1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

In India, the employers are required to provide one first-aid box for every 150 workers. Each first-aid box has to be kept in charge of a responsible person who holds a certificate in first-aid treatment recognized by the State Govt. and who should be available during the working hours of the workplace. Usually the only first-aid certificate which is accepted is that which is issued by the St. John's Ambulance. The basic certification training curriculum involves 3 to 8 days while the recertification usually involves one day training. Given that, it is a legal requirement to provide first-aid at the workplace, the biggest customer for the first-aid services are all the organizations employing people. One of the important components of the first-aid is Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation which has undergone significant changes over the years due to increasing research evidence on survival. Some years ago the recommendation was 15 :2(chest compression: breaths) which got changed to 30 2 (chest compressions: breaths) while the latest guidance recommends 100 chest
compressions per minute by lay persons while the chest compressions and breaths is limited to be provided only by the trained first-aiders.
Who should be put in charge of a first-aid box?
The cardio-pulmonary resuscitation process has undergone changes in recent years. List the changes.
Which of the following is correct The ratio of first-aid box to workers is one for every 150 workers.
There is no laid-down rule for number of workers.

(iii) Employers in India do not need to provide first-aid boxes at all.
Who is the biggest customer for first-aid services? Why?
Give a title to the passage. Give reasons for the title.

2.(a) Fill in the blanks with the right form of the verbs given in brackets.
When he reached home, the rain already (start)
A stitch in time nine. (save)

(iii) A proverb is to speech what salt to food.

(iv) Earlier, society no law to protect mentally.sick people from ill-treatment. (has)
Education a commercial activity nowadays. (become)
Make questions from the following answers.
The term "first-aid" first appeared in 1878.
The training should be of one-day duration.

(iii) The advantage of providing a first-aid box is managing common medical conditions.
Yes, I have learnt a lot from this course.
I want to meet the doctor who can cure my stomach-ache.
It is important for a nurse to look after her own health so that she can look after patients better.
Fill in the blanks with articles the) and determiners (much, some).
The nurse is hard working professional.
Medicines can bring end to pain and suffering.

(iii) What is time
There is truth in what he says.
There is too suspicion about the medical profession today. Fill in the blanks with the correct preposition.
Keep the book the table.
The sun shone our heads.

(iii) Do not hit the belt.
She came and sat me.

3. Write a letter to a hospital in another city asking for the names of some good cardiologists in your capacity of Dean of your hospital.

4. Write a summary of the given passage in one-third the number of words. Give an appropriate title to the passage.

There is large inter-state variation in India in the patterns and trends in underweight. In six states, at least one in two children are underweight, namely Maharashtra, Orissa, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. The four latter states account for more than 43 percent of all underweight children in India. National Family Heath Survey (NFH5-III) revealed that:

• 38.4% of children under age three are stunted, that is too short for their age and 46% are underweight that is too thin for their age.

• Wasting, defined as an abnormally low weight for the child's height affects 19% of children under age three with a slight deterioration from 1998-99.

• Overall, girls and boys are about equally likely to be undernourished. Under­ nutrition is higher in rural areas and is strongly correlated with the level of maternal education showing a two-fold difference between non-educated mothers and 10 year and above educated mothers.

• Most children under age three are anemic (79.2%).

• Malnutrition has been estimated to be associated with about half of all child deaths and more than half of child deaths from major diseases, such as malaria (57 percent), diarrhoea (61 percent) and pneumonia (52 percent), as well as 45 percent of deaths from measles (45 percent). In India, child malnutrition is responsible for 22 percent of the country's burden of disease.
Without having the detailed understanding of the actual causes/etiology of such widely prevalent condition, neither at the individual level nor at the community level problems can be viewed, discussed and tackled ultimately.

5. Write a conversation in about 20 sentences between yourself as nurse and a patient who is being discharged. Discuss the precautions that need to be taken regarding health and hygiene after surgery.

6. Write a case study of a patient who has been diagnosed with chronic renal failure. Write in not less than 150 words.