- Email: [email protected]
THE NURSING CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA
BOOK REVIEWS
EMERGENCY NURSING, by C. L. Riehl, Peoria, Ill., Charles Bennett Co., Inc. The author stated the purpose for this book is “to fill the need for a sound, modern textbook concerning the conditions most frequently met in a general hospital emergency room.” In trying to meet this need, she has reduced the factual material in favor of interpretation, and has stressed the main principles of emergency service and nursing. Anatomical and physiological information is integrated with the discussion of each body site or disorder, rather than having this material isolated in separate chapters. There are separate chapters dealing with respiratory and cardiac massage; head injuries; injuries of the chest, abdomen, spine and pelvis; fractures of the extremities, and orthopedic traction ; principles of wound care, infections and antibiotic therapy ; burns, shock, principles and priorities in multiple injuries; medical emergencies ; poisons, bites and foreign bodies; and the emotional aspects of injury. These chapters are well illustrated and describe the principles underlying medical and nursing management as well as the nurse’s responsibilities to the patient and the physician regarding continuity of care and progress. Such clearly presented information would be most valuable to the nursing student
M a y 1970
or new graduate assigned to an emergency room. Although the chapters dealing with various emergencies contain a fresh approach to material available in other source books, it is the first four chapters which nursing personnel will find most valuable. These chapters are concerned with understanding today’s emergency department, administration and planning, personnel, physical layout, equipment, and supplies. The American College of Surgeons’ “Standard for Emergency Departments in Hospitals” is printed in full and provides a method to evaluate services provided in any hospital. A suggested reading list is included as is a training program for ambulance personnel and those responsible for emergency care at the scene and during transport. This book could serve as a valuable textbook for student nurses and a reference book for nurses in all services of the hospital.
SR.DOLORES KANE,R.N. Chicago, Ill.
THE NURSING CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA, W . B . Saunders Co., Sept. 1969. This issue of the Nursing Clinics of North America presented two symposia-the first
115
concerning patient care in kidney and urinary tract disease; the second, concerning new methods of nursing service provision. The goal of the first symposium was cited as being three-fold: 1) to reflect the changing role of the dialysis nurse; 2 ) to define requirements for implementing a dialysis unit; and 3 ) to discourage the traditional isolation of dialysis units from the parent institution. A brief history of hemodialysis was provided, followed by detailed reports on the various aspects of hemodialysis. These reports discussed the planning and development of a dialysis unit, as well as the variety of roles the nurse assumes, not only in the hospital dialysis unit, but in extending its functions to the patient outside the hospital, through implementation of home dialysis. The importance o f communication and teamwork between nurses directly connected with physical care of the patient, and all auxiliary departments, including nursing administration, was consistently stressed. The authors indicated that only through this vital communication and understanding could the ideal type of nursing care for the dialysis and renal transplant patient be effectively provided. The second symposium briefly summarized several trends in nursing. The first of these concerned nursing and rehabilitation at Loeb Center, which is a unit staffed only by professional nurses who give complete and direct nursing care to all patients. The second article gave a brief summary of an experimental unit in a general hospital in which a group of new graduates from a professional school of nursing were allowed to put nursing ideals into practice, bringing every patient on the nursing unit under direct care of a professional nurse. Nurse midwifery, its history, philosophy, implementation, roles and progress was the concern of a third section followed by an article describing an experimental project at
116
Vanderbilt University Hospital, which implements the roles of both the unit manager, and the clinical nurse specialist. The fifth article discussed the role of the psychiatric nurse as a consultant on mental health in a general hospital, and the final article discussed present use and future possibilities for use of the computer in the hospital setting.
MARYSUEAVERY,R.N. Battle Creek, Mich.
DRUGS IN CURRENT USE AND NEW DRUGS, b y Walter Modell, M.D., New York, Springer Publishing Co., Inc., 1970. Those familiar with previous editions of this book will recognize that the change in format initiated with the 15th edition, has been continued in this one. Part I consists of an alphabetical listing of drugs currently used in clinical medicine. These include well established drugs; those still on trial; those of questionable value but still likely to be encountered ; those seen as the cause of poisoning ; those recently withdrawn because of their toxicity but still encountered in the literature; and those obsolete. Most drugs are described in terms of major uses, physical properties, modes of transmission and preparations. Specific antidotes against poisoning, if any, are given. Part I1 is devoted to extensive accounts of new drugs, their dangers, limitations, and uses. This book is intended to serve as a quick reference source for the safe use and handiing of drugs. It is unfortunate that the book does not contain an index t o facilitate the finding of drugs and the pages on which they are found.
SR. DOLORESKANE,R.N. Chicago, Ill.
AORN Journal
EMERGENCY NURSING, by C. L. Riehl, Peoria, Ill., Charles Bennett Co., Inc. The author stated the purpose for this book is “to fill the need for a sound, modern textbook concerning the conditions most frequently met in a general hospital emergency room.” In trying to meet this need, she has reduced the factual material in favor of interpretation, and has stressed the main principles of emergency service and nursing. Anatomical and physiological information is integrated with the discussion of each body site or disorder, rather than having this material isolated in separate chapters. There are separate chapters dealing with respiratory and cardiac massage; head injuries; injuries of the chest, abdomen, spine and pelvis; fractures of the extremities, and orthopedic traction ; principles of wound care, infections and antibiotic therapy ; burns, shock, principles and priorities in multiple injuries; medical emergencies ; poisons, bites and foreign bodies; and the emotional aspects of injury. These chapters are well illustrated and describe the principles underlying medical and nursing management as well as the nurse’s responsibilities to the patient and the physician regarding continuity of care and progress. Such clearly presented information would be most valuable to the nursing student
M a y 1970
or new graduate assigned to an emergency room. Although the chapters dealing with various emergencies contain a fresh approach to material available in other source books, it is the first four chapters which nursing personnel will find most valuable. These chapters are concerned with understanding today’s emergency department, administration and planning, personnel, physical layout, equipment, and supplies. The American College of Surgeons’ “Standard for Emergency Departments in Hospitals” is printed in full and provides a method to evaluate services provided in any hospital. A suggested reading list is included as is a training program for ambulance personnel and those responsible for emergency care at the scene and during transport. This book could serve as a valuable textbook for student nurses and a reference book for nurses in all services of the hospital.
SR.DOLORES KANE,R.N. Chicago, Ill.
THE NURSING CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA, W . B . Saunders Co., Sept. 1969. This issue of the Nursing Clinics of North America presented two symposia-the first
115
concerning patient care in kidney and urinary tract disease; the second, concerning new methods of nursing service provision. The goal of the first symposium was cited as being three-fold: 1) to reflect the changing role of the dialysis nurse; 2 ) to define requirements for implementing a dialysis unit; and 3 ) to discourage the traditional isolation of dialysis units from the parent institution. A brief history of hemodialysis was provided, followed by detailed reports on the various aspects of hemodialysis. These reports discussed the planning and development of a dialysis unit, as well as the variety of roles the nurse assumes, not only in the hospital dialysis unit, but in extending its functions to the patient outside the hospital, through implementation of home dialysis. The importance o f communication and teamwork between nurses directly connected with physical care of the patient, and all auxiliary departments, including nursing administration, was consistently stressed. The authors indicated that only through this vital communication and understanding could the ideal type of nursing care for the dialysis and renal transplant patient be effectively provided. The second symposium briefly summarized several trends in nursing. The first of these concerned nursing and rehabilitation at Loeb Center, which is a unit staffed only by professional nurses who give complete and direct nursing care to all patients. The second article gave a brief summary of an experimental unit in a general hospital in which a group of new graduates from a professional school of nursing were allowed to put nursing ideals into practice, bringing every patient on the nursing unit under direct care of a professional nurse. Nurse midwifery, its history, philosophy, implementation, roles and progress was the concern of a third section followed by an article describing an experimental project at
116
Vanderbilt University Hospital, which implements the roles of both the unit manager, and the clinical nurse specialist. The fifth article discussed the role of the psychiatric nurse as a consultant on mental health in a general hospital, and the final article discussed present use and future possibilities for use of the computer in the hospital setting.
MARYSUEAVERY,R.N. Battle Creek, Mich.
DRUGS IN CURRENT USE AND NEW DRUGS, b y Walter Modell, M.D., New York, Springer Publishing Co., Inc., 1970. Those familiar with previous editions of this book will recognize that the change in format initiated with the 15th edition, has been continued in this one. Part I consists of an alphabetical listing of drugs currently used in clinical medicine. These include well established drugs; those still on trial; those of questionable value but still likely to be encountered ; those seen as the cause of poisoning ; those recently withdrawn because of their toxicity but still encountered in the literature; and those obsolete. Most drugs are described in terms of major uses, physical properties, modes of transmission and preparations. Specific antidotes against poisoning, if any, are given. Part I1 is devoted to extensive accounts of new drugs, their dangers, limitations, and uses. This book is intended to serve as a quick reference source for the safe use and handiing of drugs. It is unfortunate that the book does not contain an index t o facilitate the finding of drugs and the pages on which they are found.
SR. DOLORESKANE,R.N. Chicago, Ill.
AORN Journal