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