AMREF Virtual Nursing School End of Module One Supplementary Examination, Paper One: Nursing Procedures, Specimen Collection and Fluid Balance

The Paper One supplementary and special examination for the March 2009 class, sat on Monday 12th October 2009, three hours in multiple choice, short answers and long answers. The procedure items take the administration of eye drops and intra-dermal medication, the decontamination of heavily blood-soiled instruments with chlorine, the position for a digital vaginal examination, the instruction for sputum collection, the indications that do not belong to a sitz bath and the manifestations of inverse breathing. The theory items cover a principle of good listening, the laboratory test founded on an antigen-antibody reaction, the model of choice in counselling a patient with varied problems, the rationale that does not belong to the nursing process, the fourth level of Maslow's hierarchy, Dorothea Orem's model, the correct sequence of the dying process, the fluid that expands the intravascular volume and the findings in a patient with fluid overload, with the nursing management of the unconscious patient in the written part.