本教材的编写从高等护理专业教学实际出发，主要突出实用性。主要内容包括护理学的基础知识，如南丁格尔的介绍、护理程序、静脉输液等；专科护理，如内科护理、外科护理、妇产科护理、儿科护理、精神病护理等；护理伦理及有关CGFNS等方面的知识。全书共分18个单元，每个单元共有四部分：**部分为课文，是建议课堂讲解的文章、词汇、练习题；第二部分难度不大，是建议学生练习、掌握的三个对话，对话的内容大部分与本单元涉及的内容有关，如有关患者就诊、入院、住院期间、出院等的护理，主要是常发生在护患之间、医患之间、护士之间、教师与学生之问的对话；第三部分为本单元相关文章阅读，内容难度比**部分稍大，是建议学生课外阅读的内容；第四部分是趣味知识。 本教材可供高等护理学专业学生使用，也可作为护理专业各类成人高等教育或专业护理英语培训教学用书及广大护理工作者的参考书。

Unit 1
Text Florence Nightingale
Dialogues
Reading Communieation Skills in Nursing
English for Fun Woman -- A Chemical Analysis.
Unit 2
Text Nursing Process
Dialogues
Reading Hierarchy of human needs
English for Fun Random Thought on Food Culture between Chinese and Westerners
Unit 3
Text Vital signs
Dialogues
Reading Administering Medication
English for Fun A Simple Friend and a Real Friend
Unit 4
Text Infusion and Injection
Dialogues
Reading Intravenous Therapy
English for Fun Forgiveness
Unit 5
Text Nursing Management and Patient Teaching in Diabetes
Dialogues
Reading Asthma
English for Fun The Four Wives
Unit 6
Text What Are the Risks of Smoking
Dialogues
Reading Cerebrovascular Accident
English for Fun Serving a Sunday Feast
Unit 7
Text Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Dialogues
Reading Application of the Nursing Process in the Care of the Preoperative Patient
English for Fun Eating Custom and Practice
Unit 8
Text Breast cancer
Dialogues
Reading Acute Cholecystitis
English for Fun
I. It hurts when I press here
II. Two Hearts Beating
Unit 9
Text Ovarian cancer
Dialogues
Reading Pregnancy and HIV/AIDS
English for Fun
I. Such a Good Boy
II. "KISS" doesn't mean a kiss
Unit 10

Text High Blood Pressure of Pregnancy
Dialogues
Reading Bleeding During Pregnancy
English for Fun
I. Hot coffee
II. I will give you a ring
Unit 11
Text Maternal, Infant and Child Health
Dialogues
Reading Late Childhood
English for Fun Interview with God
Unit 12
Text Infancy and Early Childhood
Dialogues
Reading Describing Human Growth and Development
English for Fun A Glass of Milk
Unit 13
Text Emergency Nursing
Dialogues
Reading Ankle Sprains:Healing and Preventing Injury
English for Fun
I . Clean glass
II. Good news and bad news
Unit 14
Text Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) :First Aid
Dialogues
Reading Cold Weather Walking and Running
English for Fun
I. Please do me a favor
II. The good and the bad
Unit 15
Text Nursing for the Patient with Antisocial Frsonality Disorder
Dialogues
Reading Characteristics of Personality Disorders
English for Fun
I. The prison hospital
II. Problems remembering
Unit 16
Text Depressive Disorders
Dialogues
Reading Depression
English for Fun
I. I would like to have a seeond opinion
II. A doctor is complaining to a mechanic
Unit 17
Text Principles of Nursing Ethics (1)
Dialogues
Reading AIDS, euthanasia and nursing
English for Fun
I. Sleep Pills
1I. Three Surgeons
Unit 18
Text Principles of Nursing Ethics (2)
Dialogues
Reading Ethical considerations at the end of life in the intensive care unit
English for Fun
I. It is possible that the patient was alive
II. The difference between men and women
Appendix
I. Introduction to CGFNS Certification
II. Overview of the Path to CGFNS Certification
Ⅲ. English Question