Unit 1 1
Dialogue:Registration 1
Text:Hospitals 1
Reading Materials: 4
A．The Medical Staff 4
B．A Modern Hospital 5
Unit 2 7
Dialogue:Clinic and Treatment Room 7
Text:The Lady with the Lamp 8
Reading Materials: 11
A．International Red Cross and its Founder 11
B．American Red Cross 12
Unit 3 14
Dialogue:Consulting Room 14
Text:Roles and Functions of the Nurse 15
Reading Materials: 19
A．Administering Medications 19
B．Scrubbing 20
Unit 4 23
Dialogue:Filling in Admission Card 23
Text:Admitting a Client to a Nursing Division 24
Reading Materials: 29
A．Safety and Accuracy 29
B．Emergency Care 31
Unit 5 33
Dialogue:Trauma 33
Text:Finding the Right Words 33
Reading Materials: 36
A．Observing and Describing the Wound 36
B．Wound Care 37
Unit 6 39
Dialogue:Abortion 39
Text:Nursing Diagnostic Process 39
Reading Materials： 44
A．Locating Intramuscular Injection Sites 44
B．Intravenous Infusions 45
Unit 7 48
Dialogue:Introducing Environment 48
Text:Communication and the Nursing Process 48
Reading Materials: 53
A．Administering Oral Medications 53
B．Giving Injections 55
Unit 8 57
Dialogue:Introducing Regulations 57
Text:Gerontologic Nursing 57
Reading Materials: 62
A．How to Write a Case Report 62
B．A Sample of Complete History 64
Unit 9 67
Dialogue:Penicillin Allergy Test 67
Text:A Pharmacist's Guide to Treating Pediatric Cough 68
Reading Materials: 73
A．When Breast-feeding Fails 73
B．Risk-free Blood Test for Unborn Babies 75
Unit 10 77
Dialogue:Appendicitis 77
Text:Surgical Intensive Care Unit 78
Reading Materials: 81
A．Burn Wound Care 81
B．Improved Compliance with Quality Assurance Markers 83
Unit 11 86
Dialogue:Before Discharge 86
Text:The Hospice Movement Brings Relief to the Dying 87
Reading Materials: 91
A．Code of Ethics 91
B．How Love Heals 93
Unit 12 96
Dialogue:Place an Intravenous Tube 96
Text:Nursing Research 97
Reading Materials: 101
A．How to Take a Precise Blood Pressure（Ⅰ） 101
B．How to Take a Precise Blood Pressure（Ⅱ） 104
Unit 13 109
Dialogue:Hypertension 109
Text:AIDS 109
Reading Materials: 113
A．Same Battle,Changing Fronts 113
B．AIDS 117
Unit 14 121
Dialogue:Pharmacy Room 121
Text:New Hope for Hearts 122
Reading Materials: 125
A．Organ Swaps a Pig in a Poke 125
B．Xeno's Paradox 128
Unit 15 131
Dialogue:Collecting the Sample 131
Text:Coronary Heart Disease 131
Reading Materials: 135
A．Infectious Gastroenteritis 135
B．Down with High Blood Pressure 137
Unit 16 142
Text:Why Cloning of Humans Must Forever be Seen as Unethical 142
Reading Materials: 146
A．Global Immunization for the Twenty-first Century 146
B．The Killer Protein behind Mad Cow Disease 148
Unit 17 152
Text:Uncontrolled Cell Growth 152
Reading Materials: 156
A．DNA Fingerprinting 156
B．Child Cancer Treatment Cause Long term Complications 157
Unit 18 161
Text:Cataracts 161
Reading Materials: 166
A．Laryngitis and Tumors of the Larynx 166
B．Ear Infections and Ear Tube surgery 168
Unit 19 171
Text:Therapy for Diabetic Patients 171
Reading Materials: 176
A．Acute Cholecystitis 176
B．Measles 179
Unit 20 183
Text:Nuclear Medicine for Diagnosis and Treatment 183
Reading Materials: 186
A．How to Build a Body Part 186
B．The Usefulness of the Alpha State 189
第1～20 单元练习答案及参考译文 191
第1单元 191
第2单元 195
第3单元 199
第4单元 204
第5单元 211
第6单元 215
第7单元 220
第8单元 225
第9单元 230
第10单元 235
第11单元 240
第12单元 247
第13单元 256
第14单元 263
第15单元 269
第16单元 275
第17单元 281
第18单元 286
第19单元 291
第20单元 297
Glossary 303