NURSE’S DUTIES

VOCABULARY
• OBSERVE (v) • Mengobservasi
• ASSESS (v) • Mengkaji, menilai
• COUNSEL (v) • Memberi konseling
• EXAMINE (v) • Memeriksa
• ADMINISTER (v) • Melakukan, memberikan
• INCONTINENCE (n) • Keadaan tdk bs menahan diri
utk BAK & BAB
• HEALTH SCREENING (n) • Penyaringan kesehatan
• TREATMENT (n) • Perawatan
• HEARING TEST (n) • Test pendengaran
• PERSONALITY DISORDER (n) • Gangguan kepribadian
• PREVENTION (n) • Pencegahan
• DISABILITY (n) • Kecacatan, ketidakmampuan
Nurse’s job includes:
• Observing patients and assessing their responses to
treatment
• Counseling patients and their relatives
• Taking temperature, blood pressure, pulse rate, and
respiration rate
• Doing physical examination
• Preparing instruments
• Administering drugs and injections
• Cleaning and dressing wounds
• Bandaging and splinting
• Administering blood transfusions and drips
• Preparing and handing instruments to surgeon in the
operating theatre
• Operating equipment, such as life support system and
renal dialysis machine
 Hospital
Departments/Units/Wards/Rooms
• Pediatrics/Pediatric Unit is a hospital unit
which gives nursing care / treatment /
intervention to children (child patients)
• Cardiology
• Maternity Dept.
• Emergency Room (accident and emergency =
A&E Dept)
• Geriatrics is a hospital unit which gives nursing
care/treatment/intervention to the elderly.
 Hospital
Departments/Units/Wards/Rooms
• Hospital departments/units/wards/rooms
• Ward is a room shared by patients with the
same health problems = bangsal = sal
• Ward is bigger than room
 Telling about the department/unit
where we work
1. I work in a company clinic.
2. I work in manager’s office.
3. I work in out-patient ward.
4. I work in a company clinic.
5. I work in emergency room (ER).
6. I work in operation/operating room (OR) or surgical/surgery
room.
7. I work in pediatric unit.
8. I work ICU (Intensive Care Unit)
9. I work NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit)
10. I work in High Care Unit (HCU)
11. I work in Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU)
12. I work in Hemodialysis.
13. I work in psychiatric unit.
 Nurse’s Daily Activities
Subject Verb Object
I Check/ blood pressure
measure / body
temperature /
respiration /
pulse
I check Chidlren’s vital
signs
I conduct a consultation
with children
I bathe the children
I measure The body
weight
I wake up the children
I feed the children
I replace the infusion
bag/tube
 Nurses’ Duties
• I + action verb (activity) + Object + name of
dept/unit/ward/room
• I take care of the child patients in pediatric unit.
• I sterilize the medical instruments.
• I give medicines to the patients.
• I assess the patients’ pain.
• I perform (do) hemodialysis to patients in hemodialysis
unit.
• I help the patients do daily activities, such as walking,
eating, taking a bath, passing urine, and so on.
 ASKING QUESTIONS
• What department/unit/ward/room do you work
in?
(In what department/unit/ward/room do you
work?)
• What department/unit/ward/room are you in?
(In what department/unit/ward/room are you?)
• What do you do + in dept/unit/ward/room?
– What do you do in pediatric unit?
– What are your responsibilities (duties) in pediatric
unit?
 Nurse’s Duties (Responsibilities)
• I supervise nurses’ activities .
• I am responsible for patient admission
(registration)
• I assist the doctor in handling the patients
(clients).
• I measure the height, weight and head
circumference of children.
• I respond to emergency situations.
• I observe patients in observation room.
• I transfer patients to hospital.
• I check the medical supplies in the storage room.
 Nurse’s Duties (Responsibilities)
• I observe the patient.
• I inject the patient.
• I perform (do = conduct) suction to the patient
with much secrete
• I perform nebulization to the patient
• I group (classify) the patients according to initial
assessment
• I perform (do) CPR.
• I measure the vital signs.
 Nurse’s Daily Activities in Pediatric Unit

• I help the children (to) eat.

• I help the children (to) pass urine (BAK) / pass
bowel (BAB).
• I help the children (to) take a bath.