| Interlocutor Role Play Card Patient Setting: Emergency Department of a Hospital |
| You are a 45-year-old hobby farmer who has been driven by your brother to the emergency department of a nearby hospital because you have sustained many bee stings while working on bee hives on the hobby farm you both own. Your hands and ankles are swollen, red and itchy. Your breathing is becoming more laboured and you are getting agitated. You believe you are going to die at any moment. You hate getting injections. Your brother had been smoking marijuana for a number of hours before he drove you to the hospital. TASK Respond to the nurse’s efforts to calm you down by expressing your fear of dying as you can’t breathe properly. Tell the nurse that you are terrified of having injections. Reluctantly agree to have the antihistamine injection. Tell the nurse when asked about going home, that your brother drove you here but that he was smoking marijuana before he drove you here. Agree to the advice given by the nurse about getting home and post-hospital care. |
| Nurse Setting: Emergency Department of a Hospital |
| You are a nurse in the emergency department of a hospital. The patient is a 45-year-old person who has sustained many bee stings while working on bee hives on the hobby farm he/she owns. The patient’s hands and ankles are swollen, red and itchy. The patient’s breathing is becoming more laboured and the patient is becoming agitated. You suspect the patient is going into anaphylactic shock and there is no time to waste. TASK Try to calm the patient down. Respond to the patient’s fear of imminent death in a positive way and tell the patient you must administer an Epipen antihistamine injection immediately. Tell the patient you notice that he/she is becoming less agitated and the swelling is starting to go down. Ask the patient how he/she is going to get home. Advise the patient you will order a taxi home for both him/her and the brother, and for the patient to get plenty of rest for the next few hours, applying the Benadryl cream you have given him/her. Finish the consultation by telling the patient that if things have not normalised within 12 hours he/she must see a doctor. |