Hello lovely people 😃🫶🏻 Happy International Nurses day! What a fantastic celebratory day this is! 🤓🌟 I love being a student nurse! Being a nurse in general is awesome, but I do love being a neurodivergent student nurse. However we are often underestimated in our abilities and what we can bring! I am very open [...]
Strategies to make opiate use safer in nursing. A periopertive anaesthetic nurse perspective.
It was important to me to represent Perioperative anesthetic nurses contribution to reducing harm surrounding the use of opioids. I stand before you from a periopertive anesthetic nurses perspective on this emergency item. “That’s this meeting of RCN Congress discusses the impact of synthetic opiates and how nursing staff can reduce harm associated with these.” [...]
Chlo’s NHS Hospital Radio Experience
Today I had the huge pleasure of being interviewed by retired nurse and radio host John Grahme on the NHS Grampian Hospital Radio show; The Slice. This was a huge honour. John invited me to talk to him about winning RCN Student Nurse of the year. This was a great honour. Listen by clicking below [...]
My student nurse highlights 2020-2023.
This is the story of a Neurodivergent Student Nurse. Wow I can’t believe how quick 3 years flew by. I have been a Registered nurse for 11 months now-almost a year!! Woow! This means it's has been a year since I finished my Student nurse Journey. I started taking time to write this reflective piece [...]
My Final student nurse placement: Neuro-surgery!
Hello hello! I should have written this blog at the end of August when I finished, but it’s been mad busy since I finished my very last placement! I am 3 months into being a newly registered nurse and soon to graduate but wanted to share the experience of my final placement. It was an [...]
The underdog – Deed not breed.
This blog post has been a long time coming but a recent experience has encouraged me to write. A few weeks ago while purchasing ice cream I was asked by another customer if my my dog “was even legal”. I was honestly gob smacked! It was the most bizarre experience as the couple were quite [...]
Stage 3 Nursing Module
Hello! This was a very interesting module! It is hard to believe this is my very last nursing module! In this module we covered all things adult nursing. This included adult complexities such as: stroke, diabetes, sepsis, chronic kidney disease, dementia, breast cancer, epilepsy oxygen therapy, tracheostomy care, antimicrobial stewardship and DNACP and anticipatory care [...]
A Placement in A and E
Hello! It has been a while! So this placement took place last year... (winter to be specific) so as you can imagine this was a very busy time to have a placement in A and E especially as a result of strikes and strains on the ambulance crew at the time. I enjoyed what learning [...]
I am a Neurodivergent Student Nurse.
Hello hello! Happy New Year to you all! 2023 wow! To think my blog is 5 year old this month! Thank you for still reading my posts! 2022 was a toughy because I lost my beloved Star and Carina quite close together 🐾 and with this they took with them a little- a lot part [...]
Science 3 Reflection
Hello! I can't believe I am writing about my experience of Science 3 already! This nursing journey is flying in! We started our science module in September and have just completed our exam this week so it was a 7 week module in total. I am proud of my application to this module as it [...]
