Pay attention!

• Listen for follow-up procedures.
• Note the nurse’s follow-up procedures and purposes.

Example

You must take antibiotics for curing your disease.

1. Procedure: take antibiotics
2. Purpose: for curing

Let’s review

• Procedure: You must do these exercises for 3 weeks.
• Purpose: You need to take the full dosage for healing completely.
• Procedure: You should be drinking 6 glasses of water per day.
• Purpose: You should be drinking 6 glasses of water/day for hydration.

Procedure or Purpose?

• You must take the medicine for 10 days.

  Procedure

• You should get plenty of rest for recovering.

  Purpose

• You need to take this medicine twice a day.

  Procedure

• Eat food with the medicine for proper treatment.

  Purpose