So I started working on the NCLEX. This is an exam that I need to pass, if they’ll let me take it, to register in the US. And immediately it became apparent that I’d need to study.
Some of it comes down to the phrasing of the questions.
Some of it comes down to the fact I work in emergency care and haven’t been outside that area for a long, long time.
Some of it is just stuff that we never covered in my nursing course.
Some, like one I got wrong today, is down to things like: in the UK we very, very rarely thrombolise heart-attacks, especially because beyond anything else I work in a cardiac specialist hospital. But even when I didn’t thrombolysis is something that went out the window a long time ago – because we’ve proven comprehensively that taking that patient and running, quickly, to a proper centre that can use percutaneous coronary intervention is better except in a rare set of circumstances.
But in general, the emergency care stuff cheers me up, because the ‘What diet should you recommend to this person’ questions are not my comfort zone at all
