Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Example of a stressful situation on a ward and how you would handle it. What do you think are the most important concerns of patients when they come into hospital? How can you help to reduce cross infection within the clinical area. What measures would you take to ensure that you are a safe practitioner whilst you are doing a drug round. As a registered nurse what do you feel constitutes professional behaviour.
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What have you done to find out about nursing in the NHS? Challenges facing the NHS currently? What skills would you require to support a student nurse in her first year of training. You are taking care of a patient and they complain about your care, how would you deal with that? If you were unable to resolve the issue, what would you do? What do you understand by Professional accountability? I am accountable for my actions and omissions as a registered nurse, I am accountable to Nursing Registration Body, Hospital, Patients, Public.
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You come on duty and at handover you are told that one of your patients is diabetic. When you go out onto the ward you find the patient is drowsy and incoherent; what would you do? Assess A, B, C , blood sugars. Maintain airway if necessary. If hypo give hypostop if semiconscious or Lucozade/sugary drink if conscious. Recheck BS. Give small meal high carbohydrate. If hyper give prescribed insulin, contact Drs immediately. Recheck BS
Scenarios You are looking after a patient who has been admitted for an angiogram. He buzzes and tells you he has chest pain. He is looking grey and sweaty. What are you going to do? You are looking after a patient who returned from theatre having had a bowel resection 4 hours ago. He has been quite stable until his blood pressure drops to 90/40. What may be the cause of this and what will you do? Remember these questions are just examples of those you may be asked. Please read up on notes in relation to your specialty, conditions of the patients, anatomy and physiology, equipment used, nursing care, drugs used and day to day questions. Useful Websites: o Nursing and midwifery council (UK)L www.nmc-uk.org o National Health Service; www.nhs.uk o Royal College of Nursing: www.rcn.org.uk o Department of Health: www.dh.gov.uk
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