 Hi everyone and welcome back to another vlog. It's been so long. I'm so sorry guys but it's been crazy busy my end. We had a practice nurse leave so I've been doing extra shifts at work to cover I've been doing a COVID support. I've been doing my assignment and my competencies from a course. I've been doing GPN SNN stuff. I've been doing a bit of COVID support which has now stopped because things are easing which is good to hear. I've been doing so much guys honestly it's been ramped busy and my YouTube just had to take a little break just whilst I do everything because I literally had no time to do any vlogs on my days off. I was working or doing my assignments or my competencies but the good news is it's slowing down and not only that but as you know I moved house I'm in my new house. I haven't found a place to vlog yet from so you're stuck with this image right now. Sorry guys you know it's just yeah it is what it is and not only that but my hair has faded look. I'm booked in I think on the 18th of April or something so a couple more weeks and then I'll be back and bright. So apart from being crazy busy and needing to sleep more it's been okay actually. I've been doing all right. What things have happened so as you know moved house. I've passed all of my baby immunizations I think I said that in a previous vlog. I've passed my final smear assessment now so I'm competent to do smear tests however something very very frustrating is because for the smear assessment you have to do a lab visit to the lab and a corposcopy visit so you know what the patient's going to go through and all that jazz which is absolutely fair enough. I've done my lab visit but however because of lockdown and COVID and everything corposcopy will not accept anyone right now at all like full stop so they won't actually give me my a certificate until I've been to corposcopy which is really frustrating. I email corposcopy probably every other month to check and see if I can go. I've asked for a virtual tour I've asked for everything and they just won't do it and it seems very very unfair. Yes I understand the importance of it and it's good for us to know what the patient goes through absolutely but I can't pass fully until I've done this corposcopy visit. I can't do a corposcopy visit because of COVID and I think it's something that they could just waive because from what I've heard other cities in the country do not need a corposcopy visit and they just get signed off so why is that way down south? I don't know. Yes that's my little groan for the day sorry guys. Anyway my portfolio is coming along nicely so as you know or some of you know that I'm doing the foundations of general practice nursing this is a level seven course after your nursing degree so this isn't there's two different ones if you've got a nursing diploma you can top it up to a bsc with this course or if you've already got your degree you would be this would be classed as an advanced diploma at level seven if that makes sense there's a level seven version and a level six version so whichever one you need is the one you're going to go for but if you've already got the degree is the level seven advanced diploma. So here it is my portfolio I don't have an overhead camera like the fans people on YouTube so I have this and my hand but yeah this is our competency portfolio bit so this first one here is our sign-off sheet so everything is signed off and then we have our competency list so I've highlighted the ones that I've done so we have to pick 16 competencies which I've added sexual health obviously because it's my faith so yeah that's our competency list I just need to put evidence in the page number there before I submit or I'll be in trouble this is my action plan what I'm going to do and when and then we get into the competencies so every single letter here well not every letter but pretty much most of the letters has a competency um so this is my consultation one and we just had to write an analysis of learning and then we had to put two pieces of evidence so for this one I put a consultation that I did and then I put some feedback I got some feedback from the same patient on my consultation so I did that and then we have infection control which was by far my favourites because I had a needle stick injury I know doing the COVID vaccines I had a needle stick injury um and so I wrote about it and I used it as a competency which was actually amazing for my portfolio so win-win situation there really um but luckily it was a clean needle it wasn't a dirty needle or anything like that I just might have had a extra dose of COVID it's fine but I did analysis of learning and a reflection I did this is the way we used to set it up before I got my stick injury this is why we got a stick injury because we were reshifting a lot of you may have saw this picture on my Instagram because I did show it everywhere to warn people this is what happened the needle went through the lid into my finger I still have no idea how this happened and then I've put the um the vaccine preparation administration this is from the centre of disease control itself and I've highlighted this bit that says bring the dose of vaccine from designated preparation area immediate to the patient treatment room for administration so it's open for interpretation so this is saying you should prepare it like we were doing before you get into your patient but now we've changed practice completely and we mix up the vial but then we take it into the room ready for the patient and then we draw up and the patient comes in and that's the way we do it now so this is just proof that bad things happen and we've changed practice as a result that is my reflection of it and I've got a safeguarding so it's cool oh this one was a good one I haven't have I printed off no I haven't printed off the competency the analysis of learning but I had a patient with learning disabilities and they appeared to have self-harmed and I didn't really know how to manage that to be honest um I'd never done that sort of thing so I wrote our surgery at a protocol actually I completely wrote as a protocol so that if ever happens again for other nurses that we know what to do in that situation so this has got all the nice guidance um and part two of it is specifically for learning disability patients and what to do but it is quite long-winded um but yeah it really needed to be put in there so I have done that health promotion so this one's a good one um I did analysis of learning and I did research paper on cancer breast screening which I've just reminded myself I need to print out because I haven't printed that out yet and a patient information needs to do it so I put these in place in our um in our surgery because we didn't have anything on checking your breasts and we have to do this at every smear check so this is a really really good one if you're interested it's from copperfield.org they do really good webinars as well on checking your breasts um really really good information for your patients so I put that in place in our surgery a mental health compo competency um that is an extra bit that needs to go somewhere that's an extra bit that needs to go somewhere um then I've got my asthma competency venopuncture competency ear examination my cervical screening and what happens ECG competency we're getting there guys wound care competency sexual health and that is it yeah so if you're looking to be a general practiceness this is the type of course you can look at going on to you have to secure a job first however before you start the course because obviously you need to do these things in practice and have a mentor and stuff like that so you can't just do this course like willingly willingly after your degree and for just for fun it's a course that you need to be working and the GPs will fund this or your CCG will fund this if you're a new qualified nurse or new to practice so ask them the question however some practices will not send you on the course you will go into general practice as a practice nurse and they will train you up on the job so you'll have separate little courses here and there you learn and stuff like that and they'll train you up that way rather than go into university and get an official certificate it just depends on what your practice does and this is the frustrating thing about general practice no practice is the same my practice what I do is completely different to every single other practice and the practice that you might be at will be completely different to every other practice like everyone has got their own pot of money their own funding their own ways of working their own terms and conditions their own contracts so it's it's kind of like a lucky dip really what you get but trust me guys we are fighting for some standardisation across the UK on this because it needs to happen 100% anyway so some other exciting news I have for you is um that I oh I don't know whether I should say it because I don't actually know yet I'll just say it anyway so I had an email to my NHS inbox for the role of a super practice assessor position and this isn't I'm not leaving general practice don't worry guys don't worry I'm still in practice nursing this is something you do alongside your role so this role is going to be helping student nurses out in the area so it's not just in my practice it's across the board in Portsmouth and Southampton area so if you are Portsmouth Southampton based you might see my face at some point yay dead excited about it so I will be begging practices to take students on basically and helping students in general practice and making sure they're okay and supporting them wherever I can basically um and sorting out timetables and things like that so that is going to be my job I think um I have applied for it but my manager has to okay it however it's a win-win situation really because um I've said I want to do it but I'm going to do it on my day off so I normally have a Thursday off and now that everything's calmed down and my portfolio is done and everything I've got time to do it so I said I'll do it on my day off on a Thursday and then if I've got a half day like I do half day in one day I could probably do half a day as well so I could probably do one and a half days a week doing this um they get the full funding for me so not only am I doing it in my spare time but they get funding for me to do it and I'll get paid for it so it's a win-win like how can my practice say no to that I mean I've thought of every eventuality they can't say no but anyway it's got to go to the partners meeting and the gps have to decide and the practice manager has to confirm it and some fingers crossed I should hear back something today from that but I will let you know as a go I may have jinxed myself and I might not get it but we'll see it's in the hands of the gods now so we'll see what happens um so yeah so because clearly I'm not busy enough I want to take on this extra role um because as you all know or most of you know I love students and I love giving advice and tips and helping people where I can it's just what I love doing and it keeps me motivated and it's something that I've been looking out for to do since I became a general practice nurse because it's something I really want to do so when I saw this post I was like oh I need this job right now this second give it to me um and I rang a woman straight away and I said I can't do this full time obviously because I'm a practice nurse but I can do like a day and a half a week or something um and they've actually okayed that it's just down to my practice come on guys please give me this I'll probably regret this in a few months time and I'm pulling my hair out thinking I can't do this but no I'm so excited but yeah I've missed um that interaction with students it's been a long time and it's something that I really really want to do it's something I want to do in the future you know I want to be a practice nurse but I also want to do teaching and lecturing and oh too much things but anyway now that things are calmer my portfolio is pretty much finished I've just got a competency left to do two competencies I think left to finish and then that's done I'll hand it in next month so I'm gonna have a lot more free time so yeah that's pretty much it um that is my life update it has been non-stop all go and it's been very very busy um but I'm gonna get back to doing some vlogs hopefully and yeah I'll work it out somewhere or another but um yeah if there's any vlogs that I haven't done yet comment below don't comment things that I don't know about because I can't do it I'm really sorry but if I don't know it I can't do it um but I will obviously try and do things so if there's anything you want me to cover anything you want me to do look back at my videos first and see if I've covered it yet if not put it in the comments and I will try my best and do it but that is it from me I hope you'll have an amazing week and I shall see you next time