本书是全国高等职业教育护理专业领域技能型紧缺人才培养培训卫生部规划教材，其适用对象为具有一定公共英语基础的五年制涉外护理专业的学生。它的编写严格按照五年制高等职业教育培养方案中关于涉外护理专业对英语教学的要求，充分体现了“三基五性”的原则。其总体构想为：以就业为导向、以素质教育为基础、以能力提高为目标，充分发挥学生的主体作用，努力把学生培养成为有较强的英语应用能力，能适应国内外护理工作的实用型高等护理人才。其编写的指导思想是：通过广泛阅读专业英语，帮助学生扩大医学词汇量，熟悉医学应用文的英语书写格式和习惯，提高阅读速度，增强阅读理解能力，同时进一步培养学生的英语应用能力，并帮助学生通过国际相应级别的考试，以满足国内外医学界对高素质，高技能护士的需求。

Unit One Maternal-Infant Health Nursing

 Lesson 1  Respiratory Distress Syndrome

 Lesson 2 Pregnancy-Induced Syndrome

 Lesson 3 Postpartum Hemorrhage

Unit Two Children Health Nursing

 Lesson 4 Vomiting and Diarrhea

 Lesson 5 Childhood Obesity

 Lesson 6 Hemophilia

Unit Three Adult Health Nursing

 Lesson 7 Diabetes

 Lesson 8 Fracture 

 Lesson 9 Renal Failure

 Lesson 10 Breast Cancer

 Lesson 11 Menopausal Syndrome

 Lesson 12 Coronary Heart Disease

Unit Four Elderly Health Nursing

 Lesson 13 Senile Dementia

 Lesson 14 Osteoporosis

 Lesson 15 Prostatitis

Unit Five Infectious Disease Nursing

 Lesson 16 Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

 Lesson 17 Viral Hepatitis

 Lesson 18 Measles

Unit Six Connnunity Health Nursing

 Lesson 19 Holistic Wound Care

 Lesson 20 Rehabilitation Programs for Stroke Patients

 Lesson 21 Family Caregiving

Unit Seven Mental Health Nursing

 Lesson 22 Schizophrenia

 Lesson 23 Alcohol use and abuse

 Lesson 24 Depression

Unit Eight Critical Care

 Lesson 25 Recent Advances in Emergency Life Support

 Lesson 26 Emergency Stroke Management

 Lesson 27 Poisoning

APPENDIX

 医学英语构词法

FORMS

GLOSSARY