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.
Looking back on my progress I have obtained many, many, lessons. My first lesson, which I will try to never have to go through again, is finishing my clinical packet at least two weeks before finals. I know everyone talks about finishing their clinical packets as early as they can, but I am serious this semester when I say I am going to stay on top of my book this semester. Last semester was my first semester I struggled to get all my masteries finished in time. This gave me a lot of unwanted stress if I would have not procrastinated. I do not want to experience the stress of finding time to get masteries when I should be preparing for finals. This semester my goal is finish my clinical packet at least two weeks before finals. Next, I have learned that its ok to be wrong. Sometimes I make myself feel like I need to be a perfectionist which isn’t good at all. I have come out my shell these past two semesters and began performing evaluations and challenging myself to find the injury/source of the injury. However, when you can not figure out the injury or you forget to perform a special test, it’s a really good learning moment which allows you to learn from your mistakes. Last lesson I have learned throughout this year and a half in the program is to reach out to your preceptors and professors with confusion on injuries, evaluations, or something we learned in class. They are very helpful all the time, and throughout the semester I have realized whenever I am confused its always good to talk with a preceptor or professor about it and they are very effective in helping me understand it. These lessons have changed how I approach evaluations because now I do not have the mind set of being afraid to get it wrong. I now have the mind set of wanting to learn/do the best I can. These lessons have encouraged me to discover more about injuries by asking my professors and preceptors. This semester I am setting myself a huge goal to get my clinical packet finished at least two weeks before the semester is over. I am also challenging myself to review each body segment once a week. I set this goal for myself last semester, and I was unable to finish the goal. So this semester, I am going to finish the goal. I have already made flash cards from studying for my previous exit, and I am going to review them and go over anatomy once a week.
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Reflective JournalsThese journal entries express my experience as an athletic training student Archives
April 2019
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