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The textbook corresponds to the standard curriculum for medical schools, colleges and nursing institutes. It summarises information about the development of internal medicine as a science, briefly presents historical facts, principles of organisation and methods of providing medical and preventive care to patients in Ukraine, as well as defines theoretical provisions relating to such concepts as disease, symptoms, problems, and nursing diagnosis. The article describes the methods of examination of a patient by a nurse. Attention is focused on the functions of a nurse in accordance with the stages of the nursing process. The main diseases of the internal organs are described, starting with the anatomical and physiological features of all body systems, clinical signs, the main problems of the patient, planning of nursing interventions, basic principles of treatment, medical examination, prevention.

For students of medical schools, colleges and institutes of nursing.