The Practice of Mental Nursing.
- Author:
May Houlston,
R.G.N., R.M.N., R.F.N. E. and S. Livingstone, Ltd. 7s. 6d.
st ^Cre *s a really useful book, not only for the first year udent nurse for whom it is primarily intended, but also j, a guide to senior nurses whose duty it is to instruct eir. juniors in routine procedure. Mental hospital ursing being so much less obvious than the practice general nursing, one of the initial difficulties in mqtulrin? t’le art *s to understand that there is a planned t> hod in operation. This book will prove invaluable rough that early period of bewilderment and will help a e,y?Ung nurse to get at the outset an intelligent interest and Un^erstanding of the work. It is written in an easy led readable style by an author with first hand knowa 8e of the practical aspect of the subject, and includes obs ? summary at ^e end of each chapter. The Va .ervati?n and management of patients, and the ious special duties of the nurse are very well described, cor statutory rule on seclusion in England is not quite stated, but this is not very important to the JUr??r nurse.
Pur l rner’’t book is in the chapters dealing with atte Practical work, and rather too much has been o *Pted on psychology and symptomatology where for SlrnPhfication has caused some inaccuracies. Many, ” TuXarnp’e> will have difficulty in accepting the view that that tk?n’y difference between a percept and an idea is 0pD .e former has sensory elements ” or that ” The nurs?Slte negativism is catalepsy.” Nevertheless, fr0rnes grades will find pleasure and derive benefit Without^”1? jun’or indent cannot afford to be J.I.R.
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