ENGLISH FOR NURSE I

Hospital Personnel, Wards & Departments in Hospital

Hospital Personnel
Doctor Nurse Midwife Dentist Surgeon Dietician Health inspector Speech therapist Laboratory technician

Physiotherapist Technical assistant Podiatrist (US) = chiropodist (GB) Occupational therapist Anesthetist Radiographer Pharmacist

JOB TITLES
Job titles are nouns & are formed by adding endings (suffixes) such as ian, -ist, -er, -r, -or, -ant. How many different job titles can you think of? Who work indoors and who works outdoors?

Wards and Departments in a hospital

Department or Unit
accident & emergency intensive care operating theatre radiology or X-ray laboratory outpatients kitchen pharmacy technical services blood bank administration central sterilization department

Ward
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children/kid neurology neurosurgery urology gynecology obstetric/labor surgery/surgical medicine/medical neonatal nursery thoracic geriatric cardiology dermatology psychiatric orthopedic

The names of the wards are the same as listed on the previous page but when used as adjective, the suffix sometimes changes:
-al surgerysugical ward -ac cardiolologycardiac ward -ary pulmonologypulmonary ward Other adjective endings ous, -ic, -id, ose, -ical

Grammar focus: Prepositions

Ex: - The childrens ward is next to the orthopedic ward, on the same floor. - My friend works in the Operating Theatre. Other prepositions: at, with, for, about, under, behind, above, etc.

EXERCISE
Use the vocabulary that you get today in Hospital Personnel, Wards & Departments in Hospital to make paragraphs! Use prepositions to complete your paragraphs!