 So today I'm on the way to Coronas Court. I'm literally just about to leave the house. I've sort of tried to make an effort. I've got my shirt on and my jacket. A shirt dress actually. What do you even wear to Coronas Court? Are you supposed to dress up? I'm supposed to wear my uniform. I don't even know. Hopefully this is okay as long as it's not casual and hoodies and things I think I'm all right. So we'll find out when we get there. I don't think I'll be able to vlog inside but anyway I'll let you know how it goes when I come out and update you on my day and how amazing it's been. Coronas Court. I'll do a little talk-through I think from start to finish on what happened and what experienced and all that jazz. So I got to Coronas Court around 20 to 10. I was 20 minutes early for the session and there was already people there. There was a family of the deceased that were sitting and waiting to go in and a couple of other student nurses. So it was nice to have a couple of students with me and sat with me so that was quite nice. And you feel so nervous. You're sat there and you feel nervous for the family that are sat there. You're thinking oh my god are they gonna object to me being here and it's like this really weird nervous feeling. It's the same sort of feeling like you know when you go through the airport security and you know that you're not guilty of anything but you walk through and you're panicking you're thinking oh my god I'm gonna get stopped I'm gonna get searched oh my god what if what if this what if that and you don't know why but we always feel guilty why do we always feel guilty. I had a similar situation I'll tell you a funny story sorry I'm going off track now but when I was coming back from Austria we had a coach trip and on the way back coming into England I got stopped by the security to check the passports and things like that and the guy just said to me so where have you come from where have you just been and I was like what why are you asking me questions. Obviously I didn't say that to him. I was thinking this in my head and then I started panicking in my heart started going oh my god where have I just been I don't even know where I've just been. Think Claire think think think and I literally I said to him oh my god I can't think my mind's gone blank I've literally just come back from holiday but I can't tell you where. I started laughing I was like I'm so sorry and luckily the person that I'd gone with was like oh we've just been to Austria and I was like we've been to Austria actually no because we stopped over in Germany on the way back so actually technically we've just literally come from Germany but then Austria before that and then he was like how long have you been there for and I was like seven days I think and then and then he was like so are we there for business pleasure blah blah blah I was like what is with these questions and makes you feel guilty makes you think oh my god I'm guilty of something what have I done what have I done in Austria did I drop litter did I do this no I'm fine I'm good just routine questions to make sure I'm not a suspect or something of that sort but anyway why do we always feel so nervous and guilty for things and it's weird why why do if you've got the answer tell me why why do we feel nervous with this so I was sat in coroner's court sorry I got sidetracked so I was sat in coroner's court panicking nervous I was sweating I was checking my phone I was scrolling frantically because I didn't know what to do with myself and then we got called in so then we were told that we had to sit on the back three rows so we sat at the back some family sat at the front bit and then somewhere on the side bit there was quite a lot of family there and then there was a doctor there there was a police woman there I was like oh um and again I feel guilty I'm like oh my god whatever done and then the coroner sat there in front of you and he just explains a little bit about coroner's court and what he does he says so basically if someone has died from anything other than unnatural causes it has to go to coroner's court so that they can decide the cause of the death basically and they're there not to point fingers at anyone or anything like that it's not a murder case sort of place it's more just to work out the how the why's the what's the where it happened the time it happened they have to confirm a lot of things so the name of the deceased the date of birth of the deceased the date the person died the medical cause of the death the howls and why's and where of the cause of death so that's that that was his main job so it's sort of fitting together pieces of a jigsaw to make a complete picture and he can write his piece for the death certificate it can all be put to rest the coroner was really really lovely he was really empathetic to the family he explained everything in layman's terms he said i'm going to read out this post mortem and there's a lot of medical jargon and things like that so it's not very good so i'm just going to summarize it for you into a more understandable way if that makes sense and so he was really really good like that and he was very he was he may try to make them comfortable and not panic and try to reassure them when they were upset and things like that he was just really good the way he handled it was lovely really appreciated him so after he's explained what his role is in coroner's court and what's going to happen he calls upon a family member just to give a brief description sort of characteristic of the deceased just to bring a little bit of i think sentimental value to it so we can get a little bit of a background of the deceased and how that person was before they passed and everybody's under oath so even if even though it's coroner's court it's not like a big jewellery service or anything like that like people have to swear by the bible or if you're not religious you don't do the bible you just say there's that there's that phrase isn't there that's in all the movies that you watch and actually they do it in real life something like i declared that what i say is going to be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth uh as far as my knowledge or something like that something like that um you know the spiel but it was just weird to see it in real life being done because you don't sort of think of those things that you see in films and things and just to see that really happening in real life it's like wow this is so strange it's like so surreal and then after that the after they spoke to the family and everything they call in the doctor so or well whatever witness is waiting so it could be the doctor it could be the police it could be if there's a paramedic or someone there there's there's a nurse any sort of person that's waiting to be a witness or to to give the evidence then they'll call those up to this the stand so then they go up to the witness stand and they swear on the oaf and then they just give their versions of events so like a timeline of what happened until that person died so it's sort of retracing the steps leading up to what's caused the death if that makes sense so they'll pick certain dates like okay so what happened on the first of april just talked was about that and then they'll say okay this person come into the dot let's just say doctor surgery i'm just saying this as um this isn't the actual story because i don't want to go into details of the actual story because confidentiality and everything so i'm just going to make up a story so let's just say this person visited the doctor on the first of april to get some form of medication or help or review or blood pressure something like that so then they'll just explain what happened on that day what services they provided to that patient any input that they think might be helpful to what the cause of the death might be that's what the role is if that makes sense i hope that makes sense and then once all of the witnesses have given their little pieces of evidence to sort of piece it all together the coroner will then go over the post mortem and what the results were from the pathology so when someone passes away they do the post mortem to find out the cause of the death and if there's anything else going on underlying so they'll do from head to toe assessment if there's any bruising acerations on the body anything abnormal or suspicious they will point that out at that point and then they'll do an internal so they'll check all the organs if there's any heart failure cancers tumors anything like that check all that and then they'll take also a urine and a blood sample from the body to check sort of medications chemical imbalances all that sort of thing so then they'll have a doctor review of that so they're sort of their own conclusion to why that patient might have died if that makes sense or that person might have died that's sort of quite a good bulk of the evidence i think because that's quite hardcore evidence that they go on so then once all the evidence has been given and this timeline of events has happened the coroner will say okay well so we're going to come to the conclusion they don't call it a verdict anymore it's just a conclusion he says that's what he told us anyway so then the coroner comes to a conclusion and it'll be confirming the name the date of birth date of death time of death and the place of death and then an overall conclusion on how that person has passed away and then he says to the family you'll get one copy of the death certificate sent to you would you like to collect it or emailed or any sort of way that you want to do speak to us afterwards and then he just asks if they'd like to input anything else at the end and that's it so what i have i don't want to i can't go into too much detail about what i personally witnessed today and just because of confidentiality so i just want to just think i just want to kind of not summarise but i want to point out a couple of things that i picked up on today in the court firstly it was really emotional it was quite an upsetting case the first one more so than the second one purely because the person that passed away had committed suicide and there was a lot of mental health problems and the family were really upset the um they weren't just upset but they were angry and yeah they were just it was really heartbreaking um the family were there and it just it made me think that there's more that needs to be done for mental health patients because listening to all the evidence from the people that were there and then also from the family side of it like it was really interesting sad heartbreaking but interesting for me as a student nurse to listen to the family speak and for them to say do you know what there's not enough was done for our family member and more needs to be done and i think there is massive gaps somewhere in mental health in fact a lot of probably a lot of gaps in mental health the services that are being run at the minute there's just there needs to be more of them there needs to be so much more people to help people with mental health issues and i'm now thinking i need i feel like i need to do something i need to help people with mental health i need to create something or my mind's just it's working at 200 miles an hour and i'm just thinking what can i do what can i set up what can i think of that's going to be a massive benefit to people with mental health that's going to take the time that i can take the time out to listen to people with mental health and make a massive impact on someone's life so that it doesn't get to that point doesn't get to that point where someone wants to end their life i get really emotional about these things i'm so sorry but it's just it's so sad to listen and think you know what more needs to be done for people and it's heartbreaking and if i can just think of something or do something to help someone um to save a life i just i need to do it and i don't know how something needs to be added to the services that are already there and i'm going to be rattling my brains for it so overall just to summarize coroner's core it's an absolutely incredible experience i think every student nurse um or even every healthcare professional should get in contact with your local coroner's court and get in there and sit and observe and just see what goes on because you never know you might be called up that one day you could be that person giving evidence and it's just really insightful to go in and know what's going to happen when you're in there and to be honest it does put even though i was nervous at the start and it was a bit emotional but it does put your mind at ease so now i think if something was to happen in a ward or something i had to go and give evidence i'm gonna be okay with it yeah i'll be a little bit nerve-racking but because i've seen it and i've witnessed what happens now you've got that little bit more knowledge about what goes on and you're not under trial or anything like that's nothing scary i think everyone should experience it and just prepare themselves for if what if that was to happen and what if you were to take stance really really good for your knowledge and i've learned so much today it's really made me think as you can see and yeah so if you haven't got any plans to go to coroner's court please look into it go and book in find out where your local one is and email somebody get down there get have have a look i'll put some links below about coroner's court and what to expect and things i'm gonna have a look and search for you so i'll put the links below and hopefully that gives you a bit of insight to what coroner's is and hopefully you're gonna go book it and i'll see you all next time