Chapter 3 Admission (Hospital Organization)
Chapter 3 Admission (Hospital Organization)
HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION
A. READING
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized medical and
nursing staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which
typically has an emergency department to treat urgent health problems ranging from fire and accident
victims to a sudden illness. A district hospital typically is the major health care facility in its region,
with a large number of beds for intensive care and additional beds for patients who need long-term
care. Specialized hospitals include trauma centers, rehabilitation hospitals, children's hospitals,
seniors' (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric
treatment and certain disease categories. Specialized hospitals can help reduce health care costs
compared to general hospitals. Hospitals are classified as general, specialty, or government depending
on the sources of income received. A teaching hospital combines assistance to people with teaching to
medical students and nurses. The medical facility that is smaller than a hospital is generally called a
clinic, often is run by a government agency for health services or a private partnership of physicians (in
nations where private practice is allowed). Clinics generally provide only outpatient services.
Hospitals are usually funded by the public sector, health organizations (for profit or nonprofit),
health insurance companies, or charities, including direct charitable donations. Historically, hospitals
were often founded and funded by religious orders, or by charitable individuals and leaders.
Departments or Wards
Hospitals consist of departments, traditionally called wards, especially when they have beds for
inpatients, when they are sometimes also called inpatient wards. Hospitals have a range of departments
(e.g. surgery and urgent care) and specialist units such as cardiology. Some hospitals have outpatient
departments and some have chronic treatment units. Common support units include a pharmacy,
pathology, and radiology. Hospitals may have acute services such as an emergency department or
specialist trauma center, burn unit, surgery, or urgent care. These may then be backed up by more
specialist units such as the following:
Emergency department
Cardiology
Intensive care unit
Pediatric intensive care unit
Neonatal intensive care unit
Cardiovascular intensive care unit
Neurology- Neurologist
Oncology
Obstetrics and gynecology, colloquially, maternity ward
CSSD (Central Sterile Supply Department)
QUESTION
1. What is hospital?
2. Why do people need to visit hospital?
3. How many types of hospital? Explain them!
4. Mention some departments in the hospital that you know!
5. Which department you will choose to work in?
B. LANGUAGE FOCUS
WH-QUESTIONS
These are the WH-forms and we use them to make open or WH-Questions : WHAT, WHEN, WHERE,
WHICH, WHO, WHOM, WHOSE , WHY , HOW , they are all used to elicit particular kinds of information.
● You use WHAT when you are asking for information about something.
● You use WHEN to ask about the time that something happened or will happen.
● You use WHERE to ask questions about place or position.
● You use WHICH when you are asking for information about one of a limited number of things.
● You use WHO or whom when you are asking about someone's identity.
● You use WHOSE to ask about possession.
● You use WHY to ask for a reason.
● You use HOW to ask about the way in which something is done.
1) Question Formation
⮚ WHAT, WHICH and WHOSE can be used with or without a noun as a question word.
For example:
What time is it? = What is the time?
Which car is yours? = Which is your car?
Whose web site is this? = Whose is this web site?
⮚ WHOM can only be used to elicit information about the OBJECT of the sentence. Although using
whom would be grammatically correct, we normally use who because it doesn’t sound so formal.
For example:-
"Whom did you see?" would normally be expressed as "Who did you see?"
2. Object Questions
Object questions ask about the object of a sentence. The word order of the question must be
changed and the question requires the use of an auxiliary verb (AUXILIARY-SUBJECT-VERB)
For example:-
I caught the train to London. Which train did you catch?
I saw a film yesterday What did you see yesterday?
Mary usually goes to school by bus. How does Mary go to school?
3. Subject Questions
There are also subject questions. These are questions that we ask to find out about the subject.
When WHAT, WHICH, WHO or WHOSE refers to the subject, the verb doesn´t need an
auxiliary
For example :
The train to London arrived late. Which train arrived late?"
I won the race. Who won the race?"
A. EXERCISE
▪ Practice 1
Write on the blank: how, when, what or where and make questions.
For example : 1. Derrick runs quickly to his desk. How
How does Derrick run to his desk?
1. Pamela speaks slowly. …………… ______________________________________
2. Janet is sitting in front of André. …………… ______________________________________
3. Pat arrived early today. …………… ______________________________________
4. Karen and Simon drive dangerously. …………… ______________________________________
5. Sharon usually laughs at my jokes. …………… ______________________________________
6. Monique types quickly. …………… ______________________________________
7. I often go to school on my bike. …………… ______________________________________
8. Nathalie is beside Peter. …………… ______________________________________
9. He sometimes calls me at home. …………… ______________________________________
10. Your teacher answers honestly. …………… ______________________________________
▪ Practice 2
Put as many as questions as you can.
1. Dora goes to the bank on Monday afternoons.
a b c
______________________________________? ______________________________________?
______________________________________?
C. SPEAKING
Questions Questions
How old are you? Have you ever been hospitalized before?
I’ll show your room, now! What medicine have you taken at home?
C. VOCABULARY
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