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Listening: The Bed Bureau

Audiție: coordonarea paturilor. Asculți o convorbire telefonică despre internarea unui pacient în stare gravă. Verifici informațiile adevărate sau false și exersezi înțelegerea limbajului medical vorbit.

Аудирование: распределение палат. Вы прослушаете телефонный разговор о госпитализации тяжелого пациента. Проверьте правильность утверждений и потренируйте понимание разговорной медицинской речи.

The Bed Bureau

Josh is trying to admit an elderly patient in the emergency department, Brandon is the bed manager, and Rachel is the patient's daughter calling from her car.

Listening: The Bed Bureau — Revise and check: the admission interview

The Bed Bureau

True or false?

Josh is looking for a bed for an elderly male patient.

  • True
  • False

Brandon tells Josh that every ward bed is currently full.

  • True
  • False

Rachel is driving down from Manchester to see her mother.

  • True
  • False

Rachel used to work as a bed manager at another hospital.

  • True
  • False

Brandon refuses to give them a bed in the end.

  • True
  • False

Listen again and complete the sentences

  • Josh: Brandon, it's Josh in emergency. I'm trying to admit an 88-year-old woman with a severe chest infection, but you said every ____ in the hospital is completely full.
  • Josh: That's a disaster. Her initial assessment shows her oxygen saturation is dropping, and she looks really ____ . I need her upstairs immediately.
  • Rachel: Because I used to run bed management across the entire Yorkshire region. Put mum in Ward 4B right now, and tell the nursing staff to check her ____ and admission notes immediately.

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