Working Conditions and the Crisis

Working Conditions and the Crisis
Exercise 1:
Fill in the blanks with information from the text:
1- Nurses working in the NHS say that the present crisis is not just a _____________ but also of ____________and _______________.
2- The number of sick people has been rising because ____________.
3- _____________ arrive as emergencies – and almost always they have to ____________before a bed becomes free.
4- Though most nurses say that __________and ___________have led to the recruitment and retention crisis in nursing, some add that ___________.
5- Training nurses in the classroom rather than at the bedside has also led to _____________.
Exercise 2:
Answer each of these questions in a complete sentence:
1- Why are sometimes patients putting in danger?
2- Why were 14 people stuck in A&E?
3- Why have the hospital staff difficult decisions to make about who to get ready for surgery?
4- Why do nurses criticize recent changes in training?
5- What did the report from the Government s Social Affairs Unit say?
Exercise 3:
Translate the following paragraph from English into Arabic:
Because of the demand for surgical beds, hospital staff have difficult decisions to make about who to get ready for surgery, and there is a daily risk of cancellations.