2nd MockBoard

Well I failed my second mockboard today, but looking on the positive side my score was 27 points higher than last time, so if I can continue to increase on each exam I should pass boards with flying colors.
Today started out as a nightmare. My patient cancelled 5 minutes after she should have arrived. I finally got someone in an hour late. My scale time was cut about 40 minutes and I was so flustered and shaky. When I gave my injection I was shaking so much from all the adrenaline pumping through my veins. I finally calmed down and began cleaning. My patient bleed like crazy and unfortunately the time I had to clean went way to fast and I didn't get the time I really needed to take a breather and go back in and feel with my explorer.
Even though I failed today I am very happy I got a patient in my chair and I got the experience again to clean someone that has very hard tenacious calculus. Even though I have seen class III's and IV' since the last mockboard I don't feel any of them have had the hard calculus like these patients have had.
I am looking forward to the next mockboard and hope I can get better and my patient will not cancel or be late.

I was really nervous to go back to the VA after a long Christmas break, but it went well. I had two patients that were class V. They were both very nice and made the day go fast and it was fun. Today I saw my special needs patient, I gave her Nitrous Oxide, I wasn't planning on doing it so I hadn't reviewed my PE so I was bummed I couldn't pass it off because I needed help remembering how to turn it on. She was a great patient and seemed very relaxed to be on nitrous compared to last time when she was very jumpy.

Spring Semester Senior Year

Today is our first day of clinic of our final semester until we graduate! We are learning taleval before our patients show up. Today I have a 1A and class 4 scheduled I hope to start this semester out right both my patients show up and I can remember how to do everything. So far this semester I am feeling a little overwhelmed with signing up for boards and feeling like I have so much to still study and I am very worried about clinicals because I have only done injections on one patient.