Colonel Nguyen Van Chinh, Director of Military Hospital 105, delivered the opening speech of the contest.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the contest, Colonel Nguyen Van Chinh, Director of Military Hospital 105, emphasized: The contest is a meaningful and practical activity to promote and maintain the emulation movement of professional learning, communication and professional ethics in the nursing work of the hospital. At the same time, it contributes to improving knowledge, skills, patient care capacity, improving professional culture, communication and behavior of the nursing staff.

In particular, the contest is also an opportunity to honor professional nurses, who play a very important role in taking care of patients' health. Nurses not only have good expertise but also always need to care, share the pain, worry about the difficulties of patients, encourage and accompany patients to confidently overcome their illness.

The competition is attended by 18 excellent nurses from clinical departments in the hospital. As a result, excellent candidates will be selected to participate in the 2023 Military Hospitals Excellent and Elegant Nurse Competition.

This year's contest is divided into 3 main parts: Theory test, practice test and communication test, social knowledge. Specifically: The theory test is conducted in the form of direct multiple choice on the computer, the test time is 30 minutes with 80 questions including the following contents: Basic nursing majors, internal nursing, surgical nursing, infection control, office informatics, digital transformation, professional ethics standards of nurses, Law on Health Insurance, Law on Medical Examination and Treatment, building regulations, discipline, safety, scientific research, hospital quality management, nursing work regimes.

Candidates take the theory test.

In the content test, candidates will compete in 6 nursing technical procedures including: chest compressions, fixed closed fractures of 2 tibia bones, routine dressing changes, intravenous infusion, changing bed sheets for patients, temporary first aid for head injuries and changing wound dressings.

For the communication, behavior and social knowledge competition, 18 contestants were divided into 3 teams. Each team created their own performance script, asking questions about situations related to nursing work such as caring for and monitoring patients; dealing with patients and their families; dealing with colleagues, etc.

The medical uniform and talent performance is a competition that does not add points, only selecting the contestant who performs the most beautiful medical uniform and shows the best talent.

Candidates perform the practical exam to fix closed fractures of both tibiae.
Candidates perform the wound dressing practice test.

Immediately after the opening ceremony, the contestants took the theoretical and practical exams. According to the plan, the contest will close in the afternoon of the same day.

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