Healthcare Professional Articles: Vocabulary, listening, and reading exercises for students to learn and practice English.
The Nurse
Vocabulary:
diagnose
direct care
duties
healthcare professional
maintenance
medical procedures
medication
nurse
progress
response
responsibilities
specialties
supervising
symptoms
treatment
Activities to verify and solidify key vocabulary: matching, crossword
Listen to the Nurse article:
Listen and try to answer the discussion questions or take the quiz. You can also listen and read along with the script below.
Article 1: The Nurse 
Tests for Article 1: multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks
Listen to the audio file for the Nurse and then you may advance to the test questions. Listen as many times as you need to answer the questions. (You can read the full articles below.)
Follow-up: After ompleting the test exercises, try the speaking activity with the conversation questions.
For self study: Verify you understand the key words for the articles. Then try to answer the following conversation questions, speaking out loud.
Conversation Questions:
- What are some different types of nurses?
- Where do nurses work?
- What are the main roles of a registered nurse?
- What are some types of patient education nurses provide?
Reading: read the article and then answer the questions.
The Nurse
Nurses are healthcare professionals with a very wide range of duties, responsibilities, and specialties. Nurses are responsible for the treatment, care and safety of patients. They are also responsible for maintenance of health and education for the patient. Nurses provide direct care and monitor symptoms, response, and progress in patient care.
Three main types of nurses are LPNs, RNs and APNs.
An LPN (licensed practical nurse) usually has less than 2 years of training. They perform simple and some complex medical procedures. They work under other health care professionals to provide patient care.
An RN (registered nurse) has a university degree in nursing and often is responsible for supervising the tasks of LPNs. RNs provide direct care, patient education and make decisions about proper patient care.
An APN (advanced practice nurse) has a masters or doctoral degree. They provide direct care, diagnose disease, prescribe medication, work in research and educate patients and other healthcare professionals. There are many specialties for APNs.
Nurses play a very important part of direct patient care and maintaining health in the community. The art of nursing makes dramatic differences in patient outcomes and disease treatment.
Tests for this article: multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks
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