AIIMS B.Sc. Nursing case studies
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(Hons.) Nursing entrance examination is the competitive admission test used by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences to select candidates for its undergraduate nursing programme. It is intended for higher-secondary students who want a hospital-based, science-heavy nursing education at a national institute rather than a general university degree, and who are willing to prepare for one high-stakes sitting instead of a spread-out series of assessments. The AIIMS B.Sc. Nursing case studies are 5 cases and about 3,127 words.
1The oxygen cylinder ramp
A hospital is moving a full oxygen cylinder from the ground to a loading bay whose floor is 0.90 m above ground. Two wooden planks can serve as a ramp: plank A is 3.6 m long and plank B is 2.4 m long.
715 words, about 4 min2Making up spill disinfectant from a degraded stock bottle
A ward needs 5.0 L of 0.50% w/v sodium hypochlorite solution to disinfect the floor after a body-fluid spill. The store has one 1.0 L bottle labelled '4.0% w/v available chlorine', opened six weeks ago; a chlorine test strip shows it now contains 3.2% w/v available chlorine.
649 words, about 3 min3Dengue outbreak: containers, not the pond
During a dengue outbreak in a town of 40,000, a nursing student joins the vector-control team. In a survey of 120 houses, 30 have at least one container with Aedes larvae.
605 words, about 3 min4Immunization camp: vials, minutes and a low-grade fever
A district immunization camp must vaccinate 240 children under two years during a single 6-hour session, from 9 a.m. Three vaccinators work in parallel, and each child occupies one vaccinator for 3.5 minutes including screening and documentation.
555 words, about 3 min5Rewriting an ICU visiting notice
The nursing superintendent of a 400-bed hospital has received 12 complaints in a month about crowding in the intensive care unit (ICU) corridor during visiting time. She drafts this notice for the main gate and ward boards: 'All the relatives of patients are hereby informed that visiting hours has been changed from 4 pm to 5 pm only for those patients who are serious and admitted in ICU, and they should not bring food items which is not allowed, and please cooperate with the hospital staff, otherwise strict action will be taken.' She wants one short notice, in plain English, that a worried family can read at the gate; the hospital's actual decision is that ICU visiting is now from 4 p.m.
603 words, about 3 min