Hey everyone, 2nd semester junior here in a 2 year program, and my class is nearing the end of this semester in a little over a month from now.
We need 14 comps by the end of this semester, and I'm sitting at 10. I had 11, but my abdomen KUB comp was pulled by my clinical instructor because there are still things regarding positioning and centering and eval criteria/anatomy that I just don't seem to be getting the grasp of. To make matters worse, every single time my clinical instructor is at my site (which btw is every single week/every single clinical day) I get stressed out and anxious because I don't want to make too many mistakes. I've improved a ton with taking patient history and setting the room up and developing a work flow, and both the instructor and program director have said that the techs like my personality and have seen a vast improvement in my clinical performance now as opposed to several months ago. I've come out of my shell a whole lot and never decline doing any procedures that are given to me no matter what they are.
The main issue is, whenever I finish a procedure on a patient and then do image critiques/reject analyses w/ my clinical instructor, she asks me something relating to it in a way that I honestly don't expect and it throws me off and I end up drawing a blank mentally and not knowing how to answer, resulting in uncomfortable embarrassing silence. This has happened on a few procedures that I've comped on, even though I'm fairly knowledgeable w/ positioning and centering, the eval criteria that we go over ends up ruining it all because at that moment I just can't remember what the exact eval criteria is for that specific procedure I just did even though I did everything else right.
Last week my instructor threatened to pull another comp (foot) because I forgot the angulation for AP foot (10° cephalad), and in my head I immediately shut down, got discouraged, and went to break to sit down and seriously consider quitting the program altogether. This has happened a few times this semester alone. I do pretty good on the classroom side of things w/ quizzes and tests and assignments in general. I also feel a lot more confident and sure of myself whenever the instructor isn't around and I'm with a tech. It's when I'm with the instructor who's real nitpicky that I begin forgetting things and second-guessing myself constantly and sweating profusely.
I feel like I still have enough time to get these 4 remaining comps for this semester, but frankly my clinical instructor told me if I don't have them by the end of this semester and still keep making the same mistakes, I'm gonna have to restart the program with the incoming juniors, which I honestly don't want to do. All of this has been weighing on my mind and stressing me out to the point where I can't even concentrate sometimes. There's a bit of favoritism in my class too, so that doesn't help. All I can say is I really am trying my absolute best.
What should I do? If I'm at fault, what do you suggest?
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