Nursing Officer / Staff Nurse Interview

Nursing process at the bedside: assessment, vital signs and early-warning signs, nursing diagnosis, priorities and documentation on the ward chart · Safe medication administration: the rights of drug administration, high-alert drugs, double checks, IV fluid types and drip-rate reasoning, allergy history and what to do after an error · Pre- and post-operative care: consent and pre-op checklist, surgical site preparation, post-op monitoring, pain assessment, early ambulation and prevention of DVT and pressure injuries · Common medical conditions a staff nurse manages: diabetes and hypoglycaemia recognition, hypertension, COPD and asthma, stroke, chronic kidney disease, heart failure and the signs of deterioration in each · Infection prevention in the ward: five moments of hand hygiene, standard and transmission-based precautions, PPE sequence, biomedical waste colour coding, needle-stick injury protocol and sharps handling · Wound care and skin integrity: wound assessment, dressing technique, pressure-injury staging and risk scales, diabetic foot care, ostomy basics · Blood transfusion and IV therapy safety: patient identification, cross-match checks, monitoring during transfusion, recognising and acting on a reaction, phlebitis and extravasation · Patient and family education and discharge: teaching in the patient's language, medication reconciliation, follow-up and referral, consent and confidentiality in the ward

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Basic Life Support in the right sequence: scene safety, response, calling for help and the crash cart, chest compressions, airway and breathing, AED use, and when to stop or hand over · Triage in a government emergency: red, yellow, green and black categories, first assessment with ABCDE, recognising shock, and prioritising in a mass-casualty or road-accident influx · Emergency presentations and the first actions for each: chest pain and suspected MI, stroke and the time window, seizures, anaphylaxis, severe asthma, hypoglycaemia, poisoning and snake bite · Trauma and burns first care: spinal precautions, bleeding control, splinting, burns percentage estimation and fluid priority, tetanus and wound care in the casualty · ICU basics: monitoring and alarms, oxygen delivery devices and target saturation, non-invasive and mechanical ventilation basics, suctioning, central and arterial line care, sedation and pressure-injury prevention · Sepsis recognition and bundle thinking: early warning scores, cultures before antibiotics, fluids and source control, and what the nurse or MO does in the first hour · Emergency drugs on the crash cart: what each class is for, how to check the cart, high-alert handling, and the rule of confirming dose and route from the protocol rather than memory · Medico-legal cases, consent in an emergency, informing police, documentation and handover using a structured format such as SBAR

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Antenatal care under RCH: registration and the four or more ANC visits, high-risk pregnancy identification, iron and folic acid and calcium supplementation, tetanus-diphtheria immunisation, birth preparedness and the 108 and 102 ambulance link · Labour room practice: partograph use, the stages of labour, active management of the third stage, recognising obstructed labour and postpartum haemorrhage, and when to refer under the Dakshata and LaQshya quality standards · Essential newborn care: warmth, early breastfeeding within an hour, cord care, eye care, weighing and identification, kangaroo mother care, newborn resuscitation steps and danger signs for referral · Postnatal care and family planning counselling: postnatal visits, breastfeeding problems, danger signs in mother and baby, the basket of contraceptive choices and post-partum IUCD counselling · IMNCI and sick-child assessment: the general danger signs, classification of cough and breathing difficulty, diarrhoea and dehydration, fever and malaria, ear problems and malnutrition, and the colour-coded action · Growth monitoring and nutrition: growth charts, SAM and MAM identification, mid-upper-arm circumference, nutrition rehabilitation centre referral, anaemia in adolescents and vitamin A and deworming rounds · Universal Immunisation Programme as practised: the current national schedule in outline, cold chain and vaccine vial monitor, open-vial policy, safe injection and AEFI recognition and reporting · Paediatric drug safety and communication: weight-based dosing confirmed from the chart, oral rehydration and zinc counselling, paediatric pain and fear, consent from the parent and child protection awareness

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National Health Mission structure: the rural and urban components, state and district health societies, Rogi Kalyan Samiti, untied funds, the Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committee and the ASHA, ANM and CHO team at the Ayushman Arogya Mandir · Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent and Nutrition health (RMNCAH+N): Janani Suraksha Yojana, JSSK entitlements, PMSMA, HBNC and HBYC home visits, Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram and the adolescent health programme · Immunisation delivery: Mission Indradhanush, VHND and session planning, due-lists, cold chain at the sub-centre, left-outs and drop-outs, and vaccine hesitancy counselling in a village · NCD screening and management under NP-NCD: population-based screening of adults for hypertension, diabetes and oral, breast and cervical cancers, the CBAC form, follow-up and drug refill at the Arogya Mandir, and referral pathways · Communicable disease programmes as practised: the National TB Elimination Programme and Ni-kshay, malaria and dengue surveillance, leprosy case detection, the HIV programme and the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme reporting formats · Health information and digital tools: HMIS and the Reproductive and Child Health portal, ABHA IDs and Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY, teleconsultation from the Arogya Mandir and the limits of these in a low-network area · Community mobilisation: VHSNC meetings, Jan Arogya Samiti, working with the panchayat and school, IEC and behaviour change for sanitation, tobacco and anaemia, and handling rumours during a campaign · Outbreak response at PHC level: recognising a cluster, line listing, notifying the block and district, water and vector measures, and communicating with the community without panic

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