 Hi everyone and welcome back to another vlog I just wanted to do a little quick vlog because I've got three vlogs coming up for you so today's one is going to be all about your inductions, getting your uniforms as a newly qualified nurse and your first job and then tomorrow's vlog on sunday I'm going to be uploading just my journey this first week what's been going on, what sort of patients have been seeing, what's been happening, just an update really and then my third vlog which I shall upload either Wednesday or Thursday and that one is going to be all about how to survive as a newly qualified nurse first days, weeks whatever just some little tips and advice for other people out there that might want that so yes I thought I'd separate all of the vlogs just to make it easier to locate and you can pick and choose what you want to watch instead of watching one long boring vlog if that makes sense so yeah here we go so when you get offered your job you'll get your contract through maybe in the post or email different trusts disclaimer different trusts from places different areas all have their own ways of doing things so you might get it through the post you might get it on email I had mine on an email and yeah it'll give you all the breakdown of your hours your pay and your leave entitlement NHS pensions all of that sort of stuff all the nitty gritty that you really need to know then your first days whichever area you're in should be all about induction and orientation again different areas do this so I'm in GP so it's a very different kind of setup to the ward so when I got my first job on the ward it was all about it was a block week and it's sit down in a lecture theatre listening to health and safety safeguarding information governance have your manual handling all your skills sessions your basic live support all those sort of little things but for GP it was a little slightly different for me so my induction was obviously going through policies and procedures setting up all of my internet stuff so my emails access setting up my email system which is the computer based system that they use where I'm at to document patient notes because everything is computer based there's no paper notes so it's very much like that and then I set up my e-learning as well so I can sit and do some e-learning have a look at PGD's all sort of things like that being shown around the building the fire exits and things and then getting things like competencies signed off so I had to get my bloods signed off so that I could start seeing patients to do their bloods because as you know GP is a little bit different it is a more lone working you're not in a ward environment with a lot of people around you it is your room you have your own patients one by one so it is a slightly different so you might find that if you're going into GP it's very autonomous so yeah so GP's also have their own funding as well so the way they set things up like inductions orientation it might vary from place to place to what they do and that's all pure down to it's their their work it is their company it is their funding and their money and they can do as they wish but obviously they've got a stick to lines and things like that so you are still supported and protected if that makes sense you're not just sort of thrown and left also you will have to set up things like your bank details to get paid so you will see usually like a payroll person to do your admin bits with banking and pay dates I also have to see a lady about my uniform she hasn't been in so I haven't been able to get my uniform so I've just been wearing black trousers and a shirt just as long as I look smart and presentable at the practice so that's what I've been doing this week and I should get my uniforms next week which I can't wait that's another vlog however if you're going to work on the acute sector or maybe a different area they might do this before you start so they might get you into size you for your uniforms I know I did as a HCA when I was based at university hospitals Birmingham they sort of they you go to the uniforms department they've got a special department and they might just get you into size up for your uniform and then they have to order it in for you but just to warn you you might get that that process that I've had where I've started and I haven't got a uniform yet and I'm waiting for it to be ordered so yeah but next week guys next week you will also do admin things like setting up your NHS smart card I don't know if everywhere has this but I know on the wards people have had it and I know in GP you have your very own smart card which gives you access to NHS systems that sort of thing I'm not 100 percent sure on all of the smart card things um I've never had one so I can't really say much about it but you get issued it it is yours and it's it's yes it's it's just what you sort of log in and out of the computer systems for so it registers to your name so anything that happens on the computer it can be back traced to you also in your induction week you will get your photo ID we need IDs as nurses so they'll take your photo so then once you have done all of your induction bits your orientation by safety all the boring stuff so once you've done that then you will start seeing patients so like me in GP I've been bodied up with someone so I've got like a mentor type sort of person that's looking after me show me where everything is and I've been sitting in them clinics to see how they run things and that was very much my first couple of days there was like that two and a half days maybe was sitting in but there is only so much sitting around you can do if you're like me I don't like to sit around I like to get stuck in I want to see my own patients I want to do more because that's the way I learn I'm better just being thrown and just yeah getting on with things and it was all just they ease you in well I felt like I've been really eased in so sitting with someone I've been then I've been doing a little bit more like helping the person doing dressings and things things that I could do I've helped while they did the computer stuff and then I sort of took on my own patients but again they were easier sort of patients they weren't complex it was blood testing which I can do I've been signed off for wound dressings which I can do it's quite simple however if it turned complex then I know exactly where to sign both and refer to if that's the case and then it will just build the more I sort of learn the more courses I sort of do the more things I'm trained and shown to do then I will pick up those patients like vaccines for example I have to do a set of PGDs so that I can give these vaccines and I need to do the I can't do baby immunizations that's something we do in GP until I've done the course and my course starts in May so I have to wait till May to do my smear tests my baby immunizations children vaccines things like that and once I've done all of those things I will start then taking on those patients so it's it's going to be a steady uphill if that makes sense to me it feels amazing however again in the ward sector in the acute sector you might be completely different it might feel I mean you've been a student nurse you know what it's like on the wards already you've been there you've done it so it might be slightly more like here you go deal with it sort of a feeling that's just my guess I'm not sure 100% I can only go by what I've done as a student nurse on the wards however you shouldn't be just left on your first day because that's not right you should have a mentor you still have that support between the other nurses and you should have most places now do a perceptorship which is any time between 6 and 12 months and that is where you've got your competencies exactly like being a student you will have your book to work through to sign off your competencies to show that you are going to be this nurse you can do these things and that you've covered all of the skills needed in that particular area so every area will have their own separate book their own competencies and their own skills that you have to get signed off along the way and you should have that if you feel unsupported if you feel like you are thrown in and you don't know what you're doing you have to raise it you have to say something to your management to the sister on charge please raise it okay because it's not okay and this is why people are leaving the profession straight away I think because they are thrown in and that's not okay and if that's happening change needs to happen but for change to happen so it doesn't happen again you have to be that person to be brave and just say do you know what I'm really sorry I need the support I can't do this and hopefully they're gonna listen and support you and if they don't don't be afraid to raise it higher if someone's not listening to you if you've gone to the manager of that ward the matron whatever they're not supporting you you feel like you need more and they're not listening go higher absolutely like there's no harm in doing that and you shouldn't be worried about backlashes or anything like that because that shouldn't be happening and this sort of culture needs to change on the wards so please raise it please do something about it don't just abandon ship and leave because if everybody does that nothing's going to change so please I beg you be brave stand up for yourself and change it make change happen and make it an amazing place to work for other people as well not just yourself so yeah that's sorry that's my little bent over so just to change back to gp where I'm at you should still have a perceptual period so I've still got my person that I will go to I've got all the competencies that I need to sign off which I'm doing at the minute and then I've got the course so for gp if you don't know you have to do the primary care fundamentals course or fundamentals of primary care course but if you have a google it'll come up and you can sort of research and it is just an eight month or nine month course just a day a week or a day here and there every other week maybe so you're still working but you go to uni maybe for the day to get this course done and that's just to get all the skills like I said like the baby immunizations travel vaccines smear testing all of that the things that you don't do at uni you have to sort of learn and do so yeah and then once you've been signed off that then you can start seeing these patients I just wanted to just quickly talk about pay as well so in the acute hospital sector that is very much banned five six seven eight and that's your pay scale so it'll start off as 24,214 I think don't quote me on that I think that's the start and salary and then as you progress as you get your increment increments it's sort of the the pay goes up for you in GP is very different it's a very different pay scale so this very much depends on the area you're working at some of them work to the agenda for change like the hospitals do which is where it's the band five six and that that pay rate however GPs are even though they're class even though they are funded by the NHS they are classed as a sort of private sector because they have control of their own fund and their own part of money to do whatever they want with with their staff they can pay their staff whatever they want they're in control of that and it's up to the GP because that's sort of their business and their role but yeah I just wanted to cover that if you're going to GP it's a completely different field to when you're working on the wards completely different pay scale completely different way that they do the increments and things like that but overall in my experience it's been really positive and amazing so far I am loving life and yeah I'm just really grateful so I think I've covered everything I've done the uniforms I've done your inductions your first week settling in I don't know really what else to sort of say in this vlog so I'm going to end it here and I hope that it's been helpful if I haven't covered anything you want to know comment below and I will absolutely answer it as best as I can if I don't know I will try and find out for you or sign post you or you can google it and have a look check the facebook group see what their experiences are all of that jazz you're sensible you know so yeah I am going to end this vlog here and thank you so much as always for tuning in and as child I'll see you tomorrow for my update of what an amazing first week I've had as a newly qualified nurse working in GP