rEaL PaTienT!!!

Today was my first 'real patient' day. My sister Kaitlyn came in since Darin was 'injured'. It went pretty well actually. I got through all of HHX, HHXRX, and took 4 BWX. I was happy that I didn't have to do any retakes. Then we went back to my unit and I charted all the existing and probed. I feel comfortable with probing, now I just need to work on getting faster. When I finished doing all of that I needed an instructor to come check. Angelique was our instructor today. I know that she had 6 of us to check but I waited 25 MINUTES!!! I was so frustrated!! I really think something needs to be done so that we can have more instructors in clinic so that we don't have to wait around so much. I didn't even get to scale anything! Some girls finished 2 quads. I was really hoping to be able to do at least one. I just can't believe that it takes so long for an instructor to come check. In the meantime I did OHI with her and waited, and waited, and waited. I hope this won't be something that happens with every patient. Everything else went very well though. I am starting to get the hang of things and I think it is flowing better. I am excited to see more patients in the Spring.