Starting Line Chinese for Nursing

This textbook comprises 16 lessons, with themes covering nursing-related content such as appointment and registration, vital sign measurement, medical history collection, examination and testing, medication administration, skin tests, injections, hospitalization, diagnosis, preoperative preparation, surgical nursing, postoperative care, emotional comfort, discharge, home care, and community care.
The textbook content is structured into three core modules, “Chinese + Nursing” Knowledge, Understanding Healthy China, and HSK Test-Taking Skills.
1.“Chinese + Nursing” Knowledge
In terms of topic-based tasks, the textbook designs a variety of communicative exercises rooted in nursing scenarios. These enable learners to use Chinese to describe and explain patients’ health conditions and common nursing situations, communicate with different groups such as doctors, patients, and patients’ family members, understand the prevention and treatment methods for various diseases and the basic nursing requirements of different departments, master fundamental nursing procedures, assess and judge patients’ problems, and further describe and implement nursing activities.
2.Understanding Healthy China
Centered on the specific theme of each lesson, the textbook introduces and narrates stories of Healthy China, Wellness China, and People’s Livelihood China. This allows learners to achieve an organic integration of linguistic knowledge, professional knowledge, clinical thinking, and humanistic care during the learning process, and fosters their professional identity and sense of mission regarding the significance of nursing work in promoting recovery, safeguarding health, and improving the quality of life.
3.HSK Test-Taking Skills
The exercise formats in this module are designed with reference to those of the HSK examination. By studying this section, learners can master relevant test-taking skills for the HSK Level 4 and above examinations, laying a solid foundation for passing the HSK test, enhancing their Chinese proficiency, and improving their nursing professional competence.