Mock Board

What an experience!  I didn't "pass" the mock board, but it was great to see how the boards will actually go.  It was really stressful.  I was so glad that I got mine over with in the morning.  It gave me the afternoon to think through how it went and realized that it was a good experience.  I also choose a harder classification of patient for this exam.  So, over all I felt that I didn't do too bad.  I ended up missing 4 areas, my x-rays weren't sufficient because my patient is pregnant, and I missed one probe spot.  I felt pretty confident about my probe readings, but I will need to be more careful next time.  We will have 2 more mock board experiences in the spring.  I hope that they go better.

Now I need to talk about the blu boa.  I still haven't decided if I like it very much.  Each patient that I have used it on, it hasn't been efficient at removing the water from their mouth.  My mock board patient was choking on the water because it wasn't removing all of it.  It has been more efficient for me to have my patient hold the saliva ejector and have me pause periodically to have them suction.