https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs What were your experiences? en-us 2018-03-12 12:31:45 UTC 2018-03-12 14:11:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240872819

Became very confident with doing obs by the end of placement. But at the start staff expected you to do them without explaining anything to you. 

]]> 2018-03-12 14:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240872819 https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240872994 I spent a day dedicated to just taking BPs, so that I could become more confident. I started of doing it on staff members and then worked on clinics in outpatients where I took manual BPs from patients. I feel much more confident and got the hang of handling the equipment. ]]> 2018-03-12 14:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240872994 https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240873120 2018-03-12 14:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240873120 https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240873344 Left to do observations while mentor was dealing with other paper work as she felt I was competent in doing them properly ]]> 2018-03-12 14:08:10 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240873344 https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240873442 2018-03-12 14:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240873442 https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240873449 Felt fine by the end of placement. A little difficult at the start with putting the cuff on correctly]]> 2018-03-12 14:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240873449 https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240873484

Manual blood pressure 

Recording observations onto charts 

]]> 2018-03-12 14:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240873484 https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240873880 Very confident to do observations by the end of placement ]]> 2018-03-12 14:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240873880 https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240874252 Carrying out observations using automatic blood pressure machine and recorded on the NEWS chart accordingly. Was very supported by the staff to carry out the observations ]]> 2018-03-12 14:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240874252 https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240874290 Had to do them a lot when patients were having blood transfusions which made me confident with the observations but also communicating with the patient so often]]> 2018-03-12 14:09:35 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240874290 https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240874359 Staff members let me practice on them so I became more confident ]]> 2018-03-12 14:09:40 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240874359 https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240874430 Manual blood pressures and recording onto observation charts]]> 2018-03-12 14:09:46 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240874430 https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240874460 Was supported as I was doing observations , enjoyed it although it was the electronic one they did not have the manual one..]]> 2018-03-12 14:09:48 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240874460 https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240874712 Competent in doing observations in the community and mentor was happy with me completing them while she was busy with other paperwork ]]> 2018-03-12 14:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240874712 https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240874778 Did observations on 60 patients in a day so was confident by the end of placement

]]> 2018-03-12 14:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240874778 https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240875415 Didn't have to do many as most patients were end of life]]> 2018-03-12 14:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/e_squires/obs/wish/240875415