 Hello everybody Andrea Maesca here with dental tutoring. So I just did a video for new hygienists how to stay organized but it was kind of a long one and I just talked about how to stay organized with your trace. Okay so if you haven't seen that yet have a look at that but in this video I would like to talk about a couple tips actually how to sort of help yourself if you're a new hygienist especially but how to help yourself feel more comfortable quicker and not feel so overwhelmed because we were all new out at some point too right and even now that I'm a temp I do work in several different offices and I feel new almost new every single time because it's a new office so things that help me to not feel as anxious and to not feel as overwhelmed is first and foremost which I did talk about in the last one but is to stay organized so have your trays set up and ready to go at least for the morning if you can depending on the the office. Some offices you might have seven different trays some offices you might only have three and some offices you might have four some offices you might have only two hand handpieces to work with so you have to keep sterilizing them some offices you have ten handpieces so organize as much as you can so what I like to do is put my instruments on the tray put floss put the gauze put the proficup handpiece put the proficup too put the polishing on there that I am going to use the sea liva ejector the air water syringe tip which could be in with your instrument sometimes it is sometimes it's not and the bib so I hope I didn't forget anything some offices have the headrest cover some offices don't so I'll put that on the tray too so I put on as much as I think that I'm going to use for that patient for certain patients you may need one thing whereas for other patients you may not if you notice in the chart your patient has a lot of stain then I'll put a piezo tip on that tray too expecting that I'll be able to use it now that's another thing so to stay organized is to look through your charts if you have the time again every office is different sometimes you're allowed to come in half an hour earlier sometimes it's 20 minutes sometimes it's 10 minutes so if it's 10 minutes for example you won't be able to look through the charts ahead of time because you'll be spending that time setting everything up if it's a half an hour you do have time to look through your charts so I do suggest to at least look through the charts of the patients you have in the morning and I like to use sticky notes which I don't have here at the moment but that's what I like to use for any additional information that I don't want to forget so let's say for my third patient there's notes saying that they came in two weeks ago because they had a sore tooth on the upper left well I will make sure to ask that patient how the tooth is now is it still sore is it feeling better is it feeling worse is it feeling the same you know so I'll make sure to ask these questions because even if you're new you don't look new if you sound like you know what you're talking about right even me as a temp you know all have patients kind of look at me like oh are you new here and I'll say well yes I'm new here but I have 13 years experience just so you know there's no harm in being new there's no harm in having no experience but for some reason patients look at me funny sometimes they think I'm super young and they think I'm just fresh out of school but again there's nothing wrong with that it's just kind of how you read the patients right having that said though if you're new if you're 20 years old you know 23 whatever it doesn't matter okay but some patients just so you know will look at you and go oh wow you look really young oh well thank you yes I am or you know just respond however you want to but there's no harm in saying yes I am new here um I've never had somebody ask me how much experience I have but you could always say oh yeah you know I've seen at least 200 patients which I suppose if you're new you would not be seeing 200 patients but you know you do not have to say to them yes I'm new this is my first day you're my first patient in the real world you know don't say that there's nothing wrong with that but don't say that because it might make them uncomfortable say things like um let's say if they're asking you oh how come my crown is still sore after I've had it on for two months you know you may have no idea but say things to them like oh you know what we hear that all the time that is normal it depends on how the tube was before you had the crown on you know so you saying oh yeah you know this happens all the time that's normal that already tells them that you know what you're doing even if you don't understand even if you have no idea but talk like you feel comfortable so that brings me to my next point which I should have mentioned before all of this but just because you are new talk as if you're comfortable be confident okay even if you're not sound like you are and then every little thing that that the patient says you know add to it if they say to you yeah you know I brush twice a day but I don't floss ever I know I'm supposed to floss but I don't say things to them like oh and you know what you're not the first person that I've heard that doesn't like to floss but just so you know that's the only way to get the plaque out from in between the teeth because by looking at your chart your cavities all seem to be in between the teeth the ones you have had so I know you don't like to floss but I would suggest flossing at least a couple times a week to start you know you saying things like that makes it sound like you know what you're doing it doesn't make it sound like you are new always refer to their chart you know say things like well last time the other hygienist had made a note in your chart that you have more plaque on the left hand side so let's see how things look today and that's also making conversations so that's another point you are new so you might not know how to make conversation that's the easiest way to do it it's just sort of answer back with things that they say and in the worst case you know talk about the weather say isn't this weather crazy we had plus 15 last week yet it's minus three today and it's snowing this is odd you know make conversation it doesn't matter um let's see what what other tips can I give you for a newbie there's nothing worse than standing around doing nothing so if you have a patient that does not show up offer help um go to the um front and ask if they need any help with um pulling the charts or if they need help putting away charts um if you're sterilizing instruments ask if the assistants need you to clean their room for them you know always ask um if they need help because that helps a lot so then that way you're not just kind of standing around doing nothing it's nice sometimes to just kind of sit and do nothing but um especially if you're new you want to look as if you're a team player and to help out so um as always I tried to keep this video shorter than my like half an hour talks but I think it's um about 15 minutes now I'm not even sure so sorry about that guys but I do hope that this helps some sort of basic tips um to help you guys feel more comfortable and on a side note it's normal to be anxious okay I have lots of experience and every time I work in a new office I feel a little bit anxious because it's it's a new office new new staff new patients you want to show them you're a good dental hygienist but you have so many things to think about so especially if you're new out of school it's even harder because because the staff knows you are new everybody knows that you are new the patients though they don't necessarily know so just act like you are confident act like you know what you're doing and and soon enough you will um when I first started I think it took me a good two weeks to feel comfortable in an office so it takes time if you guys need help let me know um feel free to comment below and thank you so much for watching