 Hi everyone, it's Monday, bank holiday. What am I doing? I'm doing all this revision. Look how much I've got. I've got Diagrams galore. I've got flashcards, hundreds of flashcards. We're not hundreds. I've got just under a hundred flashcards I've got all these notes Folder full of notes as well. I've got my revision up there. I did the other that one and that one I did Today with these two I'm just going over everything. I'm hoping that I'm gonna remember it all ready for exam next Wednesday 11th of April is my exam day. I'm freaking out and this is the first time you'll ever see me freak out because It's just so much. It's so much information and I've been doing this for the past couple of months now This isn't just a new thing Anyone that revises last minute calm. I don't know how you do it Please give me advice how you revise last minute.com because I've been doing this for the past few months now two to three months I've been on this revision doing all the online stuff, quizlet, everything and I'm just I'm going back to previous things and I'm thinking how am I gonna remember this? So much information and I'm going back to previous things. I'm trying to jog my memory I'm like, oh God, what is that or what is this? I'm trying to think and I can't remember and then I'm having to reread it and rewrite it and watch YouTube videos and Just hope I'm not gonna be crying next Wednesday, but I'll vlog it. I'll let you know how the exam went Fingers crossed. I've passed this exam and doing this. I've got to be honest. I've got high hopes Feeling optimistic to a certain point, but then when I look at it I think oh, that's so much information, but then when I think about it logically and I think well, it's gonna be all right I'm not even making sense now because I'm panicking But hopefully it'll be all right, hopefully it's all gonna come back to me in the exam. It's gonna be great I'm not gonna be crying. I've got sweets. I've got all my Easter sweets here to keep me going and Gonna smash this Hi everyone. So today is Tuesday and I'm at work at work at placement Very early. It's quarter past seven. Don't start on nine. I love being early because I can cram in my revision Which is what I'm gonna do now and so for the next hour and a half. I'm gonna do all about MS today So yesterday I was doing mainly diabetes in the endocrine system and a little bit on nausea and vomiting as well But today I'm gonna sit in my car until the gates open to come park in the car park and I'm gonna do MS All about MS. Let's hope I remember this for the exam next week So I'm back home. I'm at my nurse's station. That's what I'm calling this my student nurse station And so I'm gonna tell you all about ours So after placement I attended the house seminar and it was all about personal development and to be honest I wasn't too sure before going what to expect from it but after the session ended I thought wow, I've actually learned so much from that session and Basically, we started off by talking about CPD and what this means to you how you interpret what CPD is and Also, how you can use it for yourself your personal development in education or a role as a nurse And why it's important and some of the things that we came up with it's really good because it's good for building your skills and knowledge It's really good for keeping up to date with local policies guidelines the law To build your own confidence and competence within your role and not just your role But a variety of roles as well just because you're doing adult nurse and doesn't mean that you're not gonna Deal with children or mental health or learning disabilities So it's good a good knowledge base as well and building your competence and confidence in other areas not just your own It's also a requirement there are from NMC and for your revalidation and it's used to As like an evidence-based practice, so you're documenting everything you do everything you're learning or your skills or your knowledge You're documenting it all so that that's your evidence of how you're progressing personally Because nobody knows it all the policies guidelines things are changing continuously So you need to be up to date You're forever a student you might be a qualified nurse you might be a consultant doctor Anybody out there doesn't mean you know it all because things change so much to constantly refresh retrain and up to date those skills and You just you're always a student and I personally I love that because I love learning in all these new things that didn't know before and Just fill in my brain with knowledge We use some A4 sheets just to write everything on and I shall post them now for you to have a look at after this we talked about leadership and What do you think makes the perfect leader? I mean to me personally nobody's perfect the world will be a door place if it was perfect and rosy Wouldn't it the ideal in your head? What do you think an answer below comment below? If you're not on YouTube and it doesn't let you comment below, but you're watching this video go to Twitter I'm gonna post it on Twitter I'll put the link on Instagram as well and the wordpress go on to my wordpress all the links below and Comment there because I'm gonna put them in those places for people to comment as well because I'm really interested to see What you think is your ideal perfect leader if there was such a thing and Some of the things that we came up with are Someone knowledgeable confident and strong Someone that man manages from the bottom all the way up to the top So they know the roles of everybody they know the how to roll their sleeves up and get mucked in They can work alongside people And as well as doing their management duties They don't think they're better than anybody else an overall balanced person as well somebody that's motivated inspirational to really motivate your team someone that sets goals and achieves them Someone that has real self-belief as well because you have to believe in yourself You have to believe in yourself so that you can lead a good team and as a nurse One of the things you're going to have to do is leadership skills you're gonna have to lead your team your colleagues when you're in charge and Patients you're gonna have to take control of patients sometimes if you have to act as an advocate for them You're gonna have to do that So it's really good to get to grips in what you think is a good leader What you aspire to be and things that you don't have that actually you could change now or get the knowledge now To build upon to make yourself that leader that you want to be what can you do now? that's gonna achieve that and One of the main things that I recognized from the day actually someone that something that I have known but something That I've thought about a lot more from this day is one of the things that I don't have that I really want When I see a good leader, I see someone that's is inspiring, but they can public speak Is that even a thing? But they're really good at speaking out into crowds and public spaces and I went to the GP conference as you know from another vlog and there's all these speakers on stage and I was just like wow How can it be like them because I know it sounds mad because I'm fine at home Sitting talking to you guys from my vlogging, but that's just us. That's just me in my house. I'm comfortable I'm not up on a stage talking to hundreds of people And the thought of that it does terrify me and is something that I know I've recognised and I am taking steps to do that This is why I wanted to start vlogging to get used to speaking to get used to being that open honest sort of Speaker does that even make sense and took opportunities that were given to me by the university by doing the student talk So stood in front of a class of first year students talking to them Talk did a talk at the GP conference as well It was scary, but I did it I pushed myself I faced my fear and I did it and the more I practice the more I can get exposed to that Hopefully I will become that person that I want to be myself and that would just be amazing So everybody everybody watching this video, please comment below if you can if not comment on the Twitter feed or my blog post Please I want to know what you aspire to be like what quality or what Is it a quality to be able to public speak but what what don't you have that you really want to gain and Let's see if somehow we can come together and Improve and build and give each other tips and advice on how to do that and how to be that person that we want to be So all in all Wednesday's seminar session was amazing anyone that's part of ours and missed it shame on you You should have been there because you missed a fantastic session So please next time there's a leadership one on the 18th of April everyone has to attend if you're not booked on If the spaces Book on if you've already booked on show up Organize yourselves. Please come because it is it's really really beneficial It's so good and the leadership one is going to be building on the personal development that we did on Wednesday So I'm really keen and looking forward to that if I can get some comments as well I can use that and the leadership because we're going to build the whole picture of what a good leader should look like So anyone's got any comments that we can add to it Please please comment and I'm going to throw them comments onto it and I'll put it in a vlog and you can all see your own comments So then Thursday morning. I was at placement. I was with my fantastic mentor and What did we do Thursday? I did some diabetic foot foot checks We did some blood pressure checks. I did a new health check On a new patient which I've done before and it's something that I really enjoy doing I like gathering all that information about someone to build this person I think it's fantastic and I love that you can do that in general practice and then my mentor had to finish early So we finished at one o'clock was a half one one o'clock Which is amazing because the Sun was shining and on Thursday I went and I went to a lovely restaurant in Sutton cold field the green house the green house bar and restaurant It's absolutely stunning and I walked inside and it was it looked posh My partner went in asked if we could have the dog in and they said yes They're like yeah, you can have them in the bar if you want to but I was like what? But you're so posh like never expected them to be able to have a dog inside So we sat outside the Sun was shining we had lunch and that's the beauty of working in general practice guys You get family time. You get to finish early. You have a proper meal with your family Just amazing and then today today is Friday I am making this vlog and then I'm getting on the revision. I've been revising all week. I've been revising two three months now Back on it today, and you know where I don't know if anyone else has this But you have like a revision overload like I feel like I'm just forgetting so much Because I'm revising too much does that even make sense? Does anyone else get that? So last night I did have a night off from the revision today. I'm gonna get back on it today and Just The exams Wednesday. I keep saying this I am panicking a little bit because the deadlines getting closer and closer and I'm wondering how I'm gonna remember everything But fingers crossed. I'm very optimistic. I think I'm gonna pass I'm gonna pass. There's no thinking. I am going to pass tell yourself that everybody we're going to pass It's gonna be amazing. We're gonna get great grades We're gonna remember most of this information because that's what happens when you're an exam. It all comes back to you Bring it all back now Anyway, that was an awkward So yeah, so this weekend is full of revising. I'm gonna revise my socks off Monday and back at placement Wednesdays the exam. I will vlog. Hopefully I won't be crying if I'm crying. I apologize but I'm gonna vlog about it because We all get like this sometimes we all get that little bit stressed and it makes us human I mean if I wasn't stressing and panicking about it It means I don't care about this exam and I don't care about nursing and I don't care about passing So I know because I want this so much I want to qualify is where I want to be where I need to be that's why I'm panicking a bit But I'm doing everything I can and it's gonna be amazing and I'll speak to you all next week. Have a fantastic weekend and Keep it up