Los contenidos de la asignatura se estructuran en bloques temáticos. Cada uno de ellos se desarrolla mediante la realización de actividades presenciales y no presenciales, en las que se trabajan las cuatro destrezas comunicativas: writing, reading, listening y speaking. Cada una de las unidades temáticas se centrará, por tanto, en el estudio de dichas destrezas comunicativas con el objetivo de adquirir y consolidar la terminología específica propia del ámbito de la Enfermería. Los contenidos de la asignatura se presentan en cinco módulos o unidades temáticas:

TOPIC I. THE HOSPITAL SETTING.
1. The hospital and its medical departments
2. The ward unit
3. The Medical and the Nursing staff
4. Specialties in the medical field
5. Medical equipment and surgical instruments
6. Disinfection and sterilization
7. Diets
8. Admission forms

TOPIC II. THE NURSING PROFESSION.
1. Nursing as a profession: Types of nurses and roles
2. Practice settings
3. Nursing procedures and planning

TOPIC III. THE HUMAN BODY.
1. Organization of the human body: systems
2. Basic anatomical terms:
- Body movements and directional terms
- Body positions
- Body cavities and membranes
- Body planes
- Physical actions

TOPIC IV. THE PATIENT.
1. Diseases and disorders.
2. Symptoms, diagnoses, treatments and qualifiers
3. Describing pain and feelings
4. Gynaecological nursing
5. Nursing children
6. Nursing the elderly

TOPIC V. PHARMACOLOGY.
1. Drugs and drug classification
2. Routes of drug administration
3. Anaesthetic drugs