The following article provides a description of the curriculum design of an EAP reading course for nursing students, developed following Nation and Macalister’s (2010) model of the curriculum design process. This article will deal with the contents and sequencing, format and presentation, and monitoring and assessment segments of that model. An overview of the principles underpinning decisions concerning the three parts mentioned will also be provided, so that the reader has an idea about the beliefs that modelled this teacher’s decisions.