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English Language in Nursing
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:26.02.2020 12:53:43
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | LF_193 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Nursing Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Dagnija Deimante | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | RSU Liepāja Branch | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Liepāja, Riņķu iela 24/26, lf rsu[pnkts]lv, lfrsu[pnkts]lv, +371 63442118, +371 63442119, +371 63484632 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 16 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 32 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Knowledge of the English language within the scope of the secondary school programme. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To improve the English language skills for academic and professional purposes and to promote the acquisition and professional use of medical terminology. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The course "English for Nursing" overview. The Code of professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midvives in the UK. Reading strategies: scanning and skimming; headings and sub-headings; diagrams, pictures and captions. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Academic English. Presentations: structure, signposting language, audio-visual aids. Group presentations. | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Hospitals. Types and specialisation of hospitals. Hospital departments/units and staff. A short (one sentence profile) profile of the occupation. The use of the Present Simple and Present Continuous Tenses. Profile of a healthcare student. | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Teamwork in a hospital. The nursing profession: training, qualifications, grades and working hours. Job interviews. Project Work: to search the Internet and find a job advertisement for a nurse; to report the findings in the class: required education and qualification, general and professional skills, job responsibilities and the salary. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Equipment and instruments in the hospital. One sentence description of each instrument. Hospital ward, prepositions of place and movement. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Hospital admissions. Patients' complaints. Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect. A medical case history. Filling in forms. Direct and indirect questions. Summary about a patient using information from the patient record. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | General practitioner. GP's surgery. Appointments. Taking/cancelling/changing appointments by telephone/email. GP's referral to the hospital. Hospital rules for patients. Modal verbs for suggestions and instructions. Medical signs and symptoms of diseases. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Students prepare presentations on professional issues; they do project work searching for information on Internet and presenting the findings to the class; prepare a glossary of professional terminology; carry out written assignments (a profile, an e-mail, instructions, reports, etc.); prepare a glossary of professional terminology and acquire the professional terminology. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | 1) Active participation in classes; all assignments prepared appropriately and in a timely manner; short vocabulary tests and presentations made in accordance with the topics covered during the course – 30%. 2) A spoken part of the end-of-course examination: a presentation – 35%. 3) A written part of the end-of-course examination: a test on the use and comprehension of medical terminology (gap filling exercises; definition and terminology matching exercises), a text related to medicine and comprehension tasks – 35%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Oral) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On successful completion of the course the students will be able to: • recognise and explain in English or translate into Latvian professional terminology; • read specialist texts, answer questions related to the texts and/or give a brief summary. | ||||||||
| Skills: | On successful completion of the course the students will be able to: • use the relevant medical terminology when speaking about professional issues; • prepare and give presentations on professional issues covered during the course; • speak about various issues related to patient care using professional terminology; • obtain the necessary information from the patient/client concerning their health. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | The students will be able to use English efficiently when speaking about professional issues with other health professionals and patients; they will be able to make presentations on the issues related to their professional sphere; they will be able to work as a team with other colleagues using English as their communication tool. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Tony Grice. Oxford English for Careers: Nursing 1; Nursing 2, Oxford University Press, 2013 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Cambridge Professional English: English for Nursing Pre-Intermediate, by Virginia Allum and Patricia McGarr, Cambridge University Press, 2011, | ||||||||
| 2 | English for Nursing Intermediate+, by Virginia Allum and Patricia McGarr, Cambridge University Press, 2008. | ||||||||
| 3 | Oxford Minidictionary for Nurses, 6th edition, 2008 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.medicinenet.com/ | ||||||||
| 2 | www.naturalnews.com/medicine.html | ||||||||
