Bladder infection 

Asked for 26 sep 2020  OET speaking session

PARENT. Role play. SETTING: City Clinic 
You are the parent of a 4-year-old girl who has a suspected bladder infection, which she gets frequently. The doctor has requested a urine sample, and you see the nurse to get a sample bottle and to check the procedure for getting the urine sample. 
TASK
•When asked, say you need to get a urine sample from your daughter, who’s only four. Say you want to check thatyou just need to get her to pee into a container and then collect the sample from that.
•Say you’ll follow the nurse’s instructions. Ask how quickly you need to bring the urine sample to the clinic.
•Say your daughter keeps getting bladder infections, and you don’t think this problem will be resolved soon.
•Say the doctor gave you lots of advice, for example, about hygiene, which you have been following. Admit it’s reallydifficult to get your daughter to drink anything, and she doesn’t like using the toilet at nursery.
•Say that you are glad it is just a phase, and you’ll get the sample done as quickly as you can.
NURSE. Role play. SETTING: City Clinic 
You see the parent of a 4-year-old girl who has a suspected urinary tract infection (UTI), which she gets frequently. You give the parent a sample bottle and advice on the procedure for collecting a urine sample, which the doctor has requested. 
TASK 
 Find out the reason for the parent’s request to see you.
 Outline the urine collection process (e.g., get girl to drink water to fill bladder, collect mid-stream, use sterile samplebottle, etc.). Stress importance of not contaminating the sample (e.g., unreliable test results, cause of bladderinfections not identified, etc.).
 Outline the next steps after sample collection (taken to the clinic within 12 hours, initial dipstick test, full lab analysisif needed, etc.)
 Give information about bladder infections in children (e.g., common, caused by reluctance to pee/lack of hydration,etc.). Establish what advice the doctor gave the parent (hygiene, cotton underwear, unscented/unperfumed products,etc.).
 Reassure the parent about child not using the toilet at nursery (e.g., common phase, will grow out of it as she gets used to the teachers, etc.). Give advice on hydration (e.g., fruit, ice blocks, etc.) 

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