 Hi everyone so it's a fresh new week today is Monday and in my last video I told you that on Sunday I was going to be getting on with my assignment and hopefully finishing it and I asked you to motivate me but guess what it was Sunday I was motivated and I've got 400 words left of my assignment to do and then it's done how amazing is that I was really motivated I got on it I started typing I found all my references that I needed to find I was on the ball yesterday I'm so proud of myself so I do have 400 words left out of 3,000 I really smashed this one out guys I'm just hoping and praying that what I've written makes sense and it matches the assignment brief so I do need to go back and change that if needed but I've got until April before I have to submit it so I've got plenty of time to perfect this one and get the grade I really really want so I'm chuffed I just thought I'd update you today is Monday I've just said this but I have a day off and I've just been for a training session at our Works Education Centre if you don't already know I work in sexual health so in sexual health I'm a healthcare assistant and we usually work alongside the nurses and the doctors and help were needed but now the training goes to actually see patients alone and do the testing alone as long as the patient doesn't have any symptoms so they're training us to use the computer system how to manage patients how to assess patients properly and give them the best care possible properly in a sexual health setting and assessing those risks and how we manage those risks to be honest the computer side of things I am on that already because I actually taught myself the Exelica system that we have which is a really really frustrating complicated system so today's session was really good really loved it we had an amazing nurse go through it all with me and teach me everything and yeah also I find out something really interesting actually today in today's session some of you may or may not know as women when we reach 25 we have to go for regular smear tests every three years this is a sphical smear test which tests for those initial cancer cells forming which is going to hopefully prevent cancer in the future every three years we have to be tested it's not a pleasant experience but to be honest I've never had a problem with mine and I find mine fine and in and out and no bother to me but I know some people can find it a little bit traumatic and a little bit painful and uncomfortable a little bit embarrassing and awkward and that sort of puts people off but anyway sorry sidetracked I found out today that if you are diagnosed with HIV you have to be you have to go for your smears every year instead of every every three years and I'm assuming that's because you're more at risk because HIV reduces the immune response and things like that so it just brings your risk up a little bit more that's my assumption but I didn't know that I didn't know that if you had HIV you have to have your smear tests every year so that I'm actually going to look up today because that's really fascinated me and that was a new piece of information that I have to share with you of course because everything I learn you're gonna learn you guys are learning with me it was a great day I got a free pen and a free bag I know let me actually let me show you my free bag oh I've got my certificates as well from my e-learning so this is my free bag I know I haven't used a drawstring bag for ages but this is it my fancy free umbrella bag so all in all it's a winning day tomorrow we have a couple of hours we're back on the policy and politics tomorrow Wednesday we've got an all day nine till six thirty session of physiology and then Thursday we have a respiratory skills session so I will show you this it's gonna be a really great week and I can't wait to get stuck into it this week so today is Wednesday yesterday we had our policy and politics lecture which to be honest it was a good lecture it was all about A&E admissions and discharges and all about discharge planning and something really really interesting I always pick up these random facts from these lectures and it's all I take from these lectures I don't know why last week I told you about the random fact about the west side and the east side and where people live this week I've got something really interesting to tell you I didn't know this this was brand new information to me this is another general knowledge fact for your quizzes hopefully but basically I found out found out today that when a patient gets admitted to hospital they're only the water the hospital is only funded for four days of that patient stay once it's been past four days that fundings no longer available for that patients then the hospital has to find that money from somewhere to support and fund that patient if that makes sense so you've got all these patients that are staying weeks and months and whatever because they can't be discharged yet it's not safe or they acquire an infection or something so they've got a longer stay and that hospital no longer has funding so then there's gonna be all this excess funding that's having to come out of their own sort of money pot so yeah so I didn't know that and that shocked me a little bit I'm not too sure why but then I thought oh and it doesn't make sense when you're out working on the wards you've always got the bed manager on the phone they want discharges discharges they want the patients in out in out as fast as possible so that was really interesting I didn't know that before and then today so today we had policy and politics in the morning again and then we had the rest of our COPD patient physiology lectures this was the the last of our COPD patient and we are going to be moving on to our cardiovascular patient so I'm really looking forward to our next patient our next case study learning some new things about the cardiovascular system and heart failure and all of that really really excited to get stuck into this third case study can you believe we are halfway through our physiology teachings how scary is that that means we are that step closer to our exam which is terrifying but the exam is looking a bit better now now as we're going along and we're learning more and more and we keep repeating over and over I'm sort of looking at things and thinking okay actually this exam might not be that bad if I can concentrate on the high marks physiology I think I'll pass it fingers crossed that's what I'm hoping for I also I told you all that I had my supervisor meeting and that was today for my acp dissertation slash not dissertation it's called acp he's really tough that was so organized I literally had everything it was in my folder had my print out everything and she was like yeah so I think she was happy that I'm a little bit organized and I've got my question and I've got all my research and I think what I've chosen and my question is okay but I just need to go over my research and make sure that the research is actually answering all of my question this is going to be the tough bit now because there's not going to be research out there that's actually asking my question so I need to look at the research and hopefully it's going to answer my question in a good section of the research that they're doing about something else but it's related to my topic does that make sense so I'm thinking I'm going to have to look at the evidence again the research again and my question again hopefully I don't need to change it too much because I'm so set on doing this topic but I'm going to have a look at again over the next week and hopefully come to a final decision because I really need to get on and do the rest of the work with this otherwise it's just going to make me panic because you know I'm organized and prioritized everything so yeah but this doesn't have to be submitted till October so I have got time I just want to make sure that I'm doing each bit well ahead of time so that I don't get caught up and don't get left behind and don't rush and panic towards the end okay so I am about to apply for my very very first job as a newly qualified nurse I know I don't qualify till November but everybody's starting to apply and get a job position now so I thought you know what I'm going to apply I've gone on to NHS jobs I've found one general practice nursing position that are taken on newly qualified nurses and it's less than two miles from my house how more perfect can you get I am really really excited about this it's going to be my first job and if not anything it's going to be a good experience to do the application form hopefully get an interview and experience an interview and if they don't want to take me on yet because it's too soon at least I'm going to get that experience so I'm really excited I've got my screen up here look there it is and there's that button here says submit application are you ready oh god there's another thing are you sure you want to submit okay here we go are you ready that's it it's done I've submitted it thank you for completing your application form if you have been successfully shortlisted you should hear back from the recruiter soon that's my first one it's my first application so I haven't got high hopes but I'm just really excited and I'm glad that you can all share that experience just meeting that moment with me of submitting my first application form and it's all becoming very very real now hands up he's excited I'm so excited save application forms profile save because I don't want to go through all of that application form again this will arrive yeah do that okay so I've saved that application form so hopefully the next job I find I don't have to go through that whole process again it'll just else matter save and I can submit oh my god this is nerve-racking what if I get an interview oh my god I'm terrible if anyone's watched my previous videos on my interview tips I said at the very start I'm terrible at interviews my mind goes blank I get really nervous during an interview but there are some tips and things in that vlog so I'm just really really scared now I'm gonna have to do my research have a look at some things for GP practice and applying to GP practice and just make sure I know about the practice that I am applying to as well because it's always good if you do your research about the place that you're going to work at so you've got a bit of background bit of knowledge and hopefully gain some brownie points so yeah um so that's it guys I've applied fingers crossed I'll let you know as soon as I know of course so that's it for now tomorrow we have a respiratory skills session so I shall take you all with me and show you what we're going to be doing in respiratory skills tomorrow and again it's going to be one of our last ever sessions skill sessions everything's the last it's always very emotional so I'll see you all tomorrow happy valentine's day everybody so today is valentine's day and I'm single so um I woke up a little bit sad and a little bit anti-valentine's but when I opened my room door over there I woke up to a lovely bunch of things being left outside my room a teddy bear chocolates flowers and a card my housemates have gathered together and got me something and it was just so cute I was just like oh okay valentine's day is a little bit cute but today I had my respiratory skills session at university with my favorite people we had a mannequin that had a tracheostomy and we had to just manage that airway take it out clean it rechange the dressing and practice doing that we had to look at different masks for the oxygen we had to look at the suction machine and how to use the suction machine and what it should be set on when you're cleaning out trachea so that was really really good and oh and a chest drain I saw a chest drain I've never seen a chest drain before so that was really really interesting to see that and actually understand why a chest drain would be used so basically you use a chest drain on a patient if they've got a build-up of fluid that's not going anywhere or a build-up of air like just air filled in that space and it's obviously causing them problems and it needs to be drained out so a drain would be put into the chest to remove it so it was really interesting to go through all of that because I'd never seen any of that before obviously I've seen the the masks and the different valves for the oxygen but I hadn't seen aches before chest drains and that was new to me so I was really excited really happy that I did that took a little couple of obviously the obligatory selfies in the skill sessions rooms so I'll show you those next but I just want to say a massive thank you for tuning in as always that is it from me for now I shall see you next week