Oral instructions

In the above case, the laboratory operator had given the designer oral instructions for the hood but did not see the sketch the designer made later for the sheet metal contractor. If the laboratory operator had put his instructions in writing or made a rough sketch, there would have been no misunderstandings. 

Have the ability to understand and follow written and oral instructions. 

Be at least 18 years of age Be a resident of this city or Kings County Have the ability to understand and follow written and oral instructions... 

Although these points may seem obvious, too many elderly patients leave their physicians offices without sufficient information about the drugs prescribed for them. Whenever possible, oral instructions should be accompanied by the same information in writing because elderly patients may seem to understand in the office but forget once they get home or when confronted with a particular situation such as a missed dose or a possible adverse effect. Providing the same information to relatives is also beneficial. 

Instruction for the patient, to be written on container by the pharmacist. Here brevity, clarify and accuracy are especially important. It is dangerous to rely on the patient remembering oral instructions. The BNF provides a list of recommended cautionary and advisory labels for dispensed medicines representing a balance between the unintelligibly short and the inconveniently long, e.g. Do not stop taking this medicine except on your doctor s advice. ... 

The original aim, which remains unchanged, was a text-book of modest size and price that did not presume to be a substitute for oral instruction or seek to deal with the special topics which give individuality to advanced courses. Extending its scope to include even a selection of these topics would have destroyed the character of the book hence the only major additions are a description of phosphonitrilic compounds, a section on complexes in aqueous solution, and a short chapter on inorganic polymers. In other parts the treatment has been modified to bring it into line with the results of recent research. 

A. failure to give oral instructions for those with reading disabilities... 

Support oral instructions with easy-to-read written information. 

The Scripture of the Golden Liquor says Throw a golden figurine of a man weighing eight ounces into an east-flowing stream, and utter an oath after drinking some blood. Only then you may receive the oral instructions. Baopu zi, 4.83)... 

Having received the texts and the oral instructions, the adept retires to a mountain or an isolated place. He is accompanied by two or three attendants, whose main tasks are pounding the ingredients and tending the fire ... 

Details on some aspects of the procedure summarized by Ge Hong are found in the Oral Instructions of the Celestial Master. The commentary describes seven methods ... 

The names of three of these methods—those for the Flowery Pond, the Red Salt, and the Hard Snow—correspond to those of the preliminary preparations mentioned by Ge Hong. As the original Scripture is not extant, however, there are no clues to identify what role these and the other methods listed above played in compounding the Elixir of Great Clarity. The Oral Instructions, moreover, does not reveal the identity of the Flying Talisman and the Divine Water of the Three-and-Five nor does it refer either to the nine cycles of heating or to the final transmutation of the elixir with cinnabar. 

Nevertheless, the Oral Instructions hints at an important role played by mercury in the method for compounding the Elixir of Great Clarity. Mercury is mentioned in several sections of the commentary. The Real Pearl is obtained by placing mercury and saltpeter inside the quill of a bird s feather (niaoge), which is sealed with wood and lacquer and is soaked in a Elow-ery Pond for seven days or longer. If it is ingested for one hundred days, it confers immortality. Mercury also appears as the name of the lead-tin compound (which is described as quicksilver, shuiyin, possibly implying a... 

When you are ready to transmit the Way, face north and do not disclose it for one [double] hour (yishi). If the sky is clear and there is no wind, the Way can be transmitted. [Master and disciple] seal their covenant by drinking together some blood of a white chicken. Transmit the oral instructions and the essentials of the compounding of the elixirs, and throw the golden figurines of the man and the fish into the stream. This is done so that the multitudes of those who are not suited for becoming a divine immortal never see this Way. 

This method of the Divine Elixir in Nine Cycles is the oral instructions (koujue) of Lord Wang. It is clear and easy to perform. If the ingredients are utterly pure (jinjing), and if you duly perform the purification practices, observe the precepts, and cultivate yourself dwelling in deep retirement and attaining to a state of clarity and tranquility (qingjing), this divine and wondrous method will never fail. 

This chapter, concerned with the transmission of doctrines and methods, is devoted to the preliminaries to the alchemical wor . Since the writings of the literati rushu M s ) do not contain methods for becoming an immortal, a sovereign should search for them. The methods alone, however, are not enough one should also receive both the written and the oral instructions wenjue and koujue P1 ). The main part of this chapter describes the ceremony of transmission of the Scripture of Great Clarity, of one unidenti-hed text, and of three lost wor s attributed to Hugang zi... 

Taiqing jing tianshi koujue P [Oral Instructions of the Celestial... 

Provide written and oral instructions about antibiotic therapy. 

A perioperative nurse orally instructs the patient and his support system in the rationale for an antiseptic preoperative shower. As a partner of the perioperative team, the patient is asked to reduce the transient and resident colonization of microbes on his skin surface with an antiseptic and, thus, lower the endogenous source for a potential surgical site infection. 

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