Sunday, November 11, 2007
New Conditions
Hi all, hope you're enjoying your last week of prac! I'm currently on my rural prac, and spending most of my time in the outpatients department. I am seeing a massive variety of patients, most of which have conditions I have never seen/treated before. At first this made me really nervous, becasue I couldn't follow a direct recipe about what i need to Ax and what I need to treat. After the first week or so I realised that I shouldn't be nervous just becasue "I havent seen that before". If there was something I was unsure about I look it up before the patient comes, and use the basic skills we have to problem solve what's needed in terms of Ax and Rx. Now I am really enjoying the challenge of such a variety in the patient case load, and have learnt a great deal on thsi prac, now that I have got over the anxiety of seeing something new, in case I didnt know what to do. Like I suggested in my last blog, I think all we need (well what I needed anyway) is confidence in ourselves, and confidence in the skills we have learnt. We will graduate soon and surely enough come across many challenges, and uncertainties, and what i have learnt from this prac is that all we need is confidence in our abilities.
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Hey Kelly!
I agree sometimes we lack the confidence in our abilities, and its not till we're put in a challenging situations we realise, we can actually do things. On a similar note i was talking to one of the 3rd years today about GHI exam, and as we're going through it, i was starting to remember all these things, and i was quiet surprised. I hadnt done anything with womens health stuff for over a year, and as we were talking i realised theres so much that i knew that i never though i'd remember. It feels good that all things havent been forgotten, and its all stored up there somewhere. Definitely a good confidence boost :p
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