Final Qualifying Examination Paper One General Nursing for the Diploma in Community Health Nursing

Paper one, general nursing, of the final qualifying examination for the Diploma in Community Health Nursing, sat in three hours as twenty multiple choice items, eight short answers and two long answers. The items run through the systems - gastric acidity and the pancreas, anticoagulant teaching, injection technique, anaemia, bronchiectasis and acute bronchitis, the daily calorie split, spinal cord tumour, Guillain-Barre, the stroke history, the vascular coat of the eye, vaginitis, thyroidectomy and the parathyroid, chronic kidney disease, skin lesions, acute pancreatitis, polycythaemia, pemphigus, the nursing process, hospice care and drug matching. The written answers cover non-compliance with anti-tuberculosis drugs, age-related cardiovascular change, the stages of nursing assessment, the pathophysiology of sight, the functional areas of the cerebrum, the digestive hormones, the psychosocial effects of a below-knee amputation and oxygen therapy, and the two cases are the man in hypovolaemic shock and the man with a partial intestinal obstruction.