MediEnglish B2 - Inglés para enfermeros
Learn how to introduce yourself, identify roles, and use essential hospital phrases.
Módulo 1: Diagnosis & Treatment Plans
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In this module, students will explore how nurses discuss patient diagnoses and create treatment plans. They will learn vocabulary related to medical conditions, symptoms, treatments, and expected outcomes. The grammar focus will be on the future perfect tense, which helps nurses describe what will have been achieved at a future point in patient care. This is essential for planning, predicting results, and communicating clearly with colleagues and patients.
En este módulo, los estudiantes explorarán cómo los enfermeros hablan sobre diagnósticos de pacientes y elaboran planes de tratamiento. Aprenderán vocabulario relacionado con condiciones médicas, síntomas, tratamientos y resultados esperados. El enfoque gramatical será el futuro perfecto, lo que ayuda a los enfermeros a describir lo que se habrá logrado en un momento futuro del cuidado del paciente. Esto es esencial para planificar, predecir resultados y comunicarse claramente con colegas y pacientes.
Learning Materials
Learn vocabulary, phrases, and grammar
Medical Vocabulary
Learn essential medical terms and their usage.
Clinical Phrases
Common expressions used in healthcare settings
By tomorrow, the patient will have completed the prescribed treatment.
Para mañana, el paciente habrá completado el tratamiento recetado.
The patient will have received all necessary medications by the end of the week.
El paciente habrá recibido todos los medicamentos necesarios para el final de la semana.
By next Monday, the surgery will have been successfully performed.
Para el próximo lunes, la cirugía se habrá realizado con éxito.
Will the patient have recovered fully by the follow-up appointment?.
¿Se habrá recuperado completamente el paciente para la cita de seguimiento?.
By the end of the month, the treatment plan will have been updated.
Para fin de mes, el plan de tratamiento se habrá actualizado.
By next week, the patient will not have experienced any side effects.
Para la próxima semana, el paciente no habrá experimentado ningún efecto secundario.
Will the lab results have arrived by the time of the consultation?
¿Habrán llegado los resultados de laboratorio para la consulta?
By the time the patient leaves the hospital, all interventions will have been completed.
Para cuando el paciente salga del hospital, todas las intervenciones se habrán completado.
The patient will have been under observation for 24 hours by tonight.
El paciente habrá estado bajo observación durante 24 horas para esta noche.
By the next session, the patient will have followed all therapy instructions.
Para la próxima sesión, el paciente habrá seguido todas las instrucciones de la terapia.
By next Friday, the patient will not have missed any doses of the medication.
Para el próximo viernes, el paciente no habrá omitido ninguna dosis del medicamento.
Will the patient have completed all the necessary diagnostic tests by the end of the day?
¿Habrán completado todos los exámenes diagnósticos necesarios para el final del día?
By the end of therapy, the patient will have achieved better health outcomes.
Al final de la terapia, el paciente habrá alcanzado mejores resultados de salud.
Cleft Sentences
What is and what is the use:
Que es y como se usa
The Future Perfect tense is used to describe an action that will be completed before a specific time in the future. It allows us to predict results, plan ahead, or indicate that something will have happened by a certain point. This tense is particularly useful in nursing and healthcare, where professionals often need to discuss outcomes, treatment plans, and expected patient progress.
For example, a nurse may need to communicate: “By the end of the week, the patient will have completed their therapy,” which clearly indicates that the action (completing therapy) will already be finished at a future point.
The Future Perfect tense also allows us to express certainty or expectations about future results, such as treatment effectiveness, prognosis, or recovery timelines. It is often used with time expressions like:
- by tomorrow
- by the end of the week
- by next month
- before the consultation
- by the time
In nursing contexts, this tense helps professionals:
- Explain when a treatment plan or therapy will be completed.
- Predict health outcomes.
- Indicate when a diagnosis test or procedure will be finished.
- Communicate expected patient recovery or follow-ups.
- How to use (structure)
Form | Structure | Example (Nursing context) |
Affirmative | Subject + will have + past participle | The patient will have completed the therapy by next week. |
Negative | Subject + will not have (won’t have) + past participle | The patient will not have missed any doses of medication by Friday. |
Interrogative | Will + subject + have + past participle? | Will the patient have received all necessary vaccinations by tomorrow? |
- Use the past participle of the main verb (complete → completed, take → taken, perform → performed).
- Time expressions like by tomorrow, by the end of the week, by the next session are often included.
- The negative form contracts “will not” to won’t in spoken English: “The patient won’t have taken the medication by tonight.”
- Do not use (Common Errors)
- Confusing Future Perfect with Future Simple
- ❌ “The patient will complete the therapy by tomorrow.” (Future Simple – not clear that the action will be finished)
- ✅ “The patient will have completed the therapy by tomorrow.” (Future Perfect – emphasizes completion)
- Incorrect past participle
- ❌ “The nurse will have give the medication.”
- ✅ “The nurse will have given the medication.”
- Omitting time expressions (optional but recommended in medical context)
- ❌ “The patient will have recovered.” (When?)
- ✅ “The patient will have recovered by the next consultation.”
- Using present tense after “will have”
- ❌ “The patient will have recovers fully.”
- ✅ “The patient will have recovered fully.”
- Examples in Context (EN)
- By next week, the patient will have completed all prescribed treatments.
- The doctor will have confirmed the diagnosis before the follow-up.
- By the time of the consultation, the patient will not have experienced any side effects.
- Will the patient have finished the therapy by the end of the month?
- After the surgery, the patient will have achieved better health outcomes by the next assessment.
- Traducción de Ejemplos en Contexto (ES)
- Para la próxima semana, el paciente habrá completado todos los tratamientos prescritos.
- El médico habrá confirmado el diagnóstico antes del seguimiento.
- Para la cita de consulta, el paciente no habrá experimentado ningún efecto secundario.
- ¿El paciente habrá terminado la terapia para fin de mes?
- Después de la cirugía, el paciente habrá logrado mejores resultados de salud para la próxima evaluación.
Dialogue:
Nurse: By next Monday, the patient will have completed all initial tests.
Doctor: Great! That means the treatment plan will have been finalized by then.
Nurse: Yes, and by the follow-up, the patient will have started the therapy.
Doctor: Perfect. We should also make sure that any side effects will not have appeared yet.
Translate:
Enfermera: Para el próximo lunes, el paciente habrá completado todas las pruebas iniciales.
Doctor: ¡Excelente! Eso significa que el plan de tratamiento habrá sido finalizado para entonces.
Enfermera: Sí, y para el seguimiento, el paciente habrá comenzado la terapia.
Doctor: Perfecto. También debemos asegurarnos de que no hayan aparecido efectos secundarios.
Key Vocabulary: treatment plan, tests, therapy, follow-up, side effects
Dialogue:
Nurse: By the end of the week, the diagnosis confirmation will have arrived from the lab.
Doctor: Excellent. Then the prognostic evaluation will have been completed by Friday.
Nurse: Do you think the patient will have understood their condition by the consultation?
Doctor: Yes, we will explain it clearly using the consultation notes.
Translate:
Enfermera: Para el final de la semana, la confirmación del diagnóstico habrá llegado del laboratorio.
Doctor: Excelente. Entonces la evaluación pronóstica habrá sido completada para el viernes.
Enfermera: ¿Cree que el paciente habrá comprendido su condición para la consulta?
Doctor: Sí, lo explicaremos claramente usando las notas de consulta.
Key Vocabulary: diagnosis confirmation, prognostic evaluation, condition, consultation, consultation notes
Dialogue:
Nurse: By tomorrow, the patient will have finished the therapy session.
Doctor: That’s good. By the next assessment, the recovery will have progressed significantly.
Nurse: Will the patient have followed all the medication instructions by then?
Doctor: Yes, the prescription will have been followed exactly.
Translate:
Enfermera: Para mañana, el paciente habrá terminado la sesión de terapia.
Doctor: Eso es bueno. Para la próxima evaluación, la recuperación habrá progresado significativamente.
Enfermera: ¿El paciente habrá seguido todas las instrucciones del medicamento para entonces?
Doctor: Sí, la receta habrá sido seguida exactamente.
Key Vocabulary: therapy, recovery, assessment, patient, medication, prescription
Dialogue:
- Nurse: By the time the surgery is finished, the intervention will have been performed successfully.
Doctor: Excellent. And by the next consultation, the patient will have recovered from the acute condition.
Nurse: Will the patient have experienced any side effects?
Doctor: No, by then all procedures will have been monitored carefully.
Translate:
Enfermera: Para cuando la cirugía termine, la intervención habrá sido realizada con éxito.
Doctor: Excelente. Y para la próxima consulta, el paciente se habrá recuperado de la condición aguda.
Enfermera: ¿El paciente habrá experimentado algún efecto secundario?
Doctor: No, para entonces todos los procedimientos habrán sido monitoreados cuidadosamente.
Key Vocabulary: surgery, intervention, consultation, acute condition, side effects, procedures
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