When a child is ill in hospital, a parents first reaction is to be___ 1 ___them.
Most hospitals now allow parents to sleep___ 2___with their child,providing a bed or sofa on the ward.
But until the 1970s this ___3 ___was not only frowned upon it was actively discouraged.
Staff worried that the children were upset when their parents ___4___ , and so there was a blanket ban.
A concerned nurse, Pamela Hawthorn, disagreed and her study Nurse! want my mummy, published in 1974,___ 5___the face of paediatric nursing.
Professor Martin Johnson, professor of nursing at the University of Salford, said that the work of ___6___ like Pamela had changed the face of patient care.
Pamelas study was done against the ___7___ of a lively debate in paediatrics and psychology as to the degree women should spend with children in the outside world and the degree to which they should be allowed to visit children in___ 8___ .
The idea was that if mum came to ___9___a small child in hospital the child would be upset and inconsolable for hours.
Yet the nurse noticed that if mum did not come at___10___the child stayed in a relatively stable state but they might be depressed.
Of course we know now that they had almost, given ___11___ hope that mum was ever coming back.
To avoid a little bit of pain they said that no one should visit.
But children were alone, and ___12___, so Hawthorn said parents should be allowed to visit.
Dr Peter Carter, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said her___13___had been seminal.
Her research put an end to the___14___ when parents handed their children over to strangers at the door of the hospital ward.
As a result of her work, parents and carers are now recognized as partners in care and are ___15___ the opportunity to stay with their children while they are in hospital, which has dramatically improved both parents and childrens experience of care.
练习:
1. A for B with C upon D against
2. A occasionally B soundly C overnightD overtime
3. A practice B exercise C thought D request
4. A stayedB criedC appeared D left
5. A lost B changed C studied D made
6. A professors B doctors C nursesD parents
7. A backgroundB history C fact D reality
8. A schoolB hospital C family D world
9. A take B control C persuade D visit
10. A once B will C all D large
11. A up B off C down D away
12. A relaxed B pleased C depressed D stable
13. A workB dream C issue D doubt
14. A hours B days C weeks D months
15. A refused B created C lent D afforded
参考答案:BCADB CABDC ACABD
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