 happy monday everybody so this is my final placement vlog today is monday by the time you're watching this i will be signed off to be a nurse fingers crossed so that is me home from my monday that's my last ever monday finished with i have got the dinner on it's only about half five i think really early um i'm gonna settle down for the night get ready for i'm a celebrity if anyone's watching it comment below i love i'm a celebrity it's so good i don't know how these people do it anyway moving on so today on placement we i literally haven't really got anything new to say we had a mixture of clinics and then we went out to some home visits we had a whole mixture of different types of wounds today actually i think it was all wounds today that we had yeah and now all wounds which is great for me there was a period where my mentor had to sort out a lot of paperwork sort of stuff so while she did that i sat and i wrote out in my book wound management plans and what everything means and terminology and different types of dressings to which type of wound because i'm going to be making some flashcards for myself so i'm going to laminate them so i've always got them there ready for me when i start my new job in january because i don't want to be struggling and wondering oh my god what we're gonna put on what's the best thing for this wound it's gonna be there it's gonna be ready i can't wait apart from that that's it really it's been a pretty chill day it's been a lovely monday tomorrow i don't know what we're doing tomorrow so that is it for me i'm not going to waffle on any longer because the video will be a million years long so i shall see you all tomorrow happy home day everybody so today is wednesday i'm finished for the day i got to finish a little bit earlier because we finished late yesterday so today we had a few patients we had some wound care we had some palliative support patients that we had to go to we had some phone calls that we had to make prescriptions to write nothing really out of the ordinary that i can say oh i did a nephrostomy bag and it was a different type in a frosty me bag i haven't seen this one but it's one that attaches here and then it comes round and sits on the stomach rather than having a leg bag so that was really interesting and i got and the patient said to me that this week he was told that he has to change it himself and i just have to sort of monitor him and make sure he's doing it right and educate him on it and he did amazing so i was really happy with that i was like yes god you can be discharged to do your nephrostomy bag yourself amazing so that was really really nice to do that what else happened oh when i arrived on placement so i get there a little bit earlier usually between 20 to 9 and 10 to 9 i don't start till 9 and we always have one patient that comes in really really early for for their appointment their appointment's not till 9 but they're always there about quarter to nine most days so today when i was going in in the lift up to second floor to the office where we are based it stops at the first floor and then up to our floor so when it stopped on first floor when the door's open it faces all the waiting room chairs so that you can see the patients so went up and the doors opened and he was there waiting it was 10 to 8 at this time 10 to 9 sorry it was 10 to 9 at this time and he was there and he was like hi Claire like waving at me i was like oh that's so cute like it was just so so nice like it proper made me like well up a little bit because it was just so nice that that's my patient that's the guy that i've been looking after i've been doing his leg and he remembers me and he was genuinely like excited to see me and i just made my day it really really did make my day like these little tiny things patients don't understand these little tiny things mean massive amounts like that's made my whole week but i was so chuffed and i went into the bathroom and i was welling up a little bit i was like oh my god that was so lovely like my heart and everything well you can see it now i'm welling up now and i'm just thinking about it but yeah it just made my day it was so lovely i just love i love this job i love the fact that i'm going to be a nurse and get this amount of can't even speak because i'm so excited this amount of satisfaction every day is amazing so that's it i've got two days left guys two shifts oh my god i'm with my mentor tomorrow i think she said she's going to look at my book but we'll see if she does or not if not i'll be signed off on friday officially so yeah let's just see what tomorrow brings hopefully it's going to be a good day again and for now i'm going to make my dinner so see you all tomorrow today is the eve of my final ever ever ever shift as a student nurse oh my god so today's thursday i've had an amazing day as always we've had a really nice day it's been like a busy steady like it's been nice it's been lovely we had a mixture of clinic and home visits again we've had lovely lovely patients they've all been amazing i've just had a lovely day my mentor has done like my final interview but because she's not an official sign-off mentor she can't do my actual last sign-off page today so the other big boss who i loved bits is going to do it tomorrow for me so i've left it on her desk to see first thing when she gets in at about eight half eight i think she gets in and um it's been put in the diary in big letters and highlighted for her to sign me off tomorrow roll on tomorrow so me and deb the other student have been trying to organize getting a load of food for everybody buying in lunch and cakes and sweets and all the rubbish that you shouldn't be eating but we do anyway um to celebrate so as me and debbie have been talking about everyone else has been piping and going oh we'll bring in this we'll bring in this oh don't worry we'll get these you shouldn't be getting it because you're students but no we just want to say thank you so we really want to get lunch for everybody so now i've left it with them everybody wants to maybe order dominoes or something for lunch so i don't know what we're doing now um waiting for a text message from my mentor to say we're going to order dominoes or we're going to order snacks i've left it in their hands and then tomorrow we shall have a little mini party a little celebration hopefully it's going to be amazing i'm so excited for tomorrow i can't wait i will be vlogging all about it of course and i shall yeah let you all know how it goes but i'm going to shut up for now and i'll see you all tomorrow i'm really excited guys i don't know if i'm going to sleep tonight but i'm really excited see you tomorrow that's it guys today is my last day last morning saying good morning student let's click on my code because i'm going to be signed up just walking now to the post office to get my mentors present because i haven't picked it up yet oh my god haven't had a chance so um i'm just doing it now and then i've got to wrap it in the toilet or something so she doesn't see wish me luck guys i made it so i've just arrived i've got my present i'm going to have to hide the name but that's my mentor's name there i just need to wrap it and then go into the office i need to get changed as well so here's to an amazing day i'll see you all later because later i will be qualified or signed off at least to go onto the register to the nmc to become i know you're qualified now today is going to be awesome i'm qualified now signed off i've been signed off i'm officially qualified ready to go on the nmc register to be an official you qualified registered i've done it i've done it guys oh my god oh i'm so happy so oh i don't even know where to begin so today has been the best it's been so lovely it's been proper chilled we've had nice lovely patients had such a lovely day um myself and the other student bought in a load of lunch for everybody um and oh we had a feast i will put the picture here for you so you can see what a feast we had we overbought overspent and then a couple of other people bought in some cakes as well and stuff how lovely and i got my first ever first ever present look i mean i'm not condoning alcohol or drinking but i've got a bottle of bubbly i'm definitely opening this tonight and having a little cheeky drink not too much because i've got a shift tomorrow i know bank shift tomorrow to earn some money because i'm poor also with the prosecco i got a couple of cards which i haven't actually opened yet i'm going to open them now i haven't opened the cards and i haven't read my last feedback because i left the nurse to just do it on her own because it must be really awkward to have someone just staring at you oh congratulation oh my god there's loads in here oh too clear aka staff nurse car michael oh congratulations on passing your nursing degree with flying colors our team has appreciated your help over the past 12 weeks we don't want to let you go you're a fantastic nurse kind assertive and a true team player you've been an excellent role model and a lovely student nurse oh you've been an excellent role model to our other lovely student nurse our next management of the student will have big shoes to fill i'm so sorry um and a personal note i really appreciate all your help your professionalism shines through everything you do good luck get ready for your blues please keep in touch we know you will go far so lovely i didn't even realize she got me a card oh why have i chose to do this and this is from my main mentor tuka um congrats congratulations completing your nursing degree you're making a nursing nurse you're such a lovely person good luck oh thank you oh my god why tears of joy let's go through my feedback so here we go claire has been professional during her time with the team claire has been very motivated throughout her placement claire's kept excellent time and keeping during her placement oh i'm so sorry like my nose and everything is just running i should get a tissue this is disgusting i'm sorry guys okay patients have commented how claire has maintained their privacy and dignity um claire's shown herself to be polite courteous and respectful to team and patients interacts well with the team has been able to respond appropriately to social situations been able to refer to patients to other professional services appropriately feedback during handover to the team about family um service users carers all of that join visits to new patients claire has always introduced herself and put them at ease claire has claire has delivered claire has delivered with remit and showed excellent care empathy and compassion claire has always shown empathy and compassion when delivering care as demonstrated in booklet claire has always applied theory to practice claire's shown kindness and compassion to colleagues as well as patients claire's shown gentleness approach throughout her placement has shown to be very organized works well with all team members um has been able to plan her learning needs her own learning needs because we have to show that we can do that claire has had a very positive feedback from family patients about care always explained care to the given to the patients prior to treatment claire has been an excellent student and has shown that she'll be a very good nurse oh that's just like the overall um like the professional values and stuff like that that they have to make comments on so that's it it's all done oh i can stop crying now oh that card had me oh my god god's sakes i thought i was okay i came out of placement i finished like it was an amazing send-off like we had our lunch spread and then someone said please let the students go because it's their last day and we were like i mean i don't mind i will stay here till eight p.m but they let us go so um we all went round we hugged everybody said goodbye it was all a bit emotional um and when i went i went to the toilets to get changed and i just had a little sob to myself in the toilet because it was like it was like a relief like it had all just come out i was like i'm done i'm graduated and then i was okay and then i was okay walking home and i thought i'll do a little vlog now because i'm okay now and this card thank you nurse who i shall not mention but they know who they are if they ever find my vlogs um that was such a nice card proper made me cry that oh god anyway so yeah so that's it i'm done guys i'm officially finished nurse come michael is coming at you god help you all oh my god so what's next for me that is the next question so i um doing some bank shifts i'm gonna do some bank shifts over the next couple of weeks as a hca sorry guys i've had to add a little bit in here so i look different because i've showered and everything and i thought oh my god i haven't told them about next week so on monday we have our grad ball which i'll be vlogging all about and then we have our newly qualified nurse day at university like an official celebration day which our vlog everything so that'll be next sunday's vlog okay back to the video thanks um and then on i haven't told everybody yet do i say it yet don't tell you all some of you know actually someone some of you that watch this video these vlogs some of you that i know and i message and stuff on social media will already know this information but some of you will not know this information because i haven't put it out there publicly yet so yeah i'm moving i'm not going to be in birmingham anymore i'm moving to port smith i'm moving down south i'm going to be by the sea i'm gonna have a great life it's gonna be fantastic so i actually got offered my newly qualified post down in port smith and i'm taking it and that's where i'm going to be based so yeah anyone that's down south port smith south hampton give me a wave say hello i need more friends down south yeah so a couple of the guys and girls at the student nurse project live down there so i'm going to be so excited to meet them and i'm going to have to vlog about it so this is going to be a great it's going to be amazing i'm not going to stop vlogging i'm going to keep on vlogging i'm going to show you my transition to newly qualified nurse how i'm getting on all of that jazz um and i'm going to vlog as much as i can as possible as long as i'm able to i'm going to vlog and then what else have i got planned so doing bank shifts moving on the 15th of december down to port smith i'm a new job sorry i'm really excited um but i don't actually start my job until the 6th of january just because throughout december technically we're still employed by birmingham city university so we're not allowed to go out there and work full-time as a nurse and also i need to wait for my pin and yeah everyone gets funny about these things so i've put it off i'm going to wait until january when i know i'll have my pin i'll know i'll be a fully registered nurse safe to practice so i'm going to do that and i'm off for two weeks over christmas and new year so for two weeks over christmas and new year i'm not going to vlog guys i know i go away i think it's on the 21st of december we go so i'm going away i don't know where we're going it's a complete surprise i think i will vlog the um the journey holiday all of that because i have no idea where we're gonna go so it'll be a surprise and i think that'll be really exciting to have a little vlog one so i will upload that first week of january when we come back um but before then so these next two weeks i will still vlog i've just got four books i think i've shared this on my instagram story i don't think i've done a vlog about it oh my god this video's already 10 minutes long i'm really sorry guys i go on and on but yes anyway so sage publishing have gave me four books to review and i'm gonna review those books they are nursing related books absolutely amazing they are on the way to my house right now as we speak so i think i'm gonna do one or two a week maybe one a week i don't know how i'm gonna work it out maybe two a week two next week two the week after maybe anyway i will i'll work it out but that's what i'm gonna be doing for the next couple of weeks and any other vlogs that i need to catch up on because i have been busy and i haven't done all of the vlogs that i need to do so i'm gonna do those um and that's it really and obviously i will vlog anything newly qualified related like the build up signing my contract trying on my uniform everything is gonna be blocked of course so that you all can all hopefully get excited with me but i just wanted to say a massive massive thank you to all of you who've been following my journey from the start and all of you that have just started following my journey thank you so so much because i've had the best amount of support from you all and you know what your words your motivating words just kept me going so thank you so so much for that some of you i know i'm having a tough time at the minute i know you're struggling with exams assignments your first placement you're really struggling i sin that somebody's left nursing and they've decided to become a midwife which is amazing they're still in the profession yes but if any of you are struggling i it is hard it is tough i can't say that it's a hundred percent easy because it's not i've just been very very fortunate and very lucky that my journey has been incredible and i've loved every second of it but my first placement i've talked about it before i hated it i almost quit nursing because i didn't want to be a nurse and all of that but just keep going guys remind yourself why you've become a nurse remind yourself you don't have to work there remind yourself daily only eight weeks left to go it's seven weeks to go six weeks to go five weeks count it down keep yourself on target keep focused on that end result just keep going because i promise you it is worth it for this final moment when you're at the end and you've get signed off and it's like yes i've completed a degree which i never thought i would ever do never thought i was smart enough and here i am qualified finished so chopped oh so yeah so that's it um but yeah i just wanted to leave that last little positivity hopefully for you keep going you will get there it is going to be tough some days it's going to be amazing other days the roller coaster is like this all the way through three years but you do you know what you'll do it and you'll get through it because you're going to be amazing fantastic nurses and you're doing this because you love it and every day is a pleasure even when you have the tough days so keep going keep focused if you need a bit of motivation inbox me anytime anywhere any day wherever on social media inbox me you're not a pest you're not a hassle please i would love to give you some words of wisdom motivation a kick up the backside if that's what you need please please please let me do that for you because it's just it's going to be worth it in the end guys it's going to be worth i'm going to shut up now okay so that's it from me i'm a qualified nurse so now in my vlogs it's going to be hi my name is click on michael i'm a qualified nurse it's not going to get boring at all anyway see you later