Vocational English Teacher’s

Book

English for
Nursing 2
Pearson
Unit 6
Patient hygiene
Personal care
ADLs – activities of daily living
This unit focuses on developing language and
skills related to caring for the patient’s Empathy
basic personal hygiene needs as well as wound
care management. It also seeks to further
improve effective communication skills, Wound management
particularly the demonstration of empathy in
situations that patients might find
embarrassing or frustrating.

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Patient hygiene

Personal hygiene involves far more than just the

physical act of cleaning the patient to reduce potential
infection; indeed it is more about caring for the overall
well-being of the patient. It is therefore essential that
nurses help provide a conducive environment as well
as the necessary assistance required for their patients

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to carry out these basic tasks as independently as
possible.
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Patient hygiene

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 LANGUAGE

Be going to + infinitive for

future
I'm going to explain the
Use be going to + infinitive to
procedure to you first.
talk about your intentions and I'm going to look for a new
events that are a planned or place to live next month.
schedule

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ADLs – activities of daily living

ADLs or activities of daily living consist of

routine everyday activities people carry out

ADLs – without assistance – bathing, dressing, oral

hygiene and toileting (walking/eating are not
activities of covered in this unit). Nurses refer to the ability
or inability to perform basic ADLs as a
daily living measurement of the functional status of a patient.

Activities of daily living

(ADLs or ADL) is a term used
in healthcare to refer to
people's daily self-care
activities.

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 Use of the -ing form after certain verbs
love/hate/finish and
Language following prepositions with/without:
ing form
He hates using the commode.
Do you need help with putting on your tights?

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ADL activities

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 Empathy is the ability to perceive and understand

Empathy another person’s emotions, a key aspect of nurse-

patient communication. However, it is not one that is
Patients can find loss of easy to replicate, as emotions can be hidden or
independence frustrating, displayed through behavior that contradicts how a
embarrassing, even person actually feels. A patient complaint about the

humiliating and depressing. mistreatment of a geriatric patient suffering from early

dementia provides the context to this section.

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Vocabulary

The unit then looks at how patients use

adjective endings -ing or -ed to inform the nurse
about how they themselves feel (depressed) or
what they think about the situation
(humiliating).

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Wound
management
Wound management refers to assessing,
treating, and dressing a wound. This final
section seeks to develop key language items –
saline solution, absorbent dressing, tape and
disposable gloves – before working on skills for
changing a dressing. The Wound Assessment
and Treatment

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Wound
management

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Wound
management

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Wound
management

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wound
assessments
and treatment
chart.

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Preparing for the
next unit
In preparation for Unit 7, suggest
the following to your students:

•Think about how you feel talking about problems

of elimination/bodily functions with
others/medical professionals.

• Do some (online) research into the treatment of

problems related to patient elimination, e.g.

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constipation.