 It is week three of my management placement. After this week, I've got nine weeks left, so as of today, you're watching this, it's gonna be Sunday, so I'm gonna have nine weeks left. Oh my God, where is the time going? I can't believe it. Today is Monday. Today I went out with the community case manager, who is a band seven, and she manages the long-term conditions out in the community. She does more of the complex stuff, and she is also a prescriber, so she can prescribe things. And she was just amazing. It was so nice to see how she works, the sort of bond that she has with her patients, because the patient she's got at the minute, she said she's had for like five years. So she sees them either, some people she'll see weekly, some people she'll see monthly. It just depends on the condition and what their management plan that they've got is in place, if that makes sense. So every patient will have their own management plan, and it just depends on that management plan, how often she sees them, whether they require her. She can discharge patients as well from her care, because they're managing really well out there in the community on their own. It was really interesting to see. Today we had all COPD patients, so it was interesting to see how they managed that. And it was nice to see the sort of holistic care. So she wasn't just thinking about the condition, she was thinking about their sleeping, their eating, their exercising, their wellbeing, if they're able to exercise, if they can't. What sort of things they can do? Something like social-wise, like the social life, how do they manage the social life? How do they get out and about? It was really nice to see all of these different things being taken into consideration with this long-term condition. Apparently if you've got a long-term condition, such as COPD, or maybe diabetes or something like that, it is known that you can become depressed as well as a result, because obviously it's something like COPDs and massive impact on your life. There's gonna be a lot of factors that affect your life. So it might cause as well depression, a lot of mental health problems with it, so it's managing those as well, not just the condition itself. And along with COPD, they might end up with heart failure, they might end up with other comorbidities around it as well, not just COPD. So it was really, really interesting to see how she does that. And yeah, it was been a really good day. And she said I can go out with her again as well if I wanna go out again with her. So that'd be nice to do that again, because it was really, really, really interesting. And yeah, so I'll probably well go out with her again at some point. And one of the things that I picked up on from today was one of our patients had dementia, and she also had COPD. And that really made me think about people with dementia and I never really thought about these things before. Obviously I've worked with dementia, I've worked quite a lot with dementia patients in the past when I worked in the care homes, so seeing it on the wards and things. I love helping those with dementia. I really love it. But something I'd never thought about is things like COPD and how they manage that. And when there's that sort of the capacity sort of compromise, how do they put things in place? Like inhaler technique, if they needed steroid treatments, for example, but they weren't taking their medications, how is it managed? And that's something that really interested me to see that today. Our lady was quite advanced dementia, so she sort of, she wasn't very mobile. She really struggled to sort of stand up and walk around and things. So from an active point of view, she wasn't running around and making herself short of breath or something. So from that side, it was a little bit of a plus for this patient and they had things like a face up onto the inhaler so that she could take her inhaler properly. By the sounds of it, she's quite, she understands how to take her inhaler so she is able to do that. And yeah, it's just little things that I didn't really think about before that has come out today. And I thought, oh, actually, yeah, I need to look into this a little bit more. That was really, really interesting today that I learned a bit more about that. And it's definitely something I'm gonna look into because it's something I hadn't really thought about. So that is my homework for this evening. So that is it for today. Tomorrow I am back on with my mentor. Wednesday we've got our presentation at university. So hopefully that's gonna go well. So I'm gonna practice that tonight and tomorrow and make sure that I am presentation ready on Wednesday. And there's Cross guys. So yeah, see you all tomorrow. So today is Tuesday and another amazing day. I'm sick of saying I'm having an amazing day and you're probably getting sick of it too. But I suppose it's nice in a way because at least you know I'm enjoying it. I'm loving life and I haven't come across anything bad yet. I think it's Cross gonna stay that way. So today we had a mixture of patients. We went out to home visits but we also had some patients come into clinic. We did a mixture of catheters, injections, male catheterization, we had wound care. We had a whole load of patient notes to sort out again. I have my presentation at university, examined, fingers crossed for me guys, please make sure it goes okay. That's it really for today. Nothing too out of the ordinary. Nothing too super exciting to tell you. We've just had amazing, lovely day. It's been nice. It hasn't been rushed, it hasn't felt manic. It's just felt nice if that makes sense. Even though we had a lot of patients to see, it felt like a nice, steady, busy kind of thing. And I felt like we cared for everyone's needs appropriately. So that was really nice. So yeah, so that's it. Tomorrow I have my presentation. I will vlog tomorrow because I wanna tell you all about it. Also tomorrow after the presentation I'm meeting up with a couple of lecturers. Gonna have some lunch, have a cup of tea, have a catch up. And then after that I'm doing a Q and A session with the lovely Olly who is at the Postgrad Med. Go and see his channel. I'll post the links here somewhere. Maybe in the details below. Go check his channel out. It's amazing, really, really useful. And yeah, back in Thursday Friday. So I shall see you all tomorrow for my presentation. I'm not gonna sleep. Post a presentation day, guys. I'm on my way to uni now. Perks have been up so early. Get to see the sunrise. Trying to keep myself positive because I'm really nervous. I don't know why I've gone so nervous. I didn't sleep, I tossed and turned. I was having nightmares about failing. So I don't know how it's gonna go today. Keeping my fingers and hopes and dreams and everything crossed for myself. Praying that I don't fail. I think I've hit everything on the marking criteria so we'll see, we'll see. But I'll let you know how it goes, guys. I'm just gonna meet up with Pooja and some other students and practice before going in there. Wish us luck. Hi, everyone. We're here just about to go up to our poster presentation. I am bricking it. I am really nervous. You were okay? She was okay earlier. She's got nervous now. Yeah. I can feel my face is really warm. I've been practicing our presentation. We're on time. Yours is really, Pooja's is really, really good. I'm not just saying that because she's here. It is really good. I was like, oh my God, mine is really bad. No, yours is way better than mine. Yours is always good. She's good at everything, guys. I think we'll both pass anyway. Yeah. I think we've both done enough to pass. That's it. Yeah. We'll be all right. But we'll let you know how it goes afterwards. See you later. Hi, guys. We've finished. Oh, my God. Hopefully we have spork enough this time to pass. I think we've done enough to pass. Yeah. But I can't say it went 100%. Oh, I feel like it went really bad. It's the time when they... Because we were all nervous. Oh, yeah. Sorry. We're happy. She's not happy. You did really well. I think she did really well. She included, I think, everything. Everything, exactly. Even though you were at the time, I think you included everything. We'll see when we get the results. We've got five weeks to wait. Five weeks. Five weeks. From this week. Five weeks. That's a long time, guys. That's a long time. So we've got people passing. Hopefully we have passed. Pray for us, guys. We just want to pass and face this degree. And that's it. How are you going down? We've got this call. So today is Thursday, everybody. It's the end of the week. Oh, my God. So after this week, I have got... Have I got eight weeks left or nine weeks? Oh, God, I don't even know anymore. But we officially finish at the end of November, sort of 24th of November. 22nd to 24th of November is when I'll be finishing. So these weeks are going very, very fast. You'll have to excuse me. I'm exhausted. I'm tired. I don't even know what day it is. I think just yesterday with our poster presentation, I'm so drained. I just wanted to update you a little bit about yesterday. So we went in. I was so anxious, guys. I was so, so anxious, so nervous. I wanted to be sick. I don't remember anything I said. But I'm hoping I've said it right. So I think I've done enough to pass, like I said in my other video. But you know what you just think? I don't know. I literally can't judge this. I really can't judge it. But I think the worst, anything else is bonus. But as long as I pass, I don't care. It's fine. I'm not aiming for a first or any high category anymore. Classification even, anymore. Anyway, yesterday's done with. Nothing I can do. Just got to wait for the results, which is five weeks time, which is, yeah, the worst bit, waiting for results. So today I was out with the band four. That was really, really nice to see. It was nice to go with her and see what she does and her role and everything. And she's so lovely. She's brilliant as patients, really knowledgeable. So she does actually quite a lot. She can do compression bandaging. She can pack wounds. She can do injections. She can do medications. She did quite a lot. So it's really good to see that. And it's really good that she can do that. I'm assuming that takes a massive weight off the nurses as well, because they've got their own list to do. There's nothing really out of the ordinary, I can tell you today. We had a wound dressing to do. It's my regular wound dressing as well. So I've done this the past couple of weeks. So it's really nice to see it heal. And it looks loads better. It's shrunken size. It's looking really, really good. Next week I'm assuming it's gonna start closing, I think, cause there is still a hole, still tracking a tiny, tiny bit, but not as much as it was. So that's been really, really exciting and lovely to see that the wound is healing. And I've been dressing it. Apart from that, we have done pressure area checks. We did a male catheterization. I didn't do the male catheterization and I don't think as students we can do them. We can do females, but not male. I think you need the extra training. So I just observe and I help where I can. So I'll do the documenting. I'll put the labels on things. I'll sign things. I'll do all of the sort of paperwork side of things for them just to take that weight off their load, make it a little bit smoother and easier for them hopefully, and then they just counter-sign everything that I do. So what else have we done? We've done loads today. I think we had about 12 patients or something, 15 patients to see, or we did eye drops, updating people's notes in their homes, doing the Warsaw school, doing all different risk assessments. I think that's it. Had to phone a doctor because one of the wounds that we went to was quite infected. It looked really infected. It was red, it was hot. It spread, the redness had spread as well. So it was definitely infected. So I rang the doctor, got him some antibiotics and yeah, patient was very happy with me. So that was good. And that's it. That is all I've got to tell you. We have got our obviously the Q and A that we did. Me and Ollie met up yesterday. We did an amazing Q and A for you. We've been answering all of your questions. Really, really, some of your questions were really interesting. We had a good old giggle at the end of that Q and A. Let me tell you. I think what's gonna happen is I'm gonna post my questions that I've asked Ollie on my channel and he's gonna post the question that he asked me about nursing on his channel. So I'll put Ollie's links below, keep an eye out, subscribe to his channel, click the little bell so you get the notification when the video comes through. And it's gonna be amazing. He's sending me the video now. So I'm gonna edit it and I'm gonna post that hopefully by Wednesday for you all to see. But we had a great time. It was so lovely. It was like just having like a conversation with like your best friend or something. It was really, really nice. Really good to do. That was Ollie. Showed him around the university. I was like, let me show you my uni while we're here. Come on. So yeah, it was really good. Really nice. Anyway, talking about five minutes this is. I'm gonna have to cut this down. So yeah, I shall see you all next week. I'll see you on Wednesday hopefully for the Q and A. So yeah, have an amazing day everybody. Have a great week and I shall see you next week.