A strange Day

What a strange Day it has been today.

Well in fact it has been a strange and very busy week.

But today was the strangest. I had to see two very ill patients before am this morning.

Both needed hospital admission which was divastating for them as we had worked so hard to keep them at home, and then something entirely unconnected happened and admission

was the only option.

I worry that this may be more detrimental than beneficial.

Sometimes the very elderly become disoriented when removed from familiar surroundings and they then appear confused, this can worry relatives and in some cases lead to the patient being placed in Nursing Homes etc when really all they need is time to adapt.

This week has seen both these things happen and it was only pressure from the family and myself that allowed the lady concerned to come home, after 2 days back home she settled back to her normal, sharp, if slightly prickly self, a real feisty character.

I often think that more support offered by the Caring professions and services would allow patients, even those who live alone, to stay in their own homes which is often the best place for them to be. This is not always the case but sometimes all avenues are not explored before a decision is made, perhaps more education should be made available to relatives and careers so that an informed choice can be made. All to often they are "encouraged" to place relatives into residential care without these options being explored and evaluated first.

A sad situation !!!

Petula

A Job well done

To day I have complete a piece of work

for my new link nurse scheme.

I have really slogged at this and have received no help as usual.

However, this is all part of my plan to develop

my managerial skills. This, I high-lighted in my first module, is a weakness of mine.

I hadn't realized how much this resistance to this part of my job had been holding me back.

Fear of the unknown and no confidence in my ability didn't help.

Now I am more prepared to"give it a go" If I do my best, then any failure will

not be from the lack of trying.

Recently I feel far more positive in my work place and have revisited the original

questionnaire I did.

I think, from what my colleagues are reporting, that my new attitude is

becoming more evident, but a few have said that they have noticed

that say "NO" more often now.

They were quick to point out that this is only in cases where I am really pushed for time,

so I didn't feel to bad about it.

Sometimes I think that wanting to be a friend to everyone can bring its own problems.

Still I wouldn't change it.

I like being nice to people, there is enough nastiness in this world!!!!

Petula

URLS/info found for creating a web page

Tutorials by David Karlins


" Choosing a Web Authoring Tool
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" Step 1: Grabbing a Domain Name
" Step 2: Publishing Your Web Content - Finding a Web Server Provider
" Step 3: Develop Your Web Strategy
" Step 4: Design and Create Your Site
" Step 5: Publish and Test Your Site
" Step 6: Promoting Your Site
" Part I: From CorelDRAW to the Web
" Part II: Creating Web Page Background JPEG Files
" Part III: Creating a Hover Button in CorelDRAW


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" Flash 5 Tutorial 3: Using Masking in an Animation
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Some of the web pages i have been looking at.

Petula

Creating a web page

Over the last 2 weeks I have spent a lot of time "surfing" the net looking for sites that may help me to create a web page. I thought I would use the Home Page in FC to practice. It is mind blowing.
I have collected quite a few urls and information and even had a go at creating my own Logo. I have worked really hard at this but as of yet have not drawn it all together and taken the next step.
I was discussing this "brave new venture" on my part with Mike my husband. Mike is a techno whizz but I have avoided asking for any help from him as I need to "learn by doing" rather than be shown. Mike says he is very impressed with how far I have progressed and learned considering I was more basic than a nursery school child at the computer.(my words not his).
There are times when I do feel quite pleased with myself, that is until I peak at other peoples urls or bloggs. This is when my confidence plummets. Others are setting up FURLS/WIKE's etc and I here am I.
I can't even begin to compete and can't help believing that those who are more able will race ahead of me.
I feel I have that even though I am working very hard I have no way of showing this as the evidence will be judged on the submitted work, and I have no way of actually proving that I have put in the work.
My understanding of techno speak or indeed what the activities require is not always clear so I seem to be dragging behind.
I have also discovered that keeping a LJ in this form is making me hold back some of the things I feel and have reflected on.
It seems I can't settled at the moment and am once again considering my future on this cours

A barrier overcome

A meeting with very senior manager about vision for developing future servicesin respiratory health.
Anyone who knows me knows that i am manager phobic and I was dreading this meeting.
However I decided to employ some of the things i had uncovered during my reflections module.
I accepted even before the meeting that this person would be under her own pressures and that I would not pre judge the situation.
What a useful meeting. she listen closely to my propsals and the fact that I had highlighted some of the possible obsticles and more importantly how we make get around them.
She did ask me to do some prep work but I managed to get the deadline extended after I explained about some of the other project I was working on and that were near completion.
I even had time to talk about FC and my plans to use any new skills I have gained.
I feel that by approaching the whole session in a more positive way we both felt that the meeting was fruitful and some of the myths I had built up were dispelled.
I'm not really sure what has brought about my increasing confidence but I am sure that some of it can be attributed to what i have learned about myself during the last 2 modules.
Petula

wallowing

Ok! ignore last entry. Was I wallowing or what? Still I felt better after getting out of my system.
Been trying to understand next OCT module and making sense of what Hamish said about publising on line. So far it is as clear as mud.
Is creating this Blogg and the somewhat basic Home page I have tried to create, constitute exploring my spaces?
Is it going to become clearer as time goes on. I was hoping to get an early start but If i don't understand what I am supposed to do, how can I?
how can i make my blogg more interesting? What is acceptable or not? So many questions not enough answers.
Petula

I think there is a conspiracy against me now. After struggling to get into this dam thing for days when I finally make an entry something went wrong when I published and lost the lot again. Really fed up now.
On top of that can't swollow hughly bruised ego!!! Yep pretented to myself that I would settle for a pass in 1st module but was bitterly dissappointeed with my 58%
In spite of all the problems I had both technical and personal I worked really hard on the module trying to meet the deadline but thats all I got.
If someone works to the best of their ability and comes out middle of the road, average. Does that mean that she should settle for that and dissappear into a sea of average, or, should she stumble on and try to achieve a higher mark even though she has done her best? I don't know.
Made the mistake of reading other peoples bloggs only to discover a lot of 70% so felt even worse, (but happy for the high achievers).
Now we have to "explore our space" What does that mean, I have no idea. Got to stop now feel dispondent and ready to quit.
Petula
ps don't know if a blogg is such a good idae after all.