English in Nursing

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Individual work	-	-
Students prepare presentations on professional issues; they do project work searching for information on Internet and presenting the findings to the class; prepare a glossary of professional terminology; carry out written assignments (a profile, an e-mail, instructions, reports, etc.); prepare a glossary of professional terminology and acquire the professional terminology.

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Examination	-	-
1) Active participation in classes; all assignments prepared appropriately and in a timely manner; short vocabulary tests and presentations made in accordance with the topics covered during the course – 30%. 2) A spoken part of the end-of-course examination: a presentation – 35%. 3) A written part of the end-of-course examination: a test on the use and comprehension of medical terminology (gap filling exercises; definition and terminology matching exercises), a text related to medicine and comprehension tasks – 35%.

The course "English for Nursing" overview. The Code. Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midwives in the UK. Reading strategies: scanning and skimming; headings and sub-headings; diagrams, pictures and captions.

Academic English: Presentations: structure, signposting language, audio-visual aids. Group presentations.

Hospitals. Types and specialisation of hospitals. Hospital departments/ units and staff. A short (one sentence) profile of the occupation. The use of the Present Simple and the Present Continuous Tenses. A profile of a healthcare student.

Teamwork in a hospital. The nursing profession: training, qualifications, grades and working hours. Job interviews. Project Work: to search the Internet and find a job advertisement for a nurse; to report the findings in the class: required education and qualification, general and professional skills, job responsibilities and the salary.

Equipment and instruments in a hospital. One sentence description of each instrument. A hospital ward. Directions. Prepositions of place and movement.

Hospital admissions. Patients' complaints. The use of the Past Simple, the Past Continuous and the Past Perfect tenses. A medical case history. Filling in forms. Direct and indirect questions. A summary about the patient, using the information from the patient record.

Hospital admissions. Patients' complaints. The use of the Past Simple, the Past Continuous and the Past Perfect tenses. A medical case history. Filling in forms. Direct and indirect questions. A summary about the patient, using the information from the patient record.

General practitioner. The GP's surgery. Appointments. Taking/cancelling/changing appointments by telephone / e-mail. GP's referral to the hospital. Hospital rules for patients. The use of modal verbs for suggestions and instructions. Medical symptoms and signs of diseases.

Communication with a patient. Simple medical procedures and their explanation to the patient. Getting the patient's informed consent. Indirect speech. E-mail / a letter to obtain the information.

Pain: describing pain; types of pain and its location. The human body and its parts. The degrees of comparison of adjectives. Pain relief medications. Questions to assess the pain. Making comparisons when describing pain and/or different painkillers. Dosages and administration of medications.

Pain: describing pain; types of pain and its location. The human body and its parts. The degrees of comparison of adjectives. Pain relief medications. Questions to assess the pain. Making comparisons when describing pain and/or different painkillers. Dosages and administration of medications.

Accidents and emergencies. Instructions for giving first aid, using imperatives. Writing instructions on how to deal with an emergency. Taking emergency medical calls, instructing over telephone. Vocabulary related to triage assessment.

Accidents and emergencies. Instructions for giving first aid, using imperatives. Writing instructions on how to deal with an emergency. Taking emergency medical calls, instructing over telephone. Vocabulary related to triage assessment.

Patient care. Making patient notes. Talking about changing a dressing. Patient care notes and patient care plans. Making predictions and expressing hopes about the future. Offers and requests. Taking vital signs and describing various readings: measurements (numerals), describing line graphs, describing a procedure using the Passive Voice.

Patient care. Making patient notes. Talking about changing a dressing. Patient care notes and patient care plans. Making predictions and expressing hopes about the future. Offers and requests. Taking vital signs and describing various readings: measurements (numerals), describing line graphs, describing a procedure using the Passive Voice.

Hygiene. Vocabulary related to hygiene equipment. Talking about obligations (use of modal verbs). Asepsis – list of rules. Pre-operative and post-operative hygiene.