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Hello everyone,
I'm a third year student about to start my second clinical experience in a month and I am asking for tips and advice because I want to make it better than my first clinical experience. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed my first clinical experience a lot and I learned a ton, but I feel I wasn't given as much independence from CI and I struggled a lot with initial evaluations. Going into this second CE, they're going to expect me to be more independent and I'm really nervous that I will struggle. Also, it's been awhile since I treated a patient as my first CE was last July and I haven't been able to practice much since school shut down back in April.
My biggest concern going into this second CE is IEs. With IEs, I felt I got flustered and disorganized because I think my mindset wasn't totally right. Many thoughts were running through my head and I tended to miss some simple things during IEs because I think I kept trying to figure what is wrong with the patient in front of me and it made me nervous that I couldn't figure it out.
Does anyone have advice/tips on IEs? What is your mindset going into it? How do you keep yourself organized? How do you keep yourself calm during the very important first visit with a patient?
Thank you and I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy.
I'm a third year student about to start my second clinical experience in a month and I am asking for tips and advice because I want to make it better than my first clinical experience. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed my first clinical experience a lot and I learned a ton, but I feel I wasn't given as much independence from CI and I struggled a lot with initial evaluations. Going into this second CE, they're going to expect me to be more independent and I'm really nervous that I will struggle. Also, it's been awhile since I treated a patient as my first CE was last July and I haven't been able to practice much since school shut down back in April.
My biggest concern going into this second CE is IEs. With IEs, I felt I got flustered and disorganized because I think my mindset wasn't totally right. Many thoughts were running through my head and I tended to miss some simple things during IEs because I think I kept trying to figure what is wrong with the patient in front of me and it made me nervous that I couldn't figure it out.
Does anyone have advice/tips on IEs? What is your mindset going into it? How do you keep yourself organized? How do you keep yourself calm during the very important first visit with a patient?
Thank you and I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy.