Each week, we are required to fill out a self-evaluation of our progress in lecture and in the clinical setting. We all stress out, hoping that our performance was satisfactory in our instructor's eyes. Since I had a difficult patient last week that I had felt I did pretty good with.. I gave myself all S (satisfactory) in all of the categories. I didn't make any mistakes, and did the best that I could with a dying patient (who passed over last weekend). We give this "tool" as well as a myriad of other paperwork for our clinical prep to our instructor to review and comment upon.
Now to toot my own horn :) I got my self-evaluation back with not 1, not 2, but 3 E's (for excellent). Yeah, I think I just grew about 3 inches lol. No one has ever mentioned getting an excellent in clinicals before, so maybe they were just afraid to say anything, like me. Some students can be so touchy when others do better, sometimes it is just easier to play things off. But to know that I did excellent in critical thinking, prioritizing care, and discussing scientfic rationales for treatment and planned medical care made my damn week.
Oh and I was sure to thank my ICU cohorts for all of their assistance and teaching so that I was able to competently care for that patient. They deserve huge kudos for contributing to my educational efforts :)
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