Study week

Well I handed in my 2 essays and I get the results at the end of the month. I got a score of 83% for my poster presentation - we only had to do the presentation in front of our own group (4 members). I also prepared a supplementary sheet to read from to reiterate what I was saying. I also had a practical on CPR, we did this during our placement induction too but to get extra practice on a baby, child and adult was really useful as was the feedback and I feel more confident about it now.

This week is a study week - though I do have to attend a collaborative learning workshop. Basically I meet students from other branches of nursing, midwifery and physiotherapy with the purpose of learning from each other so once we're qualified we talk to each other - it's a shame we don't do these with trainee doctors too.

Never mind. I bought the latest student edition of the Royal Marsden handbook of clinical nursing procedures, I have a much earlier edition and find it very useful.

My chest x ray is in 2 weeks so hopefully the pneumonia will have cleared and I'll be able to go to my next placement in September - a post ICU ward, I'm looking forward to it and hoping the 12 hr shifts wont be too much (just keeping awake for 10 hrs is a bit hard lol).

I've enjoyed the week off but it would perhaps have been better spent if we'd been given a suggested reading or activities list, otherwise it's more like leisure time.

I've signed up to the Royal College of Nursing student road show. since I'm a member I get in free though I did have to hand over a deposit of £10 which is worth it. I've put my confirmation letter in my PPDF as it seems good evidence.