You Must be Proud – You will Be a Nursе

You are a medical student now. You study at the Nursing Department of Bukovinian State Medical University. In three years you will become a nurse and go to work in a polyclinic, hospital, kindergarden, school or house for aged people (a nursing home). You must be pround of your future profession – you’ll become a chief assistant of a doctor and will help him in providing the treatment of the sick.

To be a good nurse you must know and be able to do much. The nurse looks after the patients all day round. She must notice any changes in her patients’ condition and inform the doctor about them. The nurse has many duties which vary depending on where she works – at the therapeutic or surgical department of a hospital, or at a polyclinic.

A ward nurse gives patients medicines prescribed by a doctor. Besides, she performs some procedures like giving injections, applying mustard plasters, taking patients’ temperature and measuring their blood pressure, feeling the pulse, changing dressings and making patients comfortable. She must also be able to give a patient an enema to prepare him for radiology (an X-ray examination) or an ultrasound investigation.

With bed patients the duties of a nurse are to help them with activities of daily living – to lake off and put on their pyjamas, to get out and into (onto) the wheelchair and commode chair, to roll a patient over to prevent bedsores, to help a patient to the bathroom, to change patient’s bedlinen, etc.

In her activities a nurse must keep in touch with the senior nurse and act under her supervision. A professional nurse should always follow some good rules, such as:

 being very attentive in giving patients medicines not to confuse them

 keeping personal hygiene

 being very patient and never rude with her ward

 keeping the information about patients confidential

 showing patients empathy and understanding

 consulting the senior nurse and the doctor in difficult cases

The profession of a nurse is very responsible, indispensible and humane.

Active Vocabulary:

 Nursing Department – відділення (факультет) “Сестринська справа”

 a nursing home – будинок для престарілих; пансіонат

 an assistant – помічник

 to provide the treatment – забезпечувати лікування

 to look after patients – доглядати хворих

 all day round – цілодобово

 to depend on – залежати від

 to vary – відрізнятися

 medication – медикаментозне лікування

 medicines, drugs – ліки

 to perform procedures – проводити процедури

 to give a patient an enema – поставити хворому клізму

 radiology (an X- ray examination) – рентген.обстеження

 an ultrasound investigation – УЗО

 to take temperature – вимірювати температуру

 to measure blood pressure – вимірювати тиск крові

 to feel the pulse – перевіряти тиск

 to change a dressing – змінювати пов’язку

 to make patients comfortable – створювати хворим комфортні умови

 a bed-(ridden) patient – хворий, прикутий до ліжка

 to help patients with activities of daily living – допомагати хворим покращити якість життя

 a wheelchair – інвалідне крісло

 a commode chair – спеціальний стільчик з нічним горщиком

 a bedpan – підкладне судно (для хворих, прикутих до ліжка)

 bedsores – пролежні

 to change bedlinen – змінювати постільну білизну

 to keep in touch with – тут:погоджувати свою роботу з …

 to follow the rules – дотримуватися правил

 patient – терплячий

 the ward – тут: підопічні

 to show empathy – проявляти співчуття

 indispensible – незамінний

 humane – гуманний

Дата добавления: 2015-11-14