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Student Nurse Blog Year 3 - Week 15

December 11th 2006

Posted 11/12/2006

Well this morning I handed in my PBL assignment! Lets hope I get a good grade!

We started this morning doing an hour session on feeding back on Pulse Oximetry and going through the questionnaire sheet we were given earlier in the semester on this subject. There were only ten of us at the morning session (out of a group of around 60). I’m not sure if this is due to the extreme flooding we’re now experiencing around Worcester and Hereford, or if its because loads of students are still working on their assignments, trying to get them finished for handing in by tomorrow at 4pm (although, we did have all of last week off to write the assignment, and its on one of our PBL presentations, so most of the research had already been done?).

After the morning coffee break we then had a very interesting session on the critical care experience. This was to help round off our critical care module/semester. We gathered in one of the lecture theatres and were asked to spread out, so we’re were all sitting on our own with no one next to us. Then we were asked to close our eyes and imagine a patient we had looked after or come into contact with in the critical care setting. We were then asked to open our eyes and look at the screen when the lights went down. We then watched a twelve minute clip of a neonatal intensive care unit, with all the alarms and other noises you experience in that environment. At the end of the clip there was a cardiac arrest and the screen went blank, whilst we continued to hear the sound. It was a very good session and allowed us to gain some idea of what patients in the critical care setting experienced.

This afternoons session is on legal and ethic issues in critical care and we get to discuss a critical incident that really happened. Sounds really interesting.

Chat to you all later this week. Matt

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12/12/2006

Well uni went okay today. Refresher on Evidence-based care this morning and this afternoon phamacology.

One of my house mates on one of the courses behind us is having a bit of a nightmare though. She had written her assignment and completed it, when the comedy NHS computer she was using decided to trash her disc (why doesn’t that surprise me!). Unfortunately she does not have a PC or laptop at home, so did not have a copy backed up! The librarians at the comedy hospital library tried everything they could, but could not retrieve any of the file on any of their computers or any of the other computers at the library, although they could see the file on the disc.

My house mate went to uni first thing this morning - as the assignment is due in on Friday - and went to see the IT people at the Information and Learning Services Centre. It took them three hours, but they were able to eventually retrieve the file............
..........unfortunately half of the assignment was in coded data (lots of circles and squares) and there was nothing that could be done to restore it. Luckily half the pages (not all in order) where in legible text.

Its not the first time something like this has happened. The computers here at the comedy hospital and hospital library have corrupted several computer discs in the past (one of which was mine). I remember at the hospital I used to work at in Somerset, the hospital library comedy computers there were forever corrupting and wiping peoples discs - the amount of times you would hear a doctor screaming down the phone at one of the IT guys, because their CV computer disc had been trashed by one of the comedy computers.

Can you honestly tell me that with the NHS IT system in such a poor condition across the country (purely due to a serious lack of funding) that we are realisitically going to have this central electronic patient record system that the DoH are proposing and working on? Yeah right, I think they are just having a laugh!!!

80% of the computers in the hospital library were condemned months ago, but haven’t been replaced because the Trust is skint.
What is going on?! Honestly, how long can the comedy NHS really run in this state before the government decide to do something constructive about the situation instead of dealing with things like a bunch of comedians?! Perhaps we could send a load of patients to go out busking on the streets to raise more funding for the NHS?

Anyway, enough of the soapbox. My course breaks up this Friday for Christmas. So I would just like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Matt

Student Nurse Blog Year 3 - Week 15

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