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📝 Questions 25-30
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25. You hear a nurse briefing her colleague about a patient. What does she warn her colleague about?
A. The patient is allergic to some types of antibiotics.
B. Care must be taken to prevent the patient from falling.
C. Oxygen may be needed if the patient becomes breathless.
26. You hear the manager of a care home for the elderly talking to the nursing staff. He says that errors in dispensing medication to patients usually result from:
A. interruptions while calculating dosages.
B. a failure to check for patients' allergies.
C. administering drugs late in the day.
27. You hear part of a morning briefing on a hospital ward. What is the plan for the patient today?
A. Her emotional state will be carefully observed.
B. She will be transferred to a more specialised unit.
C. A social worker will come to see what help she needs.
28. You hear part of an ante-natal consultation at a GP practice. What does the patient want to know about?
A. the advisability of a home birth
B. ways of avoiding post-natal depression
C. what painkillers might be available during labour
29. You hear a trainee doctor telling his supervisor about a problem he had carrying out a procedure. The trainee feels the cause of the problem was:
A. treatment administered previously.
B. the patient's negative reaction.
C. inappropriate equipment.
30. You hear a doctor talking to a teenage boy who has a painful wrist. The doctor wants to establish whether:
A. a fracture may be misaligned.
B. the swelling may be due to a sprain.
C. there may be more than one bone affected.