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Jane on the Wards

Do you remember Jane Johnson? She and her friend Joan Chapman arc both nurses. They
work at Saint Peter's Hospital, a large teaching hospital in London. Joan did her training at St.
Peter's and last year she passed her State Finals and qualified. She is an S.R.N. She is now
working as a staff nurse in a men's medical ward.
Jane is a student nurse and is still training. Last month she worked in one of the hospital's
surgical wards. She learned to set trolleys for sterile procedures such as surgical dressings,
intravenous infusion and catheterization. She carried out certain procedures herself and assisted
doctors with others. She often had to go to the central sterile supply department to fetch sterile
dressing packs. Sometimes she took patients to the x-ray department or to the occupational
therapy unit.
This month Jane is working in the same ward as Joan. She is learning to nurse patients
suffering from diseases such as cardiac infarction, cerebral haemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis and
pneumonia. At the moment, she is helping a staff nurse to give injections. The staff nurse is ex -
plaining to her the doses, action and side effects of the drugs they are administering.
The other nurses in the ward are carrying out various nursing duties. Some are doing bed-
baths, one is helping a patient to get out of bed, and another is taking t.p.rs. A doctor is doing a
ward round and a physiotherapist is helping a pneumonia-patient to do deep-breathing exercises.
Answer these questions:

1. What sort of hospital is St. Peter's?

2. When did Joan pass her State Finals?

3. Which ward is Joan working in now?

4. Where did Jane work last month?

5. Which sterile procedures did she learn to set trolleys for?

6. Where did she sometimes take patients?

7. Where is Jane working this month?

8. What is she doing at the moment?

9. What is the staff nurse explaining to her?

10. What are the other nurses in the ward doing?


1. What sort of hospital is St. Peter's?

2. Where did Joan do her training?

3. Which ward is Joan working in now?

4. Which sterile procedures did Jane learn to set trolleys for?

5 Where did she sometimes take patients?

6. Which patients is Jane learning to nurse?

7. What is the doctor doing?

8. What are the other nurses in the ward doing?

9. What is one nurse taking?

10. What is the physiotherapist doing?

11 What is she doing at the moment?

12 What is the staff nurse explaining to her?

13 What are the other nurses in the ward doing?

14 What is the doctor doing?

15 What is one nurse taking?

16 What is the physiotherapist doing?

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