Units 7 -8
Medicine
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Cartes-fiches
a nurse who is still in training
student nurse
a nurse who has completed the training course
staff nurse
a more experienced nurse who is in charge of, or responsible for, a ward or department.
charge nurse
a nurse who is in charge of several wards.
nurse manager
the old term sister is still sometimes used for a female charge nurse.
A female nurse manager may be called ...
matron.
Pflegehilfskräfte:
assist nursing staff
clinical support worker: has done a short course and obtained baisc qualifications.
nursing auxiliary: unqualified
auxiliary
der Helfer
to obtain
etw. erhalten / gewinnen / erlangen
...: they are making sure patients' notes and information are up to date and are answering the telephone
ward clerks
A ... has specialized from the beginning by doing a course in midwifery, the management of pregnancy and childbirth.
A midwife
Geburtshelfer / Hebamme
... visit patients in their homes
district nurse
... also work in the community, giving advide on the promotion of health and prevention of illness.
Health visitors.
duties of nuses
general patient care, checking temperatures, puls rates and blood pressure, changing dressings (Verband), giving injections, removing sutures (Wundnähte). Now nurses do some of the things presviously reserved for doctors, such as prescribing drugs, ordering laboratory tests.
carry out
Stellenübertrag
surgery
die Operation
in effort
im Bestreben ...
Operationssaal
operating theatre
Five nurses in Scotland are now qualified to carry out such procedures as
the removal of small lesions, benign moles and cysts.
Muttermal / Zyste
mole / cyst
perform / carry out
are used with all types of procedures. Often used in the passive form.
perform / carry out:
an examination, an operation, a procedure, an experiment, a test, a biopsy.
The procedure was performed / carried out by a nurse.
procedure
Massnahme / Verfahren / Prozedur / Vorgang / Methode
to perform
ausüben / durchführen
to deliver
entbinden / anliefern
to suspect
befürchten / vermuten / verdächtigen
to intend
vorhaben / beabsichtigen / wollen / planen / etw. vorhaben.
allied
verbündete / artverwandte
andere Gesundheitsberufe als Ärzte und PP
allied health professionals
Physiotherapeuten
physiotherapists (physios)
Ergotherapeut
Occupational therapists (OTs)
Sozialarbeiter
Social worker
dürftige Unterkunft
poor housing
Fusspfleger
chiropodists or podiatrists
Technicians - people who work with scientific equipment
radiographers / X-rax technicians, ambulance technicians.
Paramedic (ambulance technician with more advanced qualifications)
Orthopädiemechaniker
Prosthetist and orthotists.
künstliches Körperteil
artificial limb
Prothese
prosthesis
Orthese
orthosis
künstlicher Ersatz
artificial replacement
Schiene
splint
Klumpfuss
club foot (talipes)
