9/14/09

Today in clinic we learned to take vitals on each other and continued to practice doing health histories. It was a good refresher to take blood pressure. I have not taken one since highschool. I found that most of the students were around the normal ranges. I second guessed myself a couple times, and I think that with practice I will have more confidence in my readings. I'm sure my family is going to love me practicing on them all weekend. I think it is very useful doing a health history every once in a while to keep us up to speed when we really have to do one on our pts. I would like to go over the conditions that premedication is needed a little more. It sounds like it is always changing so I would like to get updated on that. I passed off my postioning PE. I think it will be very useful once we get started on the typodont or on real patients. Overall, today was a good productive day!