| Interlocutor: Petting: Emergency Department of a large city Hospital |
| Patient: You are a 32-year-old vehicle accident victim, the driver of the vehicle, who has been brought to the hospital suffering a suspected broken arm and concussion from the accident. You are also moderately drunk. It is midnight on a Saturday night and the ward doctors are very busy attending to many other patients, including victims of vehicle accidents, bashings, and drug overdoses. A nurse is trying to assess your injury but you are being quite uncooperative. TASK – Tell the nurse when asked that all you remember about the accident is that your friends in the car were screaming and that you want to know how they are. – Insist on using a phone to check on your friends. – Ask if you can use the hospital chapel to pray for your friend. Your manner is disoriented and confused. You keep asking what day it is. – Reluctantly agree to allow the nurse to take your vital signs. |
| Candidate Setting: Emergency Department a large city Hospital |
| Nurse: A 32-year-old vehicle accident victim, the driver of the vehicle, has been brought to emergency suffering a suspected broken arm and concussion from the accident. The patient also appears moderately drunk. It is midnight on a Saturday night and the ward doctors are very busy attending to many other patients, including victims of vehicle accidents, bashings and drug overdoses. You are trying to assess the patient’s injury before further treatment. Task: – Ask the patient what he/she remembers about the accident. – Tell the patient that you have no information about the other passengers in the car; that the most important thing for now is for his/her vital signs to be checked and for him/her to be made comfortable while waiting for a doctor. – Refuse the patient the use of a phone asked for (the patient’s mobile phone is missing). – Deal with the patient’s other concerns while encouraging him/her to be positive and to relax. Be sympathetic but firm. – Give the patient some encouraging words to end the conversation as you prepare to take his/her vital signs. |