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c. Watch a video about nurse experience and decide whether the following statements are true

(T) or false (F).

1. Nurses, anesthesiologist, and anesthesia tech were some of medical practitioners
involved in Operating Room.

2. Alex’s group was the second group of new grad nurses.

3. Alex’s group has finished the program for 50 weeks.

4. Lukas’ hardest part during the program was picking up on different surgeries with
different equipments.
5. Karen’s favorite experience was learning anatomy, physiology, and what they were
doing to the patients.
6. The association projected that there could be 75% shortage of nurses in the next 25
years.
7. Alex informed us that the program comettee would fully support new grad nurses
who wants to join OR.

Language Focus: Simple Past vs Present Perfect Tense

SIMPLE PAST PRESENT PERFECT

The simple past tells us that an action The present perfect tells us that an
happened at a certain time in the past, action started in the past and it is still
and is not continuing anymore. It does happening now, or it is something that
not tell us anything about when an happens regularly. We may need more
action happened, so more information information to tell us how long it has
needs to be given with this verb form, been going on. It may also tell us that the
such as when the action took place. time period it started in is still going on.

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