Blood pressure and extraoral examinations

My goal for Monday clinic was to learn to take vital signs on my pod partners. This was quite difficult. Taking my partners respiration and pulse was fairly easy, but learning to take blood pressure was a little challenging. It is hard to sometimes find the patient's pulse and hard to manipulate all of the equipment to get the readings. This is going to take some practice for me I am use to taking blood pressure's digitally. It will be fun to bring my blood pressure cuff and stethoscope home and practice on my family.
Today in clinic I learned how to do an extraoral examination on my pod partner. I have seen this done many times in the office that I work at, but it was exciting to be able to actually do this exam on someone for the first time. I learned how to palpitate and look for abnormalities in the different areas of the head and neck. This went well but will require a lot of practice also. We also learned about fulcrums and how to use our mirrors. Overall I feel that my clinic experience this week has been fun and that I have learned alot.