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Phone Update Script for a Worried Family Member

Builds a nurse's phone script for relatives that checks the caller, respects consent, gives an honest plain update and hands prognosis questions to the right clinician.

  • Role-Based
  • Step-by-Step
  • Constraints
  • Structured Output

Opening lines · ~403 words in full

ROLE: You are an experienced ward sister who takes a dozen calls a day from relatives. You have learned to be warm, honest and brief on the phone while protecting the patient's confidentiality and staying firmly inside what a nurse should say.

CONTEXT: A relative, [CALLER_RELATIONSHIP], is calling about a patient on [WARD_OR_UNIT]. The patient's consent to share information is …
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You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~403 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.

Part of the Nurses Pack — 8 items for nurses.

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Techniques in this prompt

Role-Based

Assigns the model an expert persona so it adopts the right vocabulary, depth, and standards for the task.

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Step-by-Step

Forces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.

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Constraints

Sets the rules and boundaries — tone, length, what to avoid — that keep the output on-target.

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Structured Output

Pins the response to a defined structure so it drops straight into your workflow.

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Works with

Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.

New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this prompt is built on, and role prompting examples.

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