Hospital

Hospitals

A hospital is a place where people are treated for an illness or an injury.

The people being cared for at a hospital are called patients.

Doctors and nurses work in a hospital to look after, and care for the patients.

Many babies are born in a hospital.

Hospitals in big cities are usually very large buildings. But there are also smaller hospitals in most cities and in smaller communities. Some hospitals are just for children and some are just for women.

A room in a hospital is called a ward. Some wards have many beds, and some have just one or two. There are nurses in each ward to look after the patients.

Teams of doctors and nurses work at a hospital. Nurses give medicines and change bandages. They take the patients' temperatures with a thermometer, and check to make sure that the patients are getting better.

Doctors visit the patients and says how each patient is to be treated. The doctor writes a prescription for medicines that the patient needs. A prescription is an order for medicine. The medicine comes from the hospital's chemist or pharmacy.

Doctors and nurses at the hospital know how to work the special machines that help them see inside a patient's body and find out what is wrong with a patient. Doctors called surgeons know how to look inside a patient and how to fix things there during an operation.

Operations are done in the operating theatre.

Before a patient is operated on, they are given an anaesthetic. The anaesthetic puts them to sleep so that they cannot feel anything during the operation.

After the operation, patients rest in the hospital until the doctor says they are ready to go home.

Ambulances are used to take people to the hospital. Helicopters are also used to take sick and injured people to hospital.

Other people who work at the hospital are the cleaners, the cooks and the kitchen workers, and the people who work in the hospital office.

You can find out more about a hospital and the people who work there, online at:
http://www.knowitall.org/kidswork/hospital/workzone/kwhospital.html

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