 hey everyone and welcome back to another vlog you're gonna have to excuse this it's my day off so i'm in like proper chill out mess mode also please excuse if you hear any rain and wind in the background it's because you're on my window ledge and the rain might hit the window so it'll give a nice soothing effect hopefully to the video we'll see so it is the first of may you can see my little thing from there i do not know it's a new month new month guys new adventures new goals set yourself some targets for the month what you're going to achieve this month other than covid for getting covid right now what you're going to do this month let me know comment below whatever do what you do i've actually got a very good feeling about this month i don't know why but i feel really jolly and positive about this month i'm really sorry i must really annoy people at how positive i am i'm so sorry but yeah i've got a really good feeling about may i think things are going to look up hopefully not relax any measures or anything because we do not need that right now but i think things are going to look up i think this is going to be the start of a really good month and hopefully the rest of the year can go well fingers crossed this week i have had my usual blood test wound management injections to oh i had actually a new injection that i hadn't given before but i have seen this been done before i did the e-learning for it i did all of my online research for it i even watched like a demonstration video for it just to know what i'm doing with the injection but obviously i'm a nurse i'm trained to do injections injections as what we did at university i did it on placements so i can do injections it's just this particular medication i hadn't given before so i just wanted to learn a little bit more about it before i give it because as a nurse we have to understand what we're giving and why we're giving it and the contraindications and side effects and all that so i did all of my research before giving this injection and it was a really nasty injection to give but this particular injection was a really the liquid um was a really thick glukey it was like syrup injections oh it was horrible and you sort of have to give it over two minutes you have to really time it um so that was really really interesting it was very good for my learning and my knowledge i'm sorry if you can hear dylan in the background i don't know he's on the floor i'll just say you can't see him i don't know where he is he's on the floor puffing and puffing um yeah so it was a very nasty injection to give however i enjoyed giving it because it was something new and i think it kind of went quite well for the first time i've given that injection and i had the time in between my patients to actually research into it so i was quite i'm quite proud of myself for that so just some advice to any of you out there if you're given a medication make sure you know all of these things make sure you know the dose the side effects contra indications cautions everything to do with that medication because you need to know it before you give it you make you need to make sure that it's safe to give you can't just assume that because it's been prescribed it's okay you have to be that second checker it's not just down to the doctor it's down to you um and this is why we have to learn medications at university and know the actions of the medications and things like that so just make sure that you're being safe and sensible patient safety has to come first with all of these things and you are just as as accountable for giving that medication because you should be knowing these things before giving it so yes i know you're all amazing anyway and do this anyway but just yeah to advise anyone that doesn't know this like if you haven't started your nurse training or anything like that um just a little tip just look up your medications and know your medications my next little moment of the week which this is the first time um no it's not the first time but this was the the first thing that's really stood out for me since i've started my new job so as you know i started the third of february in my gp role and everything's been a little bit uncertain and stuff with covid 19 my course has been put back so i'm having to wait to do that now it's been proposed till september anyway i went off on a tangent that's not what i want to tell you so basically i have felt very useless i think i've said this in a previous vlog how i feel like i don't feel like i'm doing enough or even though i am i'm doing enough but um there's been patients that have asked me things and i've been like oh god i don't know and then it's really knocked my confidence a little bit but this week i've had a patient i can't go into too much details because of confidentiality again but i had a certain patient that come in they were just coming in for a blood test but when i looked into the notes and the consultations before this patient come in there was a little bit more to the story and she was having some um symptoms these symptoms are something that i know about i know i know something um and that's only because of my sexual health and family planning planning experience so i was really well prepared for her when she came in because i was thinking oh could be this could be that could be this i wonder if anyone spoke to her about this so i sat her down and i did the bloods and just to take her mind off the bloods because she was quite very very anxious she was anxious about blood testing and covid everything that was going on with her as well in her own life she was very anxious so i really wanted to put her at rest i wanted to take her mind off it and i wanted to communicate with her properly about what was going on and the different options she might have if that makes sense it's really hard to talk about without going into too much details anyway so i sort of went through the sexual history stuff because i feel like people sort of shy away from it i'm not saying anyone's done this but i feel like a lot of people get a little bit all and awkward and embarrassed when i ask and questions about sex and sexual history but do you know what sexual health is a part of our life and something that we need to be open to talking to with our patients so i just went through some of her symptoms i wanted to know a bit of a history as well of what was going on in her personal life so i asked those sort of questions however she was of an age that i thought this could possibly be menopause there's things that she's saying and i'm thinking actually this sounds a lot about menopause and she told me that no one's actually sit down and spoke to her properly about menopause about different treatment options about symptoms of menopause and managing the symptoms so i was like this is perfect this is my area my speciality is sexual health so i sat down and i spent a good 30 40 minutes with this patient sitting her down i went through everything i went through all the different symptoms i went through all the different treatment plans that she may not have been told about and she was amazed she was like oh my god you've told me so much information more than anyone has ever given me she said thank you so much because you've put my mind completely at ease of everything and she said i'm just so so grateful and she well walked out with a smile and i just thought i've been useful i was so chubbed i was so chubbed i had a little tear in my eye it's giving me a little tear in my thinking about it and so when one of the nurses was passing the door just as the patient left and then she's like oh you're having a good day i'm having a bloody marvellous day i said i've been useful and it just felt so nice and it gave me that little bit of confidence back but just having that this week is just it's made me feel so much better and it's i'm just like you know what this is where my specialty lies it is sexual health and contraception and it was just amazing to be able to sit down and know things like actually know a lot of information about something and be able to help somebody and just completely erase all of their anxiety and fears and they left with a smile which is more than what they come in with so yeah it made me day i was just one of them moments that i thought you know this is why i came into nursing to change somebody's attitudes to change lives to change behaviors to put smiles on people's faces to reassure people covered compassion that i keep going on about this is what it's all about and it's just honestly it's made my whole entire week and it's got me going again it's got me going i mean i was already going but you know it's that little bit more anyway the next exciting thing i want to tell you this week is i need to show you this without giving away um my address and things so as some of you know i did a little new year's resolution it was on twitter instagram i don't have a blog about it possibly i don't even know and anyway by one and only new year's resolution this year was to give blood i've never given blood and this is because i have tattoos i got belly button piercings i had a lip piercing i've traveled these sort of things have always stopped me from giving blood so this year i put everything aside i said right this year is the year i'm going to give blood because i'm so sick of not doing it and i feel ashamed because we need to give blood to help other people and save lives so i signed up to be a blood donor and finally i've got an appointment which is the 10th of may and this is my letter so yeah so i've got my appointment the 10th of may it's the first of may today so i have got nine days oh so next sunday not this sunday next sunday so next sunday i'll be doing my blood donation i'm going to try and get a video of it because it'd be really nice to do a little video of blood donation and things like that how it went how it felt i'm going to be anxious i'm not going to lie um because i've seen the size of the needle that they use for blood donations and i've seen how painful it is after so can you hear that rain oh my god anyway so yeah i'm going to be anxious i'm going to be scared but i'm going to be saving a life potentially also i don't know what blood type group i am so it'd be nice to actually know that as well because if i've got a fancy blood group i don't think i have i'm sure my mum would have told me something like that um i think i'm probably just a standard blood group i've got that in my head um but if i am a fancy blood group i can do it sort of more often so yeah i'm excited about this i'm excited about my blood donation oh my god can you hang on wowzers anyway my last piece of positivity is i've been seeing everyone getting really creative online so i thought you know what i'm going to do something a bit different so i've started creating things i can't remember if i've shown you this before so i'm really sorry if you've seen this i'm just really excited about it but i've started making these i don't know how you can see that so i used resin to sort of mold some rose quartz here some clear quartz crystals here a little flower and she's so i know i'm so chuffed i mean it's not perfect but i've mastered a little bit of retin art just in a different way this is where's my other one this is my other one i've made i've made one for one of my best friends she's got amethyst wings and a little flower and she's so cute i'm very proud of myself and then i know i've got a little dragon look at him i've made him a little pyrite pyrite i can't say it pyrite mohawk apparently pyrite they used to make back in the day when they used to make their own weapons they used to use pyrite in their swords to give them strength and all that jazz so yeah then i made a little use my resin art proper resin art this time and i made a little pyrite moon look at that i wanted to keep this bit rough the back smooth i wanted this to be rough because i wanted it to be like what i imagine the moon to be like like this rough surface does that make sense yeah so i've been busy i've been getting creative guys i know if you've got into any sort of creativity and you've been doing amazing things please let me know and show me inbox me or comment below i don't know if you can attach pictures show me i really want to see it i get so excited by seeing other people's creations and it's really nice to share other people's stuff as well and sort of keep each other motivated and stuff like that but i was massively inspired by so many people on instagram on twitter and all their amazing things that i wanted to start something so i've started these so i'm going to shut up now i'm sorry guys i don't want this video to be hours and hours and hours long because it must drain your soul and i hope you're all okay i hope you're doing amazing keep going everyone because it is a tough time but you know what we are going to get through this this isn't going to last forever and we are going to do amazing at the end of it we're going to be stronger than ever we're going to be better than ever and yeah it's going to be a very different way of living i think after this but you know what you're all doing fantastic keep going get motivated and keep shining on