The communicative approach the nurse takes it is the typical structural unit of discourse: doctor-question, patient-response, and doctor-assessment. Here the nurse takes the role of the doctor in the usual structural unit of discourse. First she starts with the assessment of prior questions that have been ask by the receptionist to confirm why the patient is there. However, after this confirmation she doesn’t make assessments after she asks questions, she quickly moves on to the next question like in lines 3 and 5 after the patient’s response. The nurse asks open-ended question in order to allow the patient to elaborate on her situation so she could learn more about the patient in order to understand what is causing her to be so tired all the
