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Managing change (essentials of nursing management)
Nurse Educatron Todny (1991) 11, 77-79 0 Longman Group UK Ltd 1991
BOOK REVIEWS I
Training in the community for people with disabilities E Helander et al World Health Organisation Publications 1989 684pp illus ISBN: 92-4-154401-5 This WHO manual of 700 pages including 30 training packages, 2000 illustrations and four guides is aimed at improving the quality of life of people with disabilities who live in developing countries. It is aimed at community and family involvement and enables local talent and resources to be used in the most effective way possible. Based on ‘normal activities’ of eating, dressing, communicating, moving around, playing, going to school and taking part in work and social activities. The training packages constitute the core of the manual and seven types of disability are addressed, namely, seeing difficulty, moving difficulty, feeling difficulty, strange behaviour, hearing and speaking difficulty, fits and learning difficulty. Great care has gone into presenting such a vast topic in a simple and clear manner. The vocabulary has been restricted to about 1800 words and the excellent line drawings reinforce the simple step by step instructions that can help people with disabilities help themselves. An invaluable manual for all community workers involved in introducing realistic rehabilitation programmes in developing countries, its main strength lies in its repeated emphasis on community participation and self reliance and the need to refer rehabilitation problems that cannot be handled locally. CHRISTINE
HOWH
BA (Hans} RGN RHV RNT Managing care - 2 reader and workbook improving your decision making M Bond & S Kendall DLC (South Bank Poly) 1989 54pp illus ISBN: 0948250-43-7 227.50 Decision making is a vital activity undertaken by us all. Any means of facilitating this process will be welcomed b\- the profession. This study pack is one in a series designed for distance learning. It aims to enable the user to become better equipped to deal with the difficult decisions which have to be made in practice. It can be used in conjuction with other packs in the same series - ‘Being assertive’ (Bond 1987) and ‘Your role in policy making’ (Salvage & Holland, in press) which give complementarv support on strategies required to enable decision adoption and implementation. The easy to follow and handle format stimulates the user by including a variety of activities, eyecatching
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presentation and a sense of humour. The pack can be worked through, step by step at the reader’s own pace. It could be used as part of a longer course, as a means of satisfying individual needs or as n stimulus to further study. There is a logical progression from what decision making is to problems and processes involved. different ways of making decisions, dilemmas, constraints and the actual making of a decision. Realistic examples are used from nursing, midwifery and health visiting which gives a balanced view and would appeal to all groups.
Managing change (essentials of nursing management) Annabel Broome Macmillan 1990 75pp illus ISBN: O-333-48556-4
fG.99
This slim, attractive and inexpensive book is part ot a series designed to assist nurses and midwives to improve their management skills. The book focuses on change management. Each chapter tackles a managerial problem by discussing relevant theory, providing case studies for learning and self assessment exercises, and offering solutions. An inspection of the book’s content shows that the topics covered are up to date (i.e. related to general management) and, therefore, relevant to modern nursing education and practice. The book has a ‘warts and all’ feel to it in that the reader is exposed both to good and bad National Health Service managerial processes, and how practitioners can improve things. It has at least two limitations though. First, it is relevant onlv to the LrK. and second it is mainly a post-basic text; but this should not deter the individual OI librarian from purchasing a book which is readable, suitable for distance learning, and one which can be used for reference purposes. U_I-FH
KG,\’ DipN RC.L’T RST Nursing leadership and management Maureen P Sullivan Springhouse (USA) 1990 105pp illus ISBN: o-87434-229-5
HCRST
CurtEd HE
f8.50
This compact and expertly compiled book aims to give both the senior student and qualified nurse a comprehensive source of management theory, practicat applications, glossaries. and up-to-date references
BOOK REVIEWS I
Training in the community for people with disabilities E Helander et al World Health Organisation Publications 1989 684pp illus ISBN: 92-4-154401-5 This WHO manual of 700 pages including 30 training packages, 2000 illustrations and four guides is aimed at improving the quality of life of people with disabilities who live in developing countries. It is aimed at community and family involvement and enables local talent and resources to be used in the most effective way possible. Based on ‘normal activities’ of eating, dressing, communicating, moving around, playing, going to school and taking part in work and social activities. The training packages constitute the core of the manual and seven types of disability are addressed, namely, seeing difficulty, moving difficulty, feeling difficulty, strange behaviour, hearing and speaking difficulty, fits and learning difficulty. Great care has gone into presenting such a vast topic in a simple and clear manner. The vocabulary has been restricted to about 1800 words and the excellent line drawings reinforce the simple step by step instructions that can help people with disabilities help themselves. An invaluable manual for all community workers involved in introducing realistic rehabilitation programmes in developing countries, its main strength lies in its repeated emphasis on community participation and self reliance and the need to refer rehabilitation problems that cannot be handled locally. CHRISTINE
HOWH
BA (Hans} RGN RHV RNT Managing care - 2 reader and workbook improving your decision making M Bond & S Kendall DLC (South Bank Poly) 1989 54pp illus ISBN: 0948250-43-7 227.50 Decision making is a vital activity undertaken by us all. Any means of facilitating this process will be welcomed b\- the profession. This study pack is one in a series designed for distance learning. It aims to enable the user to become better equipped to deal with the difficult decisions which have to be made in practice. It can be used in conjuction with other packs in the same series - ‘Being assertive’ (Bond 1987) and ‘Your role in policy making’ (Salvage & Holland, in press) which give complementarv support on strategies required to enable decision adoption and implementation. The easy to follow and handle format stimulates the user by including a variety of activities, eyecatching
WORK _
._
__
presentation and a sense of humour. The pack can be worked through, step by step at the reader’s own pace. It could be used as part of a longer course, as a means of satisfying individual needs or as n stimulus to further study. There is a logical progression from what decision making is to problems and processes involved. different ways of making decisions, dilemmas, constraints and the actual making of a decision. Realistic examples are used from nursing, midwifery and health visiting which gives a balanced view and would appeal to all groups.
Managing change (essentials of nursing management) Annabel Broome Macmillan 1990 75pp illus ISBN: O-333-48556-4
fG.99
This slim, attractive and inexpensive book is part ot a series designed to assist nurses and midwives to improve their management skills. The book focuses on change management. Each chapter tackles a managerial problem by discussing relevant theory, providing case studies for learning and self assessment exercises, and offering solutions. An inspection of the book’s content shows that the topics covered are up to date (i.e. related to general management) and, therefore, relevant to modern nursing education and practice. The book has a ‘warts and all’ feel to it in that the reader is exposed both to good and bad National Health Service managerial processes, and how practitioners can improve things. It has at least two limitations though. First, it is relevant onlv to the LrK. and second it is mainly a post-basic text; but this should not deter the individual OI librarian from purchasing a book which is readable, suitable for distance learning, and one which can be used for reference purposes. U_I-FH
KG,\’ DipN RC.L’T RST Nursing leadership and management Maureen P Sullivan Springhouse (USA) 1990 105pp illus ISBN: o-87434-229-5
HCRST
CurtEd HE
f8.50
This compact and expertly compiled book aims to give both the senior student and qualified nurse a comprehensive source of management theory, practicat applications, glossaries. and up-to-date references