My Clinical Experience

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My first day of clinical lab was very memorable. I arrived on campus early and was prepared for a long day of rigorous works. It seem like everyone in section three and four were prepare and on time. However, no professor show up. I panic because I was anxious and fearful that I was in wrong room or maybe the time change to 8:00 am. I waited till 9:00am to be place in a lab room with no professor.
This gave section three and four time to study and bond. We all shared the same frustration and connected over this issues. I was able to finish some of the reading for module one. I also set an appointment for my first exam. It was discouraged for the first day of clinical lab to have so many problems.
We spent the rest of clinical lab on reading and measuring blood pressure. It was thrilling because I never use the blood pressure cuff on anyone before. I didn’t even know how to put it on someone. My few time with a blood pressure cuff was at the hospital and Walmart. I never wait the whole process before, therefore, I was complete clueless. With the clinical movie clip, I was able to put the cuff on correctly but it took a few times of watching other classmates attempting this skill. …show more content…

It took some practices to know where to place my index and middle fingers to find the pulse. There was one person with a very difficult pulse. I have to put a lot more pressure to feel the pulse against my index and middle finger. My next challenge was hearing the systolic pulse. I can always find diastolic pulse with ease but my systolic number was always too low to be accurate. It was maddening after so many time of getting the wrong systolic number. The people from my section was tutoring me on finding the systolic pulse. They also shared the same problem with me. It took a long time for me to get the correct systolic number. I picked up some tips from them like release the node very slowly and

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