 Another week of uni! So I'm at uni extremely early. This is probably the earliest I've ever been. It's half past seven now I usually get here for eight. So if it's quiet inside, I'll do a little vlog of what's inside my uni because I don't usually film inside because it's a bit disrespectful I think to other students filming and stuff like that and then I'd have to get consent and it's Yeah, it's not worth it. So here's my uni It's a beautiful day. I've got some nice puppies on the hill It's quite nice it looks That's the new building that they've built on. It's quite a nice building to be honest inside Past three. I'm chuffed. I finished early as much as I love learning and sometimes it's just nice to Get out and enjoy this beautiful sunshine So I'm on my way home. I've been I've picked up some chicken for dinner tonight and when I get home I shall tell you about my day because walking and talking just don't mix for me So I shall speak to you in a minute outside. I've just opened the door. So if you hear any background noise That's probably what it is. I'm sorry about that. I've got some amazing exciting news for everybody So I'm gonna start off with that because Yeah, so as you know, I am the health editor of the magazine University now And I've been looking at doing some articles and things for the magazine and one thing that's come to Birmingham And some of you might know some you might know I'll not know I'll post a link below to it. It looks amazing there's this thing called real bodies UK and It is at the NEC Birmingham. It's a massive event. It's basically It's a bit gross to some people I think but for other student nurses I think it's amazing But it's basically human bodies that have been preserved and there's parts of the bodies on display and things that you can Look at so you get like proper inside A view of the human body, which I think is amazing. Some people might think that's gross but As a student nurse when you have to learn anatomy and physiology and then to actually see that anatomy and physiology in real life That's amazing So I wanted to do an article on it. I emailed somebody and I said I really want to do this press release I've got the magazine. I'm gonna write an article on it. I really want to spread the message It looks amazing. I think it's gonna be amazing So and Surprisingly, literally the next day today They have emailed me back and they've sent me an invite for a private Private Sorry, I'm getting excited. I'm so excited So I'm gonna get a private viewing on Thursday evening I can speak to the CEO This amazing one you all screaming at your screens. This is amazing. I'm so excited. So I'm gonna go there Thursday I'm gonna get some pictures If I can take some video clips, I'm gonna take a video clip and just give you a little bit of inside info on it for Another vlog and it will all go on to the magazine and I'll show you some little bits in a vlog as well So it's gonna be excited. I'm so excited. I can't believe I said yes What other events can I go to come on people? Tell me what other events would you like to see? What would you like inside info from? Gonna have to have Google and okay, so back to reality today. I had three lectures So the first lecture was all about collaborative care again. So it's just building on the lectures from last week sort of identifying a Problem so if a patient comes in identifying an actual problem that they've got that you can solve or help them with and Then identify from that potential problems in the future that they might have that they might need referring to different services for or Future help from somebody else. It's a potential problem that might happen in The future or near future or tomorrow The you need to refer them on to somebody else. So that's collaborative care working together in partnership for the need of the Patient basically so that was nice and we did a little bit of group works We sat in groups and talked about different things and different barriers to caring for somebody so our second session was all about empowerment and how us as nurses can be empowered ourselves to then have a knock-on effect and empower our patients and we talked about what empowerment actually means to us and We sort of came around to an overall sort of our own Definition that is given somebody the information So that they can make an informed choice for the set for themselves about their lives about their health about anything so that person is in the power and Given the power back to the people that's what it's all about really Making sure our patients are empowered and that we're not just taken over and you know I've seen it before on wards sometimes because you're in a rush and something you think oh This will be quicker if I just do it so not me personally, but I have seen that on the wards and someone's doing it And I thought why they done that But it's just because there's so time consumed that they just haven't got that time So but then that's actually disempowering patients. It was all about Giving the power back to the patient giving them informed choices so that they can make a decision about their lives basically and we talked about how You know that somebody's empowered so we talked about they'll actually be engaged. They'll be asking questions We'll know by the result or outcome. Have they made that decision? Have they not? Was it a good decision? So overall the empowerment lecture was really good that and the collaborative care one was really good Especially for our Simon that were writing the 2000 words on dementia because this is what we're gonna need for the assignment And we're gonna have to go really in-depth and find all the research on it to write good assignment So fingers crossed that'll be a good one And then our last session it was literally group work with the poster So we just met up with our poster again and just if the lecturers were there if I wanted to ask questions So we've got some of our questions answered because there was a couple of things that we were just a bit unsure of So now we've got clarification We can put it into our poster and then we can get practice in our poster for the pros of presentation on the 11th of July In case I haven't told you already but no I did but 11 for July is the deadline It's when we're gonna be doing our poster Yeah, that's it. So I've had all in all today's been a great day. So tomorrow I'm off I'm gonna go to the beach Because it's gonna be a lovely day. I'm off me and my partner gonna go to the beach You're gonna take my partner's mom. We're gonna have a great day. I'm gonna go outside and enjoy the sunshine while it lasts It's beach day It's Tuesday It's a little bit cloudy, but it's gonna get nice later apparently it's gonna be 19 degrees It's gonna be a mixture of cloudy and sunshine It's eight o'clock in the morning still and freezing to put my hoodie on so let's see what today brings