It was not bad AT ALL. My first Patient yesterday was wonderful and my experience was as well. My partner and I worked great as a team!. First we got the patient in the chair and did medical history. My partner inputed the info in axium while I sat with the patient and tried to cheer her up and keep her calm. I took automated vitals and did intraoral and extraoral exam. My partner did the probing depths and recession while I inputted the info in the computer. Our professor told us to go ahead and clean her 11 teeth :) and then we realized that there were no x rays in her chart in axium. We were told by someone that we should just reschedule for her to come back and get xrays and a cleaning done. I ran downstairs trying to get a copy of her previous charts to know when the last time she had xrays was. . . and the chartroom was closed. So. There was a little miss communication as to what we were supposed to do about the radiographs. Our patient is going to reschedule to come back and just get the x-rays and cleaning. I was a little frustrated because we could have easily gotten our patient done. All in all it was a great learning experience. I want to get more proficient with axium. I think when I learn how to imput everything it will be a breeze! I realized how much I am going to LOVE this and love my patients.
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ReplyDeleteI feel the same way about not being comfortable with axium yet. But, when I see how fast the seniors are at entering the info and going from screen to screen, I know we will get there, too. I was a little frustrated after todays appt because I thought for sure we'd finish...only 8 teeth to scale! We finished the charting and the cleaning, but there wasn't time for xrays, polishing, or OHI. I know we'll get better at getting things done. In the meantime, let's keep learning and improving and, oh yeah, ENJOYING our time here!