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BN5006 Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
Any urgent health care that a person receives for an illness or injury - answer✔Define acute
care
Emergency department, OR/theatre, ICU, neonatal, critical care - answer✔Provide examples of
acute care
Rapid Response System (RRS) which enables nurses to recognise and respond to patients who
deteriorate by using EWS chart - answer✔What is the RRS?
(A) - Alert
(V) - Voice responsive
(P) - Pain responsive OR
(U) - Pain unresponsive
To determine patient's level of consciousness - answer✔State AVPU and its purpose
(E) - Best eye opening
(V) - Best verbal response
(M) - Best motor response
Assesses the patient's level of consciousness - answer✔What is the Glasgow Coma Score (GCS)?
ISBAR
identify, situation, background, assessment & review/recommendations - answer✔What is a
model used for handovers?
I - identify and introduce pt & your role
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Situation - describe the immediate concerns of pt
Background - pt's reason of admission, relevant PMHx, current & relevant meds/lab results,
relevant social Hx
Assessment - vital signs, patient assessment findings
Recommendation - treatment so far, what needs doing/chasing - answer✔State each
components of ISBAR
Full name, DOB, NHI number - answer✔Name the approved patient identifications?
Acute - an illness that lasts less than three months
Chronic - lasts more than three months - answer✔Define acute illness vs chronic illness
Describes situations when someone with a chronic condition, such as chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease, also develops an acute condition, such as pneumonia - answer✔Acute-on-
chronic?
Levels of consciousness - answer✔LOC
Time during which the medication is present in concentration great enough to produce a
response - answer✔Duration of action (medication)
Time taken for the plasma concentration of a drug to fall to half of its original value -
answer✔Define the term half-life
Time that it takes after a medication is administered for it to produce a response -
answer✔Onset (medication)
Time it takes for a medication to reach its highest effective concentration - answer✔Peak
Blood serum concentration of a medication reached and maintained after repeated fixed doses
- answer✔Plateau
Minimum blood serum concentration of medication reached just before the next scheduled
dose - answer✔Trough
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11/16/2024 10:16 AM
BN5006 Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
Any urgent health care that a person receives for an illness or injury - answer✔Define acute
care
Emergency department, OR/theatre, ICU, neonatal, critical care - answer✔Provide examples of
acute care
Rapid Response System (RRS) which enables nurses to recognise and respond to patients who
deteriorate by using EWS chart - answer✔What is the RRS?
(A) - Alert
(V) - Voice responsive
(P) - Pain responsive OR
(U) - Pain unresponsive
To determine patient's level of consciousness - answer✔State AVPU and its purpose
(E) - Best eye opening
(V) - Best verbal response
(M) - Best motor response
Assesses the patient's level of consciousness - answer✔What is the Glasgow Coma Score (GCS)?
ISBAR
identify, situation, background, assessment & review/recommendations - answer✔What is a
model used for handovers?
I - identify and introduce pt & your role
1|Page
, ©BRIGHTSTARS EXAM SOLUTIONS
11/16/2024 10:16 AM
Situation - describe the immediate concerns of pt
Background - pt's reason of admission, relevant PMHx, current & relevant meds/lab results,
relevant social Hx
Assessment - vital signs, patient assessment findings
Recommendation - treatment so far, what needs doing/chasing - answer✔State each
components of ISBAR
Full name, DOB, NHI number - answer✔Name the approved patient identifications?
Acute - an illness that lasts less than three months
Chronic - lasts more than three months - answer✔Define acute illness vs chronic illness
Describes situations when someone with a chronic condition, such as chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease, also develops an acute condition, such as pneumonia - answer✔Acute-on-
chronic?
Levels of consciousness - answer✔LOC
Time during which the medication is present in concentration great enough to produce a
response - answer✔Duration of action (medication)
Time taken for the plasma concentration of a drug to fall to half of its original value -
answer✔Define the term half-life
Time that it takes after a medication is administered for it to produce a response -
answer✔Onset (medication)
Time it takes for a medication to reach its highest effective concentration - answer✔Peak
Blood serum concentration of a medication reached and maintained after repeated fixed doses
- answer✔Plateau
Minimum blood serum concentration of medication reached just before the next scheduled
dose - answer✔Trough
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