UNIT XII

PATIENT DISCHARGE

Evaluating levels of independence

Vocabulary

Look at the pictures of mobility aids below. Label them with the words in the box!

Crutches leg brace walking frame walking stick wheelchair bath lift grab
bar non-slip mat raised toilet seat shower chair

Match the descriptions below to the mobility aids above!

1. It stops patient slipping in the bath or shower

2. It lets the patient slide onto the toilet from chair
3. It lowers the patient into the bath
4. It allows the patient to take shower sitting down
5. It gives the patient something to hold on to / pull themselves up by / steady
themselves with

6.
Speaking

Work in pairs. Take turns to be the patient and the nurse and to give advice about mobility
aids in the situations below.

1. My wife has problem getting in and out of the bath

2. I don’t need the wheelchair anymore, but my legs are still very stiff
3. I am very independent but I am very nervous about taking a bath by myself. I am
very worried I could slip
4. We have only got a shower at home, but I am too weak to stand for long time
5. My husband is so heavy. How could I help him get to the toilet from his wheelchair?
6. We can do everything else. But I just don’t know how we are going to get him into
the bath

A PATIENT DISCHARGE PLAN

Reading

Read the patient information about the patient discharge. And match the missing titles with
phrase below

a. Special equipment c. family support e. problem to watch out

for
b. Follow-up appointment d. taking medication

Match the definitions below with one of the highlighted words in the text!
 1. Medication you can buy without a prescription…
2. Medication your doctor gives you…
3. Vitamin or iron tablet, for example…
4. Problem caused by medication…
5. To inject medication or drug …
6. A group of people who have the same problems and provide help each other …
7. A person who helps people feel better / grow stronger particularly after an illness….
8. Doctor or nurse, for example…

EXPLAINING MEDICATION

Vocabulary

Label the different types of medication. Use the words in the box.

Bottle of tablets capsules cough syrup eye drop and a dropper

tube of ointment nasal spray

Reading
Read the directions for three over-the-counter medications. Find the phrases that mean the
following

1. Don’t take medication more than four times in twenty-four hours

2. It can make you feel sleepy. Don’t drive when you are taking this medicine
3. Swallow whole
4. Take this medicine when you need it according to how bad you feel
5. Only take this medicine by mouth

Writing

Write simple instructions for the appropriate medications for the people below!

1. A 44-year-old man with bad diarrhea

2. The father of an eight-year-girl with a cold
3. A fifty-year-old taxi driver with flu symptoms and a bad cough
4. A 30-year-old woman with a cold
5. An 11-year-old with diarrhea
 Mini TOEFL test 3

Find the incorrect underlined words or phrases from the sentences below !

1. Margaret Mead studied many different cultures and she was one
of the first anthropologists to photograph hers subjects.

2. Talc, a soft mineral with a variety of uses, sold is in slabs or in powdered form.

3. During the 1870’ s iron workers in Alabama proved they could produce
iron by burning iron ore with coke, instead than with charcoal.

4. Geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory rely on a number of

instruments to studying the volcanoes in Hawaii.

5. Underlying aerodynamics and all other branches of theoretical mechanics

are the laws of motion who were developed in the seventeenth century.

6. Was opened in 1918, the Philips Collection in Washington, D.C., was the
first museum in the United States devoted to modern art.

7. A mortgage enables a person to buy property without paying for it

outright; thus more people are able to enjoy to own a house.

8. Alike ethnographers, ethno historians make systemic observations, but

they also gather data from documentary and oral sources.

9. Basal body temperature refers to the most lowest temperature of a

healthy individual during waking hours.

10. Research in the United States on acupuncture has focused on it use in

pain relief and anesthesia.
11. The Moon’ s gravitational field cannot keep atmospheric gases from escape
into space.

12. Although the pecan tree is chiefly value for its fruit, its wood is used
extensively for flooring, furniture, boxes, and crates.

13. Born in Texas in 1890, Katherine Anne Porter produced three collection
of short stories before publishing her well-known novel Ship of Fools in
1962.

14. Insulation from cold, protect against dust and sand, and camouflage
are among the functions of hair for animals.

15. The notion that students are not sufficiently involved in their education is
one reason for the recently surge of support for undergraduate research.

16. As secretary of transportation from 1975 to 1977, William Coleman

worked to help the bankrupt railroads in the northeastern United States
solved their financial problems.

17. Faults in the Earth’ s crust are most evidently in sedimentary

formations, where they interrupt previously continuous layers.

18. Many flowering plants benefit of pollination by adult butterflies and moths.

19. A number of the American Indian languages spoken at the time of the
European arrival in the New World in the late fifteen century have
become extinct.
20. George Gershwin was an American composer whose concert works joined
the sounds of jazz with them of traditional orchestration.

21. One of the problems of United States agriculture that has persisted during
the 1920’ s until the present day is the tendency of farm income to lag behind
the costs of production.

22. Volcanism occurs on Earth in several geological setting, most of which are
associated with the boundaries of the enormous, rigid plates that make up the
lithosphere.

23. Early European settlers in North America used medicines they made from
plants native to treat colds, pneumonia, and ague, an illness similar to malaria.

24. Some insects bear a remarkable resemblance to dead twigs, being long,
slenderness, wingless, and brownish in color.

25. A food additive is any chemical that food manufacturers intentional

add to their products.