Well, patient showed up but was not due for adult prophy which should be every 6 months. Unfortunately I had to suffer a very bad and draining afternoon.
Hoping for better things next week before I drop out.
Joking!!
Take care
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Monday, July 24, 2017
GET DENTAL HYGIENE PATIENTS IN EXCHANGE FOR WEED? NO WAY!! NOT HAPPENING!
I don't get to update as much as I would like because most times there is no time to;
Okay, Let me be more honest..because even when there's time I'm too exhausted to do it....Okay,I can do better than this, because even when there is time I'm too lazy to do it!!
So here's a recap of what has been going on and from now hence forth I'm going to be updating every week at least or everyday...Really?
1. We have started seeing real patients in clinic and so far I have been very unlucky with my patients because the very first few patients should be close friends and family members but being out of town, out of state,out of the country or should I say continent: places you almost against all the odds. So I had to depend on public patients who can be very slippery as first few weeks you are still in learning mode and the patient need to be someone very patient(Did you see what I did there?) or someone who can tolerate your inexperience and also probably ready come back for multiple appointments. So my patients have been cancelling the appointments several times and like today the patient showed up LATE and was RUSHING me so we didn't get that far. The afternoon one ended up cancelling and I had everything set up and ready for them...No more frustrating feeling than that.
2. Mrs. Ross, one of our best instructors (She's among the 3 that found and developed the hygiene program) left last week. She was literary a walking experience and knowledge and she will be greatly missed. She went back into clinical practice. She's wished good luck and hope to meet her somewhere in the corridors of DH.
3. I QUIT my job yesterday. The job was emotionally, physically and mentally draining me so much that for the 16hrs that I was there on weekend it felt like 61hrs!!! That way I would dread going there and would be thinking about it all day Fridays and Mondays even after I left I had serious job related hangover..not good for a dental hygiene student taking Dental Embryo and other classes and having to hustle for patients. For now my NEW JOB is working on my small online business HERE
4. WEED FOR PATIENTS. I decided to go out giving fliers to the community in a bid to get more patients in the clinic and I managed to give out well over 150 fliers. Well, that's not the NEWS. The news is that while passing out the fliers in Downtown ERIE to some young people they made me an offer. How about I find them stressed out college kids who need to relieve school stress by smoking some of their high grade weed and then they would give me 2 patients per customer they got from me...What?!! END OF ME TALKING TO THEM>>>I WAS GONE BEFORE THEY COULD SAY ANYTHING ELSE...IF THAT'S THE WAY TO GET PATIENTS I WOULD RATHER DROP OUT OF SCHOOL THAN GET IN TROUBLE.
Thanks for reading and I hope to keep you all updated on the goings on in my program and feel free to drop a comment in the comment session below. Also if you are an hygienist share different ideas of getting more patients to my seat without someone trying to get me to do ANYTHING OUTSIDE THE LAW OR ETHICS.
Okay, Let me be more honest..because even when there's time I'm too exhausted to do it....Okay,I can do better than this, because even when there is time I'm too lazy to do it!!
So here's a recap of what has been going on and from now hence forth I'm going to be updating every week at least or everyday...Really?
1. We have started seeing real patients in clinic and so far I have been very unlucky with my patients because the very first few patients should be close friends and family members but being out of town, out of state,out of the country or should I say continent: places you almost against all the odds. So I had to depend on public patients who can be very slippery as first few weeks you are still in learning mode and the patient need to be someone very patient(Did you see what I did there?) or someone who can tolerate your inexperience and also probably ready come back for multiple appointments. So my patients have been cancelling the appointments several times and like today the patient showed up LATE and was RUSHING me so we didn't get that far. The afternoon one ended up cancelling and I had everything set up and ready for them...No more frustrating feeling than that.
2. Mrs. Ross, one of our best instructors (She's among the 3 that found and developed the hygiene program) left last week. She was literary a walking experience and knowledge and she will be greatly missed. She went back into clinical practice. She's wished good luck and hope to meet her somewhere in the corridors of DH.
3. I QUIT my job yesterday. The job was emotionally, physically and mentally draining me so much that for the 16hrs that I was there on weekend it felt like 61hrs!!! That way I would dread going there and would be thinking about it all day Fridays and Mondays even after I left I had serious job related hangover..not good for a dental hygiene student taking Dental Embryo and other classes and having to hustle for patients. For now my NEW JOB is working on my small online business HERE
4. WEED FOR PATIENTS. I decided to go out giving fliers to the community in a bid to get more patients in the clinic and I managed to give out well over 150 fliers. Well, that's not the NEWS. The news is that while passing out the fliers in Downtown ERIE to some young people they made me an offer. How about I find them stressed out college kids who need to relieve school stress by smoking some of their high grade weed and then they would give me 2 patients per customer they got from me...What?!! END OF ME TALKING TO THEM>>>I WAS GONE BEFORE THEY COULD SAY ANYTHING ELSE...IF THAT'S THE WAY TO GET PATIENTS I WOULD RATHER DROP OUT OF SCHOOL THAN GET IN TROUBLE.
Thanks for reading and I hope to keep you all updated on the goings on in my program and feel free to drop a comment in the comment session below. Also if you are an hygienist share different ideas of getting more patients to my seat without someone trying to get me to do ANYTHING OUTSIDE THE LAW OR ETHICS.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
OUR 2ND YEARS PASSED THEIR CLINICAL BOARDS 100%!!!
Last Friday we had a chance to see the second years take their final clinical board exams. We were so lucky as we got to see what exactly goes on when you bring in a class 3patient to be your dental boards patient.
Once you take the vitals of the patient you get to have the doc approve them and they they are taken to an examination room where 3 diffrent docs examine them after you choose any sext you want to work on.
Well, good news is that our big sisters. the second years passed- 100% that is the whole class. We are vert excited and happy for them and also under pressure as we are challenged to perform as good as them.
meanwhile next week but we will be seeing our first Rad patient in the clinic. Next month we will then start seeing real patients in the clinic. We have made a lot of progress and looking forward to see real patients.
Finally today we applied fluoride treatment on each other for the first time.
**This was a quick post to update whats been going on as we have a ton of homework to do and also lot's of tests coming our way so no much time.
Thanks for stopping buy.
Once you take the vitals of the patient you get to have the doc approve them and they they are taken to an examination room where 3 diffrent docs examine them after you choose any sext you want to work on.
Well, good news is that our big sisters. the second years passed- 100% that is the whole class. We are vert excited and happy for them and also under pressure as we are challenged to perform as good as them.
meanwhile next week but we will be seeing our first Rad patient in the clinic. Next month we will then start seeing real patients in the clinic. We have made a lot of progress and looking forward to see real patients.
Finally today we applied fluoride treatment on each other for the first time.
**This was a quick post to update whats been going on as we have a ton of homework to do and also lot's of tests coming our way so no much time.
Thanks for stopping buy.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Last Semester as a First year!!
Time has been flying so first. This is the first week of my last semester as a first year. At the end of this semester I will be bringing in my very first patient to the clinic for a FMX or full mouth Series Radiographs! I'm not sure where I'm gonna find this kind of patient but I can wait!
Keep Tuned!
Keep Tuned!
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017
WHAT A BLOODY MESS! BLOOD ALLOVER?
Today,for the first time since we started hygiene school last year September 2016 we got to explore each others mouth in sextant 5.
Its all easy and nice seeing the instructor demo how to do it and then have us the students try the same on the typodonts. Why?
1. Typodonts don't bleed
2. Typodonts do not give you feedback
3. Typodonts don't ouch when you prick them wrongly.
4. You can concentrate on checking your ergonomics for a second without looking whether your working end is buried deep in the tissue.5
5.Just because.
HOWEVER, when today we had our fellow classmates on the seat and it was time to explore a real, breathing,worried,overworked dental hygiene student it was the first sign that we meant real business.Boy! I even broke a sweat and my instructor cautioned me on being over gentle. It's the closest I ever got to see the explorer get buried way deep in the gingival tissue like that. Most times when you got to the hygienist for a cleaning you do not get to see what they do as you are the patient.
Well, today as soon as my clinic partner buried the explorer on the tissue I bled right away and it's a lot of bleeding.
I have been using a water pik floss which I was made to understand is as good as no flossing and so could have been one of the reasons for bleeding. I also I'm due for bi annual cleaning which I should get soon. So from now o will use the thread floss and watch for the results.
It's been a long day with the class running from 9:30AM to 5:30PM because we had to have a Radiology class to recover a class time we missed on Presidents day or something and by the time we were taking our last bite wings I was ready to call it a day. I'm waiting to see how my last bit wing of left molar is going to look like as I got an error message while taking it. I depressed the exposure button too quickly.
Anyone remember their first time working inside each others mouths with instruments? How was the experience?
Its all easy and nice seeing the instructor demo how to do it and then have us the students try the same on the typodonts. Why?
1. Typodonts don't bleed
2. Typodonts do not give you feedback
3. Typodonts don't ouch when you prick them wrongly.
4. You can concentrate on checking your ergonomics for a second without looking whether your working end is buried deep in the tissue.5
5.Just because.
HOWEVER, when today we had our fellow classmates on the seat and it was time to explore a real, breathing,worried,overworked dental hygiene student it was the first sign that we meant real business.Boy! I even broke a sweat and my instructor cautioned me on being over gentle. It's the closest I ever got to see the explorer get buried way deep in the gingival tissue like that. Most times when you got to the hygienist for a cleaning you do not get to see what they do as you are the patient.
Well, today as soon as my clinic partner buried the explorer on the tissue I bled right away and it's a lot of bleeding.
I have been using a water pik floss which I was made to understand is as good as no flossing and so could have been one of the reasons for bleeding. I also I'm due for bi annual cleaning which I should get soon. So from now o will use the thread floss and watch for the results.
It's been a long day with the class running from 9:30AM to 5:30PM because we had to have a Radiology class to recover a class time we missed on Presidents day or something and by the time we were taking our last bite wings I was ready to call it a day. I'm waiting to see how my last bit wing of left molar is going to look like as I got an error message while taking it. I depressed the exposure button too quickly.
Anyone remember their first time working inside each others mouths with instruments? How was the experience?
Sunday, April 30, 2017
DENTAL HYGIENE IS FOR UNDERACHIEVERS WHO COULDN'T GET INTO OTHER HEALTH CAREERS!
Some people are just plain sour or mean! Last Friday on my way from the Rad lab I happened to have had my scrubs on and stopped by at Walmart to grab some laminated binders for my notes. This particular Walmart is close to my house and I debated weather to go change from scrubs or just pass by it.
I was about to check out when I noticed a middle aged lady looking at me. We locked eyes for a moment and I never took anything of it. As usual, whenever one goes to do shopping for one thing,without a shopping list, we inevitable remember something else we needed. So there I was rushing back to grab some pens.
I got back on the line in time and guess who was standing in the line before me? Nobody but the lady again. She stood out because of the way she had her hair colored. Without as much as hello she turned to me and asked "Great Lakes Institute?" I replied with a smile and told her no. She pressed on "CNA?" Again I assumed she was asking all this because of my scrubs and I politely told her no.
To let her get me off the awkward interview I told her Fortis Institute. I thought that wou;ld do it,but boy! Was I wrong.
She went ahead to make assumption of what I study and announced it almost loudly to everyone. "Oh, so you are doing nursing? " That was enough to attract the attention of almost all the elderly shoppers who you mostly find shopping at that time of the day. At this point my patience was running out with this lady at an alarming rate. I told her an emphatic NO. I'm in Dental hygiene School followed by that look that says 'STOP ASKING ME ALL THESE STUPID QUESTIONS PAY FOR YOUR STUFF AND GET GOING'. I thought of maybe going and self checking out but I decided to wait and see her next card.
"Why would you waste your money on that?" Blurted the woman who now turned back to me with new enthusiasm as if she had just seen a real life unicorn. At this point I was almost pissed. "Because its what i like and its the best one could ever be in this life".
"You know that's not like a real dentist,right?" This woman was not about to give up.
I decided to go down to her level and piss the heck out of her at this point.
"No, it's not like a real dentist. Hygienist are in charge of dentists and we tell them what to do when they can't solve anything we are there for them"
At this point she had already paid and was now standing at the end of the queue . " My friend used to be an hygienist assistant and she left it for nursing because she wasn't getting a job and when she did she earned so little. If that what they lied to you at Fortis you better think twice. Its not a good career and is for people who cant get into things like nursing. I'm thinking of going back to school myself...."
I have no idea what she said past that for the moment she said Hygiene is for people who can't get into other programs I was on my way out and no further audience for her.
Why would anyone think like this, Ignorance? Jealousy? or just plain dump!
Are these the kind of patients waiting on us out there. In other world, she might turn out to be a very good patient. Have you had an incidence of someone with total ignorance on what hygienists do?! Let me know in the comments below.
I was about to check out when I noticed a middle aged lady looking at me. We locked eyes for a moment and I never took anything of it. As usual, whenever one goes to do shopping for one thing,without a shopping list, we inevitable remember something else we needed. So there I was rushing back to grab some pens.
I got back on the line in time and guess who was standing in the line before me? Nobody but the lady again. She stood out because of the way she had her hair colored. Without as much as hello she turned to me and asked "Great Lakes Institute?" I replied with a smile and told her no. She pressed on "CNA?" Again I assumed she was asking all this because of my scrubs and I politely told her no.
To let her get me off the awkward interview I told her Fortis Institute. I thought that wou;ld do it,but boy! Was I wrong.
She went ahead to make assumption of what I study and announced it almost loudly to everyone. "Oh, so you are doing nursing? " That was enough to attract the attention of almost all the elderly shoppers who you mostly find shopping at that time of the day. At this point my patience was running out with this lady at an alarming rate. I told her an emphatic NO. I'm in Dental hygiene School followed by that look that says 'STOP ASKING ME ALL THESE STUPID QUESTIONS PAY FOR YOUR STUFF AND GET GOING'. I thought of maybe going and self checking out but I decided to wait and see her next card.
"Why would you waste your money on that?" Blurted the woman who now turned back to me with new enthusiasm as if she had just seen a real life unicorn. At this point I was almost pissed. "Because its what i like and its the best one could ever be in this life".
"You know that's not like a real dentist,right?" This woman was not about to give up.
I decided to go down to her level and piss the heck out of her at this point.
"No, it's not like a real dentist. Hygienist are in charge of dentists and we tell them what to do when they can't solve anything we are there for them"
At this point she had already paid and was now standing at the end of the queue . " My friend used to be an hygienist assistant and she left it for nursing because she wasn't getting a job and when she did she earned so little. If that what they lied to you at Fortis you better think twice. Its not a good career and is for people who cant get into things like nursing. I'm thinking of going back to school myself...."
I have no idea what she said past that for the moment she said Hygiene is for people who can't get into other programs I was on my way out and no further audience for her.
Why would anyone think like this, Ignorance? Jealousy? or just plain dump!
Are these the kind of patients waiting on us out there. In other world, she might turn out to be a very good patient. Have you had an incidence of someone with total ignorance on what hygienists do?! Let me know in the comments below.
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
TAKING RADIOGRAPHS AND WORKING IN THE CLINIC.
Lately a lot has been going on academically and also very fast. Take for example this week; from Monday we have had exams or skills evaluation every single day and this will go on till Friday and this all amidst a lot of homework too. This is because Dental hygienists are supposed to be knowledgeable in a variety of things in order to be competent dental clinicians and also educators to their patients. The program is accelerated so a lot of work is covered in such a short time. One of our instructors actually told us that she feel that the work we cover in those two years is enough to have us awarded a bachelors degree.
So for the first time we are learning how to take dental radio-graphs (We have to avoid calling them dental X-rays ) for professionalism sake. That is in radiology 1. We had a chance to take a radio graph of anything we wanted and my specimen was so huge couldn't fit on the film( I had a rounded stone from a river) and our instructor Mrs Snyder was kind enough to let me use her ring as a specimen. I got a clear image as this time was careful enough in the darkroom to prevent any light leak which damages the film during processing. I leaned this the first time we practiced with films with no image in the dark room. and got mine messed up. Hard to believe that by end of Radiography 2 which is next semester we will be bringing in a real patient and take full mouth radiographs of them.
In pre-clinic, its been a roller-coaster with all the little fine details one has to master. Thankfully our instructors have been more than patient with everything we are doing for it takes just one small thing to mess up the whole process. Take for example the steps you have to carefully follow while donning PPE in the right format. The fun of opening the new instruments dwindled as soon as we realized they are not held the same way we hold our pens or spoon! However. the more practice we do with the instruments and mastering their names the more the fun resumes back. Well, the Gracey,Columbia,jacket and Bernhert are not names of places,things, or even people but the various instruments we are going to be using for the rest of our....not semester,lifes actually.
We have learned to set up units, tear them down and even take vitals and even conduct extra-oral examinations on each other. It's so much fun working in the clinic and learning everything new everyday as no day is exactly like the other one.
Im going to do a more detailed posts on the instruments and the radiography machines soon as they deserve a full post. The second years are already preparing for their board exams as they graduate this summer, hard to believe that next summer is going to be our turn.
PS: One of the faithful followers of this blog is a dental hygiene student from Jamaica and she will probably be writing as a guest author soon to tell us of her experiences over there. Thanks Stephanie and good luck!
So for the first time we are learning how to take dental radio-graphs (We have to avoid calling them dental X-rays ) for professionalism sake. That is in radiology 1. We had a chance to take a radio graph of anything we wanted and my specimen was so huge couldn't fit on the film( I had a rounded stone from a river) and our instructor Mrs Snyder was kind enough to let me use her ring as a specimen. I got a clear image as this time was careful enough in the darkroom to prevent any light leak which damages the film during processing. I leaned this the first time we practiced with films with no image in the dark room. and got mine messed up. Hard to believe that by end of Radiography 2 which is next semester we will be bringing in a real patient and take full mouth radiographs of them.
In pre-clinic, its been a roller-coaster with all the little fine details one has to master. Thankfully our instructors have been more than patient with everything we are doing for it takes just one small thing to mess up the whole process. Take for example the steps you have to carefully follow while donning PPE in the right format. The fun of opening the new instruments dwindled as soon as we realized they are not held the same way we hold our pens or spoon! However. the more practice we do with the instruments and mastering their names the more the fun resumes back. Well, the Gracey,Columbia,jacket and Bernhert are not names of places,things, or even people but the various instruments we are going to be using for the rest of our....not semester,lifes actually.
We have learned to set up units, tear them down and even take vitals and even conduct extra-oral examinations on each other. It's so much fun working in the clinic and learning everything new everyday as no day is exactly like the other one.
Im going to do a more detailed posts on the instruments and the radiography machines soon as they deserve a full post. The second years are already preparing for their board exams as they graduate this summer, hard to believe that next summer is going to be our turn.
PS: One of the faithful followers of this blog is a dental hygiene student from Jamaica and she will probably be writing as a guest author soon to tell us of her experiences over there. Thanks Stephanie and good luck!
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