Wednesday, August 14, 2013

NREMT: The Scary Test

So I took the NREMT on Saturday, and left thinking I failed. It didn't help that it asked me a question on peristalsis, which I didn't learn about in class and wasn't in the book (I double-checked when I got home).  Unfortunately, it unsettled me for the rest of the exam.  I didn't see where it said the question number I was on when I finished, but I think I was around the 80s.  I was in there for 45 minutes or so.  I waited on baited breath until Monday afternoon, when I found out I passed.  Yay!  Phew!!

So next step for me is the DMV ambulance test, which I have planned for tomorrow.  Yes, I know that the five steps of defensive driving are knowledge, alertness, vision, judgement, and skill.  Hopefully I know the rest of the handbook as well!

Today I had a lot of fun at Stanford.  They had a training exercise for emergency responders, and I got made up to look "cool and clammy," suffering from hypoglycemia, alert and oriented only to my name.  I would have loved to be one of the victims who had active bleeding..."blood" pumping from their wounds.  Make-up is fun!

Anyway, still going forward towards my immediate goals, and picked up my MCAT physics book to start remembering the physics I'd learned for the longer goals...

Ciao for now!

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