 Hello and welcome back. It's time to get back to the nursing stuff. So Christmas has been and gone I hope you all had an amazing Christmas and who's looking forward to 2019 So why not grab yourself a cup of tea, keep calm and let's vlog So even though I've had December off and I don't start back into University until the 14th of January when I start third year. Just in case you don't know So throughout December even though we're off. We're giving something that's called cap period or cap work Something like that. It's called cap period. So we're given on our Moodle site on the university page We are given like little tiles that we click into and we can download workbooks and things like that and useful resources and reading links To prepare ourselves for the year ahead of us. So I've been onto the cap tile Look at all this. Oh, there's work. So much work to do throughout December So basically I have printed it all off and I've been starting it. I've been going through it bit by bit I got to this one. However For anyone that was following my journey throughout second year and we had the research module You're gonna know that I'm gonna hate this So what am I not looking forward to to 2019 let's start with that extent that's gonna be the easiest research Research research. Why are you doing this to me? Okay, I love evidence-based practice. I love finding research. I love doing some research I don't look forward to sitting and listening to someone talk to me about research Because as you all know if you watch the other vlogs from the last university lectures that we had It's draining and there's no exciting fun way to teach research And I feel really bad for the lecturers because it's not their fault. It's research So that's one thing that I'm just I'm not looking forward to the research Lectures and fingers crossed. I'm going to be proven wrong. Please prove me wrong university and Surprise me and I will eat my words So to be honest, I've had a quick look through this workbook and I've put it down. I'm not gonna lie So my next lot of work I got on to was the preparation for our NP for exam. NP is nursing practice So basically what we have to do in this one is we have to go back to our previous modules and just refresh our memory on Observations and what it means to have a high temperature high heart rate high blood pressure all of that then our next task was this So there's a list of different medications at the top and then there's a list down the side of Respiratory rate o2 heart rate blood pressure urine output. I have poo blood glucose and temperature So we have to guess what each Medication could possibly do to somebody's Observations so that when we go in and do a set of observations We know that okay This person's got a lower heart rate than normal because they're on a beta blocker So then you might not give that beta block it because it might reduce the heart rate even more and it could be dangerous to that patient Does that make sense? I hope I'm making sense So there are certain medications that you do have to check the blood last lot of observations Like the blood pressure and the heart rate before giving a medication because of that patient's already on a medication That's dropping the heart rate and blood pressure and their blood pressure and heart rate is really really low already You don't want to be given another one of those medications because Yeah Blow probably so yeah, so we've had to guess what we I've had to guess What what effect it'll have on the body basically that was a really a really good exercise I actually really enjoyed that I got my trusty BNF out and I went through each medication and Something that I noticed was on each medication if you go to certain drug pages So if you go to the loop diuretics and there's like an explanation of the actual drug And how it works on the body so actually in addition to this I'm actually going to make some little flashcards on each Thing so the loop diuretics. I'm going to go to beta blockers ace inhibitors opiates beta 2 agonist Steroids and I'm going to write little flashcards for each one Just to help me piece everything together a thing because that's going to be coming in really really handy for Future medication use out there on the wards and it's something I can keep in my pocket as well So if I'm ever asked I can just be like Got it So that's it So I do have a lot of work a lot of research to do still and before starting January And I think I'm going to take this time between now and then to just refresh my brain on the physiology side as well Because that's really important for the MP4 exam as well as the whole research side So all in all I'm actually looking forward to the module So the modules so far that I can see is NP4 or AKP slash dissertation not does a dosion and We've got a policy in politics assignment as well to do and another maths exam and Another poster presentation Which I'm dreading because I think this one by the sounds of it is a solo presentation in front of people So Not looking forward to that but hopefully it's going to go okay, and hopefully third year is going to be amazing So I'm just going to add on to the end of this video If any of you have watched my vlogs from the very very start some of you might know that throughout january last year I did nurse positivity where I did something different every single day to hopefully take away someone's january blues And i'm going to be doing it again this month So every single day in january i'm going to be spreading nurse positivity everywhere Hopefully going to make someone today motivate someone to do some good for somebody else And yeah, so that's going to be next week's vlog is going to be the start of that as well as that I'll try and fit in some nursing vlogs as well for you. So hopefully you're going to post a couple a week We'll see though But there'll always be a video on a sunday so watch out for those And as always, thank you again so much for tuning in. Thanks for watching If you haven't subscribed give them your subscribe and i'll see you next week