 Hi everyone, I've just had the most exciting news start Monday, Monday the 3rd of February. I've just had the email, I've just emailed back to confirm a few things about uniforms and things because I haven't got a uniform yet. I'm assuming they're gonna sort all that out in the first week. Oh my god. I can't wait guys, this is it. I can't wait. I'm gonna vlog all about it Monday, today is Thursday. So yeah, I'll let you know what happens next week. This is my first week as a newly qualified GP nurse guys. Morning everybody. So this is it. My first day as a newly qualified nurse. It's very early and it's windy and it's cold and it's a little bit dark but I have my tea. I'm ready for the day. I'm so excited. There's a hint of nerves now but it's not like nerves, it's just a bit like it's my first day at school kind of nerves. Mainly I am really really excited. I can't wait. Can't wait to meet the team and get stuck in. I've been waiting for this day for so long. I'm so excited guys but I'll let you know how it goes later okay. Bye. It's me again. So the trains are cancelled. I checked them this morning and it just said it was delayed and I've just got there and they've literally cancelled them all. Morning everyone. You're gonna have to excuse this look. I've just got awake and I've just got awake. I've just woken up. Got my little cup. Mom because I've got two fluffy little children. So yeah I didn't have enough time or chance to vlog yesterday about my day, my very first day. Good and bad so I need to share the good first and then the bad's not bad. It's just it's funny but it's bad. So yeah my first day so arrived. Really keen. Really excited. So chuffed and I did all the admin stuff in the morning. Did all my ID and paperwork things like that. Getting me set up on the computer system ready for when I have my own patients and then I sat with the nurse. Two different practice nurses. One in the morning, one in the afternoon. We saw patients together which was really really nice. I sort of helped out as well. I wasn't just sat around helped out with wounds you know I love the wounds. I saw some really interesting wounds as well that I'd never seen before and also saw my first kidney stone. I've never seen a kidney stone before and there was this kidney stone. I can't really go into too much details because confidentiality because it's quite a really specific way that this happened that it would never happen to anybody else and we were just like it's just amazed me how the body works and how the body can work its way to push kidney stones out of places. Yeah it was amazing to see and then we had a lot of ear examinations. We had a leg ulcer. We had some bad sinuses and it spread into the ears and stuff. We had some hypertension so we had to do the 24 hour blood pressure monitoring and explaining all of that to them. We had some injections so travelling injections. We had hepatitis B injections. We had toenail clippings as well. I know toenail clippings. This patient had some really bad sort of fungal nail infection and they wanted to take a clip in to send off to test things like that. That was interesting. All in all the day was amazing. It was so good and the good thing is is they use the emis computer system. I'm chuffed with this because in my GP placement that's what we use. We use the emis computer system so I'm familiar with the system. It's just because it was a while ago that I did that placement. It's just refreshing my brain on where to click, what to do. I need to know what sort of blood tests to order for different things like the standard diabetic blood test, the standard NHS health check blood test that I'm going to have to do because these are the things that I'm going to be doing to start with is things like the blood testing and NHS health checks, wounds, the things that I can do. I can't do smears, things like that because I haven't been trained in that yet. So once I've done those things on the course which I'm going to do with that starts in May. I'm so excited to vlog all about the course. So all in all the first day it was amazing and then it got to the end of the day. So this is the bad bit. So at work there's a staff car park at the back of the building and there's a really tight to go into the car park. There's this narrow little alleyway and then a sharp right and then you've got the cars parked all along there so you're sort of trying to squeeze out but I've got I was driving like a four by four and I looked at the space and I was like I can get in there so I got in no problem. Could I get out of the space? I was sat there for 10 minutes trying to get out of the car park. I was there reversing, going back and going forward reversing, going forward trying to get working my way round this little tiny space and then I was concentrating on the front of the car because there was a wall so I was thinking oh I don't want to scrape all my lights and bash my lights in. So because I was concentrating that I didn't see how close the edge of the wall was to my car and I scraped all the side of my car and then I got stuck so I was like oh I'm gonna have to reverse back out with this you know reverse back out like oh and then I just sat in the car park and I was like I'm stuck I can't get out I'm gonna spend the night in the car park but then some of the other people come and move their cars out of the way so that I could reverse into their space and then go out straight out so I didn't have to go around the corner anyway it was so embarrassing I'm sure I'm going to be the talk of the clinic today but anyway today's a new day so today I've got a load of stuff to do before I even start work so I mean at one one until half six this morning I've got a lot of work to do I know even though I've got the morning off so yesterday I forgot my notepad I know I'm the most organised person ever who forgets their notepad on their first day of work me so I went in and she was like have you got a pen and pen and pad to write this down I was like oh my god I was like I could have to steal some paper she was like have you got a pen I was like I could have to steal a pen but I did have a pen up in my bag I just left my bag upstairs so I had a pen so I had this pen so I've got all these bits of paper and pen of all my notes from the day and what to do and things like that that I've been writing down now I'm gonna have to write them all in my notepad that I've got to take so they're all a bit more organised because right now I've got bits of paper okay here we go so these are literally my notes and I wrote on like this blood form it's not it's um like a Mickey Mouse joke blood form it's not real one I've got these it's you just pages and pages like that and then I printed out this yesterday if you're looking for a bit more phlebotomy training and the order which you should take your bloods and what they're for and the different coloured bottles this is really good just google this with this this will be one of the first ones that comes up this is really really helpful the nurse that was with yesterday showed me this I was like yes I need to print this off when I get home in colour so I printed that off last night and yeah so now I've got my book with all the different sections that I'm gonna write in and I'm gonna make this better I'm gonna print out a nice quote or something to stick on the front so that yeah I'm reminded to have a nice day every day of the day but that is it so I'm gonna stop talking now because this is already like seven minutes longer something ridiculous I will let you know how my day goes later I think I've got my first patient booked in tomorrow on my own so yeah it's only things like like I said blood tests and things because I can do bloods like in sexual health I was trained to do blood so I can do blood tests it's just this that I need to remember the orders that I take things from and with the girl today who does all the blood testing so I'm gonna train with her she's gonna watch me do bloods sign the companies off for that today and then I can start doing them and I'm really really happy with that people might think oh my god you're on your own already it's like your third day I'm happy with that guys trust me the computer system is fine the only way I'm gonna learn it is by just doing it that's the way I learn so I'm happy with that and I said that to the manager as well because yesterday we had another patient with a different type of wound she's booked in for Thursday I think it was she's booked in for Thursday but this nurse wasn't there so she won't see the wound because they like to keep the same nurses and doctors she said would you want to do it with Claire because Claire will be here on Thursday and she's seen the wound she's seen how I do it it's really simple it's like a really simple wound I was like yeah I said just book her in like there's no harm in that I'm really happy with that I've done wounds before I was on the district nurse placement so I've got no problem with that so she booked a room with me and then I just went up and I said to the manager I've booked in a patient with me on Thursday if that's okay because I've seen the wound and I know what it looks like so it'd be good for me to do again she was happy with that at first she was like what no don't take your own patience and I said I'm okay with it it's okay anyway bye everyone I see you shall see you later or I'll see you tomorrow yeah bye so it is Thursday today I haven't had the chance to vlog I'm really really sorry so just a quick update Tuesday I was in one till half six and I literally just had my blood signed off so there was a lot of blood patients I saw with another healthcare assistant there so I sat there she signed me off and now I can do blood on my own yay which was lucky because yesterday shift half eight to half past six was a fun one so I went in and there was a nurse off sick and all of her patients had to be cancelled so we looked at the patients and it was all blood tests and wounds so I sat there and said I can do that I can literally do those patients because I know the computer system now I can do wounds I can do bloods I've been doing them for however long now so let me do them I felt confident I felt confident to do it you know this is what I am now I am a newly qualified nurse I need to start doing things so yeah so I agreed with the other nurse that was there at the time that I would take on these patients I was fine with that I was happy with that I had my own room my own clinic it was beautiful so yeah so I did that I did make a little mistake in the morning luckily the nurse was still there because I was just like modified I had a patient who come in for a blood test I wasn't too sure what sort of blood test he was coming in for so when I look back on the notes I saw the doctor had input something just for like four blood count things like that so I did those bloods the patient went home then I looked at a little slip that he'd left the patient had left for me for a different type of blood test which I hadn't took because it's a completely different bottle completely different set of bloods I was there oh my god why didn't I check with the patient what blood test he was here for why didn't I do that yeah so I learned massively from that mistake and straight away I went to the nurse and I said I'm really sorry I haven't done this I looked on the system it was this this and this I didn't see the slip and she was like oh don't worry about it we'll just call the patient blah blah blah and I said yes this is absolutely on me I need to call this patient so I called the patient left a message because it was a voicemail and they called back happy patient he's okay so yeah it was all okay in the end but it was just my first mistake and I was absolutely mortified however the rest of the shift went amazing oh my god I ran that clinic on my own guys I ran in the clinic and I was okay I survived so I am cheered I left that clinic so so honest to God my heart was full of joy and happiness because I was so proud of myself for handling the situation every single patient was fine oh I'm just I was chuffed I'm still chuffed at how I handled that in the afternoon the other nurse went so it was just me a doctor the pharmacy were on sites we have on site pharmacy where I am we had an amazing admin team and reception and even though I was on my own to my own clinic I didn't feel alone yesterday it was amazing I had a whole team behind me supporting me and they don't get enough credit these teams the pharmacists that you work with admin they are amazing use them if you're a newly qualified nurse please go to them and use them if you need help because they're amazing they're so knowledgeable and fantastic I can't thank them enough honest to God a huge thank you to the team and the IT guy the IT guy upstairs helped me out so much with the computer stuff as well I just I owe my soul to these guys for yesterday because it was amazing and I only had to call the doctor once to help me out so I was happy with that so all in all an amazing day so I was chuffed yeah I'm really happy with that I also had a really really nice message I have to say so on our computer system we have internal screen messages that you can send each other so you don't have to go disturb them on the rooms so it just pops up on the screen when you're with a patient and I had a message from the other practice from the nurses there saying I'm really sorry that you're on your own but we are all here if you need us please ring those messages whatever you need we are here don't feel like you're on your own and that was just so lovely it made me feel like honest to God on top of the world it was really nice to know that actually they'd heard that was on my own and that was support there if I needed it and I just can't thank them enough it was amazing it was such a nice day I can't explain the feeling I have right now in my soul it's amazing and I'm so excited to go in today oh also I had a had a very dramatic journey home so I was on the train home and I heard the train inspector is there a doctor or a nurse on the train I was like this is my time I've never heard that being shout before so I was like um me I'm here using abuse me so I walked down to the aisle I saw this guy he was having a seizure and I was like okay there's not much you can do for a seizure other than wait it out protect the head time the seizure so that's exactly what I did another nurse arrived on site and a first aider this guy was in the best hands he had three people all medically trained amazing well not medically trained but a nurse a nurse and a first aider first aider had his head he was keeping that safe the first aider he was amazing honest to god he was fantastic but he was so knowledgeable he knew exactly what to do in that situation the other nurse was incredible as well she checked for ID of the patient I got the patient's phone so I looked for the first thing I looked for is the medical ID so I know on my phone I've set up emergency medical ID if you have this on your phone if you've got an android or iphone you will have this on your phone so make sure you set it up if you don't know how to google it I'm not going to explain because this video is going to be a hundred hours long and I feel like I'm talking a hundred miles an hour sorry but look into how to set it up on your phone because that helped me so much luckily this patient had done that he had no nepilepsy he had his next to kin on there he had his date of birth no known allergies fantastic it was so helpful so when the paramedics arrived on scene I was able to hand that over to them this is what I found job done I also could contact his next to kin which was really really helpful she told me so much about his condition and where his doctor's base things like that again I could hand that over to the paramedics when they arrived fantastic really really good we all worked really really well together eventually we did get him onto the floor and put him in the recovery position when he sort of come around so yeah so it's it was just amazing it was such a tiring day I've literally got home showered and got into bed I was so tired I was gone by nine half nine easy so that's it that's all I've got to report really today I'm in one to half six I'm going to be sitting in I've got my own blood to do and then I'm going over to the other practice to sit in with the nurse and do some respiratory stuff which is like the spirometer and things like that so that'll be really really interesting and then tomorrow I'm half eight to half six so unless anything exciting or anything happens I'm not going to vlog anymore this week just because I don't think I'm going to have enough chance and to do it until for Sunday so I'm going to leave this video here I hope you all have an amazing week I hope you've had a fantastic like I've had the best week I hope you've had such a good week like I have and yeah all I need to say is my first week as a newly qualified nurse is going amazing I am loving life this is where I'm meant to be this is my dream and I am so happy right now I cannot explain it it's fantastic have a great week guys embrace the week embrace everything give yourself new opportunities throw yourself in at the deep end and just do it like it's the best way I've learned honest to god enjoy