Station - Instructions for candidate
You are an intern working in the Emergency Department short-stay unit of a metropolitan hospital in Perth.
Nyibol Kuol, a 21-year-old hospitality student, was brought in by her housemate at 1 am after taking 16 paracetamol tablets at home. The toxicology team has reviewed her bloods this morning and cleared her medically. Your registrar has asked you to assess her before the mental health team is contacted. She is sitting on the bed in a gown; her housemate has gone home to sleep.
Your tasks are to:
- Take a focused history.
- Describe the mental state findings and your risk assessment to the examiner.
- State your provisional diagnosis to the examiner.
- Outline your initial management plan to the examiner.
- No physical assessment is required, and the medical management of the ingestion is complete.
- You do not need to summarise the history to the examiner.
- You do not need to write in the notes or complete any forms in this station.
This is a 15-minute station, with 2 minutes of reading time.