Nurse Patient Stephen The Ward Nurse Mr. Bracknell The Patient Good morning, Mr Bracknell. I’m here to do your admission Obs. Obs? Observations. It’s your weight, temperature, pulse and respirations. Also, your blood pressure and oxygen sats - that’s the amount of oxygen in your blood. Oh, right. I'll weigh you first. Can you stand on the scales, please? Yeah, sure. What’s my weight? Let me see. It’s 78 kilos. Oh well, that’s all right. Yes, that's fine. Now, I’m going to take your temperature. OK. I’m going to take it in your ear with this tympanic thermometer. That’s new. Yes. Can you turn your head to one side for me, please? Sure. This side? That's fine. I’ll just wait for the beep. Right. It’s thirty-seven three. Now what? I'll put the blood pressure cuff on. Can you roll up your sleeve, please? Sure, no problem. Can you put your arm out straight? That's it. Ill put on the blood pressure cuff. That's for my blood pressure? Yes. The machine will read your blood pressure and pulse. OK. What’s the other lead for? It reads the amount of oxygen in your blood. Oh, yes, I remember. Oxygen sats, right? Yes, very good. Can you hold out your hand, please? This hand? That's fine. I’m going to clip the lead onto your finger so it’ll give me a reading for oxygen sats. Mm. So how are my readings? Are they normal? Let me see. Your BP’s a hundred and twenty over seventy-five. That’s quite normal. That’s good. Is my pulse all right, too? It’s 68. That’s fine. What about the oxygen? Your oxygen sats are 98%. That’s fine, too. Now, I’ll just finish by noting down your respirations - they were 16 breaths per minute. I counted them while ...
Source
Cambridge English for Nursing
Pre-intermediate
Authors:
Virginia Allum
Patricia McGarr
Publisher：
Cambridge University Press
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