18th November:
"is a half naked student paramedic with nowhere to go! For placement! On Monday! Please pray!"
This was the Thursday before my placement was due to start! No trousers and nowhere to go! =S
19th November:
"And my placement is... *drum roll*"
Still nowhere...
20th November:
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!"
That's code for 'it would be nice to know where my placement is as I'm due to start in 2 days! Oh, and some trousers would be good too!'
21st November:
"starts her placement tomorrow! As a proper student! Breakfast and lunch shall become one and Jeremy Kyle shall become my friend! I hope my PPE protects against pressure sores!"
As you can tell, I decided to embrace student life and do nothing all day! Would still rather have been in an ambulance though!
22nd November:
"Well today is turning from rubbish to even worse!"
Wanted to be on placement, or at least know where I was going to be! Staying in bed all morning and not eating was a bad idea too! When your blood sugar drops, you drop!
23rd November:
"Woooo! May have some shifts this week! Yeh baby! =D"
As you can see, I got rather excited and happy about the possibility of having somewhere to go! =)
24th November:
"Woo! Got 3 shifts! =D start tomorrow morning! Watch out Oldbury!"
3 shifts! Was a start! Also meant I had to move back home to Birmingham that day!
25th November:
"Woo! First placement in an hour! I'm not a morning person so be good Yam Yams! Be good! And whose idea was it to start a shift in the middle of the night anyway?!"
"has had a well cool day on placement! =)"
"had blood coming from her lip! Think being in an ambulance with blues and twos afterward was a bit OTT though! It wasn't that much!"
There was one downside to starting my placement: mornings! Early mornings! What part of 'student' does the ambulance service not understand?!
And the blood from my lip was due to not being able to eat a sausage sandwich properly... I'm ok now though!
26th November:
"One word to describe today... Tangfastic! =D"
"loved it today! I wanna be a paramedic! =) And I got another good job! And I'm with an Incident Support Officer for the next 3 weeks! =)"
NHS staff like food such as sweets and cake! If you want a better service, Haribo will suffice! ;-)
Not saying you'll get a bad service if you don't! Just saying we like sweets!
Also, being with an ISO means you don't get sent to people with man-flu or who have stubbed their toe so it's usually a bit more exciting!
29th November:
"First day with the mentor I got for 3 weeks! Was cool! Had some interesting jobs and visits to the police station and control room!"
Said mentor was very nice and I enjoyed working with him during my placement! =)
30th November:
"Quote of the day: *while eating meal that cooks itself* "I'm a student, why have I not heard of these?""
The answer to that question was because they cost nearly £5 each! I did learn one valuable lesson that day, how to get a free meal from the HART team!
1st December:
"has been on placement with her mentor for 2 days and on both days a job we went to made the news! Let's see what trouble we cause tonight..."
It was only a local newspaper, who, by the way, didn't use a picture with me in it for one story, not that I'm upset by that! *sulk*
As far as I know, no more jobs we went to ended up in the paper!
2nd December:
"has survived her first night shift! Seen lots of police and firemen! =)"
Nights shifts aren't that bad! Preparing for them by doing not a lot and napping during the day was even better! And stuff still happened at night to keep us busy!
3rd December:
"Hold on to your hats people! We keep losing them!"
We both lost our hats during that shift! We found them again which was good, because it was a bit cold out!
6th December:
"An inanimate object at the ambulance station hit the back of my car and now it's a bit broken! =S"
I'm a woman driver, that accident couldn't possibly have been my fault!
Alright, in my defence, it was 3am! The inanimate object was fine by the way!
7th December:
"Oh no! Just realised fast is spelt with an S, not an R! No wonder I couldn't remember what the R meant in the FAST test t'other night!"
Same night I had my accident! Not a good time for me!
8th December:
"Why would you need an ambulance crew when they're about to get breakfast from McDonalds?! Twice!"
In the same morning! It's like Control knew... We did get our breakfast in the end though! The next day!
9th December:
"thinks she has a lot of grovelling and making up with her mentor to do! I've learnt my lesson though! I'm never, ever gonna do that ever again! Ever!"
Here's some advice for any noobs reading this... Never, ever say the Q word while on shift! Not even in your head! Don't even think it! Especially not 3 times in big letters on Twitter! No matter how much you want to do some work! Not everyone likes non-stop afternoons and finishing late...
10th December:
"had her PPE on t'other day, including helmet... and hurt her knee! I thought one of the Ps stood for protective! #fail"
PPE stands for Personal Protective Equipment! One thing they do not issue as part of that is knee pads! I still have a graze on my knee! =(
11th December:
"11.12.10 - the day I became scared of old ladies!"
Not all old people are nice all the time! Some can be quite scary!
14th December:
"I feel today I shall need more bandages than most of my patients! Knee is playing up and I appear to have injured my ankle at last nights gig!"
"has done the origami and tearing ECG paper without breaking the machine stuff on placement but can't find the bit in my book where someone signs them off! Any ideas?"
I think one patient ended up with more bandages than me! Also, I think it's wrong for paramedic lecturers to assume paramedic students know how to tear off paper from the ECG machine! It's hard for some people! Thank you to my mentor for providing that training! Which I passed! =)
16th December:
"is being a part timer today! Joining my mentor part way through his shift at 11ish then finish at 4!"
"Worst. Convertible. Ever!"
Was more like 12! And it was for a genuine reason! (the McDonalds on the way wasn't, but I was hungry!) Also, I did do some work!
17th December:
"has been up since 4 and the highlight of her day is finding out she is heading for a teething gel overdose! =S"
"did not OD on teething gel today! =)"
Couldn't sleep, hence "up since 4" and my tooth under my gum was hurting! Teething gel overdose is actually quite serious! You could end up in a coma apparently!
18th December:
"*memory of 1st gear deleted* *both hands on steering wheel* *panic face initiated* I love driving in the snow! =D just what I needed after today!"
I worked in a truck that day! Even had to try and push it in the snow! We had a bit of a rubbish end to the shift but the driving home in the snow was well fun and cheered me up lots!
20th December:
"has just finished her last shift! Sad times! =( It's been well fun!"
Placement was really good! I enjoyed it lots and didn't want it to finish!
21st December:
"is spending the day pretending to do uni work! I wanna go back on placement!"
If anyone wants a student to hang out with them during a shift then all you have to do is ask! ;-)
By the way, I never did get my trousers! Uni made me do a whole placement without them! But don't worry, you'll be pleased to hear that I did buy some!
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