WBCHSE HS Vocational Health Care case studies
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The WBCHSE Higher Secondary Vocational course in Health Care is a two-year vocational stream offered by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. It is designed for Class XI and XII students who want a practical, work-oriented route into health care rather than a purely academic science stream. The WBCHSE HS Vocational Health Care case studies are 5 cases and about 5,132 words.
1The Non-Blanching Patch on Day Four
A 68-year-old man is on his fourth day in a district hospital after a left-sided stroke that has left him with right hemiplegia and difficulty in swallowing. He is alert, speaks in short phrases, and is incontinent of urine; no catheter is in place.
964 words, about 5 min2The Pan of Hot Dal in the Midday Meal Kitchen
In a school in Purulia, an 11-year-old girl in Class V pulls a pan of hot dal off the midday meal stove onto her right forearm and the back of her hand. The skin is red, wet and glistening, and blisters are beginning to form over an area you estimate at about 5% of her body surface.
978 words, about 5 min3The Needlestick at 4:15 pm
A vocational health care student on attachment in a 12-bed nursing home in a small town is asked to give an intramuscular injection. While recapping the needle after the injection she is startled and the needle passes through the thumb of her left glove and pierces the skin; it bleeds slightly.
1,089 words, about 5 min4Twenty-Three Cases in Six Days
You are the ANM of a sub-centre covering a village of 42 households and about 230 people. Between 3 and 9 July, 23 people, most of them children under five, have had watery stools and vomiting.
1,080 words, about 5 min5Seven and a Half Kilos at Fifteen Months
A 15-month-old boy is brought to the anganwadi centre by his 22-year-old mother. He weighs 7.5 kg, measures 74 cm, and his mid-upper arm circumference is 12.0 cm.
1,021 words, about 5 min