During this day, under nurse supervision I was looking after a patient with a chest infection. The patient was on hourly observations due to being on oxygen. Closely monitoring the patient when not present in the room by watching on the monitor the sats went down to 78%. As I already knew this patient I went into the room and helped mum to reposition her. This still had little effect so I informed the nurse I was shadowing. She put the face mask onto 4l and showed me how to complete chest physio.

We called physio for a review who did suctioning for the patient. After continuously triturating Oxygen up and down I was constantly asking my nurse questions when unsure and informing her of all observations taken.

What did you do well?

Respond quickly. Kept a close eye on observations. Learnt how to do chest physio.

What would you have done differently?

Turned up to 15l in an emergency situations wasnt sure if i was allowed.