Specialist medical language and multimedia course of professional language for nurses

Abstract

In the age of the widespread globalization, intensive international economic, scientific and technical cooperation, there are promising prospects for those specialists who aim at improving their professional qualifications or taking up employment abroad. A fundamental conditio which is to be met in order to fulfil those plans is to achieve the command of professional language of the target country or professional English. The need of skilful verbal communication is connected with the occupational mobility, especially that of members of health service staff. Command of professional language, which entails the necessity of comprehension of specialist texts, is indispensable if it comes to the contacts with patients and other members of health service staff at workplace. Vocabulary of specialist professional languages is systematically expanded through scientific research development, creation of new specialisations and using more and more modern appliances for the purpose of medical diagnostics, and the medical stuff has to assimilate it. This paper is focused on the specialist professional language with particular attention given to the medical and nurses’ one. I would also like to present the multimedia course of professional language for nurses who sedesign is to take up employment outside the territory of Poland.