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Implementation and evaluation of material designed for EFL students of the Nursing Academic Program at Instituto Superior Tecnológico Bolivariano de Tecnología.
Get PDFThe Instituto Superior Tecnólogico Bolivariano de Tecnología (ITB) trains learners for different academic programs. One of them is the Nursing Academic Program where the teaching of English is based on general topics. Therefore, 39 learners were taken as a sample for this research project in order to implement some tasks from a material designed by the author of this work intended to nursing students with B1 level of proficiency. This initiative was motivated by the lack of textbooks related to English for Specific Purposes
(ESP) in a critical and integrated way for learners of the Nursing Academic Program. For this reason, this work was focused on the qualitative and evaluation research under the strategy of Inquiry Ethnographic and Narrative. After doing the analysis and interpretation of results through the methods and instruments of this inquiry, it was concluded that the material designed for nursing learners with B1 level of proficiency has had a significant impact on the group assigned by the authorities of Buckingham English Center and ITB. Regarding the group assigned, though the majority of learners got an Elementary level according to the diagnosis test given before the training process, during this training they could perform the tasks but with the aid of explanations given in L1 and collaborative work. Therefore, the results obtained through this group were very productive for this research project because they have let the author know firstly the real level of proficiency of
nursing learners in ITB and secondly what an ESP textbook in nursing should have according to the reality found, such as tasks with more vocabulary and expressions related to the nursing field and the daily practice of the language skills in the classroom
Contact Point Autumn 2020
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Painless labour: with special reference to the newer therapeutic measures
Get PDFSECT. 1. INTRODUCTION: .
The author avers that the parturient mother should',
receive some anaesthetic or analgesic to relieve the
.pains of childbirth should they become unbearable.
The qualifications necessary for this agent.
SECT. 2. HISTORICAL.
The care of the child bearing mother may be taken
as an index to the degree of civilisation of a community.
The great advances made in anaesthetics and hypnotics
during the last century.
SECT. 3. MECHANISM AND COURSE OF LABOUR.
The mechanics of labour under the Powers, the
Passages and the Passenger.
The importance of the best mechanical delivery is
stressed as being important in the production of an
easy labour.
SECT. 4. METHODS OF SECURING ANALGESIA AND ANAESTHESIA.
Arranged under the headings: Inhalation anaesthesia,
Hypnotic and analgesic drugs, Local anaesthesia
and Hypnosis and suggestion.
The pharmacological action of the drugs with a
view to their utility in securing painless labour.
SECT. 5. METHODS OF CHOICE AND SPECIAL INDICATIONS.
Chloral and Bromide, Nembutal and Chloral, Morphine,
Morphine and Scopolamine are methods described as being
satisfactory in the early stages - with a selection of
method for the degree of pain anticipated.
Nitrous Oxide apparatus and apparatus for giving
Chloroform a la reine are described.
The importance of suggestion is fully discussed.
The failure of regional anaesthesia and the excellence
of Spinal anaesthesia with Percaine gone into.
SECT. 6. CLINICAL.
The clinical effects of each method are tabulated
under the corresponding method.
The author's personal cases are given exemplifying
the methods of choice, with their effects under different
conditions and notes of criticism about each
