Description: Working as a nurse in the UK has been my dream from back home in New Zealand. A healthcare recruitment agency gort me a job at an NHS hospital. My dream came true.
Thoughts about the NHS
Well, if blood glucose monitoring is going to be in my OSCE (which I bet it will be), I won’t have any problems, and I’ll be a real, live international nurse working in London. I’ve been working in a diabetes clinic for the last couple of days (under supervision, of course, as I’m yet to get my full registration), so it’s been an endless round of finger prickers and HbA1C readings, checking feet and asking people what they had for breakfast. The brands of injectable insulin they use over here in the UK are
My supervisor was happy enough with me, so I was able to handle the lifestyle advice and questions with quite a few of the patients. That’s another good thing about being a travel nurse from New Zealand working in the UK – the same sorts of problems and questions come up. I had one younger patient recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes asking about body piercing and whether it would be OK to get a lip piercing. Out comes the standard speech about this being OK as long as his blood sugar levels were OK, as