Royal Cambridge College - Career English Language Programs

Royal Cambridge College - English for Nursing Program

Program Details

Below is a summary of the English for Nursing Program including program highlights, time table, schedule and more:

Program Highlights (back to top)

Learn to interact more effectively with patients, their relatives and colleagues through a regular focus on communication skills
Keep up-to-date with the language describing the latest equipment and developments
Be prepared for real nursing practice communication through the use of realistic patient scenarios, practical nursing tasks and authentic medical texts
Learn how to manage your communication skills to build rapport and enthusiasm with patients
See how non-verbal signals can impact upon communication

Program Duration (back to top)

Time Table (back to top)

There are 10-minute scheduled breaks between each morning class and afternoon class

Time table for Friday is morning 1^st and 2^nd period classes, and afternoon free period

Admission Requirements (back to top)

Cambridge FCE, TOEIC 650, TOEFL-PBT 500, TOEFL-IBT 65, TOEFL-CBT 175, Royal Cambridge College standard test or successful completion of PET level at Royal Cambridge College
Entrance interview and essay required

Program Schedule (back to top)

Module One (6 weeks)

Patient Admissions / Respiratory Problems	Taking a patient history. Using active listening strategies, explaining how the heart works, putting the patient at ease, charting blood pressure and pulse. Educating patients about asthma management, giving instructions effectively, using a nebuliser, describing respiration
Wound Care / Diabetes Care and Medical Speciments	Discussing wound care management, asking for advice, describing wounds, using a wound assessment chart. Discussing diabetes management, making empathetic responses, using a diabetic chart. Explaining pathology tests, asking for clarification, checking understanding, telephone skills, softening a request. Reading a pathology report
Medications/ Intravenous infusions	Administering medication, doing a medication check, working as part of a team, explaining drug interactions. Reviewing IV infusions, passing on instructions to colleagues, assessing IV cannulas. Charting fluid intake and output
Pre and post operative patent assessment/ discharge planning	Doing pre-operative checks, giving pre-operative patient education, preparing a patient for surgery. Give a post operative handover, checking a post operative patient on the ward, dealing with aggressive behaviour. Using pain assessment tools. Attending the ward team meeting, referring a patient, using patient discharge planning forms,

Module Two (6 weeks)

Introduction to communication	Recognizing the different elements than make up communication. Understanding how good communication benefits the patient interview
Developing language and communication skills for the patent encounter	Receiving the patient, managing complaints, past medical and family history, social history and telephone consultations, examining a patient, giving results, planning treatment and the closing interview, dealing with sensitive issues, breaking bad news
Interviewing different patient categories	Communicating with challenging patients, the elderly, children and adolescents

Tuition Details (back to top)

All funds shown are in Canadian Dollars

^*Each session runs for 4 weeks