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UNIT 5 JANE ON THE WARD

Do you remember Jane Johnson? She and her friend Joan Chapman are 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 a 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 hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis and pneumonia.
At the moment, she is helping a staff nurse to give injections. The staff nurse is explaining 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.

Rectal thermometer clinical thermometer

A. Answer these questions:

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

2. Where did Joan do her training?

3. When did Joan pass her State Finals?
4. Which ward is Joan working in now?
5. Where did Jane work last month?

6. Which sterile procedures did she learn to
set trolleys for?
7. Where did she go to fetch sterile dressing
packs?

8. Where did she sometimes take patients?
9. Where is Jane working this month?

10. Which patients is Jane learning to nurse?
11. What is she doing at the moment?
12. What is the staff nurse explaining to her? Catheters

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