 Hello everyone thank you so much for tuning in. I've lost the first part of the video so i'n wentre. So, it's gonna look a little bit different to the rest of the video now, but here are just a little bits about my placements and some more information for you. And then I'll do part two of the video which is going to be my top tips for placement, which is to follow this one. It is an NMC requirement that you do 2,300 hours of practice placement Felly mae yw'r ddifrif i'w ddwy'r unig. O'r unig sy'n gyflaen i chi'n gweld, o'r ddwy'r ddweud o'r ddweud, mae'r ddweud yma o hynny, yn ei chyfodol. A'r ddweud i chi'n mynd i wneud yw'r ddweud o'r 20s syniad o'r syniad. Felly mae'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r cyflosant o'r cyflosant, oedd gallwch ei wneud o'r cyflosant a cyflosant, ac mae hynny'n rhywbeth. There's no set amount of night shifts that you have to do, but it is a requirement that you at least experience that. So firstly I'm going to tell you everything I know about placements and as always there is a disclaimer, so this disclaimer goes to everybody. I'm at Birmingham City University. So we get two placements a year and they can run from eight weeks to twelve weeks long. Now just because I do that does not mean that you do that. It depends on the university, how the university runs. So always check the details with your own university, boi'r unedwyd wedi cael fwyliad ar gweithio a ddim yn ymddangos i unedwyd. Rydyn ni'n dweud ar gweithio, rydyn ni'n dweud ar gweithio. Felly, ei wneud yn cael ei gwnaeth gwahanol ar gyfer rai gyflawnol ac'r lleol ac'r gweithio ac yn ymdweud ar gweithio ar gyfer gweithio, yn ei ddweud saeth ymddangos i'r anodd gael. Fe wnaeth, ddod o'r gweithio. Ac yw'r anodd, mae'n gweithio'r gweithio yma yn 7 am ar 7 p.m. o'r 7.30 p.m. o'r 7.00 p.m. dyna ymellod. Yn ddiweddar â'r hour yma gael ond â y meddwl tobi. Ond roi'r hawdd ar hyn ar-hawdd o fewn i. Mynd i'r 8 o'r 8, y Mynd i'r 7 o'r 8. Rydywch chi'n adrwynt yn y cerddau hosb 나�er hefyd, rhan ffrindig. Felly ei casion i fewn i'r ddau i'r sfrindig tua ar yma. Yw y tair ymarfer, ond y inhabitant yn 12 hir ac mae'n siwr… three shifts a week and get four days off. Who doesn't want four days off? Because it's only three shifts a week and that's 36 hours you have to do one extra shift every fourth week where I work so for three weeks you'll do three days a week and then on that fourth week you will do the one extra shift so you'll do four 12 hour shifts for that one week and that just bulks up your hours and just balances all the hours so that you're doing the correct amount of hours that you need to do for your placement. If you're out on a community placement and it's not a ward based placement you might be doing Monday to Friday nine to five or you might be doing Monday to Friday but the shifts are all different so you might do what I did which was a long day on Monday nine to seven then you do a short day on a Tuesday like nine to two and then Wednesday nine to five like all different shifts but you'll always have the evenings free and the weekends free and you won't work bank holidays which is a mega bonus who doesn't want a bank holiday off come on it is lovely although to be fair I really don't mind working weekends and bank holidays everything seems so chilled and relaxed at those points when you're out on placement I don't know why it just feels really nice to be on placement on a weekend or bank holiday I have no idea everything's just calm I've just jinxed it now next time I work a weekend or bank holiday is going to be panic but you've got to experience it and see for yourself what you think so I know with our placements we have to work with our mentor 40% of the time during placement so 60% of the time you can be working with anybody you want well anybody they put you with so you could be with the healthcare assistant you could be with a second buddy mentor as they call it who is your second person in line to go with if your mentors are for on holiday you are assigned that second person to go with you can also have a pathway on placement so you might be able to go to visit theatres some places do a whole week pathway where you experience the whole week system so you'll experience like the pre-op assessment you'll experience the outpatients you'll experience theatres recovery hdu and then back onto the ward so it's like a full pathway of what a patient will experience when they're being admitted to hospital and that's really really good for your learning it's really important to know what a patient goes through and it gives you that little bit more empathy for the patient I suppose if you do get the opportunity to go to theatres please drink plenty of fluids and eat before you go down there pretty much 90% of the people I know have fainted whilst in theatre and you are that second casualty so just make sure you eat hydrate and make sure that you're prepared for what you're about to see because it can be a little bit brutal especially if it's orthopedics and they're chipping away at bones and things it is brutal when you see something like that and you're not prepared for it so just make sure you eat get some energy going get your adrenaline going and that's all I can really advise but just make sure you eat and keep hydrated because you're really going to need it for our placements I don't know if it's the same across the board but we have placement documents that we have to get signed off there'll be little boxes of competencies that your mentor what you do and they get them signed off so there'll be things like remove a canular personal care there'll be different sections in the book so professional values communication teamwork and self-management nursing decision making and management just things like that and your mentor will go through and sign it off as you go get getting your competencies signed off there'll be a timesheet at the back to log all of your hours so that you're hitting those hours that's the bit that we submit we submit the timesheet to show that we've completed those hours and your mentor is happy to sign you often say you're safe to carry on to your next placement or further on in the degree whatever it is so I don't know if every university has that but I think the majority of universities will have some form of document that you need to fill out and sign and get signed off your placement you will have a uniform for placement they are uncomfortable they're not very nice they um anyone that's attracted to the nurse uniform is so wrong because it is horrendous to wear your trousers will come up I don't know if you can see this they will come up to here they're they're really not comfortable it feels like you're wearing cardboard that first week first weeks even until they sort of wash and they've got some giving them they're not pleasant let me just put it that way but you feel so proud putting on that uniform walking into placement fresh clean crisp you feel so proud I cannot even explain the amount of pride I have when I put on my uniform even to this day it's a proud moment I'm there I'm a nurse I'm going to be a nurse and you just can't get a bit just there's no better feeling than wearing that uniform and wear it with pride the uniform will vary so I say the uniform comes up like this but it depends what trust you're at what university you're at you'll have a completely different uniform to what I have I know some people have a bit more of a relaxed uniform it looks like they've got these really nice tunics that look really comfortable compared to ours so it just depends on you your uniform policy or placement area your university all of that jazz so your uniform might not be the same as mine but I know ours aren't the most comfortable but you wear it with pride also with uniforms you have to wear the black or navy blue leather fully enclosed shoes that are safe basically because you might get feces on them you might get urine you might get blood on them you might get vomit on them everything is probably going to go on those shoes and they have to be quite thick as well because of manual handling so wheelchair or hoist if that's going to run over your feet you're going to want your feet to be supported trust me I have gone over my foot with a hoist before it's not pleasant but luckily I had sturdy shoes on so it was fine next piece of advice is you can't wear rings and jewellery facial pierzins like I've got a nose stud but I take it out for placement earrings you have to be just simple studs simple studs and a wedding band are the only two things you're allowed to wear on placement you can't wear diamond rings you can't wear lip pierzins tongue pierzins nose pierzins eyebrow pierzins any of that it's just it's not allowed it's infection control and patient safety so just don't do it stick to your policies and guidelines of your university of your placement make sure you you know what you can and can't do and what you can and can't work because the last thing you want is to be pulled up into the office about being unprofessional and yeah you just don't just don't do it it's not worth it also your hair has to be up and off the collar I usually put mine up put it in a bun and just completely off the collar because if it drops down into something you know when you're cleaning wounds and things you might get splash back um your hair might go into a patient's wound you just don't know there's 101 things that could happen with your long hair so just make sure it's up and off the collar I know in our trust that I'm out they're very very stripped and they will observe you from head to toe as you walk and pass them you can see them analysing you looking you up and down making sure you look the yeah so and I have seen people being pulled up for having literally strands of hair onto their collar um or even just having having a ponytail and the ponytail has hit the collar I've seen people be pulled up for that and they've been warned that they will get their placement documents and they will make comment about their unprofessional uniform dress attire whatever you want to call it they will document it in there so just be mindful of that make sure you've got crisp clean uniform no jewellery hair up in a bun this isn't a fashion show so what have I done so far on placement as a student nurse that's what you really want to know you want to know the nitty gritty of what you're going to be doing or when you're out there on placement so things I've done is personal care you will help wash and dress patients who can't physically do it themselves but those that can do it you have to encourage and motivate those people you know promote self care and get them to do as much as possible to keep that independence because that's going to really help them recover quickly and get them home a lot faster because that's one of the assessments the occupational health team do is a washing and dressing assessment make sure they can do it themselves so that when they go home they're going to be able to manage on their own you might have to brush teeth do you know what I'm going to tell you this now I love brushing dentures I know I don't know why but I just love it if someone can't brush their own dentures I am well chuffed that I get the opportunity to brush their teeth and they're like oh it's just so satisfying I don't know why what is wrong with me but it is one of my favorite top things to do is brush dentures what can I say as well as helping them wash and dress the top half you're going to help lower half as well so you're going to have to wash somebody's bottom you might have to wipe their bottom if they can't do it themselves you're going to have to wash the vagina the penis you're going to have to dry it you're going to have to put cream on it if it needs cream only if they can't do it themselves if they can do it themselves get them to do it themselves and some people might push their look and get you to do it for them but you know that they can do it themselves so you have to really encourage that patient to try and do as much as possible for themselves and we make sure we put them at ease and maintain their dignity when we do these things because it's not nice and it can't be nice for somebody so just make sure you maintain that respect for the patient as well whilst you're doing those intimate parts yeah maintain the dignity keep that person covered head to toe if you can and just expose the areas bit by bit as you're washing them rather than than just yeah just make sure you're maintaining dignity it's not nice other things I have done are skin inspection so why aren't you washing and dressing a patient head to toe inspection of the skin make sure there's no cuts any pressure areas any skin breakdown all of that jazz and then you document it you're going to be doing observations so blood pressure respiratory rate pulse rate temperature pain management and asking there how their pain is is it well managed if it's not pass it over to your mentor you'll be removing cannulas you can't insert cannulas you can't do anything to do with veins so you can't take blood you can't do IVs you can't insert cannulas the three things you cannot 100% do but with the new nmc guidelines and things I think you might be able to do those so make sure you're up to date with the new guidelines because right now I know that I can't do those things so I'm following those policies and procedures and making sure my pin is safe before I've even got it I don't want to lose it so I'm following all of the guidelines I can but you can remove cannulas so I remove cannulas I do wound management so I do wound dressings using aseptic technique I remove clips and sutures I've dressed leg ulcers I have inserted a female catheter I've removed catheters I've changed catheter bags over I've done fluid and food balance charts I've done different assessment tools on patients I've done medication rounds with my mentor I've given medications I've given injections I've given insulin I've given different routes of medications so I've done PR I've done oral it's in the eyes for eye drops I've done tablets I've done solution injections what else I am injection subcut injection I think that's it for injections after all the injections and things so I've done quite a lot of routes I've given enemers which if you don't know what that is have a google it's a beautiful procedure have a look I have admitted a patient I've discharged a patient I have run to different wards to get stock because we ran out I've cleaned out on bed area spaces ready for the next patient I've done documentation in the care plans I've written all of the care notes what I've done for that patient I've helped with mealtime so I've helped assist feeding a patient I've helped patients eat I have taken the food orders I have given out the food I have literally I've done so much I can't even remember on my GP placement I don't absolutely loads I'm not going to go into too much with that because it's so much I don't hold separate vlogs go and have a look at that one I've answered the phone I've sat and reassured patients I've reassured the family members I've sat and talked to family I've done a handover as well literally on my very first placement I did a handover I've done the last offices of a patient so this is where a patient has passed away and you have to prepare the body basically so you get them ready as if you were getting them ready in the morning so you'll help them wash dress head to toe make sure they're clean the hairbrush the teeth's clean things like that it's it's a tough one to talk about but I think whether it's because the the patients that I've dealt with they've all been elderly so I think in my mind I think do you know what they've had a really good life they've had such a good life and now they're at peace now they're with the husband with the family members that have passed away and I just think it's an honor it's an honor to do that last offices for someone because that is literally the last piece of care that that person will ever receive in their life and that's you that's you giving them that care and making it special for them I think it's just a really rewarding experience and make sure if you do do that to debrief afterwards make sure you open up about your emotions and talk to your mentor about it afterwards because it's really important to just offload because it can be emotionally draining at the same time so just make sure you get the support and help if you're really struggling I've also done peg feeds I've done ng tubes and supervision of my mentor because your mentor always has to do everything with you and you have to be supervised that's actually one thing I need to say you have to be as a first year especially as a first year you have to be supervised doing things you can't just go off and give someone medications without being supervised you can't give injections without being supervised you have to make sure that your mentor or a qualified nurse is with you to supervise you doing that so that you're safe when you're doing that I've done diabetic foot checks I have done what else have I done oh I've done so much I can't even remember I hope I've got everything in here I think I have if I think of anything else and I haven't put it in the video I'll put a comment below okay so that's it everyone thank you so much for watching if you've got any questions you want to know any more information please feel free to contact me you can connect to me on my social media my inbox is literally always open or put a comment below I'm more than happy to help you and answer any questions if you've got any questions but that's it from me have a great weekend and I shall see you all next week