292 OSCE stations.
Original practice stations, grouped by exam. Open one and start talking.
NMC OSCE · United Kingdom · 40 stations
Focused assessment
- Breathless older patient with a chest infection
- Worsening abdominal pain after bowel surgery
- Confused patient after a fall with a head injury
- Children's nursing assessment of a child with a high fever
- Midwifery postnatal home visit with a feeding problem
- Midwifery assessment of reduced baby movements
- Community leg ulcer visit to a frail older man at home
Professional values
Care planning
Medication administration
Handover and escalation
Clinical skills
- Subcutaneous injection to prevent blood clots
- Intramuscular injection of vitamin B12
- Giving an inhaler through a spacer
- Collecting a urine sample from a urinary catheter
- Removing a urinary catheter after knee surgery
- Pre-operative checks before a hernia repair
- Checking a fine-bore nasogastric tube before feeding
- Oxygen for a patient who has become more breathless
- Capillary blood glucose for a shaky patient with diabetes
- Giving an inhaler through a spacer to a wheezy child
Documentation & charts
Aseptic technique
Risk assessment
Evidence-based practice
Mental health
Basic life support
Patient communication
PLAB 2 · United Kingdom · 40 stations
History taking
Examination
- Cardiovascular examination in a breathless man
- Respiratory examination in a woman with cough and fever
- Abdominal examination with a painful groin lump
- Neurological examination of the legs after back pain
- Examination of a swollen painful knee
- Thyroid examination in a woman with weight loss
- Examining a breast lump on a model
Mental health
Counselling & explanation
Breaking bad news
Ethics, consent & capacity
Acute management
Telephone consultation
Teaching
RN OSCE · Australia · 130 stations
Aseptic technique
- Aseptic dressing of an uncomplicated incision
- A leg wound that has changed at home
- Contamination during a clinic dressing
- Pressure wound care with consent concerns
- Responding to a needlestick during clinic care
- Protecting the connection during an IV line change
- An interrupted home wound dressing
- Personal care for a patient with vomiting and diarrhoea
- Collecting a catheter specimen
- An interruption during a procedure
Basic life support
- Gasping collapse in a ward bay
- Collapse in the GP treatment room
- No-shock AED prompt in residential care
- Signs of life during community resuscitation
- AED use after collapse beside a community pool
- Basic life support for a child in a clinic
- A collapse in the dining room
- A collapse beside the treatment trolley
Blood transfusion
- Preparing to start a red cell transfusion
- Rigors and hypotension during red cells
- An identifier mismatch before outreach transfusion
- A patient withdraws consent before transfusion
- Breathlessness during a red cell transfusion
- Preparing red cells for Peter Lawson
- A bedside review during transfusion
- Preparing red cells at the bedside
Documentation & charts
- Correcting an observation entry safely
- Completing a home fluid balance summary
- Documenting symptomatic low blood glucose
- Recording a resident’s declined medicine
- A glucose chart entry that does not match the meter
- Completing a neurological trend record
- A fluid balance total that hides a trend
- Updating an ileostomy care record
- A catheter specimen awaiting dispatch
- Postnatal ward: morning care for Imogen Hart
Focused assessment
- Focused assessment of worsening breathlessness
- Neurovascular concern beneath a new cast
- Sudden facial and arm weakness in a clinic
- Abdominal discomfort during home follow-up
- Neurological assessment after a head strike
- A painful hand after forearm surgery
- A new blister on a foot with reduced sensation
- Lower abdominal discomfort and reduced urine
- Focused breathing assessment in a school-aged child
- A community foot review
- An abdominal review after stoma surgery
- A child after a playground fall
- A catheter review in residential care
Handover and escalation
- Telephone escalation for worsening infection
- Calling from a clinic about sudden breathlessness
- RN handover after a minor head injury
- Shift handover for a resident with acute confusion
- Calling for a child with increasing oxygen needs
- Telephone escalation of a falling neurological score
- Community handover after treated hypoglycaemia
- Residential handover after an unwitnessed fall
- A telephone update after a home visit
- ED handover after wound treatment
- A late-shift residential handover
- Handover for transfer to an inpatient palliative unit
IV fluids
- Checking a maintenance fluid prescription
- Pain and swelling at an infusion site
- New breathlessness during residential IV therapy
- A pump setting that differs from the home order
- A short prescribed infusion in a GP clinic
- Calculating a gravity infusion under an outreach order
- Reviewing Irene's potassium replacement order
- A prescribed infusion on the medical ward
- A gravity infusion in the day clinic
- A fluid review before transfer
Medication administration
- Oral paracetamol with an uncertain dose history
- Mealtime subcutaneous insulin safety check
- Intramuscular vitamin B12 with needle anxiety
- Subcutaneous heparin with a safety pause
- Checking an oral dose on a child medication record
- An S8 tablet and the controlled medicine register
- Methotrexate on a transfer chart
- Morning insulin at a home visit
- First dose of oral amoxicillin at a GP clinic
- A scheduled medicine on the paediatric ward
- An oral medicine at the community clinic
- A medicine round in rehabilitation
- A tablet request in aged care
- A transdermal medicine review
Patient communication
- Interpreter-supported consent for wound care
- A home discharge plan with limited reading confidence
- Family concern about a resident’s meal choice
- Hearing-accessible discharge teaching
- Planning a culturally safe discharge conversation
- An anxious parent while a child awaits review
- Interpreter-supported consent before a dressing
- A resident declines a recommended hospital assessment
- A conversation during palliative care
- A conversation about this morning’s care
- Home care after a skin procedure
- A conversation about a planned admission
Pain management
- Pain and sedation before PRN oxycodone
- Pain assessment while awaiting abdominal review
- Recognising pain in a resident with limited speech
- Persistent pain after amputation at home
- New chest discomfort during a GP visit
- Pain assessment with a child after a burn dressing
- Pain that prevents coughing after surgery
- Discomfort after birth
- Headache in an adolescent
- Pain during a home palliative visit
Risk assessment
- Falls prevention after a near miss
- Pressure prevention with reduced sensation
- Responding to disclosed suicidal intent
- Acute confusion after arrival in emergency
- Mental health safety assessment after a crisis
- Falls assessment during a home medication review
- Pressure damage assessment in darker skin
- A patient pacing in the emergency department
- A resident found on the floor
- A morning review on the surgical ward
Vital signs
- Postoperative observations and urgent escalation
- Fever and rapid breathing in general practice
- New confusion during residential care observations
- Dizziness during a home nursing visit
- A child working harder to breathe
- Reduced intake and observations in a child
- Sweating before breakfast in residential care
- Drowsiness after procedural analgesia
- Rigors during a community oncology visit
- Observations after a classroom episode
- A postnatal review on the ward
- Observations during a home respiratory visit
- A review in the ED waiting area