English for Nursing Assistant

Book excerpt: The book entitled “English for Nursing Assistant: Supple-mentary E-Learning-based Materials” was developed based on primary needs of Nursing Department students of Vocational High Schools that will become a Nurse Assistant after they graduated from the institution. There are some steps that have been conducted by the authors to gather data which become main resources in developing this book. After the analysis of the students’ needs, important themes were developed in each unit for the book. The themes include General Assessment, Handling Patients, Patient’s Hygiene, Checking Vital Sign, and Dimens-ions of Symptom. This book contains examples of English ex-pressions which are very useful for the students to practice and master before they go for the real world job later. There are also some practical activities that will train students to develop their language skills of Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening. The main feature of the book includes the utilization of e-learning features and strategies for learning more effectively. The e-learning platform consists of primarily listening materials to support the teaching and learning process. The students can go to the set up e-learning platform to listen to audio materials to complete exercises provided in the book. It is expected that they the use of ICT will provide the utmost benefits for the students learning a specific area, like Nursing using English as the medium of instruction.