Adam Roxby

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On 17 May 2012, Healthcare professionals and students alike went online to explore the issue of mentors further.

On placement the other day I witnessed a practical procedure that left me feeling truly astonished. It was a procedure called ‘cardioversion’. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adamroxby/message

As nurses and student nurses we get used to being put in some quite extraordinary places. There are times when we can become almost immune to these unique situations --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adamroxby/message

As nurses and student nurses we get used to being put in some quite extraordinary places. There are times when we can become almost immune to these unique situations --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adamroxby/message

It will come as no great surprise, I am sure, that I decided to enter nursing because I wanted to have one-to-one contact with patients and actually feel as if I was making a positive difference to their lives. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adamroxby/message

After a lot of planning and collaboration with other student nurses, I created the Student Nursing Times Podcast. Here is the first episode from May 2012. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adamroxby/message

I thought I would share the promos I made for the student nursing times Podcast back in 2012 to get you ready for when I share the actual episodes I made in collaboration with other students. A little glimmer into the past! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adamroxby/message

While on placement at an emergency ward last year I was conducting my routine observations when I heard a commotion behind the nurses’ station. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adamroxby/message

When you look around your lecture halls, have you noticed the number of student nurses shrinking? I remember my first day sitting in a giant sports hall surrounded by my fellow enthusiastic students. However over the months our numbers seemed to have grown fewer and fewer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adamroxby/message

When students start a course in nursing many believe that they should fear the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). It’s thought that at the slightest hint of indiscretion, the NMC could send out their agents to bundle you into the back of a car and begin their McCarthy-style hearings - “are you now or have you ever been a member of a social networking site?”. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adamroxby/message

Most people would consider having a tube inserted into your nose and fed down to your stomach as something to generally avoid but when a member of staff needed a competency in this technique I volunteered. I had seen the procedure carried out on a number of patients. A nasogastric tube is a tube that is inserted through the nose to feed a patient who is unable to feed themselves. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adamroxby/message

There is one aspect of training to be a nurse that never fails to instil me with fear - giving presentations.. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adamroxby/message

This week Student Nursing Times will be publishing advice for students transitioning from education to employment however for a second year student who is exactly halfway through his training, the thought of qualifying only makes the ‘second-year blues’ even worse. www.AdamRoxby.co.uk --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adamroxby/message

A while ago I spoke of the importance of a good relationship between you and your mentor but the relationship between you and your lecturers is just as important. Having to sit in lectures for most of the week, it soon becomes clear what makes a good lecturer. www.AdamRoxby.co.uk --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/adamroxby/message

Have you witnessed your first death? I have, as I spent a couple of years working as a healthcare assistant on a care of the elderly ward and unfortunately death was a natural part of the job. However for some students who have not been present at a death before, encountering the death of a patient can bring up some very personal and distressing emotions. It doesn’t matter whether that death was expected, or as a result of a sudden traumatic incident, the feelings involved can still be the same. www.AdamRoxby.co.uk --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/adamroxby/message

If notes get lost then a patient’s personal details could be revealed and the care that they receive might be hampered if their practitioner has to go on a treasure hunt for their records. www.AdamRoxby.co.uk --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/adamroxby/message

When I left college I decided to get a job rather than go straight into university. I didn’t feel there was anything that sufficiently interested me enough to dedicate a large portion of my time and money in pursuing. And I didn’t buy the argument from my friends that if you weren’t going to university you would miss out on the most exciting time of your life. However, during those years at work I began to experience a niggling feeling of anxiety that something exciting was happening just beyond my reach. I felt like I was missing out. www.AdamRoxby.co.uk --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/adamroxby/message

Undoubtedly one of the most common things you will see in a hospital is a cannula. Patients routinely have them because they are the quickest and easiest way to receive fluid and medication should something go wrong. AdamRoxby.co.uk --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/adamroxby/message

“We have an obligation to conduct ourselves in a professional manner“ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/adamroxby/message