Nursing & Healthcare

Authentic medical texts, realistic patient scenarios and practical nursing tasks help prepare learners for their day-to-day working lives.

Online activities which focus on the latest advances in nursing technology help keep nurses up-to-date and confident when faced with unfamiliar equipment in new environments.

Speaking skills development activities simulate real-life communication, such as describing and giving information about healthcare procedures, giving instructions, warnings and discussing workplace problems. These are practised using role-play and information gap tasks that involve finding out information from a partner.

A Focus on communication skills helps nurses to build rapport with their patients, their relatives and colleagues and become more effective in their work-based interactions.

Extra online reference material including a glossary of medical terms, common acronyms and abbreviations, and sample medical charts and forms provide valuable support for teachers and self-study students.

Reading and listening skills are developed through tasks that involve studying authentic and simplified authentic-type texts. Listening texts prepare students for communication with native speakers and non-native speakers by using recordings that contain different accents and regional variation.