WRITTEN TEST PAPER

I. Read the dialogue and do the tasks below the dialogue

Presenter: Today we will talk about different professions in health care and we are joined by Mary
Jones, a staff nurse from Birmingham Hospital. Hello Mary.
Mary: Hello, thank you for having me on the program.
P: Now to get us started, could you tell our listeners a little bit about types of medication.
M: Well, it is a substance administered by mouth, applied to the body, but often medication is through
an intravenous drip, so I have to place the needle in the patients arm and make sure that the drip is
flowing properly.
P: I see. So which duty do you enjoy most?
M: Actually, it may sound strange but I think I like to educate patients more than anything else. We get a
lot of patients who end up in hospital as a result of poor lifestyle, so as well as treating them my personal
challenge is to show them how to avoid a return trip.
P: Are there any other important characteristics that a potential nurse should have?
M: Yes, as we spend a lot of time around patients who are going through a hard time - a good bedside
manner is essential. You must remember that these are people with feelings. You also need to be decisive
as you often have very little time to choose the correct response to a patient's situation.
P: It sounds very difficult.
M: It is, and actually that is something that does annoy me - a lot of people just don't realize how hard it
is to be a nurse and in fact doctors sometimes look down on us.
P: Well, I for one appreciate the work done by nursing professionals. The last time I was in hospital I was
fortunate enough to have a very good nurse, and it really did make the whole experience much less
frightening. Thank you for telling us about your job.
2. Find in the dialogue the synonyms for the words given below:
5p.
Treatment_________cure_____________________ Behaviour____ manner ________
To take__________to get____________________ Physician___medic______
Enteral___________intravenous___________________
3. Find in the dialogue the antonyms for the words given below:
5p.
Incorrect_____ correct ____________ Wrong____ correct
_________________
Depreciate____ appreciate ________________ Delight___ sadness ___
Easily____________hard______________
4. In your own words, explain the meaning of the following words.
10p.
Hospital- Place where medical and surgical care is provided for sick and injured persons.
Doctor- Person trained and licensed to practice medicine, one who treats the entire body.
Diagnosis- doctor's identification of a disease or ailment after careful examination and analysis.

Recovery- is the process when the patients return to normal health after illness. __
Nurse-Person trained to care for the sick, infirm, or injured, often under the direction of a doctor.
5. Continue the following idea The aim of medicine
is____________________________________________________________________________
The purpose of medicine is simply to monitor health, defined as "the proper functioning of the
body as a whole." Medicine means the art of healing, you have to have a vocation and take it far.
Medicine is the doctor, the nurse and the patient. Everyone fights for integrity and health, which
exemplifies the term medicine. So medicine is an art, perhaps even the most
refined.___________12 p.
6. Answer the following questions 6 p.
1. What is your favorite department/ward in the hospital?
 Why?My favorite ward in the hospital is my pediatric ward, because there are children
there. Pediatrics is a medical specialty that deals with the study and treatment of diseases
encountered in children. The treatment of these diseases is different from that of adults.
Specialists are pediatricians.Every time you smile at someone, you show your love, you
give a gift to that person - and this is a beautiful thing from us and the little patients.__
2. What does a medication include?
 Medication is substance or combination of substances presented as having properties for
treating or preventing disease in human beings. It recognized by an official pharmacopeia
or formulary.
3. Name some methods of disease prevention?

 Screening is a strategy used in a population to identify the possible presence of an

undiagnosed disease in individuals without signs or symptoms.
 Immunization is the process whereby a person is made immune or resistant to an
infectious disease, typically by the administration of a vaccine.
 Vaccination (inoculation) - a special preparation of antigenic material, to stimulate the
formation of appropriate antibodies.
7. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the word or with the correct form of the verb in
brackets. 22 p.

(chronic, chemist, doctor’s, treatment, illnesses, last, may, intervention, long, acute, treated)

Minor illnesses can usually be treatment at home, sometimes with help from the local
doctor (GP – General Practitioner), chemist, family or friends. An chronic disease can be severe,
possibly needing medical intervention but does not treated for a long period of time. A acute
disease, on the other hand, may not be very severe but continues over a long period under a
doctor’s supervision and with ongoing medical and hospital last.

Total points: 60-58-10; 57-55-9; 54-48-8; 47-41-7; 40-32-6; 31-23-5; 22-19-4; 18-15-3; 14-11-
2;
10-0-1