 Today is Wednesday back at uni. I'm on the way to the bus stop. I'm so excited! Uni friends because you really miss them when you go out on placement and you sort of forget like the bond that everyone's got and the laughs that you can have in lectures and outside of lectures. I really miss just generally being at university and that's probably a little bit sad but I don't care. But I just, I love being back. So today is Wednesday. I've had two days back at university and we've been doing all about our next module which is our poster presentation and they've just been going over the sort of poster that we need to achieve. So it's not going to be a physical poster, it's going to be more of a PowerPoint sort of poster from what I can gather and it's going to be research evidence-based practice. It's all going to be based on one of our case studies which is a patient called Jeremy who's got dementia. This isn't a real patient, this is just a made-up patient. So our poster presentation is going to be related to dementia. I'm really excited for it actually. I really like dementia, I like, I think there's a lot of information out there surrounding dementia as well so I'm really looking forward to having a look at that. And then on Tuesday's session was, I'm not going to lie, it was a long day Tuesday. It was all about, the first lesson was qualitative research and the next session was quantitative research and random controls trial and it was just, I felt like it was just a lot of information thrown at me. So a lot of this came out of the electorate, a little bit tired I think. I'm glad to be going home and relaxing after that session. It is something that we need as nurses though so I'm really grateful for the information that's been given to me. I've got a day off today. Tomorrow I'm back at uni, it's my last day back at uni for this week tomorrow. I think tomorrow we've got a talk on our leaflets that we've got to do for part of the module along with a rationale so we'll see how tomorrow goes. I can't wait. Let's start you off with telling you a little bit about last night and my thoughts and feelings when I woke up this morning. There's a point I promise. So last night I had the day off yesterday so towards the end of last night before I fell asleep I thought, I know I'll do some research because I had this crazy moment in my head where I thought I'm going to just start researching before I go to sleep. So I got my laptop out, I went on to Sinal. If you don't know what Sinal is it's just a database that searches all different types of journals, research, all sorts of things like that. It's just a brief lowdown of what it is. So I went on to the Sinal to do a search so I wanted to do some search for the poster that we've been given. So I went on to the computer, I typed in Dementia and there's like different boxes, it's hard to explain it now for a video. It's basically on Sinal you have three different boxes so you've got your main search box and then you've got the and and then and so you can search all different things and I thought this is the way I've always done it. So I've always put in the top bar my main subject and then underneath subjects that I want to include so dementia with malnutrition, dementia of food, dementia eating this is what I was searching last night. It was coming up no results, no results or one result. I was there, I was really I was tearing my hair I was like there cannot be no information about dementia and eating or dementia and malnutrition or dementia and nutrition that just is impossible. It baffles me and I was getting so frustrated I was blaming it on Sinal I thought I'm going to say sorry now Sinal I closed my laptop gave up for the night I thought do you know what I'll try fresh tomorrow so I slept on it. I didn't sleep very well I had nightmares about researching which is very rare very rare I get stressed about things and so I woke up this morning panicking and I was thinking gosh this is going to be so hard this is harder than I imagined it to be actually initially I thought this is going to be easy supposed to presentation I'm really enjoying this but now when I'm thinking about it when I'm trying to do some research on it and I'm not getting any results back I'm really panicking and then so today I went to university we had a fabulous lecture we had a lecture all about the leaflet side of it that we have to produce so we have to produce this leaflet I haven't spoke to you about this yet but we have to produce a leaflet so based around mother and baby and types of things and health promotion and things like that and we've got to do a leaflet with a rationale why you've chosen why you've chosen those things for your leaflet basically so that I'm really excited for I'm on that I can do that no problem I love to get creative so I can't wait for that so then after that session myself and group of university friends we all decided we'll go into the library and we'll just get a bit help because a couple of people wanted to know more about the qualitative and quantitative types of researchers so they wanted a bit more information on that sort of thing so we went in for that initially and I said actually I really need your help because last night I had a terrible time on Sinal and it wasn't giving me any results and I need to know what I'm doing wrong there's got to be something that I'm doing because there's no way there's no results so she sat me down and said yeah come on then let's do that and she said okay so you search this subject in the big main heading like I was doing press search get that search logged in and then you do a fresh search for your next subject I was like what what are you talking about she's like yeah do this fresh search so search dementia first then search malnutrition second and then if you want to really narrow it down put in things like UK whatever then at the end result you've got your main page and then you've got this section that's got all your search results and then you can tick each search result so you can tick dementia and malnutrition and then you click a little section this magic button of wonder that you click and all your results just appear and it came up I had 116 results I was like yes this is amazing like she's just opened this whole new world to me and I was like thank you so much like I'm so grateful to the library team at Birmingham City University for this it's just opened a whole new world for me in researching so I'm proper chuffed I can't wait to actually get down and gritty with this poster now and do some proper research knowing that I could find results yay then after that I met up with my poster group we all sat down we all worked really well together and I'm not just saying that just for the sake of saying that we're all seen really on the ball we're all motivated we all want the exact same thing which is rare when you put a group of people that don't even know each other together into a group you never know what you're gonna get so for us to all bond from the off go and all say okay this is what we want this what we want yes thank you I'm really grateful for my team we all sat down we had to think we used the PEO and the PICO tool they're basically tools that you use to generate the question for your research so we use those tools which I was just amazing we use these tools and we put in what we wanted in each section we're like we've got we've got a question like we've been here for an hour we've got our question we're sorted we're halfway there guys we're halfway through this poster let's say halfway we've got a little bit longer than that but now we can get on the research we can find out what sort of research it is our question might just adjust slightly depending on what sort of research we find that's my gist that I'm getting at the minute it's going to be amazing I'm so happy now I'm like the stress has just been lifted just from this one library session and finding it meeting up with my team coming together and just getting a good result today I couldn't be happier and now I've got four days off I'm gonna produce my leaflet I think I'm definitely I'm gonna get my leaflet out the way this weekend I've got until Tuesday and the leaflet to me is quite straightforward in my head so I'm hoping I'm not gonna struggle with it I don't think I'll come to any obstacles with my leaflet I've had a fabulous week I've had a mixture of emotions this week a bit of worry I suppose from my last night's stress and meltdown it's turned around and how I feel ready I feel ready for this module can't wait to get it done I'm on it I'm organised I'm gonna get organised from the get go and we're just gonna smash it it's gonna be amazing so let's see what I do over the weekend so today is Saturday and I've decided to crack on with my leaflet part of the module I've completed the leaflet part of it it's just the rationale that I'm really struggling with at the minute I'm just gonna show you a few things so I've got all this searching searching searching searching I've got so many pages searching for breastfeeding you know breast benefits of breastfeeding problems and issues with breastfeeding anything related to breastfeeding and although there's a lot of stuff here it's not what I'm looking for if that makes sense so I'm struggling to find proper evidence-based practice on actual breastfeeding benefits and things and I'm struggling so I think I mean been on it all day it's six o'clock in the evening now um I'll give you a sneak peek of my leaflet this has got to be a super sneak peek so don't want anyone copy me ding and the second page ding be with my leaflet to be honest it looks good it's exactly what it says on the tin so I think I meet all the criteria for the leaflet it's just this rationale so I'm gonna give it a rest for today get back on it tomorrow and hopefully finish the rationale by the end of tomorrow and then I can have Monday all day to myself and not do a single thing so I'm taking a break um closing the laptop and now I'm going to do my board it's all ready I've just got rid of all of the previous revision from the board and now I'm going to make it look pretty again three year schedule and this is my schedule for the end of this year's modules look full on so I'm just going to stick them on my board now all of the plants from the slugs that have just appeared from the rain it's time to get back to my leaflet for the rest of my sunday I hope everyone has a great bank holiday and I'll see you next week