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Applied nursing diagnosis; guides for comprehensive care planning
NURSE
Curreut Issues
in Nursing
J Comi McCloskey & H Kennedy Blackwell Scientific 1985 1138 pp E25.00
EDUCATION
TODAY
difficult to accept that the resulting plan provides for the individualised approach which professional nurses are striving to provide.
Grace
PAMELAJ The second edition of Current Issues in Nursing promises to be a useful source book for nurses at a diploma or higher level of nursing study in this country. The book is divided into twelve sections, each concerned with one problematic area in nursing. The topics are wide ranging having, for example, concern for nursing education, ethical issues, and power and governance controversies. British readers should not be distracted by the fact that both editors and all the contributors are American. The issues debated are equally appropriate to nurses in the United Kingdom, albeit in some areas our development, and therefore level of abstraction, may not be comparable. Each section follows a similar style of presentation with a provision of an overview and debate of the topic, followed by papers presenting viewpoints on the issues concerned. In general the styles of the various contributors are very readable and each chapter has an extensive bibliography. The text represents good value at L25.00 albeit a paperback; it has over 1000 pages of valuable material for nursing concerned with developing a perspective of current nursing issues. It can be strongly recommended for all nursing libraries. KATHLEEN K F MORLE
MSc SRN RN7 DipAdvNurs
Applied Nursing Diagnosis; Guides Comprehensive Care Planning Kathy V Gettrust, Susan C Ryan & Diane Schmidt Engelman John Wiley 1985 239 pp E14.80
189
for
This book contains fifty-one care planning guides. Each guide is built around a nursing diagnosis and includes all components of the care plan; using a ‘mix and match’ approach, a plan to meet the needs of the patient can be developed and the spiral binding allows easy access to the appropriate section. There is no index, but a full table of contents at least, in part, compensates that lack. Bibliography is comprehensive and most of the sources quoted should be available at the medical/nursing library. Each diagnosis is defined, but the uncertain dimensions of nursing, particularly in relation to medicine, are evident; for example decreased Cardiac Output features as a nursing diagnosis. Nursing interventions are accompanied by a rationale which enhances the book as a learning aid, but it is
RICHARDSON
SRN SCM RN7
Patient Assessment P J Barker Croom Helm 1985 368 pp Illus
in Psychiatric
Nursing
410.95
On the first page of the first chapter of this book, the authors points out the relationship between assessment and judging, reviewing and evaluating. If what the author says is true (and I believe it is), then I am assessing his book. Assessment seeks not only to identify problems and weaknesses, but also strengths and assets, and this point, often overlooked, is emphasised tliroughout the book. The reader is taken from an overview of the assessment process through interviewing and history taking to assessment methods and their application to particular aspects of the individual’s existence. The particular skills necessary at each phase are emphasised and this should serve to remind the reader of the clinical expertise necessary adequately to assess patients. That there are a wealth of assessment strategies available to the psychiatric nurse is also demonstrated. The author’s style is tremendously engaging, and the text is supported by a wealth of illustrations, charts and diagrams. A comprehensive reference list at the end of chapter. However, the appears thought-provoking content reveals a person-centred approach to care, and writing, which is entirely appropriate particularly in the light of recent changes in care perspectives. This underlying theme is, to me, the book’s greatest (among many) asset, and an elusive element impossible to capture in a short review. The book should be available to all psychiatric nurses, and could serve as a valuable adjunct to an appropriately structured curriculum for mental nurse training. BLAIR COLLISTER
MSc RMN SRN DANS D.N RCNT RJVT
for Nursing Susan Pirie Baillikre Tindal 1985 E6.95
Maths
This is a really useful little book which is based on the principles of programme learning and accom-
Curreut Issues
in Nursing
J Comi McCloskey & H Kennedy Blackwell Scientific 1985 1138 pp E25.00
EDUCATION
TODAY
difficult to accept that the resulting plan provides for the individualised approach which professional nurses are striving to provide.
Grace
PAMELAJ The second edition of Current Issues in Nursing promises to be a useful source book for nurses at a diploma or higher level of nursing study in this country. The book is divided into twelve sections, each concerned with one problematic area in nursing. The topics are wide ranging having, for example, concern for nursing education, ethical issues, and power and governance controversies. British readers should not be distracted by the fact that both editors and all the contributors are American. The issues debated are equally appropriate to nurses in the United Kingdom, albeit in some areas our development, and therefore level of abstraction, may not be comparable. Each section follows a similar style of presentation with a provision of an overview and debate of the topic, followed by papers presenting viewpoints on the issues concerned. In general the styles of the various contributors are very readable and each chapter has an extensive bibliography. The text represents good value at L25.00 albeit a paperback; it has over 1000 pages of valuable material for nursing concerned with developing a perspective of current nursing issues. It can be strongly recommended for all nursing libraries. KATHLEEN K F MORLE
MSc SRN RN7 DipAdvNurs
Applied Nursing Diagnosis; Guides Comprehensive Care Planning Kathy V Gettrust, Susan C Ryan & Diane Schmidt Engelman John Wiley 1985 239 pp E14.80
189
for
This book contains fifty-one care planning guides. Each guide is built around a nursing diagnosis and includes all components of the care plan; using a ‘mix and match’ approach, a plan to meet the needs of the patient can be developed and the spiral binding allows easy access to the appropriate section. There is no index, but a full table of contents at least, in part, compensates that lack. Bibliography is comprehensive and most of the sources quoted should be available at the medical/nursing library. Each diagnosis is defined, but the uncertain dimensions of nursing, particularly in relation to medicine, are evident; for example decreased Cardiac Output features as a nursing diagnosis. Nursing interventions are accompanied by a rationale which enhances the book as a learning aid, but it is
RICHARDSON
SRN SCM RN7
Patient Assessment P J Barker Croom Helm 1985 368 pp Illus
in Psychiatric
Nursing
410.95
On the first page of the first chapter of this book, the authors points out the relationship between assessment and judging, reviewing and evaluating. If what the author says is true (and I believe it is), then I am assessing his book. Assessment seeks not only to identify problems and weaknesses, but also strengths and assets, and this point, often overlooked, is emphasised tliroughout the book. The reader is taken from an overview of the assessment process through interviewing and history taking to assessment methods and their application to particular aspects of the individual’s existence. The particular skills necessary at each phase are emphasised and this should serve to remind the reader of the clinical expertise necessary adequately to assess patients. That there are a wealth of assessment strategies available to the psychiatric nurse is also demonstrated. The author’s style is tremendously engaging, and the text is supported by a wealth of illustrations, charts and diagrams. A comprehensive reference list at the end of chapter. However, the appears thought-provoking content reveals a person-centred approach to care, and writing, which is entirely appropriate particularly in the light of recent changes in care perspectives. This underlying theme is, to me, the book’s greatest (among many) asset, and an elusive element impossible to capture in a short review. The book should be available to all psychiatric nurses, and could serve as a valuable adjunct to an appropriately structured curriculum for mental nurse training. BLAIR COLLISTER
MSc RMN SRN DANS D.N RCNT RJVT
for Nursing Susan Pirie Baillikre Tindal 1985 E6.95
Maths
This is a really useful little book which is based on the principles of programme learning and accom-