TUGAS ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSE

By : Henni Rosa Triwardani
A.Pre-Reading Activity

1. Do you know the nurse profession ?
2. Does the nurse profession only belong to women ?

B. Reading Text
Reading the text carefully !

RNs are the largest group of health care workers in the United States, numbering over 2.6 million. It has been reported that the number of new graduates and foreign-trained nurses is insufficient to meet the demand for registered nurses; this is often referred to as the nursing shortage and is expected to increase for the foreseeable future.

Among the many cited causes for the nursing shortage is the lack of qualified doctoral or master degree prepared faculty for college RN programs. Students cannot be admitted to school if there is no faculty to teach them. Furthermore, there is evidence that faculty positions for RN programs do not command equivalent salaries to those of their peers in other fields. Another factor affecting the nursing shortage is that after education, Registered Nurses typically do not remain long in the profession, especially those working in more traditional hospital health care roles] The two primary reasons given for leaving the profession are poor working conditions (e.g. long and irregular hours and an absence of sufficient numbers of health care providers, such as aides); and salaries which are not commensurate with the responsibilities of the profession.

Other factors such as a high index of accountability, role-limited autonomy, and physical labor demanded of clinical positions are also seen as deterrents to those considering becoming a Registered Nurse. As well, many systems and practices in nursing are heavily oriented toward the social and gender patterns and practices of women, which can hinder consideration of nursing as a profession by men. Finally, the hierarchical nature of health care in the USA places physicians in a "power-over" position in relation to the status of Registered Nurses, limiting the services of the profession, despite the growing numbers of advanced practice nurses (APN) or extensive clinical and professional knowledge, skills, and abilities of nursing staff.

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is concerned about the labor shortage in the field of nursing and has been working to enact legislation, identify strategies, and form cooperative efforts with all interested people and groups to address this problem. The AACN has also published a fact sheet containing current statistics related to the shortage (found here )
C. Post-Reading Activity
Answer the following question based on text !

1. What is RNs means ?
2. What is the main idea expressed in the first passage ?
3. How many causes of the nursing shortage in USA?
4. What does third passage mainly discuss ?
5. Why the Registered Nurses are leaving their profession ?
6. What are others factors also seen as deterrents to become a Registered Nurses ?
7. Who is as “power-over” position in relation to the status of Registered Nurses ?
8. What is the AACN concerned about ?
9. What are AACN works for the nursing shortage in USA ?
10. What is the best title for this text ?

D. Please out “T” if your answer is true and “F” if your answer is false.

1. The number of new graduates and foreign-trained nurses is insufficient to meet the demand for Registered Nurses (…….)
2. The existences of qualified doctoral or master degree is not important for college Registered Nurses program (…….)
3. For both the faculty and the Registered Nurses, the uncommensurate salaries is the fundamental cause of the nursing shortage (…….)
4. Long and irregular hours and an absences of sufficient numbers of health care provides describe of poor working condition relation with nurse profession in USA (…….)
5. In USA, the system and practices in nursing encourage increasingly population of labor nursing profession by men (…….)
6. One of the physicians duty is limiting the services of the profession in relation to the status of Registered Nurses (…….)
7. The hierarchical nature of health care in the USA which mentioned in third passage describe the system and practices in nursing (…….)
8. A high index of accountability, role-limited autonomy, and physical labor demanded of clinical positions are other factors as deterrents to those considering becoming a RNs (…….)
9. The AACN involved people or groups to address the labor shortage in the field of nursing (…….)
10. The fact sheet containing current statistics related to the shortage has not been published by the AACN (…….)


E. Match the bold words with the correct answer !


1. Insufficient = ……………………………. A. doctor
2. Foreseeable = ……………………………. B. clinic
3. No faculty = ……………………………. C. not-enough
4. Traditional hospital = …………………….. D.face 5.Not- commensurate = ……………………. E. AACN
6. Deterrents = …………………………….. F. predicable
2 physicians…………………………………. G. doctoral or master degree
3 The American Association of Colleges of Nursing…H. preventative
4 Enact = ………………………………….. I. role play
10 Address = ………………………………… J.equivalent



F. Discuss with your friend “what cross on your mind when you see these pictures .
G. Write down a paragraph about your mind of nurse profession!

Key answer

a. Post-reading activity
1. RNs are the largest group of health care workers in the USA
2. The Nursing Shortage in USA
3. Three
4. The hierarchical nature of health care in the USA.
5. a. poor working condition
b. salaries which are not commensurate
6. a. a high index of accountability
b. role-limited autonomi
c. physical labor demanded of clinical position.
7. The physician
8. The labor shortage
9. a. identify strategies
b. form cooperative efforts with all interested people
10. The Labor Problem in The USA

b. True or false
1. true
2. false
3. true
4. true
5. false
6. true
7. false
8. true
9. true
10. false



c. Matching
1. C
2. F
3. G
4. B
5. J
6. H
7. A
8. E
9. I
10. D