Clinical Assessments

Please note you must provide all names on your passport.

Tell us about yourself and your previous work history:

Have you ever been suspended from work by any employer, ever received any cautions or convictions on your DBS check or have any current medical conditions that affect your work?

Questions:

1) Why is it important to know about your clients before delivering care?

2) You are asked by a nurse to help residents get up in the morning at 7am, 1 of the residents wants to stay in bed until 9am, how would you respond?

3) Name 4 types of abuse?

4) You witness ‘neglect or abuse’ happening within a care home environment, Talk through what actions you would take.

5) What is a pressure sore? How do they develop? Who is most at risk?

6) You are asked to move a patient up the bed using a 'drag-lift', explain why this is unsafe

7) Outline what checks you should do before using a hoist?

8) Before you perform any task or procedure with a client or service user, what must you do to protect yourself and what must you say to the patient?

9) Where would you discard the following objects

a. Needles and Syringes

b. Urine

c. Used gloves

10) A nurse asks you to perform a task you are not qualified to so such as administer medication, what would you do?

11) You find a resident with dementia becoming increasingly aggressive towards another resident. What would you do to resolve the situation?

12) Please assess these observations and state whether they are within normal range, high, or low.
- BP: 180/75
- RR: 12
- Saturations: 96%
- Pulse: 65
- BM: 4
- T: 37.9

13) You are paid £9.50 per hour. You work a 7.5 hour shift. How much are you paid?

14) You are filling out a fluid balance chart for a client. They have had 2 cups of tea that are 150mls each and 3 glasses of water that are 175mls each. What is the total?

15) You leave your house at 06:55. It takes 25 minutes to travel to work. What time do you arrive at work?

16) There are 26 patients/clients to look after on shift with 2 nurses and 2 health care assistants. How many patients does each health care assistant have?

17) What is your understanding of professional boundaries?

18) How do you maintain professional boundaries in your role?

The distribution group you must select for this clinical form is;
***COMPANY - TEAM (CLINICAL)***
(This will be sent to the relevant clinical team’s mailbox)