The updated OSCE Marking Criteria for the UK NMC Adult OSCE have introduced changes to the stations. The key updates are:
Removed Stations
• 4 Professional Values and Behaviours scenarios
• 2 Evidence-based Practice scenarios
• 1 Clinical Skill Station
| Sl. No | Type of station | Station or Scenario |
| 1 | Clinical Skill Stations | Nasopharyngeal Suctioning |
| 2 | Professional values | Concealment of bed status |
| Confidentiality | ||
| False Representation | ||
| Professional Confrontation | ||
| 3 | Evidence Based Practice | Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| Cranberry juice and urinary-tract infections (UTIs) |
Changes to Subcutaneous Injection Station
Criteria #12: No longer requires verbalizing the administration time (previously 10-30 seconds)
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| APIE stations |
| Assessment |
| Planning |
| Implementation |
| Evaluation marking |
| Clinical skills stations |
| Administration of Inhaled Medication (AIM) |
| Administration of Suppository |
| Aseptic non-touch technique (ANTT) |
| Blood glucose monitoring |
| Bowel Assessment |
| Catheter specimen of urine (CSU) |
| Fine-bore nasogastric tube insertion |
| Fluid balance (FB) |
| Intramuscular injection (IM) |
| Intravenous (IV) flush and visual infusion phlebitis (VIP) assessment |
| Mid-stream sample of urine (MSU) and urinalysis |
| Nutritional assessment |
| Oral care plan |
| Oxygen therapy |
| Pain assessment |
| Peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) |
| Pressure area assessment |
| Removal of urinary catheter (RUC) |
| Subcutaneous injection |
| Wound assessment |
| Professional values stations |
| Bullying marking criteria |
| Drug error marking criteria |
| Falsifying Observations marking criteria |
| Falsifying timesheets marking criteria |
| Hospital food marking criteria |
| Impaired performance marking criteria |
| Laboratory results marking criteria |
| Possible abuse marking criteria |
| Racism marking criteria |
| Social media marking criteria |
| Witnessed abuse marking criteria |
| Evidence-based practice stations |
| Ankle sprain marking criteria |
| Bedside handover marking criteria |
| Cervical screening marking criteria |
| Dementia and music marking criteria |
| Diabetes marking criteria |
| Female myocardial infarction (MI) marking criteria |
| Fever in children marking criteria |
| Restraint marking criteria |
| Saline versus Tap water marking criteria |
| Smoking cessation marking criteria |
| Honey-dressing marking criteria |
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