goal: assess my new pt., take necessary radiographs, finish od,
Ok so today started great. My pt showed up RIGHT on time and i am so grateful and we started looking into his HHx. He had a few things to be careful of-like a latex allergy! and then I talked to him about taking a panorex x-ray. First of all he has never had one, second-he has some broken teeth and we were looking for abcesses and such.. we also took one pa and some bwx. I felt really awesome about the 4bwx until processing. I turned the light on after loading them in and realized (in horror) that i had left 2 out!! they were ruined. I then took the pano and guess what? I messed that up too. I totally checked to make sure that the film was on the L1 part.. but when it went around the head somehow something got shifted and it wasn't on the L1 and the xrays went all over except on the film.. bad.. so we retook the bwx and left it.. so much for my efforts in helping my pt be updated on his xrays.
Probing is getting faster and faster for me (which is rewarding) and we were able to find that he is a class 2 pt. I am soo grateful!! He will be a great pt because he is kind and understanding and he will be a great exam pt too. I just have to calm down and take each thing as it comes.
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I totally am stressing about the pano - We have never really taken one on that machine, I am just hoping that it is like the one I had at my work and that I can remember what to do ... maybe you can show me some pointers before I take one....
just be sure to put it right on the L1.. that was my big mistake
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