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470 NURSE EDUCATION TODA\
Nurses signing up for the Project, and who return
the DLP questionnaires, receive feedback from the
Prqject Office. The Project ‘Team ultimately hope to
award 15 Level 2 CA’FS points to successful students.
KEITH HURST
RCN PhD Nufji‘etd iastilulr ftir Health
The Child and Family. Contemporary Nursing Issues in Child Health and Care Bruce Lindsay
Bailliere TindalI
1994 2 18pp illus ISBN: 7020-1646-2 f IO.95
This collision of delights held my attention and
stimulated my interest in a way that few child health
orientated books have done in the last decade - a
respite for my jaded paediatric pallet. This ‘reader’
rather than an exhaustive text, has stated aims to
‘inform . stimulate discussion and generate
controversy’, aims which I feel it fulhls. No mean feat
for such a small book in a genre in which other books
usually seek to provide the reader with every available
detail of a child and family’s life and health career in a
text too heavy to carry and in a style which is
informative but indigestible.
The book is somewhat arbitrarily divided into three
sections: ‘The Child in Society, Contemporary Care
Issues and Moving Forward. Sections can be taken as a
whole or in part with equal profit. The editor has
amassed contributors who have approached mostly
well trodden areas pertaining to children’s health. in
its widest sense, in an innovative and creative manner.
All contributors have the inestimable advantage of
being able to write, some with considerable art. by no
means a universal attribute of all who write for nurses!
The controversy angle arises, as forecast, in content
issues such as Power and Children. ‘rhe Changing
Family and a Future for Child Care Nursing. Indeed
this is so in sections of other chapters, not so much a
swipe at orthodoxy but certainly a considerable nudge,
which is welcome in a branch of the profession which
might well consider the terms radical and Child Health
Nurse mutually exclusive. ‘This book would sit ideally
as a central text for pre-registration diploma students
undertaking sociological threads and should be essen-
tial reading for all Child Branch students. Its academic
level, discursive nature and sometimes demi-radical
style is ideal for stimulating the sort of mental and
actual debate which can result in intellectual growth.
One of the intrigues about this book is that it is
difficult to state with any exactitude a definitive topic
content. It contains surprising glimpses, and inspired
glances into the world of child care. Read it.
Blackwell’s Dictionary of Nursing Blackwell Scientific
1994 ISBN: O-632-03561-7 f13.99
A useful nursing dictionary in a full sized book as
opposed to the more ubiquitous pocket variety. The
print is clear and the headings are presented logically.
All the entries examined were detailed unambiguously
and were easy to make sense of. Anatomical diagrams
and other tables are presented alongside appropriate
entries and add to the written explanation.
The appendices also add to the fund of knowledge
found in this book. However, 1 was somewhat puzzled
to understand why such a wide range of suejects was
included in the appendices. The nature of the book
requires that the appendices are brief. Therefore,
inevitably some of the information is sketchy to say the
least and the rationale for including it in this publica-
tion is unclear.
As a general dictionary for nurses I would recom-
mend it highly, it should be found in any nursing
library and it is not beyond the price range of any
student or qualified nurse.
ALISON SMI~I-H
Principal Leclurer Canlertnq Christ Church Cullegc
Nursing Diagnosis and Care Planning, 2nd ed B J Taptich, P W Iyer 8c 1) Bernocchi-Losey
W B Saunders
1994 ISBN: O-7216-5196-8 fll.50
This book is intended as a reference manual for those
students and practitioners in nursing who already
have a basic knowledge of nursing diagnosis and care
planning. It accompanies another, more comprehen-
sive, text on nursing process and diagnosis by the same
authors, and is designed for easy and rapid access to
specific information on approved nursing diagnoses.
An initial overview of the care planning process is
offered which includes a useful guide to writing
nursing diagnoses and a small bibliography. .rhis is
followed by a description of each approved nursing
diagnosis, those which commonly arise from medical
diagnoses and differential nursing diagnoses.
The book is compact with an easy to read format and
a modest number of illustrations. It also contains a
number of case studies relating to the interpretation of
assessment data, which could be used for teaching
purposes. Apart from the bibliography provided in
the first chapter. no other references are used in the
text. It offers very little new information or analysis
related to developments in nursing diagnosis activity.
‘TONY HARRISON Its potential, as tile authors have intended, is to act as
BA RNT RGN RSCN an cl& mc,moirc, for clinical practice.