Today was the first day of my clinicals. A day that I was both dreading and excited for. Dreading because I am a bit of a shy person and am very uncomfortable in new situations. Plus I had a pretty poor experience doing my clinicals for xray. I was obviously excited though because this would be the beginning of real world scanning, which would be much different than the lab scanning. On the first day I met with my clinical instructor who began my new student orientation. I got to sit in on a few outpatient exams. We then did a tour of the hospital and some boring paperwork to get things started. She appears to be very helpful and eager to share her knowledge with me. This is a huge change over what I had experienced doing my xray clinicals at Banner Mesa/Gateway. The CI was for the most part very unhelpful and uninvolved.
It was crazy watching her scan her first patient. I believe that I watched her do venous doppler on lower legs. She was ridiculously fast at scanning and controlling the machine. It was very impressive for me and gave me something to strive for in the future. During her scanning she also took time to explain some of what she was doing. This I found to be both very interesting and helpful to me.
I also got a chance to meet some of the other sonographers, who all appear very friendly and helpful. I am hoping this will be a much better overall experience than I have had in the past. I can't wait until I am able to get more hands on experience.
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