Waiting.....

Today was supposed to be an easy and fast day. I had 2 patients scheduled. My first pt was someone that I saw last Monday and I only had 2 quads left. Since she should have taken me maybe 45 minutes I scheduled my grandma to come in so I could do the denture PE and glucose PE. Well.....since our favorite thing to do is wait, and wait, and wait....that's what I did a lot of! My first patient got out 30 minutes past my estimated time which meant my grandma was waiting for over a half hour. My grandma shouldn't have taken very long since she's fully edentulous but of course it never happens like we plan it to. I ended up spending an hour and a half on her!! I was frustrated today for sure. My instructor was busy so I was waiting around and when I saw another instructor was busy I asked them if they could pass off my blood glucose PE since my instructor was taking a while. This other instructor kind of acted bugged by me asking but ended up doing it anyway. I just get so frustrated with waiting forever and WAY too long for instructors to check. Patients could be out so much faster if we had more instructors to go around. I know this is a common complaint in clinic but I think something needs to be changed to help things flow better. Just a thought!