 It's Tuesday, I've got my tea, I'm on my way to uni, I'm loving these three days weekends, it's fantastic. So hopefully today's going to be a good day. Oh there's a little Robin. He missed him, how cute. That means good things are coming. So I'm back from uni and today was a good day to be honest. I know I started off saying on my last vlog that I hate research but today we had our first session was all about systematic review research and it wasn't that bad even though we don't need that type of research for our assignment or our poster but it's going to be really useful for our third year. So it was a nice session as far as research goes. I'm quite happy with that and actually I learned a little bit extra so yeah I'm quite happy with that. As much as I don't like research that was a good session as far as research goes, does that make sense? Yeah you get me. So then our next session was group work. So we had to meet up with our poster groups, we all came together, we've gone through the CASP tool so now that we've done the CASP tool against the article we've analysed our evidence and that's it. Our first presentation is pretty much done. All we've got to do now is put it together on an actual PowerPoint and then that's it and then now all really we need to do is talk through it. It's a 10-minute poster presentation so we have to time it. We've got two minutes each to speak and do our little bit and that's it. So I think we're going to be all right for the poster presentation. I've got faith. I think we've done really well as a team and I can't see any problems happening between now and the presentation on the 11th of July so things cross for that one. And then our next session was just talking about our assignment again, how to lay out the structure, what we should be including and that was a really good session because it's really helpful and it's quite nice because our assignment guide is really well structured. It's got exact exact word count for each section and it's got a clear section of clear guidance of what we should be doing on our assignment so that's really helpful. So I think that's going to be an easier assignment than the rationale that I'm having to write for the leaflet because the rationale that I'm writing for the leaflet at the minute, I'm sorry if you don't know what I'm doing because you haven't watched my vlogs so we've had to create this leaflet surrounding a mother and baby issue because as a nurse we have to be aware of different issues so I'm going to do a health promoting leaflets around and breastfeeding and the benefits and things like that so that should be good but alongside the leaflet we have to write a thousand word rationale on evidence-based practice and that's it's not tricky but I don't know if I'm writing it right. Does that make sense? Like I've never wrote a rationale before so I don't know if what I'm writing makes sense so it's definitely something I'm going to just have a look into but I have finished my rationale, I've wrote a thousand words, I'm hoping I've done it right but if not I've got it all there ready so I can just adjust it and tweak it to how it's supposed to look so that's a bonus and that's it that's all for today to be honest. Today's been overall a good day so tomorrow I'm going into university I've got a lecture at 12-2 and then I've got a hard scholarship meeting with the Dean 2 till about half four so that'll be nice I've got a nice line tomorrow so I can't wait for that one I'll see you all tomorrow. So today is Wednesday and we had such a fun session today we were talking about the NMC Code of Conduct about record keeping and how actually how serious it can get if you don't document something and how important that that actually is if something God forbid something goes wrong on the ward and you've got to go to court from a situation that happened two years ago and try and remember what happened it's not documented it didn't happen so it's really important that as part of the NMC Code and just you know your own professional standards and good practice you should be recording everything you do even hand washing everything it doesn't matter if you've got a page long of notes at least it's there and you're covering yourself so that's one point that came from that session we should be doing that as nurses we should know that already but sometimes we sort of we don't think about things and I mean I thought I was documenting quite detailed notes but then thinking about it actually I don't think I've ever stated clearly I have washed my hands before and after seeing that patient so God help me if I'm going up into court but if I was doing a wound for example if I've done any sort of wound care that's when I have I've definitely 100% I've said hand washing or aseptic technique was used I've clearly documented that so that's good but I didn't think about that for other patients if you're just going in washing and dressing and doing things for them because you know there's a whole hand washing guidance that we should be following and ideally it's part of their care so it should be in the care notes makes sense so that's something that I've learned today always put in the smallest of details and don't panic about it because now I'm panicking about it um but anyway today's session so today's session was amazing it was basically we had a room full of students I don't know how many students are in my class probably about a hundredish roughly between 70 and 100 in one room and so the two lecturers were fantastic the one lecturer pretended to be a judge so and she's actually been trained we found out in law so she knew exactly what to say to us how to say things to us and it's exactly how give or take how it should be done in a courtroom so it was quite scary and we were all given a fake set of notes that we had to read through at the start just as a brief to just so we can go through and know what we're going to be saying and things like that and then the other lecturer come round with a little hammer and pointed to a student and we had to stand up and swear on the oath as if we were in a courtroom and go against the judge and the judge would point things out you know it says this but what does this mean why have you written this why have you left this out and really quizzed some people I felt so sorry for the students because she gave them a really hard time and I was like oh my god but it was good it was a fun fun lecture it really made you think it was really interactive it really got the students terrified I think so it was great overall it was a fantastic session and it was really good to get you thinking so I will definitely be thinking more about my own record keeping and even though I know that I write quite a lot of detail in my notes my notes are really long I mean I know I wash my hands I'm thorough but if you don't document it technically it didn't happen whether you did or didn't so message to all students document everything even your hand washing do it every single small detail don't let anyone laugh at you because you've written too much in your notes write as much as possible smallest details because if you're called up on that stand and you've got to remember something from two years ago you're gonna want those detailed notes so that's it it was a great session I'm looking forward to tomorrow and yeah I'll see you tomorrow on our way to see Dippy the dinosaur how'd you feel about this? Thrilled. I'm going to university I've got the day off but I've got a couple of appointments that I've got a going for so going in to do that it's going to be an exciting day talking all about a workshop that we're going to be setting up but that was under wraps at the minute I can't tell you too much about that and the other appointment I've got is for the lovely health magazine that we're doing so really nice appointments creative loving life really where far going in so let's see what today brings so I'm just back from my two meetings that I had at university my first one was a meeting with the scratch magazine guy and we talked all about the magazine and what we can do with it how we can move forward with it how we can incorporate their new health magazine into it so it's all going to be linked basically because there's this for some reason there's a big divide between the city centre campus and our campus which is just outside the city centre there seems to be a divide between the two universities for whatever reason and we want to bring that together you know we're all part of Birmingham City University no matter what campus you're at no matter what you're studying so it would be nice to have everything just linked and nicely joined together wouldn't it yes and so we've decided to collab, collab and listen so we're going to collaborate together we're going to make this amazing magazine we're going to literally start from scratch excuse the pun we're going to start from scratch used to be the scratch magazine we're going to raise that we're going to get a new magazine it's going to be fresh it's going to be new I'm going to be the health editor and I'm going to make this health section which is going to be amazing we're going to have it informative we're going to have some fun facts we're going to have some probably anatomy and physiology thrown in there for roles we're going to have some prizes some giveaways some question answers we're going to have some blogs but also going to make it hopefully an online magazine I'm pretty sure it's going to be an online magazine what we're just debating whether to keep it a physical magazine as well or just stick to online because I mean for me I'm a social media person I love everything online it's just easy to access it's there and we're saving paper so for me it's no brainer I would love an online magazine I'd love to just create this website that's going to be amazing we can have vlogs like this which is going to be amazing and I think it'll be far better and hopefully in my head it looks amazing it's going to be amazing so fingers crossed we set up a fantastic site so I'm looking to meet up with a couple of the guys from the magazine from the other campus probably end of June July time and we're going to get our heads together and get it up and running hopefully I mean this is my aim want it up and running for the welcome week in September so that students can come in target them we get them fresh start as we mean is go on we're going to promote it there's a Twitter account that we need to completely revamp and make it look amazing start posting nobody's posted from the magazine account since last year come on guys get on it gonna get on the Twitter promote it to death promote it on Facebook as well so that's going to be coming soon and when I find when it's up and running and the links there I'll put the link below and everyone can have a look and see what new site we've got so that'd be really exciting so yes we've got loads of new ideas for this new magazine it's going to be amazing we need to come up for the title as well so if anyone's got any suggestions if you live in Birmingham the west midlands even if you don't live here but you have some suggestions related to Birmingham please come up with a great title for our magazine and post the comments below ideas are very much welcome and what would you like to see included in that what would make you read it and can keep you coming back to it let us know and then so my second meeting today was with the careers team careers team we love you so myself and Deb we both met up with the careers team we're talking about this top secret project that we're doing at the minute which is exciting look I'm so excited for it I don't know why my springs nobody can hear me no one's home you're not in my room listening okay so we've got this new project coming up it's going to be some workshops coming your way Birmingham City University for everybody whether you're staff whether you're a student whether you're anybody who's everybody across Birmingham City universities whoever you are you are going to want these workshops because they're going to be amazing and they're run by us why why wouldn't you come to them just a little inside info for that watch out for the workshops they're going to be amazing like in my head they're going to be fantastic and I pray everybody comes to these workshops because they're going to be really fun they're going to be I don't want to say too much they're going to be amazing trust me and we've got an amazing team together to produce this and make this happen and for me this is a massive achievement because it's something that I met up with Alex at the careers team and we said back in my careers meeting I spoke about my confidence and public speaking and the fact that when a qualifier I'd love a health education role and so Alex suggested you know you could probably build experience doing maybe set up a workshop or something like that and I was like yes that's a great idea but then I didn't really think about it afterwards I sort of said yes that's a great idea and then I didn't do anything with that information so recently I've had this idea for the workshop so we're going to get on it we're going to do it and it's going to be amazing really excited oh I did this lying today oh I've been only for two hours and then I went to see Dippy the dinosaur as you saw in my little video but as soon as I left there that was in the afternoon that was about two three o'clock and I just felt awful and not to go into too much detail but I had horrible a phlegm build up and I felt like I was getting a head cold I had the worst menstrual cramps in the world you know that old that taboo word menstruation but oh they were bad they really like knocked me for six I felt so ill and I was supposed to go to a quiz on the Thursday night and I'm gutted because I love the quiz the quiz last time was great it's run by my friend Kelly who's fantastic and I'm gutted that I had to miss it but I was so ill I was on the sofa just like that was a great impression honest and yeah so I haven't been feeling well I've managed to go I did go to university yesterday I wasn't really fully with it even though I was there I wasn't really with it but I had a great session I had great meetings yesterday as you know and today I feel better my throat's still feeling a bit meh but other than that I feel good the sunshine is coming out even though the temperature has dropped a little bit so I'm gonna do a little bit of gardening I'm gonna finish off the little bits that I had for the poster and that's it that's my weekend I'm gonna relax pretty much for the rest of the weekend and I can't wait and should we see what Jeremy's doing why not that you're ready what are you doing jam some bathing good lad also look the potatoes are overgrowing my mint is overgrowing my onions are sprouted my bushes looking beautiful I've got more strawberries coming in the sunflowers growing yeah do you think Joe can have a nice garden yeah you're gonna stop eating it yeah