医护英语10年6月三级模拟题(14)

　　In facilities where patients are hospitalized for long period of time, it is usually the nursing assistant who will help patients turn over every couple of hours so that the patients won’t develop bedsores. A nursing assistant may be the first responder when a patient calls for help, and the job can require some pretty heavy lifting when patients who are ill or recovering need to get up to walk around, change their clothing, or get to the bathroom. It requires some physical strength and knowledge of safe lifting tactics（方法）to work as a nursing assistant.
　　Some nursing assistants may additionally support patients by helping them with prescribed physical or respiratory therapy exercises. In long term care facilities, nursing assistants can be trained to help exercise patients who are paralyzed or in coma. These health care workers may also work with patients in home care settings, and may be the primary caretakers for patients recovering from conditions or who have long term disabling conditions.
　　The many jobs a nursing assistant performs free up nurses to provide care that requires greater training, like administering IV medications and starting IVs, giving appropriate medications on
time, charting and noting significant changes in a patient’s health, and alerting doctors to potential problems. In many nursing centers, the hi

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