NHS pathway principles exam UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What are NHS pathways? - CORRECT ANSWER - A suite of hundreds of interlinked
questions is arranged into a complex flow-based system based on the symptoms of the patient.
This links all of the information from the call to refer the patient to the correct service.
How to make a good clinical decision? - CORRECT ANSWER - Gather the right
information which will then be collected and analysed.
What are the 4 R's? - CORRECT ANSWER - Relevant structured questions.
Right Information.
Right Time.
Right amount.
This will help us to decide the correct treatment pathway for all patients.
What does the system require from the assessor? - CORRECT ANSWER - Understand
various clinical issues and carry out the relevant health assessment.
Understand how the system works.
Good communication - asking the right questions and ensuring the caller understands you.
How does the system help to assess a patient? - CORRECT ANSWER - Necessary
questions are organised to assess the patient's symptoms based on level of severity.
If the caller gives enough information you may not need to ask as many questions.
, what are the three main pathways? - CORRECT ANSWER - Module 0 - Immediately life
threatening
Module 1 - System specific.
Module 2 - designed for trained clinicians.
What is Module 0? - CORRECT ANSWER - This is where life threatening issues are
immediately filtered out.
This can be skipped if the caller says what the issue is and you may skip to Module 1 or stay
module 0.
Information gathered during the call will help to go directly to correct pathway.
What is Trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER - An inflicted wound or injury which occurred
within the last 7 days. ( you will then initiate trauma pathways).
After 7 days you will assess the symptoms associated with the trauma. ( Pain and discharge from
the wound).
Module 1 - CORRECT ANSWER - There is no life-threatening injury and you will go
through symptom-specific pathways.
There are a large number of pathways to assess a wide range of symptoms.
Based on information from the caller you select an area of the body map which is relevant to the
patient's age and gender.
Most calls can be closed here.
Module 2 - CORRECT ANSWER - This is where the call will passed over the clinician.
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What are NHS pathways? - CORRECT ANSWER - A suite of hundreds of interlinked
questions is arranged into a complex flow-based system based on the symptoms of the patient.
This links all of the information from the call to refer the patient to the correct service.
How to make a good clinical decision? - CORRECT ANSWER - Gather the right
information which will then be collected and analysed.
What are the 4 R's? - CORRECT ANSWER - Relevant structured questions.
Right Information.
Right Time.
Right amount.
This will help us to decide the correct treatment pathway for all patients.
What does the system require from the assessor? - CORRECT ANSWER - Understand
various clinical issues and carry out the relevant health assessment.
Understand how the system works.
Good communication - asking the right questions and ensuring the caller understands you.
How does the system help to assess a patient? - CORRECT ANSWER - Necessary
questions are organised to assess the patient's symptoms based on level of severity.
If the caller gives enough information you may not need to ask as many questions.
, what are the three main pathways? - CORRECT ANSWER - Module 0 - Immediately life
threatening
Module 1 - System specific.
Module 2 - designed for trained clinicians.
What is Module 0? - CORRECT ANSWER - This is where life threatening issues are
immediately filtered out.
This can be skipped if the caller says what the issue is and you may skip to Module 1 or stay
module 0.
Information gathered during the call will help to go directly to correct pathway.
What is Trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER - An inflicted wound or injury which occurred
within the last 7 days. ( you will then initiate trauma pathways).
After 7 days you will assess the symptoms associated with the trauma. ( Pain and discharge from
the wound).
Module 1 - CORRECT ANSWER - There is no life-threatening injury and you will go
through symptom-specific pathways.
There are a large number of pathways to assess a wide range of symptoms.
Based on information from the caller you select an area of the body map which is relevant to the
patient's age and gender.
Most calls can be closed here.
Module 2 - CORRECT ANSWER - This is where the call will passed over the clinician.
