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 week has been very hectic for me. I have been having a hard time completing my clinical goals because I am only scheduled during clinic hours. Due to my schedule, I am not able to complete my clinical goals. I wanted to challenge myself this semester, but I am not giving the opportunities because I am in season and do not get to attend practices. My big goal this year was to be able to perform as many evaluations as I could because I only performed one the entire last semester. However, I finally got the chance to perform an evaluation. I clinically experienced the men’s soccer game on Friday, and an athlete had an ankle injury. I was actually nervous when Melissa called me over to perform this evaluation. I wasn’t nervous because I didn’t know how to, I was nervous because I hadn’t performed an onsite injury this semester. I feel the most confident with an ankle injury out of the entire body, but I wanted Melissa to believe I was capable of this evaluation and this made me second guess myself. I didn’t have confidence in my voice when I was talking to the athlete because I kept looking at Melissa to make sure I was right. After I performed a short SOAP note with the athlete, Melissa asked me what my final decision was for the player, and I was gained confidence in myself and told her exactly what I was thinking and she looked at me and said “I agree.” Even though this was an ankle injury, and I should know this injury the best, this lesson helped me gain confidence in myself because I was right. I learned that I shouldn’t second guess myself and be hesitant, I should just go with my gut feeling. This was a great way to start my semester off with getting an evaluation correct on an athlete. I believe this is just the beginning for my experience. I have been working on my confidence so far this semester because I have had the mentality that I can’t be wrong. However, clinically experiencing with Cole I have learned a lot. He quizzes me every time I am in the clinic, and I have been wrong. But when I am wrong, he explains to me the correct answer, and he shows me how or what to do when this happens. Being able to be quizzed has shown me when I am wrong its ok. I believe this will reflect on my clinical evaluations because I get nervous that I am going to be wrong, and this experience has shown me I can not be right 100% of the time. Also this week I only received 3 attempts.
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BFunk
10/8/2017 01:41:40 pm
Remember, if you're never wrong, you can never learn. you simply reaffirm what you already know. Don't fear the mistake, fear missing the opportunity. Pleased, you got to do an on-field eval!
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