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1
Read the article and decide if these sentences are true
(T) or false (F).
1
Themore responsibility you have, the higher
your grade. ______
2
Nursing officers are the same as auxiliary nurses.
______
3
Students are paid less than auxiliary nurses. ______
4
A charge nurse is aman. ______
5
There are not many opportunities for British nurses
to specialize. ______
6
Many nurses say that the job is rewarding, but
the pay is low. ______
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Unit 1
2
Number these jobs from the highest grade (
1
) to
the lowest (
4)
. Two of themare equal.
a charge nurse ______
b nursing officer ______
c auxiliary nurse ______
d sister ______
e staff nurse ______
Florence Nightingale
(1820–1910) was the founder of
modern nursing. She dramatically improved conditions
for soldiers in field hospitals, and educated people about
the importance of hygiene. She saved thousands of lives
and became very famous. She later started her own
training college for nurses, and wrote many books on
nursing.
One hundred and fifty years ago, nurses
were unpaid, untrained, and unpopular,
but then Florence Nightingale made
nursing into a profession. The methods
she introduced in the 1850s were copied
all over the world, and now nursing is a
career with a three- or four-year training,
qualifications, grades, unions, and
pensions.
In Britain, every nurse is on a grade. The
grade depends on experience and skills,
and each grade has different
responsibilities and pay. On the bottom
grades are unqualified auxiliary nurses,
who do the routine work on hospital
wards. On the top grades are nursing
officers, who are usually administrators.
Auxiliary nurses are on the bottom
grades, but student nurses get the lowest
pay. However, students don’t stay at the
bottom of the pay scale forever. When
they qualify, they start working on a
middle grade. As they get experience,
they can get promotion and move up the
ranks to become staff nurse, then sister
(charge nurse if a man), and perhaps
eventually nursing officer.
Many nurses work shifts, and often they
work overtime to earn more money. After
basic training, many nurses choose to do
further study and become specialists.
Nurses can specialize in many different
fields – there are triage nurses working in
Casualty, and psychiatric nurses who treat
the mentally ill. There are health visitors
who visit patients in their own homes,
practice nurses working in GPs’ surgeries,
and midwives who deliver babies.
Many of them say they do not get enough
pay and respect for the work they do.
They say that the work is physically and
mentally hard, that they work long hours
and get very tired. But they also say that
there are many great rewards which have
nothing to do with money.
the nursing profession