Today was going good until my afternoon pt that I had to numb up. I had was finishing her today and I knew that I needed to do the Left PSA (which scared me) and the Left IA (which did not). But I gave the Left PSA with no real problems; it was the stupid IA that got me. I went in to site of penetration and hit osseous like five times, so I withdrew and aimed higher. When I went in the second time I was able to get to site of deposition but when I was aspirating my stupid harpoon got disengaged! Then I had one more try to really go in and get her numb, but I wasn’t too scared because I knew from the second try where to go exactly. But when I got to site of deposition for the third try, I got a freaking positive aspiration and didn’t get to numb my pt! So the cleaning was really uncomfortable for her and me and I felt bad the whole time, thinking that my pt thought I was an idiot. Well…. I am starting to freak out because I still need to take my LA clinical board but this just shot down my confidence.
Oh, I'm sorry Kayla. Why couldn't you keep trying?
ReplyDeleteI have had the same thing happen. On my patient they were worried that she would get trismus so I had to stop trying. Honestly, Kayla I think just some patient's anatomy just make it much harder on us, and those patients will need some getting used to and much more experience!
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