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An 84-year-old man admitted three days ago with a fractured neck of femur is found to have an area of skin change over the sacrum during hygiene cares. The skin…
Nursing · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 62-year-old woman is receiving her first unit of packed red blood cells for symptomatic anaemia. Fifteen minutes after commencement her temperature rises from…
Nursing · Pre-internship · common
A 58-year-old man is receiving his first dose of intravenous vancomycin for a surgical site infection, charted to run over 60 minutes. Twenty minutes into the i…
Nursing · Clinical rotations · common
A 76-year-old man with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes is being discharged on a nightly basal insulin. The nurse has explained and demonstrated the injection te…
Nursing · Clinical rotations · common
A registered nurse on night shift realises she has written a progress note about one patient in a different patient's paper medical record. The entry is factual…
Nursing · Clinical rotations · common
A 71-year-old woman attends a community nursing service with a shallow ulcer above the left medial malleolus present for 8 weeks. The surrounding skin is brown-…
Nursing · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 74-year-old woman develops profuse watery diarrhoea on day 5 of intravenous antibiotic therapy for pneumonia. Stool testing confirms Clostridioides difficile…
Nursing · Clinical rotations · common
A 68-year-old man is on the surgical ward 6 hours after an open appendicectomy. The nurse records a respiratory rate of 28 breaths/min, heart rate 132/min, bloo…
Nursing · Pre-internship · common
A registered nurse is preparing to administer flucloxacillin 1 g in 100 mL of sodium chloride 0.9% intravenously over 30 minutes. No infusion pump is available,…
Nursing · Clinical rotations · common
A 17-year-old girl presents six hours after a deliberate ingestion of tablets taken from the family bathroom cabinet. She complains of nausea, repeated vomiting…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common
A 28-year-old woman is brought in by ambulance 90 minutes after being found drowsy next to an empty box of amitriptyline. Her Glasgow Coma Scale score is 12, he…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
A 21-year-old man collapses at the 14 km mark of a city fun run on a 34°C day. In the trackside medical tent he is confused and agitated with a Glasgow Coma Sca…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
A 26-year-old backpacker is snorkelling off Port Douglas in far north Queensland in December when she feels a mild sting on her forearm, leaving only faint redn…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common
A 34-year-old man in suburban Sydney felt a sharp pinprick on the back of his hand while moving pot plants stacked against the house. Over the next two hours he…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common
A 9-year-old boy is brought to a regional Victorian hospital 45 minutes after a suspected snakebite to the calf while walking through long grass. A pressure imm…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old farmer near Dubbo, New South Wales, felt a sharp scratch on his ankle while moving hay bales and briefly lost consciousness about ten minutes late…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · niche
A 32-year-old woman develops widespread urticaria, lip swelling and wheeze within 15 minutes of eating a satay dish at a restaurant. On arrival of paramedics he…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
A 19-year-old man presents six hours after an acute ingestion of an unknown number of immediate-release paracetamol tablets in a suicide attempt. He is alert, w…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old woman presents to the emergency department two hours after impulsively swallowing 32 tablets of 500 mg immediate-release paracetamol (16 g) follow…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 30-year-old Aboriginal man attends a regional clinic for an annual health assessment. He feels well, smokes ten cigarettes daily, drinks alcohol most weekends…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · middle twist