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With the view to harmonize medical input with learners’ language learning needs and improve their language knowledge, skills, or language learning experience, the 20 medical procedures under study have been exploit from linguistic perspective.
Below you can access a collection of vocabulary materials, grammar structures, functions, and cultural elements present in communicative situation to improve students or in-service medical staff’s medical communication and intercultural skills.
Performing urethrovesical catheterization (foley probe) in female patients
Performimg paracentesis
Subcutaneous automatic syringe perfusion
Transferring the patient from sustained dorsal decubitus to sustained lateral decubitus
Conspiracy of silence - handling collusion
Management of terminal phase
Communicating the diagnosis of severe illness (bad news)
Understanding patients suffering in the spiritual/religious domain and ways of coping and finding meaning and support through faith
Performing the bedridden patient’s nutrition
Perform daily hygiene of teeth, gums, mouth of incapacitated patients
Bed bath - washing a bedridden patient by using water and common soap
Pain Assessment - Measuring Pain In Conscious Adult Patients Using The Visual Analogue Scale
Prescribing pain medication according to the Who-pain ladder
Dealing with empathic reaction of overwhelming emotional exhaustion, feelings of ineffectiveness and self-doubt.
Discussion about end of life care (place of care, aggressive treatment, DNR)
Prevention pressure ulcer - repositioning
Evaluation of the patient awareness level of his/her disease
Mapping patient’s network
Addressing caregiver’s needs
