1. The Royal College of Physicians (2017) suggest that the minimum frequency of monitoring for a patient with a NEWS2 score of 1-4 is ______.

1. minimum 12 hourly
2. minimum of 4–6 hourly
3. minimum 1 hourly
4. continuous monitoring

2. The communication tool/acronym SBAR stands for ______.

1. situation, background, assessment, recommendation
2. symptoms, background, assessment, requirements
3. situation, behaviour, assessment, requirements
4. situation, behaviour, ability, recommendation

3. Data from the National Cardiac Arrest Audit (Nolan et al., 2017) reports that following an in-hospital cardiac arrest, the average survival to discharge is ______.

1. 8.4%
2. 20.4%
3. 41.4%
4. 62.4%

4. The target oxygen saturations for most acutely ill patients (i.e. those not at risk of hypercapnic respiratory failure (type 2 respiratory failure)) (British Thoracic Society, 2017) is ______.

1. above 96%
2. 94–98%
3. 100%
4. 88–92%

5. According to the UK Sepsis Trust (2017) the most common source of infection precipitating sepsis is ______.

1. a pneumonia
2. urinary tract
3. endocarditis
4. meningitis