LESSON 2

LESSON 2

Helping Patients Adjust to the Healthcare Facility

A.    READ THE TEXT BELOW

Helping Patients Adjust to the Healthcare Facility

Every patient admitted to a healthcare facility is nervous, even if it is not a first admission.  There are some factor why the patient is nervous: The strange surroundings, the busy nursing staff, the sight of other patients may add to the patient's feelings of helplessness and If this is a first admission, the patient will not know what to expect.
There are three criterias of admission to a healthcare facility:
1.temporary - patients are hospitalized for surgery or treatment of an acute illness
2.permanent - patients are no longer able to take care of themselves.
3.Whether temporary or permanent, admission to a healthcare facility causes many changes in their    lifestyle.
a.Confusion and disorientation often occur when patients are first admitted because they have left friends, family, and everything familiar behind.
b.They may feel they no longer have control over their lives.
c.They may be physically powerless and almost completely dependent on strangers for everyday care.

Taken from Admission_Transfer_and_Discharge.pdf

Word List
•    Adjust            : to become more familiar with a new situation
•    Admitted        : to allow someone to enter a hospital because they need medical care
•    Admission        : when someone is given permission to enter a place
•    Surroundings        : the place where someone lives and the conditions they live in
•    Temporary        : not lasting or needed for very long
•    Hospitalized        : to take someone to hospital and keep them there for treatment
•    Surgery            : the treatment of injuries or diseases in people or animals by cutting open the body and removing or repairing the damaged part
•    Treatment        : to cure a person of an illness or injury
•    Acute            : quick to become severe/bad
•    Permanent        : lasting for a long time or forever
•    Confusion        :  when people do not understand what is happening

Taken from Cambridge Advance Learner’s Dictionary

B.    EXERCISES

     EXERCISE 1

Answer these questions based on the text!

1.    What are the factors that make patient nervous ?
2.    How many criterias of admission to a healthcare facility ?
3.    What are the changes that is caused by the admission to a healthcare facility ?
4.    Why does the Confusion and disorientation occur ?
5.    How would you help a patient, who is being hospitalized for the first time, feel comfortable
and at ease?



     EXERCISE 2

Fill the gaps in the sentences using these words from the text.






Admitted      admission     Hospitalized        Surgery         Acute   
Treatment    Temporary    Confusion           Adjust            Permanent

   
1.    The hospital will only provide a ____________ hospitalized to the patient.
2.    To avoid ___________, nurse try to make the patient feel comfortable.
3.    She was ____________ to hospital suffering from shock.
4.    There are various __________for this disease.
5.    He made a good recovery after_________ to remove a brain tumour.
6.    The patient can’t ___________ to live in the hospital.
7.    Half of all hospital ___________ are emergencies, and these are treated straightaway.
8.    An ________ attack his appendic.
9.    An acute disease can cause _________ damage to the brain.
10.    His wife has been _________ for depression.