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Please note you must provide all names on your passport.

First Name

Last Name

Tell us about yourself and your previous work history:

Are you actively working with any other nursing agency whilst working?

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?

Multiple Choice Questions:

1) If you found a visitor collapsed at the entrance to the ward/unit, what would you do?

Call for help and let someone more senior take over.

Check if casualty is responsive. If not responsive, shout for help, check airway and breathing. If not breathing start CPR.

Check if casualty is responsive. If not responsive, give oxygen and call for Help

Leave casualty as it is not my patient.

2) Answer True/ False. "Anaphylaxis is always a medical emergency."

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3) What is the indicated route for adrenaline administration in anaphylaxis?

IM

IV

SC

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4) What is the Adrenaline dose for adult patients?

1 mg IM (= 1000 micrograms = 1.0mL of 1:1000) adrenaline

0.5 mg IM (= 500 micrograms = 0.5 mL of 1:1000) adrenaline

0.3 mg IM (= 300 micrograms = 0.3 mL of 1:1000) adrenaline

0.15 mg IM (= 150 micrograms = 0.15 mL of 1:1000) adrenaline

5) What should a handover include?

A history of the patient

Medical update of the patients

Update from the previous shifts

Check the drug chart and medications

Check observations

6) Where should the handover take place?

Patients bedside

Nursing station

Busy crowded patient bay

Ultimate handover should start at the nurses station then completed by the bed side checking documentation

7) What is abuse?

A disease

A violation of an individuals human or civil rights

Anything that causes someone harm of distress

8) What would you do if you suspected your patient was a subject of abuse?

Nothing, leave it and let the patient solve it

Inform the nurse in charge

Talk with the patient to offer support

Question the perpetrator yourself

Call the police

Complete a Datix and Safeguarding referral

9) A patient buzzes from their room complaining of central chest pain radiating down their left arm, with a pain score 8/10, and SOB. What are your actions?

Call 2222 and begin compressions

Call 2222, get trolley, await help to arrive

Do a set of observations, inform nurse in charge and do ECG

Give GTN if prescribed

Give O2

If allowed, and trained, cannulate patient take bloods including Troponin T and await further instructions.

10) You are asked to cross check a drug with a colleague, but you don’t agree with the dose, what are your actions?

Report to NIC

Check BNF and or Medusa

Give anyway

Ask different colleague

Ask Doctor

Ask Pharmacist

Drug Calculations:

1) A patient is prescribed 60mg of Pethidine. The stock dose is 100mg / 2ml ampoule. What volume will you require?

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2) Ketamine is prescribed 4 mg/kg. Your patient weights 55kg. The stock solution is 500mg/10ml. What is the total dose in ml's?

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3) You have codeine phosphate syrup 25mg in 5ml. The patient requires 30mg; How much do you need?

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4) A patient is to receive an injection of gentamicin 60 mg, IM. What volume is required if ampoules on hand contain 80 mg/2 ml?

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5) Vitamin K is added to 55ml of 5% glucose. The total volume is 55.5ml. The stock solution for Vit K is 10 mg in 1ml. How many mg of Vit K is given?

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6) A patient is prescribed prednisolone 40 mg once daily in the morning for 5 days. They have 5mg tablets. What is the total number of 5 mg tablets required to complete the course?

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