OET Writing for Nurses — Course 3

• The one-sentence task
• Official timing and word count
• The six assessment criteria
• Course map and resources
• Practice rule

• Start here: the task and your practice system
• One letter, one reader
• Course map: learn → attempt → review
• discharge after surgery
• Skill bank — purpose-first openers
• Practice tasks

• Use the six assessment criteria
• Six views of one letter
• "A visit has been arranged" vs note "visit recommended; no booking made"
• Review routine
• Practice tasks

• Read the task before the history
• Task-first reading
• Reader changes everything — same patient, different letter
• Apply it — one-line task summary
• Practice tasks

• Select case notes for the recipient
• Three selection questions
• Prioritise — current care before routine detail
• Apply it — visible selection in review
• Practice tasks

• Build a timeline without inventing events
• Four timeline states
• Date checks — find the true reference point
• Status-verb audit
• Practice tasks

• Organise the letter around the reader
• A useful letter has a route
• Paragraph jobs — one job per paragraph
• Urgency-first ordering
• Layout that is easy to navigate
• Practice tasks

• Write a precise opening and request
• Name the action
• Direct is professional
• Check beginning + ending together
• Practice tasks

• Choose tenses from the actual timeline
• Meaning before labels
• Since/for; simple/continuous
• Checking pass
• Practice tasks

• Use passive voice without losing meaning
• Meaning first, form second
• Not every be is passive
• Keep important agents
• Practice tasks

• Turn case-note fragments into complete sentences
• Supply grammar, not new facts
• Articles: introduce then identify
• Agreement: find the true subject
• References: repeat names when needed
• Practice tasks

• Preserve precision, uncertainty, responsibility
• Small words, large differences
• Frequency/deadline precision
• Medicine status — no inferred plans
• Uncertainty discipline
• Fidelity checklist

• Write concisely without losing essentials
• Compress framing, not facts
• Background in proportion
• Length review with purpose
• Practice tasks

• Use a professional, reader-aware tone
• Reader awareness
• Neutral language — behaviour + barriers, not judgments
• Individual needs from the notes only
• Practice tasks

• Build a care paragraph step by step
• Method: job → sort → build
• Pending status without invented outcomes
• Practice tasks

• Edit content before polishing language
• Pass 1 — meaning
• Pass 2 — language
• Error log

• Complete a timed writing cycle
• The cycle
• Mid-test triage
• Next steps

• Review record
• Four-week example

• Sources and exam-day checklist

Practice quizzes

• Community nursing referral
• Rehabilitation transfer
• GP review request
• Urgent transfer
• Stoma-care home visit + discharge coordination