1. Good morning Mrs Zhang. Do you understand English?
1. Do you know Chinese, nurse? If so would you mind translating for me?
2. Yes sure! I don't mind.
2. Hǎo de, wǒ xiān jiǎndān jièshào yīxià. Qǐng tōngzhī tā, wǒ jiāng xiézhù tā jìnxíng xiōngbù X guāng jiǎnchá, wǒ de míngzì shì Sphesihle Khumalo. Wǒ shì yī míng yī niánjí xuéshēng fàngshè jìshī.
3. Hǎo de, wǒ xiànzài xūyào shénme?
1. Okay, let me first provide a brief introduction. Please inform her that I will be assisting her with a chest x-ray and that my name is Sphesihle Khumalo. I'm a first year student radiographer.
1. She's saying that's fine, so now what is required from her?
2. Okay, explain to her that we will help her sit up straight with her chin raised, place a board on her back that might be cold, and then place a slightly heavy leather over her thighs. She must maintain her stillness while seated in this position. Then we will tell her to take a deep breath in, hold it for a moment, and then let it out so that she may then breathe normally.