OSCE REVISION for NMC REGISTRATION

[wency2015]

I am Wency, a registered nurse in the Philippines. I recently passed the IELTS (8.5, 7,7,7) and the NMC part 1 competency test which is the CBT. Now, I am preparing for the final test which is the OSCE. I am currently in the United Kindom particularly in Lincolnshire, and I would like to ask you guys if you know a training agency in the UK that provides training or preparatory course for OSCE because I am not confident to take it yet for some reasons that the Uk healthcare system is different from the Philippines perhaps they have different approach in providing care to the patients and etc.

Tuition fee for intensive revision for OSCE is not a problem as long as I can enroll for revision.

[kiriann]

No that is all you get. I am soray to say. I didn't find it very helpful at all

[jameswarrington]

well i think the information on NILE has only confused me more. While i'm here, i've got a question. I'm currently readingthe royal marsden hospital manual CPR guidelines (the ones that are kind of set out in a table). It makes no mention of checking for danger or response in the procedural outline. Now i know this sounds a little bit anal, but i'm also aware that it is beneficial to follow these procedures step for step. Would it be reasonable to say that the correct way to go about the CPR is good old DRSABCD?

[asmallangrycermet]

well i think the information on NILE has only confused me more. While i'm here, i've got a question. I'm currently readingthe royal marsden hospital manual CPR guidelines (the ones that are kind of set out in a table). It makes no mention of checking for danger or response in the procedural outline. Now i know this sounds a little bit anal, but i'm also aware that it is beneficial to follow these procedures step for step. Would it be reasonable to say that the correct way to go about the CPR is good old DRSABCD?

I heard somewhere that someone failed for not verbalising every step out loud. I was told specifically by my UK CPR training instructor to make sure danger and response are checked for... but to also ensure that it's done quickly so that compressions start asap :-)

[asmallangrycermet]

Hi, everyone! I am a nurse from Australia and I've never sat an OSCE before(doing mine mid april). Just wondering if anyone can tell me do you voice out loud every thing you are doing e.g doing a dressing ?

Also can you use a calculator in the OSCE for med calcs?

Study wise feeling a bit lost they have given us so much content, I think just for the sake of knowing it.

I'm approaching the study by learning the royal marsden guidelines for all the possible procedures that they list in the student handbook. Working on my care planning and looking at the NMC blueprint essential criteria.

More the practical side as we have already done the theory in the CBT.

Any help would be great about OSCE's. My email is [email protected]

Thanks Elissa

How did you go? Did you find it had similar expectations to doing an OSCE at an Aus university?

[jameswarrington]

I heard somewhere that someone failed for not verbalising every step out loud. I was told specifically by my UK CPR training instructor to make sure danger and response are checked for... but to also ensure that it's done quickly so that compressions start asap :-)

Thanks for that, have you taken the exam yet?

good luck to you!

[asmallangrycermet]

Cheers! Haven't taken it yet - 12 days to go... Hopefully the stress headaches and panic-driven insomnia will cease after the exam haha! Have you booked yours yet? I have some info on the exam :)

[kiriann]

You must check for beathing for 10 seconds. You must say you are checking for danger and shout for help. Yes drsabc I didn't have to do the defibrillator.. if doing an I'm or SC injection draw up medication with a needle. Even though the plastic ampoule is the type you conect to the syringe. Follow the royal marsden book guides for the dressing change and im injections.

[lg_loveliegrace]

When drawing up, use blunt fill (red) for rubber(vial) and purple for (Ampoule). Then change the needle. Royal Marsden will be the best guide as all practical skills here in the UK are all coined from this book.

[kiriann]

They didn't supply any drawing needles at all when I did my OSCE. Think you just use the same type just change it after you have drawn the medication up.

[lg_loveliegrace]

On that note then you'll just have to change the needle. But in practice, we do use drawing up needles.

[jameswarrington]

great stuff guys! so did the medication drawing up count as one of the skill stations? and do you get a calculator. Man i suck at maths (but am a totally competent nurse, obviously)

[jameswarrington]

Also, im just reading all the procedures for medication preparation (Injection) and non of them include putting gloves on? This is standard where i'm from. hard to disregard instinct to follow this procedure completely.