Class C - 1
Class C - 1
Class C - 1
Complete these descriptions of jobs with the verbs below and match each one with a job from
translation.
Auxiliary nurses are on the bottom grades, but student nurses get the lowest pay. However,
students don't stay at the bottom of the pay scale forever. When they qualify, they start working on
middle grade. As they get experience, they can get promotion and move up the ranks to become staff
nurse, then sister (charge nurse if a man), and perhaps eventually nursing officer. Many nurses work
shifts, and often they work overtime to earn more money. After basic training, many nurses choose to
do further study and become specialists. Nurses can specialize in many different fields there are triage
nurses working in Casualty, and psychiatric nurses who treat the mentally ill. There are health visitors
who visit patients in their own homes, practice nurses working in GPs’ surgeries, and midwives who
deliver babies.
Many of them say they do not get caught pay and respect for the work they do. They say that
the work is physically and mentally hard, that they work long hours and get very tired. But they also say
that there are many great rewards which have nothing to do with money.