Video about how to read a medication label
Vocabulary Presentation about Reading Medication Labels
Collaborative exercises on pages 44 and 45.
Thursday, 3 June 2021
4.5.- A district nurse prescription sheet.
Nurse and midwife prescribers video
Collaborative exercises on pages 42 and 43.
Which verbs that have more than two words do you know?
Phrasal verbs in a conversation video
Phrasal verbs with pass
Collaborative online exercise about the Phrasal verbs with pass
https://www.englishgrammar.org/phrasal-verbs-pass-exercise/
Individual online exercise about the phrasal verbs with pass
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
4.4.- Managing embarrasing moments
ER Nurses' stories video
Video about how to manage incontinence in the eldery
Exercises on pages 40 and 41
Relaxing phrases
https://www.englishlessonviaskype.com/13-english-idioms-related-to-relaxation-rest/
Team work: Write a dialogue dealing with an embarrassing situation including the purpose of the visit, the embarrassing situation and how it was dealt.
4.3- Helping a patient with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
ADLs video
Activities of daily living after a stroke video
Video about some for items for helping patients with the ADLs
Exercises on pages 38 and 39
Vocabulary review online exercise 1 about clothes on
Introductory video about phrasal verbs for clothes
Collaborative online exercise about phrasal verbs for clothes on
Individual online exercise about phrasal verbs clothes on
Video concerning talking about daily routines with phrasal verbs
Vocabulary review online exercise 2 about clothes on
Oral practice with vocabulary about phrasal verbs for clothes and clothing items on
Individual vocabulary review exercise about clothes on
3.6.- Using patient information leaflets
How to write an eye-catching leaflet video
Collaborative exercises on page 35.
Monday, 24 May 2021
Monday, 17 May 2021
3.4.- Pain scale
Video about the most painful things a human can experience
Collaborative exercises d, e and f on page 31.
How the pain scale should be explained video
Collaborative exercise b on page 32
Pain sensations: Stabbing, Aching, or Throbbing? How to Describe Your Pain to a Doctor
Different pain sensations result from different injuries
and/or conditions. In some cases, expressing the pain sensation or sensations
you feel plays a key role in diagnosis and treatment.
Do your best to specifically describe the type of pain you
feel. Here are some adjectives you may use when describing discomfort:
Achy: Achy pain occurs continuously in a localized area, but
at mild or moderate levels. You may describe similar sensations as heavy or
sore.
Dull: Like aching pain, dull discomfort occurs at a low
level over a long period of time. Dull pain, however, may intensify when you
put pressure on the affected body part.
Raw: Rawness usually affects the skin. If you have
raw-feeling pain, your skin may seem extremely sore or tender. Sharp: When you
feel a sudden, intense spike of pain, that qualifies as “sharp.”
Sharp pain may also fit the descriptors cutting and
shooting.
Stabbing: Like sharp pain, stabbing pain occurs suddenly and
intensely. However, stabbing pain may fade and reoccur many times. Stabbing
pain is similar to drilling and boring pain.
Throbbing: Throbbing pain consists of recurring achy pains.
You may also experience pounding, beating, or pulsing pain.
If you still feel unclear on an aspect of pain description,
inform your doctor. He or she can ask more targeted questions to better understand
what you’re going through. While pinning down an exact description can
sometimes be difficult, doing so will better arm you and your doctor to treat
the root cause of your pain.
When you experience pain, begin thinking of it in the terms
outlined above. You may also find it helpful to keep a record of when you feel
pain, the sensations your pain consists of, and the pain’s intensity.
Source: Southwest Florida Neurological & Rehab Associates
(2018) Stabbing, Aching, or Throbbing? How to Describe Your Pain to a Doctor on
https://swfna.com/stabbing-aching-or-throbbing-how-to-describe-your-pain-to-a-doctor/
(Searched on the 2nd of April 2022 at 9:25am)
Stabbing or burning pain video
Collaborative exercises c,d, and e on page 33
Saturday, 1 May 2021
3.3.- Focus on pain relief.
Brainstorming about what terminally ill patients can suffer
How do pain relievers work? video
Best 5 treatments for chronic pain video
Collaborative exercises on page 30
How a treatment for a terminally ill patients can be complemented?
Complementary alternative medicine video
Collaborative activities d, e and f. on page 31.
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
3.2.- Talking to terminally ill patients and the modal verbs 'can', 'may', 'must' and 'have to'
Talking to terminally ill patients and modal verbs of probability, possibility, speculation and deduction.
How to talk about hope with terminally ill patients video
Exercises on page 28
Exercises on page 29
Write in teams at least five actions a nurse must do when talking to terminally ill patients and other five about what a nurse mustn't.
|
What a nurse must
do when talking to terminally ill patients |
What a nurse mustn’t do when talking to terminally ill patients |
|
A nurse must use simple language. |
A nurse mustn’t
use medical jargon. |
Modal verbs
can, could, may, might, must and have to to talk about abilities, speculations,
deductions and obligations; ask for permission, and make requests
|
Modal
Verb |
Function
or use |
Example |
|
Can |
Present
abilities |
I can
speak English. |
|
Present
permission |
Can I
go to the loo? |
|
|
Present
possibility or speculation |
My
mother can get back home at any time. |
|
|
Could
Its
negative couldn’t is used for the opposite sense in the possible cases. |
Past
ability |
I could
rollerskate when I was 12. |
|
Past Permission |
They
could spend what it was allowed according to their budget. |
|
|
Present
or past possibility |
They could
go to the cinema. |
|
|
Present
request |
Could you
bring me a cup of tea? |
|
|
May |
Present
permission |
May I
come in? |
|
Present
possibility or speculation |
It may
rain today because of the gray clouds. |
|
|
Might |
Present
possibility or speculation |
It might
rain today. |
|
Must |
Present
probability or deduction. |
Studying
nursing must be tough |
|
Present
weak or imposed obligation by the speaker |
You
must attend all your English lessons. |
|
|
Can’t |
Present
strong restriction |
You can’t
smoke at school. |
|
Present
negative probability or strong deduction. |
It can’t
be real what is shown in the Mexican soap operas. |
|
|
Mustn’t |
Present
weak restriction |
You
mustn’t use your mobile when the teacher is explaining. |
|
Present
negative probability or weak deduction. |
Susan mustn’t
be at home because it’s her work time. |
|
|
Have to |
Present
strong or non-imposed obligation by the speaker. |
You
have to attend at least the 80% of the period lessons. |
Probability and deduction: They
mean we are sure or certain about something.
Possibility and speculation: They mean we are unsure or uncertain about something.
Collaborative online exercise about the use of the modal verbs can, could, may, and might
Individual online exercise about the use of the modal verbs can, could, may, and might
https://www.tolearnenglish.com/cgi2/myexam/voir2r.php?id=45638
Write in teams at least 8 guidelines using the modal verbs when talking to a terminally ill patient who has... before going to a treatment or therapy. Don't forget to include the disease and the treatment or therapy.
1.- advanced cancer
2.- Alzheimer's
3.- an advanced heart disease
4.- Parkinson
5.- a pulmonary or lung disease
6.- HIV or AIDS
7.- renal insufficiency
8.- a major organ failure
3.1.- Caring for terminallhy ill patients
Hospital vs Hospice
What do you think that
is the difference between hospital and hospice?
What is hospice care
video
In accordance with the BMJ (British Medical Journal), traditional
medicine distinguishes between sickness that is curable and sickness that is
incurable. A curable sickness is treated in a hospital with curative care;
while an incurable sickness is treated in a hospice with palliative care. For
example, a curable sickness, such as pneumonia, is treated in a hospital with
antibiotics, fluids, and bed rest; while an incurable sickness, such as
metastatic cancer, is treated in a hospice with pain medicine and
tranquilizers, but no anti-cancer drugs. Curative care is designed to fight
sickness, while palliative care is designed to make patients more comfortable.
This distinction between curative care and palliative care is somewhat
misleading, because both rely on pharmaceuticals, and both ignore the
relationship between diet and health. Regardless of whether a sickness is
curable or incurable, physicians must promote health and not simply treat
symptoms with pharmaceuticals.
Exercises on page 26.
Medical vocabulary video
Difference among Illness, disease or sickness.
Illness
The terms illness and sickness are
both generally used as synonyms for disease; however, the
term illness is occasionally used to refer specifically to the
patient's personal experience of his or her disease. In this model, it is
possible for a person to have a disease without being ill (to have an
objectively definable, but asymptomatic, medical condition, such as a
subclinical infection, or to have a clinically apparent physical impairment but
not feel sick or distressed by it), and to be ill without
being diseased (such as when a person perceives a normal
experience as a medical condition, or medicalizes a non-disease situation in
his or her life – for example, a person who feels unwell as a result of
embarrassment, and who interprets those feelings as sickness rather than normal
emotions). Symptoms of illness are often not directly the result of infection,
but a collection of evolved responses – sickness behaviour by the body – that
helps clear infection and promote recovery. Such aspects of illness can include
lethargy, depression, loss of appetite, sleepiness, hyperalgesia, and inability
to concentrate.
1. Source: Kelley KW, Bluthe RM, Dantzer R, Zhou JH,
Shen WH, Johnson RW, Broussard SR (2003). "Cytokine-induced sickness
behavior". Brain Behav Immun. 17 (Suppl
1): S112–18. doi:10.1016/S0889-1591(02)00077-6. PMID 12615196. S2CID 25400611.
Disease
The term disease broadly refers to any
condition that impairs the normal functioning of the body. For this reason,
diseases are associated with the dysfunction of the body's normal homeostatic
processes. Commonly, the term is used to refer specifically to infectious
diseases, which are clinically evident diseases that result from the presence
of pathogenic microbial agents, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa,
multicellular organisms, and aberrant proteins known as prions. An infection or
colonization that does not and will not produce clinically evident impairment
of normal functioning, such as the presence of the normal bacteria and yeasts
in the gut, or of a passenger virus is not considered a disease. By
contrast, an infection that is asymptomatic during its incubation period, but
expected to produce symptoms later, is usually considered a disease. Non
infectious diseases are all other diseases, including most forms of cancer,
heart disease, and genetic disease
1.- Acquired disease.-
It is one that began
at some point during one's lifetime, as opposed to disease that was already
present at birth, which is congenital disease. Acquired sounds like
it could mean "caught via contagion", but it simply means acquired
sometime after birth. It also sounds like it could imply secondary disease, but
acquired disease can be primary disease.
2.- Acute disease.- It
is one of a short-term
nature; the term sometimes also connotes a fulminant nature
3.-
Chronic condition or chronic disease.- It is one that persists over time, often
characterized as at least six months but may also include illnesses that are
expected to last for the entirety of one's natural life.
4.-
Congenital disorder or congenital disease.- It is one that is present at birth. It is often a genetic disease or disorder and can be inherited. It can also be the result of a vertically
transmitted infection from the mother, such as HIV/AIDS.
5.- Genetic disease.- It
is caused by one or more genetic mutations. It is often inherited,
but some mutations are random and de novo.
6.-
Hereditary or inherited disease.- It is a type of genetic disease caused by
genetic mutations that are hereditary (and can run in families)
7.-
Iatrogenic disease.-
It is one that is caused by medical intervention, whether as a side effect of a
treatment or as an inadvertent outcome.
8.-
Idiopathic disease.- It has
an unknown cause or source. As medical science has advanced, many diseases with
entirely unknown causes have had some aspects of their sources explained and
therefore shed their idiopathic status. For example, when germs were
discovered, it became known that they were a cause of infection, but particular
germs and diseases had not been linked.
9.-
Incurable disease.- A
disease that cannot be cured. Incurable diseases are not necessarily terminal
illnesses, and sometimes a disease's symptoms can be treated sufficiently for
the disease to have little or no impact on quality of life.
10.-
Primary disease.- It
is a disease that is due to a root cause of illness, as
opposed to secondary disease, which is a sequela, or complication that is caused by the
primary disease. For example, a common cold is a primary disease,
where rhinitis is a possible secondary disease,
or sequela. A doctor must determine what primary disease,
a cold or bacterial infection, is causing a patient's secondary rhinitis when deciding whether or not to
prescribe antibiotics.
11.-
Secondary disease.- It
is a disease that is a sequela or complication of a prior, causal disease,
which is referred to as the primary disease or simply the underlying cause (root cause). For example, a bacterial infection can be
primary, wherein a healthy person is exposed to a bacteria and becomes
infected, or it can be secondary to a primary cause, that predisposes the body
to infection.
12.-
Terminal disease.- A
terminal disease is one that is expected to have the inevitable result of
death. Previously, AIDS was a terminal disease; it is now incurable, but can be
managed indefinitely using medications.
Source: "Mental Illness –
Glossary". US National Institute of Mental Health. Archived from the original on 28 May 2010. Retrieved 18 April 2010.
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What is a terminal illness? video
Chronic disease video
Some symptoms of some illnesses
Page 27
36 smart and intelligent responses to “How are you?” video
Page 27
Present Simple vs Present Continuous or Progressive
Individual online exercise about present simple vs present continuous or progressive
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