Name : Tina Novela

NIM : 2019.C.11a.1030
Majors : S1 Nursing II A
Courses : English III
Lecturer : Desy Natalia.,S.Pd.,M,Pd

Unit 7

- Reading

1. How would you feel if you were told tomorrow that you had six months to live? Spend five
minutes writing down word that come to mind. Then explain your thoughts to a partner.

Answer :

“The thing I will do is to do good things that I can do and benefit others and tell my brother
not to think too much about my circumstances because I am always well with the Lord. I will
take them on holidays to the beach and other tourist attractions so that much happiness is
etched in our hearts together forever.”

2. Read the text and name the five phases that palliative care experts talk about.

Answer :

1. Refusing to believe it.

2. To feel anger toward a healthy person.

3. Dying people often bargain with disease or with god.

4. Depression as the reality of the situation plummeted.

5. The phase fights to the end and gives in to the circumstances of feeling unable to fight
any longer.

3. Read the text again and macth the feelings a-j to one of the phases 1-5 in 2.

a. They may speak to the illnes as if is human 3

b. They often don’t allow doctors to trest them 1

 c. They stop fighting the idea that they are 3

d. They don’t want their friends to run away from them 2

e. They make their family’s live hard 2

f. They try to get control of the situation 3

g There are times when they do and feel nothing 4

h. They make plan for the end of their life 5

i. They spend a lot of time alone 5

j. They pretend they are not really ill. 3

4. Answer the questions.

- Imagine you want to become a palliative care nurse. Decide the order in which you would
read these articles on a website about nursing the terminally ill. Write 1-5.

Communicating with the patient

Helping the patient’s family

The phases of terminal illness

Ethical issues

Dealing with different cultures and religions

- Compare you order with a partner, explaining your reasoms. The together make a list of
four more articles you would like to see on the webside

Answer :

1. Communicating with patients.

2. Dealing with different cultures and religions.

3. An ethical problem.

4. The deadly phase of the disease.

5. Helping the patient's family

- Listening

1. Layla Hart went toher GP when she found a lump in her right breast. A biopsy revealed a
malignant tumour. She had surgery three days ago to find out the extent of the cancer. Listen
to her find out the results from the surgeon. How would layla’s tumour be described using the
OSG and TNM system?

Answer :

2. Listen again, and decide if the sentences are true (T) or false (F).

1. Layla will certainly need to have a breast removed.

2. No lymph nodes are removed in a lumpectomy.

3. With a lumpectomy, she would have both chemotherapy and radiotherapy

4. The symptom she does’t want to have is constant tiredness.

5. Layla can;t thimk of any questions immediately.

Answer :

1. True

2. True

3. True
4. True

5. False

- Speaking

- Writing

Dealing with difficult situations

1. Discuss the question with partner.

When a patient ha just received bad newa, what is the best way to handle the situation
 When the patient cries?
 When thr pstient gets angry?
 When relatives demand to know all the detail from you?
 If you think that the patient does not really understand the situation?

Answer :

1. Try to communicate with the patient and ask him what causes his grief and then
provide the best solution.

2. Try to calm the patient with the experience and knowledge we have so that he
or she no longer gets angry or his anger diminishes because of the fact of
knowledge we give and the patient understands the condition.

3. Give explanations as brief and clear as possible in full honesty to be

accountable for your actions.

4. Describe and elaborate details to make it easier for the patient to understand.

2. Write a paragraph giving your opinion on each question. Where possible, give an
example from your own nursing experience.
Project
Research to find out about one of the following.
 A new trestment that being developed for cancer
  An alternative therapy that is used for treating cancer
 A food that is believed to prevent cancer

Answer :

1. Three types of treatment for cancer

Treatment is performed to treat cancer and to ensure normal living conditions. If a

cancer persists, there are remedies that are used to hinder the growth of cancer cells
and prevent the spread of cancer cells to other organs of the body.

Primary treatment, intended to lift or destroy cancer cells in the body. Many medical
treatments are performed on this type, but the majority of cancer cases are treated by
surgery. If the type of cancer that is experienced is sensitive to chemotherapy and
radiation, surgery can be a major choice in treating cancer.

Adjuvan therapy aims to destroy the remaining cancer cells in primary treatment,
thus reducing the possibility of regrowth in cancer cells. It consists of chemotherapy,
radiation, and hormone therapy.

Palliative care, aimed at reducing the side effects of cancer treatment. This type of
treatment consists of operations, radiation, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy.

Of the three types of treatment, the treatment for cancer could be choice.

2. Adjuvan therapy aims to destroy the remaining cancer cells in primary treatment,
thus reducing the possibility of regrowth in cancer cells. It consists of chemotherapy,
radiation, and hormone therapy.

3. A food that is believed to prevent cancer.

1. broccoli

2. garlic

3. turmeric

4. berries

5. Healthy fatty fish

6. tomatoes
7. grapes

8. Green vegetables

9. Green tea