Exercise 3a:
Which of the following statements are true?
a. A GP is a doctor with a family.
b. A GP refers all patients who need operations to hospitals.
c. A GP refers patients who need
operations to hospitals.
d. GPs are bureaucrats.
e. GPs deal with bureaucracy.
f. A House Officer is subordinate to a Consultant.
g. A Registrar will have been a
House Officer.
h. A Registrar becomes a House
Officer,
i. Nurses are councillors.
j. Only nurses who are qualified can give blood transfusions.
k. Only nurses can give blood transfusions.
l. Qualified nurses can only give blood transfusions.
m. A Practice Nurse is an assistant to a GP.
n. A Practice Nurse is an assistant GP.
Answers of exercise
3a:
State whether
the following statements are true or false. Then, correct the false statements:
a- False. A GP
is a family doctor.
b- False. GPs
may perform minor surgery themselves.
c- True
d- False. A
bureaucrat is an administrator (مدير) usually working for the government (الحكومة).
e- True يقوم ببعض المهام الإدارية
f- True
g- True
h- False. A House Officer becomes
a Registrar.
i- False.
Nurses are not councillors (مستشار: عضو مجلس مثل الذي يدعى لتقديم المشورة للحاكم), but they are counsellors(الناصح).
j- True
k- False. Nurses
can give blood transfusions. Also, doctors can give blood transfusions.
l- False. Qualified
nurses give blood transfusions as well as other nurse’s tasks.
m- True
n- False. An
assistant GP is a GP.
Exercise 3b
Fill in the gaps in this text by using one word from each of the
brackets:
Doctors............(diagnose, prescribe, advise) medicines and nurses help............(to
administer, administer, administering) the treatment. Nurses............(dress, operate, administer) sophisticatedequipment, ………… (take,
give, bring) temperatures, blood pressures and respiration rates. They do
not............(give, administer, do) major operations but perform
and............(administer, assist, give) doctors with small operations...........(done
to, done under, done by) local anesthetic.
Exercise 3c
Complete the following sentences correctly:
a. Testing blood is usually……….by
nurses.
b. A Practice Nurse will……….clinics
for people with diabetes.
c. The Healthcare Assistant will……….incontinence
pads, etc. as and when clean ones are necessary.
d. Patients temperatures should
be ……….regularly.
e. We are going to……….but an investigation before
operating.
f. A Health Visitor s main
concern is in……….illnesS.
g. A Health Visitor s main
concern is to……….illness.
h. A Practice Nurse s job
includes……….advice to patients.
Exercise 3d
Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) which best completes each of the
following sentences:
The NHS versus private medicine
1- The NHS has a good............for the treatment of chronic illnesses
and research.
a.) record
b. story
c. account
d. background
2- The NHS has greatly improved conditions for............ill people and
geriatrics.
a. psychiatric
b. mental
c.. mentally
d. psychology
3- A national health service means equality of healthcare - each person
is equally important............his or her ability to pay.
a. without regard
b. regarding
c. disregarding
d. regardless of
4- With private health medicine, customers can............choices.
a. do
b. make
c. take
d. choose
5- Organisations like private hospitals that are run for profit are more
efficient and waste ............money.
a. fewer
b. lesser
c. less
d. smaller
6- Some say it is wrong that richer people............the best medical treatment.
a. take
b.do
c. get
d. use
7- Private medicine can have low with
cowboy clinics.
a. standards
b. standard
c. levels
d. graded
8- In the past an
NHS doctor could refer patients to any
centres, now the patient where there is a contract.
a. going
b. is gone
c. went
d. goes
Exercise 3e
Put the correct
form of the verb in brackets into the gaps in the following sentences. The
first one is done as an example.
The nurse........ the patient s temperature an hour ago. (take)
Answer: The nurse tookthe patient s temperature an hour ago.
a. Records of base-line functions must..... as accurately as possible. (make)
b. The patient...... a blood transfusion on the 21st of
last month, (give)
c. Mr Hussein s
wound should this morning but the nurse
was
interrupted and it wasn t done,
(dress)
d.A
Bereavement Nurse was asked……….Mrs Dobson s relatives after she
died, (counsel)
e. It was necessary
for the instruments to have in
advance of the
operation, (prepare)
f. We would......... Mr Jameson to the County
Hospital but we knew
there were no beds available, (refer)
g.
The nurse was about ……….an
injection when the patient told her she was allergic to penicillin, (give)
Exercise
3f
Fill
in the spaces in the following text about Nurse Practitioners with: in, up,
for, to, since, on, during, from, with.
The idea of Nurse Practitioners was
first developed………..the USA……….the 1970s and they
have grown ……….popularity in the UK ……….the
beginning of the 1990s. Though the RCN has defined the role of the
Nurse Practitioner, it is not always clear whether a Nurse Practitioner is a
mini-doctor or a maxi-nurse. .
However, Nurse Practitioners are popular………. patients and many of them have moved……….primary healthcare…….... hospitals
as the idea has caught ……….and it has become apparent that they both offer good
value money and free ……....
medical time for doctors.