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ESP bank: Nursing

Ros Wright and Marie McCullagh present a series of practical worksheets for trainee or in-work nurses who wish to improve their English. Part 1, Pain assessment, is free for all users.

Nursing

Each topic is available at intermediate and advanced levels and features:

  • a reading comprehension worksheet based on extracts from Foundations of Nursing Practice*
  • a listening comprehension worksheet and podcast

 

The first six parts of this series will cover the following topics:

  • Pain assessment
  • Taking a patient's medication history
  • Managing a patient's dietary needs
  • Wound management
  • Vital signs and monitoring
  • Moving and handling

* All reading extracts taken from Foundations of Nursing Practice (3rd Edition), edited by Richard Hogston and Barbara A. Marjoram: Palgrave Macmillan (2008). Reproduced with kind permission of Palgrave Macmillan.

In this subsection

  • Nursing English Part 1: Pain assessment

    Part one of a new series of English-language worksheets for nurses. In this set of reading and listening activities, students learn how to elicit the type and degree of pain experienced by their patients.

  • Nursing English Part 2: Taking a patient’s medication history

    The Staff Room

    Part two of a new series of English-language worksheets for nurses. In this set of reading and listening activities, students learn how to develop a medication history for a patient.

  • Nursing English Part 3: Managing a patient’s dietary needs

    The Staff Room

    Part three of a new series of English-language worksheets for nurses. In this set of reading and listening activities, students learn how to apply the essentials of nutrition and hydration in evaluating the dietary needs of a patient.

  • Nursing English Part 4: Wound management

    The Staff Room

    Part four of a new series of English-language worksheets for nurses. In this set of reading and listening activities, students learn how to apply the essentials of wound management.

  • Nursing English Part 5: Vital signs and monitoring

    The Staff Room

    Part five of a new series of English-language worksheets for nurses. In this set of reading and listening activities, students learn about monitoring the body’s most basic functions.

  • Nursing English Part 6: Moving and handling

    The Staff Room

    Part six of a new series of English-language worksheets for nurses. In this set of reading and listening activities, students learn about safe and appropriate moving and handling strategies.