ENGLISH FOR

PROFESSIONAL NURSE
NURSE’S DUTY
IN WARD
NURSE’S DUTY
• Phrases that express nursing duties or intervention
– Checking vital signs
• To check/measure
 VITAL SIGNS
 RESPIRATORY
 BLOOD PRESSURE
 PULSE RATE
– Diagnosing
• To diagnose
• observe
– Promoting hygiene (complete bathing-oral, care, hair care, foot and nail care bed
making)
• To assist/ help bathing
• To clean +(part of the body)
• To make up bed
• To wash +(part of the body)
– Feeding dependent clients
• To help ……..have +(meal time /drinking)
– Assisting with elimination
• To provide bedpan/urinal
• To wash
• To help ……….do bowel movement
– Patient assessment.
–To check +(part of the body)
–To press +(part of the body)
–To see +(part of the body)
–To observe the condition of + (part of the body)
–To asses…….
–To knock (with hammer)
– Caring patient
•To care
– Client teaching (crutch walking, walking with walker, cane
walking)

–To listen to my instructions

–To move
• right/left ahead/forward
• Both crutch ahead/toward
• Both crutches/legs ahead
• Ahead the walker
–
– Lifting moving and positioning patient
• To lift some one
• To roll yourself
• Your face downwards
• To stay sideway
– Nursing documentation
• To write the report
• To make a progress report
– Transferring the patient to wheelchair
• To move the patient to a wheelchair
– Ambulating the patient and breaking a fall
• To assist patient to walk to go around with (crutches, cane,
walker)
– Giving injection
• To give injection
• To inject….
– Appling infusion
• To give injection
Question for a collaborative

• What intervention…………………….
 Will we do for ……..(patient’s name)? (future action)
 Have you done for ….. (patient’s name)? (past
participle)
 Did you do for …. (patient’s name)? (past)
 Do I have to take for….. (patient’s name) or
 Have you + (verb III related to the nursing
intervention…..)?
 Did you + (verb I related to the nursing
intervention…..)?
 Do you +(verb III related to the nursing
intervention…..)?
the formula

• Will we do for (name) vI

• Have you + vIII related to the nursing
care?
• Did you + verb I related to the nursing
intervension ?
• Do you + verb I related to the nursing ?
response

• We will give him intravenous injection

• I have given
• I gave
• You should give
• I have to give
Group work
PATIENT CARE PLAN Action to be taken
• monitoring blood sugar levels, give
Patient’s name
insulin injection.
Peter Catchart
• Dietician to discuss died
Reason for admission • Patient to be shown how to self
monitoring blood glucose (SMBG)
Excessive ketona production leading to
suspected ketoacidosis. This is potentially • Demonstrate to patient how to read
life threatening condition SMBG
• Link SMBG to diet
Symptoms : • Emphasize sugar levels importance of
monitoring blood sugar levels every
Abdominal pain, vomiting, rapid, breathing,
morning and keeping record of result to
extreme tiredness, drowsiness
take GP
Translate into good English
• Saya sudah memeriksa kondisi Mr.Johnson
• Apakah anda sudah menulis documentasi keperawatan untuk Mr.
chart
• Kita mau memindahkan Mrs Chart ke tempat tidur secara bersama-
sama.
• Saya menemani Mrs.Ryan pergi keliling dengan kursi roda, tadi pagi
• Saya sudah mengecek tekanan darah Mr.Peter
Exercise

1. .......have to check.....every day

2. .........Assist.......bathing .....at 7.00 this
morning
3. ........Clean ........after elimination
4. ........Have .......apply infusion...to Mr......
5. ........Have .........move
casualty.....stretcher
Home work

•Describe your daily activity as nurse

•Describe the case you have ever assessed
•Write your nursing care plan
•Report to your class orally
•Example
When I start a new shift, I listen the nursing
report from the previous shift. The report is
about the patient’s condition and nursing
interventions that has done for each patient. I
observed a case of (Mr. Mrs. Ms) then
……….(continue with your own sentences)