Aibu to wonder how a nurse can get this wrong?

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Watching £100k drop on catch up.

I'm an ex nurse haven't practised for almost 2 decades but still remember the basics (I hope)

Answers:

Lacrimal
Parotid
Sebaceous

Q tears are produced from which gland in the body?

The only one she even recognised as a gland was sebaceous and that's what she put ALL their money on.

Nurses and ex-nurses can you answer this

A without googling
B knowing what the other glands do and where they are?

I knew it instantly and I'm quite shocked a currently practising, probably fairly recently qualified nurse didn't know this! Surely it's basic A&P?!

Not even my area of expertise.

Many nurse lecturers are dreadful, and went into lecturing when most nurses didn't want to, around the 90's. Those that have phds and masters degrees have done so in nursing versions which are typically not academic, and the academic level for nursing is low bar. If most nurse lecturers were to apply for their jobs now no way would they be employable.
I know a few and they are worryingly bad. The curriculum requires an overhaul.
I know some nurses who had less training in acute first aid than a first responder volunteer with 6 months experience. It is about critiquing research and public health, not actual clinical care.

^note this was the time when a 2 year diploma was the academic level. These lecturers have not been adequately taught in critical thinking or the medical skills required.
All for nurses being degree educated but make the degree respectable and valid for its purpose.

Some of our lecturers didn’t even have PHDs . This wouldn’t happen in other subjects

That’s not true. The essential criteria for a lecturer is set by the individual university and I haven’t known it be different from subject to subject. So some universities for a junior lecturer will ask for a degree, others will require a Masters. For a senior lecturer it may be a case of promotion after a few years if you’ve met enough targets internally. For a new post some universities will ask for a Masters, some may ask for a PhD.

I’m a University lecturer and only one person in my subject area has a PhD. Most have Masters.

And nursing degrees are 50% practice, 50% theory as per the NMC, who incidentally vet every single degree course and these are reinspected every few years.

Some clinical skills will be taught in university but the idea is the majority will be taught in practice. Students will be assessed on their practice by way of a portfolio.

I knew it straight away. However I know the training has changed and would not expect a recently trained nurse in the UK to know it. Recent experience in hospital tells me most overseas nurses and more skilled and knowledgable.

Penguin. I really wouldn’t put too much trust in the NMC. Our governing body has been in crisis for years and really doesn’t know what it wants to be. It really doesn’t represent it’s members well.

Not a nurse but I figured that one was pretty easy from just basic Latin knowledge