AMREF Virtual Nursing School End of Module One Examination: Respiratory, Gastrointestinal and Ear Disorders

The end-of-module-one examination for the March 2011 class, sat on Friday 16th September 2011 in three hours. The items run through the enterohepatic cycle of bile salts, the gram negative bacilli, the complications of asthma, the position used for postural drainage of the lower lobes, the aura stage of a tonic clonic seizure, the manifestations of hypoparathyroidism, the management of impetigo, perineal wound care, the purpose of a jejunostomy after gastric resection and the risk factors of osteoporosis. The ear section asks the candidate to match the definitions - inflammation of the middle ear, hardening of the auditory ossicles, excessive growth of the middle ear bones and recurrent disabling vertigo.