 Welcome back, thanks for tuning in and just to let you know, if you've watched my videos before I usually take little videos throughout the week and this week I haven't managed to do anything. I took some videos yesterday so they are coming up and just it's been such a busy week. I was at university Monday Tuesday, 9-5 and it's just, when you have a 9-5 at university, especially because I live in Stourbridge so going from Stourbridge to Birmingham it takes just over an hour so I have to leave really early in the morning to be there on time for 9 o'clock. Then coming home, 5 o'clock traffic is a nightmare but schools have broke up now so hopefully the traffic's not going to be as bad. So on Monday we had our next case study launch which is our patient Audrey and she's got sepsis. So it was all about assessing Audrey, what she's presenting you with and what her symptoms could mean. So she's got a whole range of symptoms, she's got a high respiratory rate, high pulse rate, her blood pressure's dropped from normal, even though it's in the normal ranges, 108 to 74. Her normal ranges is a lot higher than that so it's dropped which she's cool, she's clammy, she's sweating, all these different things and you have to piece together, okay what could be wrong so you rule out infection, do the blood testing, you do a scan on her chest because she might have a chest infection. Anyway further down the line you find out she's got sepsis, once you've ruled out other things she has got sepsis. What is sepsis? If you don't know what sepsis is, sepsis is basically your body's immune response slash reaction to an initial infection so someone might have a chest infection or a urinary tract infection and unfortunately your body doesn't respond to it as it should so then you end up with that infection into the bloodstream and it's a systematic infection of the whole body, it's not just in one place anymore, it's widespread. So that's basically, I hope I've got the right, that's basically the lowdown of what sepsis is. Sounds like a really complicated situation to be in but with the right recognition and the right management of sepsis you can get it, you can nib it in the bud and save a patient's life so it's really important to recognise the signs and symptoms and the right assessment of a patient to prevent sepsis from spreading any further and resulting in the death of your patient. So sepsis it is quite serious, I mean I've reading up on it, it seems to be quite rare but you keep hearing it so it is on the rise. We had a great two days on Monday Tuesday, I love learning about all of these things and with our first patient Adam that I spoke about last time and this patient Audrey, they've got two different things, one of them is DKA and one of them sepsis so even though they've got two very different things they're both resulting in hypervolemic shock because it's both resulting, both their conditions is resulting in a low blood volume for whatever reason so then they're going into that hypervolemic shock and it's really nice, I just love connecting all the pieces and on Monday and Tuesday I was listening to the lecturer and I was writing my notes I was like oh my god this makes sense, this makes sense, this all connects, it's amazing, I love that from first year when I didn't know anything I was just like what the hell's the cardiovascular system and I used to say all these ridiculous things like I don't even know this I'm gonna have to revise so much, I taught myself I think pretty much everything in first year because I wasn't the sort of person that could sit and listen at that time so I went home I went on the Khan Academy I went on all these different websites I taught myself everything about the different anatomy in the systems and now today I'm listening and I'm like I understand what she's saying I know what she's saying yes and it's so nice you have no idea how nice that is to be able to do that and it just it makes me day anyway I'm getting emotional because I'm thinking about it and thinking how far I've come it's just it's great so then Wednesday Thursday I was off and you know what I avoided everything like the plague I thought you know what I'm not gonna do anything for two days I'm doing nothing I'm gonna spend my life on social media I say doing nothing but social media is kind of something but I literally I thought you know what I'm not I'm putting my work aside because I've done so much I've done everything I've done pretty much most of my work and all that I've got left now is my assignment a 2000 word assignment and I've even started that I've started and I've got about 500 words I've got 1500 words left of this assignment and that's not gonna be handed in till September so I'm really on top of things so I decided to take two days out to just do social media do some blogging and just chill out a little bit and on Wednesday evening I ended up going to the cinema so we all went to watch Oceans 8 and it was great it was a really good film I really enjoyed it it's not one of those films that I would say oh my god it's amazing you have to see this film because you have to see it it's not as good as that but it's easy to watch it's funny yeah it's it's a good movie and then Friday we had a health care award ceremony I was invited along as part of the Haas team and I've talked about the Haas before if you don't know what Haas is it's the high achieving recognition scheme at my university which celebrates success in those that achieve high basically the health care awards is awards given to students to lecturers anyone that's been nominated for an award basically for anything they've done or anything they've achieved overcoming things and it was just such a nice day so I was there part of the Haas team and I thought we were there because Juliette who runs the Haas team I thought we were there because she was gonna get award for all of her hard work and recognition and she stood up and she was talking and then she was like I just want to present this award to all of my Haas scholars I was like what does that mean we have to go up on stage and I was there I was just baffled I was like no one told me I had to go up no one told me I was like gonna receive a certificate or anything like I was so panicking because I had these heels on I had these let me show you so I had these heels on and they don't actually look that big I don't think from there but apparently they're three inches tall haven't worn them for probably about two years almost two years now so I forgot what it was like to walk in them and my feet were aching and then so when she said that we had to go up I was like oh my god what do I do my shoes were off my shoes were off my feet and I ran as fast as I could onto the stage barefoot and to get a photo with the team and then I was like oh my god I've got bare feet whatever just done everyone's gonna laugh at me so I just I ran as fast as good as I get your head down run no no notice take a picture go run back to your seat as fast as a good oh I was so nervous I didn't expect it and I was like oh my god so I'm chuffed I got like a little certificate let me show you the ticket so look Claire Carmichael student nurse has been awarded the scholarship as part of the high achievers recognition scheme that's me I'm chuffed it's nice to show your achievements I think sometimes because sometimes you do feel a bit down and you think I'm not good enough I can't do this so when you get something like that it's just it's so nice to just think actually do you know what I can do this I am good enough and I've always put myself down academically thinking I can't do this before starting this course I always put myself down I always thought you know what I don't know how I'm gonna do I don't know by the end when I get to that dissertation I've got a right thousands of words I don't know how I'm gonna do it and if I'm gonna fail it's gonna be in third year and I panicked so much and now I'm halfway through the course I'm getting these amazing grades that never even dreamed I could ever achieve I'm thinking four thousand words for a dissertation actually it's not a dissertation anymore it's called something else like A, P all these letters that I don't understand but it's four thousand words and I'm thinking four thousand words is not gonna be enough like I'm gonna have to write a lot so I just I think it's amazing how far you come on this course and I keep saying this if you're looking into nursing it will change you and it will change you for the better and it will improve you and it'll make you believe in yourself it's nursing well how can nursing do that that's what I thought when someone said that to me but you know what it does it will change you and if you think that you're not academic enough I'm here today to tell you you are because if I can do it you can do it don't have any fear please please don't be scared get the help go to your personal development department get all the help advice tips hints everything you can put them into place listen to all the feedback on board that from your first assignment that you do and just improve yourself and you'll be amazing so they feel like I've just spoken a hundred and one words an hour so sorry about that anyway back to Friday Friday was amazing so it was a great day it was so nice to see everyone go up and get the awards someone got a unicorn she got this this award and it's in it was it wasn't a I can't even speak as I'm excited it was a unicorn is this beautiful I think it was brass or bronze statue of a unicorn sort of upon its heels and it was just beautiful but all these people had such an amazing achievements and awards and it was a great celebration and the food don't get me started on the free lunch I'm gonna show you now the free lunch was amazing I mean I didn't go for the free lunch some might dispute that including myself definitely went for the free lunch it was really good it's the best chicken I've ever tasted so thank you to Edge Bastion cricket ground absolutely amazing if you go into an event or anything at the cricket ground sign up for the food and it was just it was just such a lovely day and I was so honored to be there and just enjoy the moment so now I'm gonna show you what the day involved it's today's Saturday I'm recording this on a Saturday I've got today off I've actually got the whole weekend off I haven't picked up any bank shift this week I'm spending the weekend relaxing taking some time out although today even though I said I was gonna be relaxing I'm probably gonna look at my assignment because just don't know what's wrong with me I just I feel like I should look at my assignment and just make a start on it and then at least then when it's out the way I've got nothing I've got no work to do other than revision and my maths so I'm gonna do that so have a great Sunday everyone I hope you have an amazing day whatever you are whatever you're doing whether you're working day off however you're watching this video if it's not a Sunday I hope you're having a great day whatever day the week is and I'll see you next week