OET Listening Practice Test for Nurses – Part B

OET Listening Practice Test – Part B

In this part of the test, you’ll hear six different extracts. In each extract, you’ll hear people talking in a different healthcare setting. For questions 25-30, choose the answer (A, B or C) which is best according to what you hear. You’ll have time to read each question before you listen. Complete your answers as you listen.

OET Listening Practice Test - Part B

1. You hear a nurse briefi ng her colleague about a patient.

What does she warn her colleague about?

The patient is allergic to some types of antibiotics.

Care must be taken to prevent the patient from falling.

Oxygen may be needed if the patient becomes breathless.

2. You hear the manager of a care home for the elderly talking to the nursing staff
He says that errors in dispensing medication to patients usually result from

interruptions while calculating dosages.

a failure to check for patients’ allergies.

administering drugs late in the day.

3. You hear part of a morning briefi ng on a hospital ward.
What is the plan for the patient today?

Her emotional state will be carefully observed.

She will be transferred to a more specialised unit.

A social worker will come to see what help she needs.

4. You hear part of an ante-natal consultation at a GP practice.
What does the patient want to know about?

the advisability of a home birth

ways of avoiding post-natal depression

what painkillers might be available during labour

5. You hear a trainee doctor telling his supervisor about a problem he had carrying out a procedure.
The trainee feels the cause of the problem was

treatment administered previously

the patient’s negative reaction.

inappropriate equipment.

6. You hear a doctor talking to a teenage boy who has a painful wrist.

The doctor wants to establish whether

a fracture may be misaligned.

the swelling may be due to a sprain.

there may be more than one bone affected.

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