Nursing Professional English

Author: Xie Hong
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: English for Nursing This book highlights the scientificity, readability, and of the selected texts, striving for novelty and completeness in content. It focuses on introducing new knowledge, theories, and methods in nursing. Unlike previous formats, this textbook does not translate all the selected texts in full but provides annotations for difficult sentences with key vocabulary. Additionally, it includes relevant everyday expressions to enhance the book's practicality and improve its guidance value for clinical nursing practice. This textbook is suitable for undergraduate nursing students and nursing educators, as well as for clinical nurses seeking to self-study professional English. English for Nursing consists of 37 units and 4 appendices, primarily covering basic nursing knowledge and theories, specialized nursing skills, and the symptoms and care measures for common diseases. It also incorporates the realities of nursing work and the trends in contemporary medicine and nursing. The appendices include topics such as nursing records, evidence-based medicine, reading imported drug instructions, and medical roots and affixes. The book also provides 5 sets of comprehensive exercises, covering all the texts with reference answers to help readers assess their understanding of the material.