The word 'wards' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that refers to an area or division within a larger organization or institution, such as a hospital or prison. Example: The hospital has separate wards for pediatric, maternity, and surgical patients. Other examples: - The city council is responsible for overseeing the various wards within the city. - The inmates were transferred to different wards based on their level of security. - She was elected as the councilor for the second ward in her district. - The psychiatric ward of the hospital is currently under renovation. - Each orphan has their own room in the children's ward.
Some 39% said they could carry out practical service in the community – such as taking patients out on social visits – while, again, more than a third (35%) expressed interest in carrying out hospital visits and 31% in helping on wards.
As night draws in, the building takes on a different quality: the wards are hushed; the endless corridors feel almost eerie.
Susan Bewley, professor of complex obstetrics at King's College, London, and chair of the Nice advisory group, added that infections were more common on hospital wards.
Warddeken ranger Terrah Guymala wards off the cold with a thick fleece and beanie while he walks around Canberra's Nishi gallery, its walls adorned with photographs of precious rock art from his place, the "stone country" of west Arnhem Land.
Now, because we have to meet targets, wards are discharging patients more efficiently, medicines are being dispensed more quickly, transport is being arranged faster - it's all nitty-gritty stuff but it all helps when people work together to solve a problem.
"Back in the early 1990s wards looked pretty grim, aggressive 70s wallpaper patterns peeped through decades of mottled nicotine.
I arrive at 7.45am (well before visiting time starts), I'm around on the wards all day and leave after visiting time ends at 8pm.
There are sheets of paper stating this in hundreds of wards all over the country.
Her medical records revealed self-harm, alcohol abuse and stretches in psychiatric wards.
It closed 17 wards in different hospitals in England in October and has already led to further closures this month, including an outbreak that led to three wards at Stoke University hospital being sealed off to new admissions.
Women with low-risk pregnancies are to be encouraged to have non-hospital births under new NHS guidelines, which could see almost half of mothers-to-be planning to deliver their baby away from traditional labour wards.
