Mock patient day 1

Monday I was the operator. Miriam was my patient. I wasn't really nervous about it I was just worried I wouldn't get everything done I needed to. Our patient was in 6 months ago so we didn't have to take their BP. I did the extra/intra, probed the whole mouth, disclosed, OHI, and we were supposed to scale one quad with hand scale and one with ultra sonic. Miriam's teeth are sooooo sensitive that I wasn't able to use the ultra sonic. So I didn't get to practice with that. I just did the hand scale on one quad because she was having so much pain in her jaw by keeping it open. I was struggling a little bit scaling the posterior. I don't know what my problem was! Miriam was such a good sport about everything. I'm glad we get to have a couple days of practice. It makes me realize how much time everything takes and I need to not waste it. I didn't know we had to have our patient checked out and the chart turned in by a certain time. Luckily I wasn't too far behind. The paper work and transferring everything over is definately time consuming! It will take practice to get it all down. Overall I think it went pretty well. Today Miriam gets to work on me so I'm excited that I don't have to do anything except lay there!!