confident in me because I never looked or ask Cole for help. After performing these two evaluation I have learned that I need to touch up on my anatomy to remember where the origin and insertion of certain muscles are that way if the injury is a muscle I am able to specify/target which muscle it is. Due to this experience, I have gained more confidence in myself and seek more opportunities to perform evaluations. This has not only influenced me to look over anatomy, but to also continue my goal of reviewing each section of the bodies special tests. I believe with these two goals, I will help prepare myself for my exit interview and build my confidence when I am in the clinic. I know I have the ability to perform any evaluation, I just haven’t had much practice which makes me timid, so I believe this goals will push myself to become a confident athletic training student. Lastly, throughout this week I have been able to get 7 attempts and no masteries.
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April 2019
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