NURSING STAFF VOCATIONAL TRAINING DEGREE

Read the following text and answer the questions below

Working with patients

     The expertise and training of the nursing staff must be as efficient as possible at all times, especially when human lives are at risk, which is the case of hospital healthcare. Citizens must therefore demand that hospital personnel are highly qualified and professional for the benefit of society.

     The nursing staff should also understand what emotions an inpatient can feel when he/she is having a long stay in hospital following an operation, so that the recovery process is as smooth as possible. This is in addition to emotions directly connected with their disease and the associated pain or inconveniences. This will indeed help minimize pain. Patients find themselves in an unknown place, away from their usual environment and dependent on others to a certain degree. For this reason a positive therapeutic relationship between nurse and patient will improve the recovery of the patient’s health.

     Therefore some key details must be considered. For example before admission, the room must be clean and nurses must be polite and kind to the patient. We should not forget that the patient will recover more quickly if he feels like at home.

In short, healthcare staff always have to bear in mind that they deal with people and they must behave accordingly. They should not forget that each patient has their own background and experiences that have shaped them through life.

Fulgencio Sánchez Gimenez. Working with patients

1.  Which of these ideas best summarizes the text?

a)  Patients in a hospital must be nice to nurses if they want to have a successful recovery

b)  The experiences in a patient’s life can put a patient at risk after an operation

c)  Hospital personnel should consider the background of each individual patient and make their stay as comfortable as possible.

2.  Why should hospital staff be highly qualified?

a)  To ensure that rooms are clean and tidy

b)  To have a quality healthcare system that minimizes risk

c)  To connect with the patient’s emotions

3.  Nurses should deal with patient’s emotions because

a)  They need to send patients home in a short time

b)  The recovery process will be easy and less painful

c)  Most of them want to become therapists

4.  The word inpatient in the second paragraph means

a)  A person who is in hospital

b)  Someone with very little patience

c)  A patient who has gone home after the operation

5.    In the last paragraph, the word accordingly means

a)    In a different way

b)    In a similar way

c)    As expected

CAN DO STATEMENT Reading (B1): I can identify the main conclusions in clearly written argumentative texts related to the function of nursing assistant.