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who do the routine work on hospital wards. On the top grades
there are nursing officers, who are usually administrators.
Auxiliary nurses are on the bottom grades, but students nurse
get the lowest pay. However, students don’t stay at the bottom of
the bottom scale forever. When they qualify, they start working
on a middle grade. As they get experience, they can get promo-
tion 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 Casual-
ty, 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 ba-
bies.
Many of them say they don’t get enough pay and respect for
the work to 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.
b) Find words in the article with these meanings.
1. exams and courses that you have taken
q______________
2. money that you will receive when you are old
p_____________
3. similar work that you have done before
e______________
4. special abilities
s______________
5. levels of pay
p_______ s__________