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Nursing and healthcare
Ward-Ready English
20 lessons · CEFR B1 · nurses and healthcare assistants
Four modules follow a patient from admission to discharge.
Who this is for
You work on a ward, in a clinic or in a care home, or you are training to. Staff nurses, healthcare assistants, nursing students.
It is also for nurses preparing to work abroad, where the language of the handover matters as much as the clinical skill behind it.
What you will be able to do
- Introduce yourself and admit a patient onto the ward
- Take and talk about blood pressure, temperature and respiration
- Ask about pain and use a pain scale with a patient
- Explain a procedure before you carry it out
- Talk a patient through a medication and its side effects
- Describe a wound infection accurately to a colleague
- Discharge a patient and explain what happens next
The four modules
Meeting your patient
Assessing and investigating
Treatment and medication
Safety, wounds and discharge
How long it takes
About twenty minutes a lesson. Most learners finish in five to seven weeks doing three or four lessons a week.
Ward-Ready English teaches language, not clinical practice. Always follow the procedures of the place where you work.
Other courses
Working front of house instead? Guest-Ready English covers the same ground for hotel and tourism staff.