BELAJAR BAHASA INGGRIS: GREETING

GREETING

To communicate to a stranger, patient, doctor or medical staff, a nurse needs a communication skill.  This unit introduces some clues, common phrases and useful expressions to start a conversation.

A.    Dialogue

A nurse in her patient’s room

A:  Nurse                      P:  Patient

N               :  Hello, Good morning Mr. Awan.  How are you?

P    :  I’m fine, thanks.

N               :  So how do you feel, Mr. Awan?

P    :  I think there is something wrong with my stomach. 

Every time I eat I feel     like vomiting.  I really feel unwell.

N   :  How long have you felt like this?

P    :  For about two days.

N   :  Have you taken any medicine?

P    :  No, I haven’t, nurse!

N   :  Ok! let me examine you.  Please, lie down here.

B.   Useful Expressions

·         Hello!

·         Good morning, Mr. Andrew.

·         How are you today, Mrs. Andrew.

·         What is your complaint?

·         What’s wrong with you?

·         What’s the matter with you?

·         What’s troubling you?

·         Have you taken your medicine?

·         How long have you felt like this?

·         Can I ask you something?

·         I hope you will get well soon.

·         Does it hurt here?

·         Let me examine you.

·         Sleep well, Mr. Andrew.

·         Good bye, see you.

C.   Vocabulary

·         Morning

·         Afternoon

·         Evening

·         Night

·         Take

·         Feel

·         Get well

·         Hurt

·         Lie down

D.   Practice

Build a dialogue with your partner based on the following situations:

·         A nurse enters the patient’s room for asking his/her recent condition.

·         A doctor calls a nurse to obtain some information about a patient.

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