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Explains how OSCEs differ from standard practical exams through station setup and completion standards for clinical skills logs. Addresses exam anxiety with a breathing mantra, then provides a structured planning approach: break tasks into sections, prioritize calculations, document safety-first steps, and use flash cards and mnemonics. 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They assess your clinical skills in an exam situation, and confirm your nursing progress log or central skills log has been completed to the standard employers would expect of an RVN on day one of their employment.  \nRVN and Vet Times blogger Jane Davidson presents a guide to the injection tasks for vet nurse OSCEs on her dedicated YouTube channel. \\#OSCEtips  \nOSCEs strike fear into many students and clinical coaches. Which is normal and understandable – for diploma students and many degree students, they are the final exam standing between the student and qualifying.  \nOSCEs have been used since the 1970s in many medical fields. The difference between an OSCE and a practical exam is really in the set-up:  \n An OSCE requires a minimum number of stations that, in veterinary nursing, will really only occur in final exams.  \n Degree programmes that set exams at the end of a module cannot be referred to as OSCEs, but their intention and the result are the same.  \nNerves  \nIt is normal to be nervous. People who say they don’t get nervous are either lying or turn nerves into positive energy.  \nI would always advise to be prepared for nerves and plan to harness the extra energy the adrenalin surge brings.  \nWhat can you do? Telling yourself to not be nervous usually only gets you more anxious – so I have a strategy for you. Have your own mantra that you can repeat to focus on and ignore what else may be happening around you. You can make up your own, but I like to remind students the best thing to do is breathe. Just breathe.  \nIn the grand scheme of things, this is all you need to do. Yes, I know there’s more, but it’s a start. Once you have your mind focused on your breathing, you need a plan to do the required task.  \nThe plan  \nAs you get to read the task before you try it, you can use this time to start your plan. You have already seen similar task sheets when practising and they don’t take long to read, but it can belong enough to start panicking.  \nTo stop the panic, break the task into manageable sections and plan to try those. If calculations worry you then plan to do that first – focus on the equation and units, and use that to stop the worrying.  \nFlash cards to write down your exam plan can be really useful. They allow you to make notes on the tasks and even draw, or have a picture of, what you want to achieve. The plan should include:  \n the order you may wish to do the task in  \n key steps – safety first  \n calculations  \n units  \n steps you are worried about – perhaps from previous feedback  \nSome tasks have a logical order, yet others you can approach in your own way. Others, such as anaesthesia, can be carried out differently from the way the mark sheet is set out. Remember, the mark sheet has many uses and is not intended as your only revision aid.  \nBelow is a possible plan for an anaesthesia task. The task is split into four short sections with noteson each area. Personalise it to make your own plan – for example, do you need a prompt to remember scavenging or to use the “in use” label?  \nLearning information – different approaches  \nWhile you are learning facts and information, it can seem disconnected from what you do every day with your patients. To help you learn, you can consider different approaches after the usual note making. Some of these can really help boost your study morale and make the whole experience seem more positive.  \nI like to use mnemonics. This is where you have a list of information and take the first letter of each word to create an easy-to-remember phrase. See the card above – \"Too Much Fun\" is a way to recall the anaesthesia calculation.  \nOSCEs can contain information you need to tell the examiner. This can be hard to recall on top of actually doing the","cbCairq8lRcOLpnB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairq8lRcOLpnB","pdf",255102,"English","# Nerves\n## The plan\n## Learning information – different approaches","[{\"question\":\"What is an OSCE in veterinary nursing and what does it assess?\",\"answer\":\"An OSCE is a practical assessment using a set of exam stations. 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