 Hi everyone, so this is just a warning video that this video is very very long It's like 23 minutes long I think me and Emma didn't realize what time it was and we talked a lot and we had we both had a lot of questions each I think I had about 25 questions to answer Emma had a lot of questions So it is a bit of a long-winded video and we've had to cut this down and Not only is this 23 minutes long, but I'm gonna have to do like four episodes because there's more so Just look out for the other episodes on the Q&A and hopefully you enjoy it So give us a comment below and let us know what you think of the video Okay, let's go Right. Well, I am here with Claire Carmichael student nurse. You can find her channel down in the description Oh, yeah, and I'll tell you what It's a fair on my channel. You can find Emma's down in the description It's really funny because like this is the first time that I've been up this end to see clear I think the last time I saw you was you in a nip switch. Yeah, I think so wasn't it? Yeah, and the first thing that I saw six years ago. Was it really? Yeah. Wow. That's a long time Was it no five five years ago 2013? I don't even know It's been too long. I hate you. Sorry But yeah, anyway, we decided to get together and do a bit of Q&A. Um, what is this? 25 questions to get to you. Is it Claire's questions for nursing? That's crazy. We should do like Um Quick fire around to do to do. Oh god. No, we're too tired for that. I mean what time is it now? It's like it's surely got to be like midnight. It's like it's half 11 All of our questions are on a phone. Whereas I'm organized Post-it notes, but I don't see them. It's happened. She's just dropped them. She's such a professional Sorry, but yeah, so you've got the first question and it says a what made you start YouTube. Are you asking me? Yeah Okay, so I first started YouTube because a lot of reasons to be honest and firstly when I was looking up nursing I Didn't see any UK based nurses It was all American and I wanted to do something for UK based people or so because there's so much negativity around Nursing and it's horrendous and I wanted to create a positive spin on nursing and Create this nice positive vibe and encourage people into nursing and get people motivated again bring the passion back to people's hearts You're doing a good job. I'm trying Well, some of your best moments top three you've had since starting streaming. So that's really difficult This one is from well her name's in speos Laker. I don't I call him in sepios because I can't say a bloody name But I don't really know. I think it's just I think one of the top moments has to be it was All in about the space of a week and I'm not kidding I got raided by three of my favorite youtubers ever like we had bassist dude raiders And he now has like I think over 6,000 subscribers and then stat raided us and he has like Over a quarter of a million Subscribers and then one shot girl who now has nearly 500,000 subscribers raided me and like 88 people came into the chat Like it seriously I was just sat there and I just could not believe it It was just when some of that you look up to as a full-time life She might recognize issue and comes in when you're very very small I had less than a thousand subs back then like so we're like, oh, yeah These big youtubers don't care about us and then to get raided by her was just insane like she's if you don't know She's awesome. Check out one shot girl on YouTube and bassist dude and stat check them all out. Honestly, they're really good. Okay, so another one for student nurses Struggling with presentations to the point of nearly dropping out tips. Do you do them at uni? Yes Is the easy answer? Yes next question No and poster presentations for me are hell I hate poster presentations as well So I can fully understand that and you literally the best tip I can give is practice and Push yourself to do things that you wouldn't normally do like public speaking doing welcome talks at the university perhaps Practice in front of friends family anything you can do to practice Honestly, it'll completely not completely take those nerves away, but it will help you be put at ease a little bit I think and I can't speak for all of the universities, but as far as I know Every nurse that I've spoke to has had to do a poster presentation at university for nursing so More than likely you'll probably get one and just just prepare for it is The best tip always be prepared always be you are like the most organized person I've ever met I'm organized like seriously we get along very well, but this just goes to show how I'm organized I am and how like amazing you are Oh What's your biggest phobia this is from squawks? Yeah squawks love you He is one of my is one of my moderators and so is squawks. Um, my biggest phobia Um, I guess I don't like being restricted. So like anything where like I'm not phobia I'm not really claustrophobic, but I remember this one time at bank. No, I Was um, I lost something under my bed and I told my brother when he was really little not to sit on the bed Because I was pretty much stuck under it anyway And he sat on it and everything just came crashing down. I mean I didn't move like literally and I was like the Hulk I literally have to turn my entire body around and lift it. I've never seen my brother so scared I literally power bench. I literally power bench to bed It's like But like drowning anything where I'm restricted like I can't breathe and wasps literally a freaking hate wasps Okay, so Claire Good coping strategies for uni students. How do you deal with stress? Oh? Well, it's rare. I get stressed Like I just I try and avoid it Um But you get stressed a little bit then you just go right Good coping strategies, okay, so Do more of what you love is probably the easiest answer to that because even though the course is intense If you were doing nursing paramedic science any sort of medical profession It's really intense and it can be it can really get you down. So you need to Make time for yourself your friends your family And do things that you really love doing just to distract you Keep you motivated as well. Also, like I found getting more involved with the university and Doing extra things around University helping out and things keeps me really really Motivated and on the ball Next question for you did streaming help you deal with some of your rough times. Yes next question. No, I'm kidding See, I've done it now. No, yeah, like I know a lot of you guys that watch my channel Especially do suffer with sort of your own mental health issues and your own depression and if you first so do I like I have done since I was like 19. I mean, it's not something I talk openly about I don't really like to get too much into it because I don't like to bring it into the into the stream But I tell you what playing video games and streaming has literally just made me so happy Like every time I'm down every time I'm having a bad day I can come in and I can stream and you guys will just be there and you're so loving and you're so supportive And you you are one of the best communities. You just make my day. So biggest difference between first and second year and Academically, did you notice the difference? Good question. So between So in first year, you're level four academically and then it goes up to level five in Second year and then level six in third year. So going from first year to second year In second year, it's more critical. So you have to critically analyze everything that you do That's the biggest difference between first and second year and they want a lot more in-depth structure to assignments and things and To be honest, I don't think I've noticed it the jump I Don't I personally don't think I've noticed the leap but then to be honest I haven't got my results back yet for my first assignment for this year. So when I get the results back I can tell you I've done better or not. I don't know Biggest leap is that critical analyzing and people really struggle with that I think but there's loads of tips and hints if you Google it to help you with it and have a look at Manchester phrase bank as well because that is amazing for writing assignments But I am gonna do a vlog on assignment writing. So don't worry too much about that question Come on next on the Claire Cale Michael channel. Okay So yeah, we've got here. Squawks has asked me. What's my biggest regret? and then He's asked another one but Martin underneath that has asked me what would you do if you won the lottery now? Funny enough, I'm not a person that normally has regrets Because the way I see it is the past is the past and at the end of the day You can't go back and change it. So why dwell over the past just move on and make make the future better That's why I seriously believe in However, I do have one regret in life now I don't know. I know a lot of you from America and a lot of you are from Like sort of Holland and the Netherlands and things But over here in the UK, we're talking that thing about four years ago when I worked in in the Monday to Friday job We had a football soccer team called Leicester City And Leicester City were about to get relegated from the Premier League the top the top of the you know Top of the league of football to a lower division and somehow they kind of saved their own ass and Everybody thought oh, they might win it this year and the yards were 4,000 to one Now I was making pretty decent money in this job and I had a A betting shop five minutes from my house. So I was going to bet a hundred pounds Oh Just click I was going to bet a hundred pounds unless there to win the Premiership Oh, and you know what happened they won and I lost out of the chance of 400 grand 400,000 pounds. I can't believe you did that. I know this is I don't have regrets except one I'm quite humble to be fair. Yeah When you're when you're younger you have all these dreams of having a big house and a big car and lots of all I want now being the age that I am is I'd like a house. I'd like a car and that's it And I'd pray if I wanted lottery, I'd probably buy my mom's house for her. I'd pay my mom's mortgage off I'd buy I'd buy I'd buy myself a bigger house. I've got a one bedroom flat I'd probably buy myself like a three bedroom house would have a guest room and I can have a streaming room Yes, yes, and then I would buy my flat I mean now and I'd give that to my brother and I'd pay all his bills So he would just have to pay for TV and phone and the internet I'd pay like he wouldn't have to pay for the house I'd have it up because it would be bought by me and I'd pay his council tax That's nice, and then if there was enough I would give every member of my family An amount of money and I probably like buy all their houses, too Like I wouldn't want it for me Like I'd make sure that I had enough that I didn't have to work anymore and I could just stream YouTube full-time So I'd make sure I had enough left over to do that But I would give as much as I could to my To my family because you know I want to help them out. They've helped me out. It's my life So I'm pretty I think I'm pretty humble when it comes to that Yeah, I Don't see it that often We saw each other Years ago when was it Annabelle? No the Conjuring when the first Conjuring came out. Shall we tell the story? No What story shall I not tell Claire? I don't know We were in the taxi After the Conjuring right that film was scary again She I was terrified She was legit terrified of the Conjuring. It was so funny And we got in the taxi to go back from the cinema to mine and there was like a little bit of like Orange juice I can't have orange juice But it had just enough orange juice left in it that it was weighted perfectly So it stayed it stayed upright So when the taxi took opened the door took a turn Like this bottle just slid Across if they didn't tip it didn't tickle or anything or topple It just slid across me. It called that me. It's trying to kill me She was so scared. She put her feet up on the taxi chair. She didn't want to put her feet down There is it's so funny. Anyway, sorry. I don't see you enough It's hilarious. Okay, so serious you had to be there It's funny. I might just share the photo now Anyway applying to child nursing but questioning it because of watching 24 hours in A&E. Do you do this? Yeah, yeah all the time No, it's true so You're applying to child nursing. Okay, so she's questioning it because of that basically if you if you're genuinely Questioning it and you're thinking maybe you want to be an adult nurse instead of child It's I think it's a it's a lot easier to do. I don't know because I'm not going to help your situation What were you gonna say see I'd love like just like wash or kind of compose yourself I would have loved I think if I'd have done Child nurse and I probably would have enjoyed it way more I think it depends who you are Because I'm much more of a big kid. I'm a big-ass kid I know it's sad when they're really really sick and stuff But here's the thing that I thought like the good days outweigh the bad Yeah, that's true. Like the good days make it all worth it No matter how much bad you see you just kind of I'm answering your question. I'm answering your question I don't know what you're answering my question. I think like you've got your own questions You've got to be able to take it on the chin, haven't you? Yeah, you answer it. Sorry No, it's fine It's because I'm sorry, but you're experiencing it as well because you've got a lot of healthcare Yeah, it's fine. I can't help myself Um, so basically I personally think But it's the professional a lot easier to do adult nursing first And this is why I stopped myself Because as an adult nurse apparently you can work in pediatrics as well See, I didn't know and I didn't know that till recently um but I don't know how easy it is going the opposite way around So you'd have to look into that if you were genuinely thinking about it But then also some universities do an extra pathway at the end of the course So you can do an extra 18 months and be dual qualified so you can be adult and child Or there are four-year courses that you can enroll on and That's adult and child or adult and mental health. It's dual qualified. Yeah. And another note on that one Whatever field of nursing you decide to go into Your your career will just completely change anyway because I've changed my choices so many times I went into nursing originally thinking I'm going to go back to sexual health and be a sexual health nurse And now I'm thinking actually I want to be a gp nurse. I want to work at the university. I want to do help students I want to do all these hundred and one things and My career ambitions and everything that have just gone up a level since starting So don't assume that where you want to work before you start is where you're going to be when you finish Yeah, where you can end up. Yeah. Yeah But it's your choice. It's your life if you want to do child nursing do child if you want to do adult Do adult only you can make that choice They get mental health Just saying Love mental health So next question for Emma. Yes, who's it from? Oh She's found one Martin Van Wiel Ah Martin again Martin Van Wiel What are your hopes and dreams for yourself and the channel? Oh good question. Um, here's the thing I I say this to you guys all the time and it's because it's true Like I never thought I'd get like 20 people in like I thought I probably hit like sort of 20 subscribers and that'd be it To have I think I think I'm sitting on a minute 1,325 In like a year and a half stream but it's insane to me like and I get like depending on the game that I that I play I can get from like sort of 10 to 40 people in the chat and It's just it's just amazing like I do it because I love to game And I want to show people that it doesn't matter if you're trash at a video game like I am as long as you're having fun It doesn't matter Um, but if I could do it full time, then why would I well? Why would I say no to that? What jobs did you have before your degree? How does nursing affect your social? Oh, was that two questions? That's two questions. Yeah, what jobs did you have before your degree? Sorry, I didn't realize that was two questions. I can answer them both. Okay, so Jobs I had I've literally probably had every single job there is going is the easiest answer to that and the shortest But I have worked in healthcare for 10 years before starting my I was gonna say exactly I've actually don't know what you've done for a living. You've only known me as healthcare I think because I've known you a long time because when did you have here's my question just to interrupt Where's that hat? No, God ask that question If you guys don't know because this is related because I want to know how long I've known her for But like 10 years ago. Was it really so basically when you started this when you started this then because I we we met On on a website just just like sort of chatting website And um, you should have this sideways profile of it was a white tank top. No, it was navy blue and navy blue hat Why do I think it was a white tank top with a brown like with Like and it was like a cowboy hat and it was like I saw that It was like it was like a cowboy hat and it was just like the coolest thing I was like, I'm gonna love your hat pretty sure the pictures somewhere on facebook That was literally how a conversation started was like. Oh my god. Yeah, that a cowboy hat navy blue Navy blue not white. I obviously remember that well Like I don't remember it that way. I just remember the hat picture that was taken in tenor reef Wow, but that's how I've known this girl a long time and that's that must have been when you started It then yeah, so anyway back to the question. What jobs did you have? So, yeah, so I've done 10 years of healthcare in elderly people's homes elderly people's homes Um Nursing homes love nursing homes for the elderly and residential homes with the professional doesn't even know Sorry, it's been a long day So, oh no, I've been on the orthopedic wards. I've been working in sexual health the last four and a half year What else I've worked in loads of healthcare professional places before that I've done a bit of shop work I've done hospitality But my favorite job of all was putting Labels on gammon all day long that was your favorite job. It's a joke I was gonna say I was like, are you mad? This is my day. I thought you're crazy. So so this like nursing effect How does your nursing effect your social life? Oh, yeah, so that was the other part of the question. Yeah, um to be honest Have no life I don't know how my life is literally dedicated to nursing and anyone that follows my social media and stuff can see that is literally All my life revolves around I agree is nursing But it is important to break it up and take the time out. Like I said, like we did today Yeah, and go game in and do fun things to Keep you sane, I think. Yeah, we're going back tomorrow to EGX as well, don't we? But yeah, but um To be honest that the nursing degree itself. I haven't found too bad You get days off. You've got time to have a life. So and I if you look at what I do I do loads around there and that's extra stuff that I don't have to do. I don't get paid for it. So yes, so Socially, I don't think it affects my life really. Hmm next question for Emma Oh, I know what you're gonna ask this question came up, right? Before she I've just seen it. I before she asks it, right this We went to um, we're gonna go to an after party. Um, this whole thing to an after party We did. Yeah, we're at this after party. We didn't really stay but they had a game. They started off the after party at the EGX Um by doing this thing called wi-fi wars Oh, it's so good. It was so funny Like it was quite funny because one of the like they to to get the points They asked a yes or no question. Well, they'll see the wi-fi war. It's good. We took some videos Yeah, true. Um, but the fallout question was like it is fallout good. Yeah split the room It was 50 50 but then this question came up. Can I just say my answer one? Which she was not So come on then give it to me. Okay. It's set for us It's her, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah Pineapple on pizza. No. No No Well, you just had like big johns. What did you have pineapple on my? No, I'm sorry But here's the thing. I don't even like pineapple anyway. I know it's not the fact that it's on pizza It's the fact that I don't like pineapple. So regardless you could put on a freaking donor and I still wouldn't need it Because I just don't like pineapple So how do you cope with a part-time job and study? Will I cope? I kind of just answered that question Didn't I? I don't know about the social life. It's kind of the same. Oh, yeah Okay, so oh math question Okay, it's okay. I suppose it's not the set. Sorry. I didn't mean to offend anyone there. It's not the same question. Um So yes Everybody I know works part-time whilst on this course. The only thing I would be wary of is whilst you're on placement You can only do a maximum of 48 hours because it's legal requirements of the law. So Does that include working though? With the placement. Yeah. Yeah. So you do 37 and a half hours. Yeah, so you've only got enough for 10.5 hours Right So 10.5 hours of work and then the rest of it study And then the rest of its placement. Sorry. Yeah, but whilst you're at uni Like some weeks you're only at uni for a day. So you can fit in work around then Um, I've worked all of my annual leave and I worked every weekend whilst I was at uni And then that covers me for when I'm on placement. So I try not to do shifts when I'm on placement Because it's hard stuff work when you're on placement stuff work anyway Yeah, it is but it is possible and it shouldn't affect you too much I think it's harder if you've got children People that struggle are people that have got children because it I can't even imagine how hard it must be for those with children I've just said children about three times all in one sentence. Sorry It's hard if you've got what? Children The kids