OSSSC Staff Nurse cheat sheet

Normal adult vital signs: pulse 60-100/min, respiration 12-20/min, oral temperature 36.5-37.5 C, blood pressure below 120/80 mmHg, SpO2 95-100 percent on room air.

Adult CPR sequence: check responsiveness and breathing, call for help, chest compressions at 100-120/min, depth 5-6 cm, compression-to-ventilation ratio 30:2, and use an AED as soon as available.

Normal adult urine output is about 0.5-1 mL/kg/hour; output below 30 mL/hour for two consecutive hours suggests oliguria and possible hypovolemia or renal injury.

The Rule of Nines for adult burns: each arm 9 percent, each leg 18 percent, anterior trunk 18 percent, posterior trunk 18 percent, head 9 percent, perineum 1 percent.

Isolation precautions: contact for MRSA, scabies and Clostridioides difficile; droplet for influenza, pertussis and meningococcal meningitis; airborne for tuberculosis, measles and varicella.

Glasgow Coma Scale ranges 3-15: eye opening 1-4, verbal response 1-5, motor response 1-6; a score of 8 or below indicates severe impairment and airway risk.

Insulin onset: rapid-acting lispro and aspart 10-15 minutes, short-acting regular 30-60 minutes, intermediate NPH 1-2 hours, long-acting glargine 1-2 hours with a flat peak.

Odisha has 30 administrative districts; Bhubaneswar is the capital, and Odia is the official language and the state's classical language status was granted in 2014.

The Indian Constitution was adopted on 26 November 1949 and came into force on 26 January 1950; Dr B. R. Ambedkar chaired the Drafting Committee.

Fundamental Rights are in Part III (Articles 12-35) and Directive Principles in Part IV (Articles 36-51); the Right to Education under Article 21A was added by the 86th Amendment, 2002.

The Governor is the constitutional head of a state appointed by the President; the Chief Minister heads the real executive, and the Chief Secretary is the senior-most civil servant of the state.

National health programmes to recall: National Health Mission, Janani Suraksha Yojana for institutional delivery, and Mission Indradhanush for universal immunisation.

World Health Organization headquarters is at Geneva, Switzerland; it was established on 7 April 1948, which is observed as World Health Day.

Fundamental Duties were added by the 42nd Amendment (1976) on the recommendation of the Swaran Singh Committee; there are 11 duties listed under Article 51A.

Number series: check differences first, then ratios; alternating series often split into odd-position and even-position terms, each following its own rule.

Coding-decoding: compare letter positions alphabetically (A=1 to Z=26); a constant shift means addition or subtraction, while reversal means the alphabet is mirrored.

Blood relations: draw a family tree with gender-marked symbols; vertical lines show generations and horizontal lines show marriage or siblings, never assume gender from a name.

Direction sense: fix north upward, track each turn as a rotation (right = 90 degrees clockwise); final displacement uses Pythagoras when the path forms a right triangle.

Syllogism: a conclusion is valid only if it holds in every possible Venn diagram of the premises; 'some A are B' does not imply 'some B are not A'.

Clock problems: the minute hand moves 6 degrees per minute and the hour hand 0.5 degrees per minute, so the relative gain is 5.5 degrees per minute.

Ranking: if a person is nth from the left and mth from the right, total persons = n + m - 1; subtract overlaps when both counts include the same person.

Subject-verb agreement: a singular subject takes a singular verb; phrases between subject and verb do not change number, as in 'The list of items is ready'.

Articles: 'a' before consonant sounds, 'an' before vowel sounds (an hour, a university); 'the' is used for unique or already specified nouns.

Tenses: present perfect (has/have + past participle) links past action to present; past perfect (had + past participle) marks the earlier of two past events.

Active to passive: object becomes subject, verb becomes be + past participle, and the agent follows 'by'; tense and number of the auxiliary must match the original.

Prepositions of time: 'in' for months, years and long periods; 'on' for days and dates; 'at' for exact clock times and fixed points.

Direct to indirect speech: shift present to past, change pronouns to the speaker's perspective, and change time words (now becomes then, today becomes that day).

Commonly confused pairs: affect (verb) versus effect (noun), principal (head or main) versus principle (rule), and complement (completes) versus compliment (praise).