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Nurse-Client Interaction: Implementing the Nursing Process
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Also AvaihbleShock. Nursing Now Series. Springhouse Corp, 11 1 1 Bethlehem Pike, Springhouse, PA 19477, 1984, 136 pp, $13.95 clothbound. The nurse’s ability to recognize signs of shock and anticipate nursing care is critical to a patient’s survival. This book describes basic shock phenomenon including cell function, cell shock, anatomy, and physiology. Procedures are covered more in-depth: monitoring central venous pressure, applying medical antishock trousers, adult respiratory distress syndrome, disseminated intravascular coagulation, renal failure, and complications of shock. A reader can quickly review shock by using the charts, graphs, illustrations, and color-coded information that illustrate the text. FRANKOCH,RN CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX
Nurse-Client Interaction: Implementing the Nursing Process, 3rd ed. Sandra J. Sundeen et al. C V Mosby Co, 11830 Westline Industrial Dr, St Louis, MO 63146, 1985, 350 pp, $14.95 paperback. The third edition of this book is timely and well written. Each chapter states the objectives and then leads you through it in a well-organized fashion. The authors evaluate numerous case studies by listing the objectives, assessment, planned nursing actions, and the supervisor’s comments. Graphs, models, and other illustrations also help the reader understand the material. The nursing process is not a new concept to nurses, but the authors weave it into present day nursing and make it relevant and exciting. PATRICIA BRANNAN, RN, CNOR BRYNMAWR,PA
The Design and Utilizationof Operating Theatres. Ivan Johnson, Andrew R. Hunter, eds. Edward Arnold Ltd, 41 Bedford Square, London, 1984, 190 pp, $57.50 clothbound. This book, which was written by a surgeon and 1336
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an anesthesiologist from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, discusses a step-by-step format for planning a new operating room. Each chapter of this well-organized book offers diagrams, pictures, tables, and a reference list. However, some of the British language is confusing, and many of the OR requirements are different from US specifications. Nevertheless, this concise, well-written book can be used as a reference for OR project coordinators, supervisors, and architects when planning and designing a new operating room. MARYANN PAPANIER WELLS, RN, CNOR DREXELHILL.PA
Cure of the Adult Cardiac Surgery Patient. Patricia Turk Horvath. John Wiley & Sons, 605 3rd Ave, New York, N Y 10016, 1984, 320 pp, $17.95 paperback. The book covers adult cardiac care from preoperative preparation to the postoperative phase. There is a chapter on perioperative nursing care, which consists mostly of definitions, anatomical diagrams, and pictures of artificial heart valves. It was disappointing not to find an in-depth explanation of that phase, though. The text is specifically designed to be part of the Critical Care Nursing Series and as a quick reference. However, the content does not follow textbook style nor does it provide an instant index of symptoms, causes, effects, and prescriptions. The book would be an asset for a cardiovascular clinical nursing specialist in a teaching setting, or for critical care nurses, graduate students, and senior level nursing students in the clinical setting. MARTHA HOFFMAN. RN ROCHESTER. NY
Nursing Diagnosis: Applicution to Clinical Practice. Lynda Juall Carpenito. J B Lippincott Co. E Washington Square, Philadelphia, PA 19105, 1983, 540 pp. $20 paperback. Nursing diagnosis is what defines nursing and differentiates nursing from medicine-it is our domain. This book assists students in transferring theoretical knowledge to clinical practice and aids
Also AvaihbleShock. Nursing Now Series. Springhouse Corp, 11 1 1 Bethlehem Pike, Springhouse, PA 19477, 1984, 136 pp, $13.95 clothbound. The nurse’s ability to recognize signs of shock and anticipate nursing care is critical to a patient’s survival. This book describes basic shock phenomenon including cell function, cell shock, anatomy, and physiology. Procedures are covered more in-depth: monitoring central venous pressure, applying medical antishock trousers, adult respiratory distress syndrome, disseminated intravascular coagulation, renal failure, and complications of shock. A reader can quickly review shock by using the charts, graphs, illustrations, and color-coded information that illustrate the text. FRANKOCH,RN CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX
Nurse-Client Interaction: Implementing the Nursing Process, 3rd ed. Sandra J. Sundeen et al. C V Mosby Co, 11830 Westline Industrial Dr, St Louis, MO 63146, 1985, 350 pp, $14.95 paperback. The third edition of this book is timely and well written. Each chapter states the objectives and then leads you through it in a well-organized fashion. The authors evaluate numerous case studies by listing the objectives, assessment, planned nursing actions, and the supervisor’s comments. Graphs, models, and other illustrations also help the reader understand the material. The nursing process is not a new concept to nurses, but the authors weave it into present day nursing and make it relevant and exciting. PATRICIA BRANNAN, RN, CNOR BRYNMAWR,PA
The Design and Utilizationof Operating Theatres. Ivan Johnson, Andrew R. Hunter, eds. Edward Arnold Ltd, 41 Bedford Square, London, 1984, 190 pp, $57.50 clothbound. This book, which was written by a surgeon and 1336
J U N E 1986, VOL. 43. NO 6
an anesthesiologist from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, discusses a step-by-step format for planning a new operating room. Each chapter of this well-organized book offers diagrams, pictures, tables, and a reference list. However, some of the British language is confusing, and many of the OR requirements are different from US specifications. Nevertheless, this concise, well-written book can be used as a reference for OR project coordinators, supervisors, and architects when planning and designing a new operating room. MARYANN PAPANIER WELLS, RN, CNOR DREXELHILL.PA
Cure of the Adult Cardiac Surgery Patient. Patricia Turk Horvath. John Wiley & Sons, 605 3rd Ave, New York, N Y 10016, 1984, 320 pp, $17.95 paperback. The book covers adult cardiac care from preoperative preparation to the postoperative phase. There is a chapter on perioperative nursing care, which consists mostly of definitions, anatomical diagrams, and pictures of artificial heart valves. It was disappointing not to find an in-depth explanation of that phase, though. The text is specifically designed to be part of the Critical Care Nursing Series and as a quick reference. However, the content does not follow textbook style nor does it provide an instant index of symptoms, causes, effects, and prescriptions. The book would be an asset for a cardiovascular clinical nursing specialist in a teaching setting, or for critical care nurses, graduate students, and senior level nursing students in the clinical setting. MARTHA HOFFMAN. RN ROCHESTER. NY
Nursing Diagnosis: Applicution to Clinical Practice. Lynda Juall Carpenito. J B Lippincott Co. E Washington Square, Philadelphia, PA 19105, 1983, 540 pp. $20 paperback. Nursing diagnosis is what defines nursing and differentiates nursing from medicine-it is our domain. This book assists students in transferring theoretical knowledge to clinical practice and aids