It has been over six months since I have updated this blog. My silence has not been due to a lack of experiences, but rather a lack of available time to catalog them. The experiences have been rich as I have worked in Hematology Oncology at UCSF with long term and palliative care patients, psychiatric nursing with children at John Muir in Concord, a community health nurse position at a live-in SRO partnered with the SF Department of Public Health, and most currently my internship on a general medical surgical unit at UCSF. I have worked with the poor, the pyschosocially afflicted, neglected children dealt a rough hand, adults afflicted with a myriad of disease processes, and those that have accepted that the final path to healing is the acceptance of their death.
Amidst all of this I have been preparing for the NCLEX, the nursing boards, an “adaptive” computer exam that is a torture in itselft. I took this exam this past Tuesday, the 21st. The exam was exactly as it had been explained to me. Every question has at least two right answers, and the challenge is to pick the best of the correct answers. The convoluted processing of this adaptive exam is designed to determine if the tester is competent enough to deliver safe care. I haven’t killed anyone yet and apparently the BRN has enough confidence to give me a license.
http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/WLLQRYNA$LCEV2.QueryView?P_LICENSE_NUMBER=784310&P_LTE_ID=828
