About Me
Welcome!
In 2024 I launched this blog as a community space for people who work in healthcare, want to work in healthcare or just want to see what all the fuss is about. There is going to be a weekly blog and a monthly education post which will be mostly respiratory based.
In 2018 I started my nurse training, 3 very long years and a pandemic later and I was qualified and ready for the world. I think it would be fair to say that the first six months of being a nurse at the end of September 2021 was quite the shock to the system. It was nothing like I expected and made me feel anxious most days. Fast forward to now, I have worked my way up to band 6 and work part time in a respiratory ward and the other half of my time is spent working in the pleural clinic. Respiratory is definitely my thing. I found nursing an entirely different experience once I had found the speciality I loved.
This blog is hopefully going to give an honest and realistic view of nursing on the wards. It will cover every aspect of day to day life working on the ward, some weeks may include topics that are sometimes hard to talk about.
Why did I become a nurse? A frequently asked question and yet often the hardest to answer. After working in healthcare for a couple of years and a failed university experience at the age of 18, I decided to take a chance on nursing. I was always one of those people who acted impulsively, which often meant being indecisive in my career choice. Once I started my nurse training I knew I had finally made the right decision. Being able to make someone feel safe when they feel most vulnerable is easily the most rewarding feeling but also fuelled with massive responsibility. I could not and would not want to do anything else. That being said, like anyone, the job has good and bad days.
Why respiratory?
Respiratory is a speciality that affects all, whether you have a respiratory disorder or not. We often get to know some patients well as during winter they can come in multiple times with an exacerbation of their disease. Sometimes we see patients with a pneumonia or flu and it is a one off. I love the variety. Pleural Clinic is a new part of the job for me, I have been doing this for around 6 months and love every aspect of the clinic. Patients with pleural disease very often have to come back frequently, building the rapport and trust with these patients has proved invaluable.
Join me every Sunday for a new blog where I am going to discuss everything from above in more detail, things I have seen on the ward and most importantly how this makes you feel and impacts everything else.
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