PP.b. Teaching Nursing 2023 (Signs & Symptoms)
PP.b. Teaching Nursing 2023 (Signs & Symptoms)
PP.b. Teaching Nursing 2023 (Signs & Symptoms)
NOTE : It is common practice for nurses to communicate with patients as much as possible when
they are doing routine nursing tasks. If nurses talk & ask , the patients become involved
in their treatment. As a nurse takes the patients vital signs, it will be better a nurse says
what she is going to do, explains why she is doing it and gives the patient feed back.
1. Why should a nurse talk when doing practice ?
2. What things should nurse communicate with the patients ?
WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH BREATHING
Medical Words Colloquial Expressions
Dyspnoea Breathlessness, out of breath, puffed, short of
breath, fighting for breath
Expectorate To bring up / cough up phlegm / spit
Expiration Breathing out
Inhaler for drugs Puffer
Inspiration Breathing in
Respiration Breathing
Sputum Phlegm