OET WITH JAISON

1. LINGUISTIC criteria
2. CLINICAL COMMUNICATION
criteria

LINGUISTIC CRITERIA
The four elements involved here are
1. intelligibility
2. fluency
3. appropriateness of language and
4. resources of grammar and
expression
1. indicators or relationship
building
2. indicators of understanding
and incorporating the patient's
perspective
3. indicators of providing
structure
4. indicators of information
gathering
5. indicators of information giving
*Warm Up Questions for Nursing Role-Play*

1. What is your name?

2. What kind of profession are you dealing with?

3. Why did you choose this profession?

4. Do you have a role model in your profession?

5. Routine day as a nurse in ur life!

6. What are the good qualities of a good nurse?

7. What all advice you can give you to the upcoming nurses?

8. What are the recent trends and advancements in nursing?

9. Why did you choose oet?

10. Which country you are planning to move?

11. What is ur future plan once you reach there?

12. Have you encountered any difficulty situation while taking care of a patient?

13. Tell me about your hometown?

14. Is there any gender differences in the field of nursing? Explain it opinion!

15. Explain about a recent course which u have attended?

16. A quality which you possess?

17. Tell something about Australia?

18. Tell me about your drawback and how you overcome it?
1. My name is xxx u can address me as Priya.
2. Am a nurse by profession and I deal with different
kinds of people every day
3. I chose this profession because of its wide global
opportunities it has. Apart from that my passion is
to migrate to Australia.
4. Yes I do. It is none other than my grandmother who
dedicated her life to this profession
5. I start my day at 7am with a small prayer with a
bedside rounds, followed my administering
medications to patients, attending doctors rounds,
carrying out orders, health education and finally day
ends with a handover to the next shift nurse.
6. There are many qualities required to fit in to a good
nurse such as empathy, patience, emotional
stability, quick response, confidentiality and so on.
But the most important quality that I believe that a
nurse should possess is the good communication
skills which help to provide quality care.
7. To practise a holistic care approach to maintain the
dignity of the profession. To keep them updated
with their profession. The recent trends in nursing
are the use vein detectors to detect vein easily,
wireless patient monitoring system and gps tracking
of equipment.
8. The advances in nursing are genetic nursing, robotic
nursing and stem cell technology nursing
9. I chose / preferred oet because it is related to my
profession as well as my dream is to fly to Australia
10. Am planning to move to Australia as they have
good job opportunities for nurses. Aside from that I
love Australia for its stunning landscape and friendly
people.
11. My future plan is to start a job in one of the
hospitals in Australia and to do MSc nursing to
enhance my career.
12. Yes if am right in the year 2012 there was a
minor earthquake in Chennai and I was in my
morning shift working in pediatric ward. Once we
felt the earthquake We held the lil ones in our hand
running along with their IV fluids nd incubators to a
safe place. I couldn't forget tht day even now.
13. I underwent BCLS and ACLS programs
conducted by the American heart association
recently as a part of my clinical education.
14. I believe its my patience that gives me success
both in my personal as well as professional life.
15. Australia is a land of dreams. I wonder Sydney
Opera for its wonderful architecture.
16. I had some problems with time management.
Hence I attended a time management program that
was conducted in my hospital which helped me to
overcome the problem
3. Assessment
 Thank you for sharing these information. It helped me to understand
your condition much better
 Based on my examination
 The blood test results indicates that
 Your X-ray shows that...

4. GIVING INFORMATION
 Do you know anything about the management. of your Condition?
 Do you know anything about particular disease Condition?
 Don't worry I will explain.

5. CHECKING PATIENT UNDERSTANDING LEVEL

 Is that clear?
 Would that be okay?
 Do you have any other concerns?
 How does that Sound?
 Does that Sounds good?
 Are you getting my point?
 Do you have any other difficulties?
 Are you on the same page with me?
 Do you understand so far?
 Speaking phrases

Effective communication is very important in the medical interview. As a health professional, it

is necessary to use language to achieve a particular purpose within a particular context. These
purposes can be categorized further into language functions and language learners can improve
their communicative ability by being familiar with and using the language patterns associated
with the various functions.

Note: The role-play scenarios used by OET have been designed to test the candidates ability
within the categories below so skill in these areas will help you achieve your required score .

Expressing Concern and Understanding

This is obviously a very important part of the medical interview. It requires you to listen
carefully to the patient then respond appropriately.

 I know how you must be feeling.

I know how........................................................................................................................

I understand ....  I understand your concern

I understand how ....  I understand how you are feeling.
 I understand how you feel.
I understand.  I understand why you have this concern.

Why ....  I understand why you are worried about fluoride in the
water supply. However .....
I'm sorry to hear  Oh, I'm very sorry to hear that, but there is a solution to
that. every problem.
Yes, I can see  Yes, I can see that it must be difficult for you to manage.
that ....