Mockboard #2

     One more clinical mockboard down, one more to go!  I felt like I was more confused and nervous for this mockboard than I was for the first one last semester.  I'm just glad it's over.  My patient was a few minutes late and I started to panic wondering what I was going to do if I didn't have a patient.  Finally the patient arrival indicator turned to yellow! 
     I got him checked in and got topical on the injection sites.  I found an instructor to come watch while I gave the injections and then I contaminated the needle by touching the patent bib.  Darn!  I had two syringes set up but I didn't have another long needle so I had to get up and go get another one and then wait for another instructor.  Note to self: have an extra needle at my station so I don't have to get up and get another one.  He had so much calculus and I was having a hard time removing some of it.  I was running out of time so I finished up as good as I could and then took him to the front desk. 
     When the student examiner brought him back to me I had missed four areas.  More than I wanted to miss but I was surprised that it wasn't more.  I had missed all the distals on the lower right side.  Alexader came over to help me and she asked me how I was sitting and instrumenting those areas.  I showed her and guess what...I had been sitting in the wrong position the whole time!  No wonder I couldn't get those areas clean.  I need to remember that for scaling the distal buccals of the lower right you can sit at the eleven o'clock position. 
     I am grateful for the mockboard experiences and how great our instructors are.  I wouldn't want to go into the clinical board not having the experience of how the whole process works.  Good luck Thursday girls!!!