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Perceptions of AIDS Counselling Philip Burnard Avebury 1992 242pp illus ISBN: 1 85628
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Since AIDS was identified only 11 years ago, caring services have had to respond to new challenges as the epidemic has developed. The psychological impact of a HIV or an AIDS diagnosis, or indeed the possibility of these, quickly became apparent. In addition there had been a need to provide accurate information and advice. Nurses have often been at the forefront of caring for people with complex medical, counselling and health education requirements. This book discusses counselling in general and introduces the author’s ongoing research into the particular speciality of AIDS counselhng. It presents a model for AIDS counselling based upon interviews with health professionals and AIDS counsellors and puts forward guidelines for AIDS counselling training. There are impressive lists of references and a bibliography which includes 141 of the author’s publications. There are people who will read something on the strength of Philip Burnard’s reputation. They will not be disappointed by this new book. It will be of interest to anybody involved in AIDS counselling and to those who teach interpersonal skills or train AIDS counsellors. This is a stimulating addition to the AIDS counselling debate. At nearly 230 it is more likely to attract the institution than the individual. MARTIN JONES
RGN Perspectives in Family & Community Health Karen A Saucier Wolfe Publishing 1991 412pp illus ISBN: 0 8016 4338 4 f23.95
PB
75 contributors and 18 distinguished consultants in American nursing have made this one of the outstanding books of recent years. It is a selection of published articles on family and community health to reflect what the editor considers to be major aspects of nursing practice in the community. There are eight parts organised into 48 relatively short chapters. Part 1 defines community health nursing, considers its historical background and issues about cost and the contribution of nurses. Parts 2-7 provide stimulating materials on community health from its underlying conceptual models to issues about culture, health promotion and contemporary health problems.
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The style throughout is scholarly but not esoteric. The authors draw on practical examples to illustrate social, economic and political aspects of community health and the role of nurses. It is a rich source of literature in this field and can be studied according to the reader’s areas of interests. This is a book that can be recommended for the reference section of the library. It is particularly suitable for use with Project 2000 given the special place of community care within the curriculum.
RGN RM RFN DN CERT DNT RNT PGCEA Orems Model in Action Stephen Cavanagh Macmillan 1991 15Opp illus ISBN:
0 333 53624
X f9.99
PB
A useful, user-friendly, well-reference text providing the reader with an opportunity to explore Orem’s Model of Nursing, and its relevance and application to a variety of care settings. The first part of the text clearly explains the theoretical base underpinning Orem’s Model. Particularly valuable are the sections on the assumptions of the nature of man, nursing, self-care, self-care requisites, deficits and agencies. The second, and major part of the text, demonstrates the model in action. The author successfully applies the model to a series of care studies, giving examples for patients/clients requiring paediatric, medical, surgical, psychiatric, and elderly care. For the novice reader, one might criticise the over-use of forenames with seemingly lack of patient/client consent. However, as a learning aid, each care study is concluded with a useful guide to follow-up work, which takes the form of questions and activities. The final part of the text sets the model in a wider perspective, demonstrating, and exploring the issues for undertaking a critique. A valuable text for pre-registration students, and qualified nurses undertaking further studies, or implementing a model of nursing within their practice. SHEILA A HOGG
MEd Post-Grad DAES RGN RM RNT Watson Medical-Surgical Nursing & Related Physiology 4th Ed Joan A Royle & Mike Walsh Balliere-Tindall 1992 1037~~ illus ISBN: 0 7020 1515 6 215.95 This is the fourth edition of this popular it is good to see that it has managed
PB
textbook and to retain its
393
3%
NURSEEDU<:ATIONTODAY
reasonable price. It appears to have more adaptations than previous editions to make it appropriate for British nurses. It is well set out, clear and concise with many excellent illustrations. The list of references and suggested reading at the end of each chapter allows the reader to pursue topics of interest. This list has also been adapted and contains many easily obtained British references. My only disappointment is that the book does not appear to emphasise sufficiently the move from illness to health and from hospital to community care. It is recommended on the Suggested Reading List for our undergraduates and is the one that the majority usually decide to buy. M MCMALL BA RGN RCT
JANICE
Managing Work Experience
P A Ashworth 8eJ Saxton Routledge 1992 156pp illus 1SBN:O 415 07127 5 f10.99 PB Managing Work Experience is a well written and useful book and of great interest to any teachers whose students have placements in a practical area. It is of particular interest to nurse teachers, with the highly influential role that practice placements play in the education of nurses. All would agree that the relationship between student, placement supervisor and nurse teacher are of vital importance. This book looks at these roles and discusses the problems that can arise in the day to day running of a placement. The book also proposes practical solutions to these problems. It provides not just an academic view but acts also as a very practical guide and handbook, which in my opinion is essential in this type of text. The writers both from Sheffield Hallam Univesity (formerly Shefheld City Polytechnic) are working at the very cutting edge of educational development in further and higher education, and as such the book must be recommended reading to nurse teachers wishing to keep up to date in this important aspect of higher education.
epidemic: sexual politics, risk taking, hard to reach populations, health promotion and more. There is something here for health professionals. volunteers and anybody else interested in understanding the impact of HIV/AIDS upon people’s lives, and within society. Assumptions about sexual behaviour, the role of alcohol, attitudes towards Africa, media stereotypes: all these are explored in 14 stimulating papers. There is an international dimension and a focus upon different groups: gay men, young women, prostitutes, drug users and migrant workers. Some of the research is ongoing, some from larger projects, some of it raising fresh questions or challenging beliefs and ways of working. The authors are experts in their fields and have provided excellent references to support the text. One author notes, perhaps with a hint of frustration, that ‘the relationship between science and social science is a little like that between “truck drivers” and “women truck drivers”: we have to be twice as good at what we do to be taken seriously.’ Never mind that a few abbreviations used in Chapter 8 are unexplained; this readable up to date volume stands on its own merit as a valuable addition to the body HIV/AIDS knowledge. MARTINJONES Manager/Clinical
Specialist Genitourinaq
Medicine
Budgeting Skills N Taylor
Yuay 1992 78pp illus ISBN 1 85642 037 X f7.50
1 found this short, very readable, no-nonsense budgeting guide for first-line managers served both as a reference book and as a distance-learning text. The book’s objectives were to: (A) introduce the reader to financial managment; (B) explain basic accounting; and most importantly, (C) to give the manager confidence to interpret and act on budgetary information. The book was written for ward/departmental managers, and for nurses on diploma/first degree courses. of the chapters built knowCHRISTOPHERC BASSFI-I The logical structuring ledge and skills. A particularly good feature was the RGN ITU cert NcSM Dip HE use of vignettes that brought financial theory to life. End of chapter exercises encouaraged the reader to get involved, helping him or her to achieve the book’s objectives. Aids: Rights, Risk Se Reason Neil Taylor has not shied-away from controversial Peter Aggleton et al or developing health care financial issues. He encouFalmer raged nurses to grasp the nettles. On the down side, 1992 214pp illus ISBN: 0 75070040 8 511.95 whilst some detailed texts were listed as sources for While huge budgets are being swallowed up by scienfurther reading, generally, the book lacked tific research into HIV/AIDS the social scientists have references. been busy documenting and challenging our responses. This excellent l&e reader introduces many KEITH Huwr of the most topical social issues surrounding the RGN PhD
Perceptions of AIDS Counselling Philip Burnard Avebury 1992 242pp illus ISBN: 1 85628
305 4 g29.50
HB
Since AIDS was identified only 11 years ago, caring services have had to respond to new challenges as the epidemic has developed. The psychological impact of a HIV or an AIDS diagnosis, or indeed the possibility of these, quickly became apparent. In addition there had been a need to provide accurate information and advice. Nurses have often been at the forefront of caring for people with complex medical, counselling and health education requirements. This book discusses counselling in general and introduces the author’s ongoing research into the particular speciality of AIDS counselhng. It presents a model for AIDS counselling based upon interviews with health professionals and AIDS counsellors and puts forward guidelines for AIDS counselling training. There are impressive lists of references and a bibliography which includes 141 of the author’s publications. There are people who will read something on the strength of Philip Burnard’s reputation. They will not be disappointed by this new book. It will be of interest to anybody involved in AIDS counselling and to those who teach interpersonal skills or train AIDS counsellors. This is a stimulating addition to the AIDS counselling debate. At nearly 230 it is more likely to attract the institution than the individual. MARTIN JONES
RGN Perspectives in Family & Community Health Karen A Saucier Wolfe Publishing 1991 412pp illus ISBN: 0 8016 4338 4 f23.95
PB
75 contributors and 18 distinguished consultants in American nursing have made this one of the outstanding books of recent years. It is a selection of published articles on family and community health to reflect what the editor considers to be major aspects of nursing practice in the community. There are eight parts organised into 48 relatively short chapters. Part 1 defines community health nursing, considers its historical background and issues about cost and the contribution of nurses. Parts 2-7 provide stimulating materials on community health from its underlying conceptual models to issues about culture, health promotion and contemporary health problems.
WORK
I
The style throughout is scholarly but not esoteric. The authors draw on practical examples to illustrate social, economic and political aspects of community health and the role of nurses. It is a rich source of literature in this field and can be studied according to the reader’s areas of interests. This is a book that can be recommended for the reference section of the library. It is particularly suitable for use with Project 2000 given the special place of community care within the curriculum.
RGN RM RFN DN CERT DNT RNT PGCEA Orems Model in Action Stephen Cavanagh Macmillan 1991 15Opp illus ISBN:
0 333 53624
X f9.99
PB
A useful, user-friendly, well-reference text providing the reader with an opportunity to explore Orem’s Model of Nursing, and its relevance and application to a variety of care settings. The first part of the text clearly explains the theoretical base underpinning Orem’s Model. Particularly valuable are the sections on the assumptions of the nature of man, nursing, self-care, self-care requisites, deficits and agencies. The second, and major part of the text, demonstrates the model in action. The author successfully applies the model to a series of care studies, giving examples for patients/clients requiring paediatric, medical, surgical, psychiatric, and elderly care. For the novice reader, one might criticise the over-use of forenames with seemingly lack of patient/client consent. However, as a learning aid, each care study is concluded with a useful guide to follow-up work, which takes the form of questions and activities. The final part of the text sets the model in a wider perspective, demonstrating, and exploring the issues for undertaking a critique. A valuable text for pre-registration students, and qualified nurses undertaking further studies, or implementing a model of nursing within their practice. SHEILA A HOGG
MEd Post-Grad DAES RGN RM RNT Watson Medical-Surgical Nursing & Related Physiology 4th Ed Joan A Royle & Mike Walsh Balliere-Tindall 1992 1037~~ illus ISBN: 0 7020 1515 6 215.95 This is the fourth edition of this popular it is good to see that it has managed
PB
textbook and to retain its
393
3%
NURSEEDU<:ATIONTODAY
reasonable price. It appears to have more adaptations than previous editions to make it appropriate for British nurses. It is well set out, clear and concise with many excellent illustrations. The list of references and suggested reading at the end of each chapter allows the reader to pursue topics of interest. This list has also been adapted and contains many easily obtained British references. My only disappointment is that the book does not appear to emphasise sufficiently the move from illness to health and from hospital to community care. It is recommended on the Suggested Reading List for our undergraduates and is the one that the majority usually decide to buy. M MCMALL BA RGN RCT
JANICE
Managing Work Experience
P A Ashworth 8eJ Saxton Routledge 1992 156pp illus 1SBN:O 415 07127 5 f10.99 PB Managing Work Experience is a well written and useful book and of great interest to any teachers whose students have placements in a practical area. It is of particular interest to nurse teachers, with the highly influential role that practice placements play in the education of nurses. All would agree that the relationship between student, placement supervisor and nurse teacher are of vital importance. This book looks at these roles and discusses the problems that can arise in the day to day running of a placement. The book also proposes practical solutions to these problems. It provides not just an academic view but acts also as a very practical guide and handbook, which in my opinion is essential in this type of text. The writers both from Sheffield Hallam Univesity (formerly Shefheld City Polytechnic) are working at the very cutting edge of educational development in further and higher education, and as such the book must be recommended reading to nurse teachers wishing to keep up to date in this important aspect of higher education.
epidemic: sexual politics, risk taking, hard to reach populations, health promotion and more. There is something here for health professionals. volunteers and anybody else interested in understanding the impact of HIV/AIDS upon people’s lives, and within society. Assumptions about sexual behaviour, the role of alcohol, attitudes towards Africa, media stereotypes: all these are explored in 14 stimulating papers. There is an international dimension and a focus upon different groups: gay men, young women, prostitutes, drug users and migrant workers. Some of the research is ongoing, some from larger projects, some of it raising fresh questions or challenging beliefs and ways of working. The authors are experts in their fields and have provided excellent references to support the text. One author notes, perhaps with a hint of frustration, that ‘the relationship between science and social science is a little like that between “truck drivers” and “women truck drivers”: we have to be twice as good at what we do to be taken seriously.’ Never mind that a few abbreviations used in Chapter 8 are unexplained; this readable up to date volume stands on its own merit as a valuable addition to the body HIV/AIDS knowledge. MARTINJONES Manager/Clinical
Specialist Genitourinaq
Medicine
Budgeting Skills N Taylor
Yuay 1992 78pp illus ISBN 1 85642 037 X f7.50
1 found this short, very readable, no-nonsense budgeting guide for first-line managers served both as a reference book and as a distance-learning text. The book’s objectives were to: (A) introduce the reader to financial managment; (B) explain basic accounting; and most importantly, (C) to give the manager confidence to interpret and act on budgetary information. The book was written for ward/departmental managers, and for nurses on diploma/first degree courses. of the chapters built knowCHRISTOPHERC BASSFI-I The logical structuring ledge and skills. A particularly good feature was the RGN ITU cert NcSM Dip HE use of vignettes that brought financial theory to life. End of chapter exercises encouaraged the reader to get involved, helping him or her to achieve the book’s objectives. Aids: Rights, Risk Se Reason Neil Taylor has not shied-away from controversial Peter Aggleton et al or developing health care financial issues. He encouFalmer raged nurses to grasp the nettles. On the down side, 1992 214pp illus ISBN: 0 75070040 8 511.95 whilst some detailed texts were listed as sources for While huge budgets are being swallowed up by scienfurther reading, generally, the book lacked tific research into HIV/AIDS the social scientists have references. been busy documenting and challenging our responses. This excellent l&e reader introduces many KEITH Huwr of the most topical social issues surrounding the RGN PhD