Oxford English for Careers
Nursing, Level 1, Student's Book

1. The hospital team; Nursing in the UK, an admission, a job interview; 2. In and around the hospital; Directions, the porter's office, on the ward; 3. Hospital admissions; A patient record, bad handwriting, admitting a patient; 4. Accidents and emergencies; Shock, instructions, emergency helpline; 5. Pain; Areas of referred pain, questions to assess pain, pain chart, pain relief; 6. Symptoms; Night coughing, researching symptoms, a helpline call, mystery syndromes; 7. Caring for the elderly; The effects of ageing, a care home, assessing a patient; 8. Nutrition and obesity; Nutrition, vitamins and minerals, food intake, eating disorders; 9. Blood; The heart, forensic analysis, blood types, blood tests, blood pattern analysis; 10. Death and dying; The body after death, breaking bad news, report of a death; 11. Hygiene; MRSA, a hygiene report, test results, a hygiene inspection; 12. Mental health nursing; Tourette syndrome, famous people suffering from mental illness, a case conference, schizophrenia; 13. Monitoring the patient; Taking readings, hypothermia, a coma patient, a scan; 14. Medication; Dosages, drugs which have changed history, patient medication; 15. Alternative treatments; Medicinal plants, wild treatments, healers