abriggs
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So, I'm only in my 3rd week of my 8 week course studying to be an EMT. I really love it; I mean really. But last night, I had the hardest time with patient assessments that for the first time, I left class feeling like an idiot, and that I might not make it through. We are in teams of three, and we have to make up random scenarios, medical or trauma, the patient gives us a couple details about the scene, and the other two act as the EMTs. After doing this about 6 times (each of us being the patient twice), I am still always forgetting to either ask the patient's name, or I try to do a focused exam on a fake broken leg before I do an initial assessment, or I forget the "P" in SAMPLE history... It was awful. On Saturday, we're doing this all day - 8 hours of practice assessing patients, and now I'm feeling like a freaking idiot. Does it get better the more you do it? I feel like I have to keep looking at my notes a hundred times to not forget what I want to ask, and the other two in my group are having a much easier time than I (although one of them was an EMT before)... I don't know, is it just stage fright, is it just cause it's new? Maybe I just had a bad day... ugh. I'm feeling very crappy about it. <_<