本教材是基于护理专业知识的英语教材，兼具两个学科的特点。编写目的是帮助学生了解真实的国外或涉外护理工作场景，学习到近期新的护理学概念和常识，具备基本的文献阅读和学术论文写作能力，并了解国外注册护士考试的内容、难度及语言要求。在十二五版教材的基础上，本版教材重新整理了章节目录，删除了部分章节，并新增了更具时效性的内容。本版教材共十五章，每一章节增加了视听说（配视频或音频）部分；课文（尤其TEXT A部分）改变比较大，采用了与特定疾病关联的护理学专业内容；同时请上海外语教育出版社对课文进行录音；除此之外还增加了紧扣课文内容的习题，以及靠前护士资格考试等内容。无论学生是否在今后是否有涉外工作的机会，这版教材都帮助他们基本掌握英语语境下临床应用及科研读写的能力，了解近期新学科理念和动态，把握护理人才未来的发展方向。

Unit One Nursing Today
Part I Listening & Speaking
Part II Reading
TEXT A Modem Views on Nursing
TEXT B Contemporary Professional Nursing
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Unit Two Admitting and Discharging a Patient
Part I Listening & Speaking
Part II Reading
TEXT A Hospital
TEXT B Interstitial Nephritis
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Unit Three Health Assessment
Part I Listening & Speaking
Part II Reading
TEXT A Health Assessment on a Patient with Respiratory Disorder
TEXT B Physical Assessment
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Unit Four Clinical Observation
Part I Listening & Speaking
Part II Reading
TEXT A Vital Signs
TEXT B Angina
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Unit Five Comfort and Pain
Part I Listening & Speaking
Part II Reading
TEXT A Cancer Pain
TEXT B How to Assess Pain
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Unit Six Medication Administration
Part I Listening & Speaking
Part II Reading
TEXT A Heart Failure Medicines
TEXT B Safe Medication Administration
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Unit Seven Specimen Collection
Part I Listening & Speaking
Part II Reading
TEXT A Specimen Collection
TEXT B Occupational Exposure to HIV: Advice for Health Care Workers
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Unit Eight Care of Surgical Clients
Part I Listening & Speaking
Part 11 Reading
TEXT A Preoperative Care
TEXT B Breathing Exercises After Surgery
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Unit Nine Emergency Nursing
Part I Listening & Speaking
Part II Reading
TEXT A 2015 AHA CPR & ECC Guidelines
TEXT B Primary Survey of the Trauma Patient
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Unit Ten Family Visit
Part I Listening & Speaking
Part II Reading
TEXT A Healthy Eating
TEXT B Breast Feeding
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Unit Eleven Community
Health Nursing
Part I Listening & Speaking
Part II Reading
TAXT A Dementia
TEXT B Alzheimer's Disease
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Unit Twelve Caring for Terminally III Patients
Part I Listening & Speaking
Part II Reading
TEXT A Hospice Care
TEXT B Symptom Management in Palliative Care
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Unit Thirteen Rehabilitation Nursing
Part I Listening & Speaking
Part II Reading
TEXT A Stroke Rehabilitation
TEXT B Mom's Stroke Inspires NBA Star
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Unit Fourteen Traditional Chinese Medicine
Part I Listening & Speaking
Part II Reading
TEXT A Traditional Chinese Medicine
TEXT B Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Tuina
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Unit Fifteen NCLEX-RN Exam
NCLEX-RN Test Format
NCLEX-RN Exam Structure
NCLEX-RN Practice Questions Set 1
NCLEX-RN Practice Questions Set 2
What You Need to Know About NCLEX
Appendix 1 Keysto Exercises
Appendix 2 Glossary
Appendix 3 Video and Audio Scripts
Appendix 4 Common Medical Word Roots & Affixes
Appendix 5 Commonly Used Medications
Appendix 6 References