这是一本集听、说、读、写训练于一体的综合性英语课程，同步提供光盘。

本教材共设置10个教学单元和4个写作单元，每个教学单元包含两大板块：视听训练和阅读训练。视听训练部分涵盖了护理领域中10个最典型、最常见的工作生活场景，其中包括基础护理中涉及的入院、出院程序、生命体征测量、卫生护理、给药以及临床专科护理中的内科、外科、产科、儿科和精神科的护理操作技能。阅读训练部分主要介绍医学护理基本知识与理论以及常见疾病和护理措施。写作部分主要介绍一些常用的应用文体，旨在帮助学生能够运用英文书写护理记录，填写护理文件，掌握证明信、慰问信、祝贺信等社交书信的英文格式和正确书写个人履历表等。

本教材编写了配套的《护理英语学习指导》，主要提供教学参考目标，重点词汇的讲解，客观命题的答案，主观命题的回答范例，听力部分的录音原文和对话，阅读、写作部分的参考译文，以方便课堂教学及学生自学。

Introduction

Unit 1

Part One Audio-Visual Activities

Listening Admission

Dialogue A Admission to the Hospital

Dialogue B Information Gathering 

Activities

Part Two Reading-Centered Activities

Passage A The History of Nursing

Passage B Florence Nightingale

Passage C Types of Health Care Facilities in China

Unit 2

Part One Audio-Visual Activities

Listening Discharge

Dialogue A Discharge Teaching 

Dialogue B The Day the Patient Leaves

Activities

Part Two Reading-Centered Activities

Passage A Nursing Process

Passage B Health Assessment

Passage C Theories of Nursing

Writing 1 CERTIFICATE

Unit 3

Part One Audio-Visual Activities

Listening Vital Signs

Dialogue A Taking Temperature

Dialogue B Taking Blood Pressure

Activities

Part Two Reading-Centered Activities

Passage A Community Nursing

Passage B My Community Nursing Placement (at the Kidney Foundation)

Passage C Nursing in the Community

Unit 4

Part One Audio-Visual Activities

Listening Hygiene of the Patient

Dialogue A Morning Care

Dialogue B Hygiene of the Patient

Activities

Part Two Reading-Centered Activities

Passage A Aged Care Nursing

Passage B Parkinson's Disease

Passage C Aged Health Promotion

Unit 5

Part One Audio-Visual Activities

Listening Medication

Dialogue A Penicillin Allergy Test

Dialogue B Starting an IV (Intravenous)

Activities

Part Two Reading-Centered Activities

Passage A Cross-Cultural Nursing

Passage B Patient Safety and the Limits of Confidentiality

Passage C The Healing Power of Tea

Writing 2 LETTERS OF CONGRATULATIONS,CONSOLATION AND THANKS

Unit 6

Part One Audio-Visual Activities

Listening Medical Nursing

Dialogue A Hypertension

Dialogue B Care of the Patient in a Critical Condition

Activities

Part Two Reading-Centered Activities

Passage A Adult Nursing

Passage B Breast Cancer

Passage C Adult Health Care

Unit 7

Part One Audio-Visual Activities

Listening Surgical Nursing

Dialogue A Receiving a New Patient

Dialogue B Pre-Operative Care

Activities 

Part Two Reading-Centered Activities

Passage A Emergency Nursing

Passage B Choke, Shock and Stroke

Passage C High-Tech Medicine

Writing 3 NURSING NOTE,PROGRESSIVE NOTE AND MEDICAL ABSTRACT

Unit 8

Part One Audio-Visual Activities

Listening Obstetric Nursing

Dialogue A Waiting for Delivery

Dialogue B Delivery Care and Postpartum Care

Activities

Part Two Reading-Centered Activities

Passage A Maternal-Infant Nursing

Passage B Pneumonia

Passage C Breast Feeding

Unit 9

Part One Audio-Visual Activities

Listening Pediatric Nursing

Dialogue A Gathering Information from a Child's Mother

Dialogue B Care for the Kid with Measles

Activities

Part Two Reading-Centered Activities

Passage A Child Nursing

Passage B Childhood Obesity

Passage C Vomiting and Diarrhea

Unit 10

Part One Audio-Visual Activities

Listening Psychiatric Nursing

Dialogue A Encountering a Patient with Panic Disorder

Dialogue B Caring for a Schizophrenic Patient

Activities 

Part Two Reading-Centered Activities

Passage A Psychiatric Nursing

Passage B Anxiety Disorder

Passage C Mental Health

Writing 4 RESUME

Appendix

Vocabulary

Syllabus of International Nursing