 Hey everyone! So this is a little life update. Don't worry, I'm still gonna be a practice nurse. Just stop right there, don't panic guys. But after almost 10 months now of being a newly qualified practice nurse, I'm moving practices. So the one I'm currently at is just way far, basically. I spend about an hour and 20 minutes trying to get there on two trains, 22 miles away. Sometimes I have the car so I can drive in. Other days I don't have the car so I can't drive in. So yeah, it's a bit far and I think 10 months of doing long shifts half eight to half six, being manic clinics, back-to-back patients, being so busy, plus all the travel on top of that, making it into 12 hour days, it's just been a little bit much for me and I'm exhausted. I can feel myself starting to burn out so it was time to make a change where I can. So very conveniently as I literally just purely on the spare of the moment just had a look around my area and there was a practice that is literally walking distance from the new house because I'm moving. I don't know if I've told you all that. I'm sure I told you in a different vlog. Haven't moved yet, probably after Christmas now because of lockdown. But anyway, it's literally down the road from the new house. I can walk to work every morning. I can come home at lunchtime, let the dogs out, give them a fuss and go back to work. It's going to be life changing. But even now from this house it's only a couple miles down the road so it's still not far. It takes me 10 minutes to get there. So yeah, I'm moving practices is going to be massive help to my health and my well-being. It's just going to be incredible. I'm so excited to start. I've been in twice ready to meet the team and sign paperwork and all of that jazz. They are so organised. I've got a name badge and everything already before I've even started. It's amazing. So yes, I finished my current role on Monday, the 23rd of November. It might have already gone if you've watched this video in a few weeks. So I've probably started my new job. But I start my new role on the 30th of November, so a week after next Monday. And I can't wait. I've reduced my hours as well because I was full time before. So I've reduced my hours slightly to part time. But I can afford to do so. I worked out all my finances and I can afford to do that and still pay all my bills because I've got extra little bits that I do outside of work as well that make money. So I can sort of catch up like that and it's going to be okay. But overall my mental health and my well-being and my sanity is going to be improved. And that for me outweighs any money, to be honest. I'd rather be happy and not make mistakes. I would rather be happy and safe than be burnt out and get more pay, if that makes sense. So my new practice is really, really lovely. All of the team seem absolutely amazing and supportive and really nice. They've already set me up with the first couple of weeks of sitting in with someone and sort of doing the things that I can't do yet just to try and train me up a little bit more because there's still a lot that I can't do. I think probably because of the pandemic and Covid there were certain things that I could do and I couldn't do. So I've been stuck doing the same thing, if that makes sense. Also they really need an asthma nurse. So I'm going to be trained to be the asthma nurse. I know, I'm going to be like a specialist in something at some point. But yeah, I'm going to be the asthma nurse there on a Wednesday by the sounds of it. And I'm going to do my normal injections, wound management, ECGs, all of that jazz I'm going to be doing still. So yeah, don't worry about that. I'm still going to be doing all my other stuff as well. But yeah, I'm going to be having nice shifts. So my shifts are Monday, I think was half eight to one or something. And then Tuesday is one till half five. And then Wednesday is an all dayer because that's going to be my asthma day. So that is going to be half eight till five, I think or half eight to half five. Thursdays I'm keeping off. So Thursdays has always been my day off. I'm staying off on a Thursday, guys. And then Friday, I think it is half eight till four or something like that. So really nice shifts. I'm going to be able to get home at a decent time. I'll be able to cook my dinner and eat early because I've been eating at like half eight, nine o'clock most nights these days. So it's going to be really, really nice to be sitting down and eating my dinner by six o'clock in the evening to give me plenty of time to digest and rest. So yes, I will update you as I go when I get started and everything and let you know how I'm getting on what I'm doing as I go as always. I'm still on my course, obviously, my GPN course. I've just done my baby's training, as you saw in my last post. My next thing is, I think, ear. So ear examinations and ear irrigation. So I'll show you all of that as I go along, I suppose. I've just got or just getting my cervical sampler trainee code so I can actually start doing the cervical screening. So yeah, that's where I'm at at the minute. On other exciting news, I think I said to you guys before, but I started to work with Elsevier. So I am an Elsevier ambassador and I'm going to be doing live webinars. The next one is going to be next week, I think next Thursday, is it the 26th? Yeah, that's next week, isn't it? Yes. Next Thursday, the 26th, I'm going to do a live webinar. I can't remember what time it is though. I think it's one o'clock or 12 o'clock, potentially 11 o'clock. I'll put the links below because, yeah, rubbish at the minute. But yes, next Thursday, it's going to be all about placements, preparing for your placements. If you're going on to a placement for the first time, it's going to be things such as tips on placements, how to deal with difficult situations and mentors and, well, not difficult mentors. I mean, you know what I mean? But sometimes you just have personality clashes in it sometimes, but you have to be professional. So yeah, I'm going to give you some advice on that, a little bit of advice on dealing with death as well, impatience, shoes, all them sort of little things that you really need for placements. Oh, and what's expected of you. So what's expected of you in your first year, in your second year, in your third years, those sort of things. So yeah, I'm excited for it. I'm really excited. There's so much to put into it. I need to try and cut it down a bit because it's only a 40 minute webinar. And obviously I want to give you guys time to have questions and I can answer your questions if you've got anything in particular you want answering. But I'm going to put the link in the details below, click the link, register for the webinar, look out for some more webinars as well. If you're not on Elsevier's Instagram, please go onto their Instagram and their Twitter because they will be sharing all of this as well. So it's just a good way to keep up to date and be informed basically when they're going to be doing these webinars and things. So please keep in touch, keep an eye out and join the webinar.