The University Diaries

I made it ten months frontline before I caught coronavirus. I had also just had the first dose of my vaccine. I want to complain about how annoying that is but I am trying really hard to be grateful. I am trying my absolute hardest not to whine (shoutout to my instagram followers who have already listened to me whine).  Here are the events leading up to, during and after my coronavirus experience. C - 7 days It is my second and final shift of two days at work before a long weekend off. I'm working with a lovely paramedic who I have worked with a few times recently, she has just come back from work after having coronavirus over Christmas. She says she was not too unwell, just a little bit grotty and she enjoyed having Christmas off and an excuse not to do too much. She said she was really lucky that she was not too unwell. Our first job (out of area) but the village I used to live in. A fall with a head injury, the patient was on anticoagulants also was consistently complaining of c...

Here is my story documenting from my last submission of my degree into becoming a baby paramedic. This series will include getting my degree, trust and local area inductions, driver training and more! It has been covid-fied (as expected) but not too much has changed, as the ambulance service has had to keep running pretty much the same throughout the pandemic. Generic Admin Stuff At half nine on Monday morning I went into station for my local area induction with another girl who was on my trust induction and who I went to uni with. We went and sat in the new covid-fied station (distanced chairs and lots of signs and info sheets on the walls) and waited for the LOM (locality operations manager? I think? AKA a manager) to come and get us. After we sorted a coffee, we went into one of the meeting rooms so start our induction. We went through the normal induction stuff, which includes stations and contact numbers within the area, how to report sickness, accessing rostered shifts and submit...

Here is my story documenting from my last submission of my degree into becoming a baby paramedic. This series will include getting my degree, trust and local area inductions, driver training and more! It has been covid-fied (as expected) but not too much has changed, as the ambulance service has had to keep running pretty much the same throughout the pandemic. I left you last time at the end of week one. I drove home and had a weekend where I chilled and revised my advanced life support. On the Sunday night I drove up to the hotel (and paid for an extra night) so I could have a relaxed start to the week. First thing Monday morning we discussed trust pathways, including primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) and hyper-acute stroke unit (HASU), along with referral pathways including falls and vulnerable adult and child referrals. In the afternoon we had managers from local stations, who were able to discuss the NQP two year transition pathway. In all honesty, it sounded a bit ...