NHS 111 COMPREHENSIVE UPDATED EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which body map area would you select if you need to access the cough pathway? -
✔✔Chest
✔✔What are the major trauma categories and give me an example for each one - ✔✔1.
Penetrating- gunshot, stabbing amputation etc 2. Blunt- thrown off a moving vehicle,
machinery, massive force etc 3. Environmental- major burns and chemical attacks 4.
Other- Electrical shocks, self harm, hanging, struck by lightning
✔✔List 2 signs a child may be confused - ✔✔May not know who or where they are
May not know what time or day it is when asked
✔✔When is a caller considered a repeat caller? - ✔✔When they have called more than
3 times in 4 days about the same problem
✔✔Define Neonatal age group - ✔✔0 to 1 hour
✔✔Define infant age group - ✔✔1 hour to 1 year
✔✔Define toddler age group - ✔✔1-5 years
✔✔Define child age group - ✔✔5-16 years
✔✔Adults age group - ✔✔16+
✔✔Core module 0 - ✔✔Assesses if there is an immediate threat to life, determines in it
is trauma or non trauma.
Gives basic care advice for immediately life threatening situations
✔✔Core module 1 - ✔✔Assesses non life threatening situations. Uses large database
of gender and age specific pathways and gives extensive care advice.
✔✔Core module 2 - ✔✔Used by clinicians
✔✔List the 4 injury categories - ✔✔Mechanical
Thermal
Electrical
Chemical
✔✔Define a blunt injury - ✔✔Where the skin or other body surface has not been broken
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which body map area would you select if you need to access the cough pathway? -
✔✔Chest
✔✔What are the major trauma categories and give me an example for each one - ✔✔1.
Penetrating- gunshot, stabbing amputation etc 2. Blunt- thrown off a moving vehicle,
machinery, massive force etc 3. Environmental- major burns and chemical attacks 4.
Other- Electrical shocks, self harm, hanging, struck by lightning
✔✔List 2 signs a child may be confused - ✔✔May not know who or where they are
May not know what time or day it is when asked
✔✔When is a caller considered a repeat caller? - ✔✔When they have called more than
3 times in 4 days about the same problem
✔✔Define Neonatal age group - ✔✔0 to 1 hour
✔✔Define infant age group - ✔✔1 hour to 1 year
✔✔Define toddler age group - ✔✔1-5 years
✔✔Define child age group - ✔✔5-16 years
✔✔Adults age group - ✔✔16+
✔✔Core module 0 - ✔✔Assesses if there is an immediate threat to life, determines in it
is trauma or non trauma.
Gives basic care advice for immediately life threatening situations
✔✔Core module 1 - ✔✔Assesses non life threatening situations. Uses large database
of gender and age specific pathways and gives extensive care advice.
✔✔Core module 2 - ✔✔Used by clinicians
✔✔List the 4 injury categories - ✔✔Mechanical
Thermal
Electrical
Chemical
✔✔Define a blunt injury - ✔✔Where the skin or other body surface has not been broken
