Yr 1 almost complete!!!

I have dont all my assignments and exams have got one result back, very very happy with it. Sitting her after a night shift and no sleep as yet thinking how far I have come? I am not the teenager I was when I started this course in F08.

In terms of uni--what a struggle it has been. I scrapped through my first semester academically. Am not happy with my grades. But I got throught it. Shamefully enjoyed writing some of my semester 2 assignments and the exam.

In terms of placement--how lucky I have been. I got my witnesses in and had a delivery before the end of semester one, I was not expectin to be actually be helping a woman birth her baby so directly. I felt privilaged enough to be in the room with a woman rather than actually help her deliver. I have had fab mentors and have learnt so so much. Im in aure of it all still.

I can even put my first year into words right now. My last few shifts on L/ward have tested my abilitys, senses and newly learnt skills to the limit for now. I feel honoured that my mentors have had trust in my abilitys. Some of my treasured examples include examinations and observations that were not checked by my mentors however she felt that I should ring for a DR if I was not satisfied my findings were withing normal parameters of mum or baby or fetus. That I felt a lady in my care was uncomfortable during the night for a reason so chose to put her on a ten minute CTG and discovereing a fetal heart of 60bpm and then pressing the buzzer, this led to an immediate grade one ls/cs. And I am only year one. All I can say is bring on year 2 and year 3 I am eager and hungry for more. I want more experiences and more knowledge

I have sacrificed a lot for my course, money is crap(can I say that on here) as I have no bursary. And when I can work it means I cannot go out. I am so pleased to say I still have my hairy muddy man in the field(the 'orse in my profile piccy)


I am so excited for year two to start and hope I can bring my new found friends in the cohort along with me. Its suprising that on this journey how close we bond and lean on each other, I turely thing that at times without some people in my cohort we would not be still on the course. x