Study Guide

Objectives

The core objective of the course is that the student
• understands the significance of English skills, interaction and communication as part of their professional skills.
• recognizes their own role as a communicator in patient situations in the field of Health Care and Nursing.

After completion of the course the student
• when conducting a patient interview, can ask relevant questions relating to the patient’s previous health.
• can inform patients about the most common nursing practices, procedures and ward routines.
• can communicate in English as part of a multi-professional care team.
• understands and can use articles and texts in the field.
• can further develop their English skills in the field by effectively using dictionaries and other language learning tools.

Content

• patient interview
• guidance and instruction sessions prior to and during examinations
• telehealth nursing
• relevant terminology in the field of health care and nursing
• relevant terminology in anatomy
• relevant medical terminology

Prerequisites

Upper Secondary School studies or equivalent skills Common European Framework for Languages Level B2.1

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

The student
• Can communicate in familiar, simple and routine situations in a manner that is mostly understandable.
• Can provide patients/clients with simple oral and written instructions.
• Can ask patients/clients necessary questions regarding their lifestyle, as well as previous and current health status.
• Can employ basic nursing and health care terminology passably.
• Knows how to search information in professional sources but may have problems in interpreting and utilizing it.
• Understands the main points in relatively easy nursing-related texts when consulting a dictionary.
• Can communicate in English but has problems with grammar and style.
• Manages simple conversations provided that the other person talks slowly and clearly, and sometimes repeats the information.
• Responds to questions in discussions, but pauses, mistakes and reformulations occur.
• Understands the significance of knowing professional English, and works purposefully to gain linguistic competence in one’s special field.
• Is aware of some ways to further develop one’s professional language skills and language learning skills by utilizing different tools and strategies.
• Makes progress in the course, based on one’s individual level and linguistic needs.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

The student
• Communicates fairly clearly in multi-professional and multi-cultural interaction situations.
• Is capable of providing patients/clients with individual instructions in the most common patient guidance situations.
• Responds to the questions asked by patients/clients fairly successfully.
• Can employ and utilize relevant nursing terminology.
• Can search information in scientific publications and other professional sources to promote one’s professional growth.
• Can critically assess the references.
• Can apply and utilize most of the information obtained.
• Can pronounce fairly clearly and effortlessly.
• Employs grammatical structures fairly successfully, and self-corrects potential errors if causing misunderstandings.
• Can re-formulate one’s sentences if and when needed.
• Understands and employs field-specific terminology fairly accurately.
• Can utilize various resources and dictionaries.
• Expresses oneself and conveys the message to the reader/listener fairly idiomatically without misunderstandings (H4).
• Conveys the information to the reader/listener understandably without misunderstandings, but somewhat non-idiomatically, at times with features from the mother tongue (H3).
• Works in an active and self-directed manner to improve one’s special field English, based on one’s level, linguistic needs and personal interests.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student
• Communicates successfully even in demanding multi-professional and multi-cultural interaction situations (e.g., oral and written reports, documentation, potential extra-curricular activities, such as projects or international collaboration).
• Interviews and instructs patients/clients successfully adapting to the interaction situation.
• Employs and utilizes specific terminology and field-specific concepts.
• Speaks fluently and idiomatically.
• Can search for information in scientific publications and other professional sources, interprets it, and utilizes it with ease to promote one’s professional growth.
• Can critically assess the references.
• Communicates effortlessly and in a way appropriate to the situation.
• Responds to questions in discussions appropriately and without delay.
• Can pronounce clearly and effortlessly.
• Employs grammatical structures almost flawlessly, and self-corrects potential errors.
• Can utilize a vast variety of resources and dictionaries.
• Expresses oneself fluently and conveys the message to the reader/listener idiomatically without misunderstandings.
• Works in an active and self-directed manner to further improve and maintain one’s special field English, based on one’s level, linguistic needs and personal interests.

Assessment criteria, pass/fail

Reasons for failing the course:
• Written / Oral exam is failed.
• The student has considerable problems in linguistic structures and grammar.
• One's health care and nursing terminology is very limited, or almost non-existent.
• One fails to convey the relevant message across to a listener or a reader.
• Negligence or delays in submitting the assignments.
• Non-compliance to attendance requirements.