A Textbook on the Nursing and Diseases of Sick Children for Nurses

Nursing and Diseases of Sick Children is a textbook lor nurses and is designed to cover the syllabus for the certificate for sick children's nurses issued by the General Nursing Council of England and Wales. It is the work of several medical men each an expert in his subject and the whole has been discussed with members of the nursing profession to ensure that adequate emphasis is given to the practical details of nursing. The book is divided into two parts: part I dealing with the care and nursing of the child and part II with diseases of children. Part I is further divided into three sections relating respectively to the general care of normal and sick children, general medical nursing of sick children and general surgical nursing. Part II is a concise yet remarkably complete account of the ills to which the child is liable. It more than covers the nursing syllabus and should prove a standard reference book for members of the nursing profession. Tropical diseases have unfortunately no place in the volume. There are several useful appendices including one on drugs and their action, another on breathing exercises after tonsillectomy and one on speech training after cleft-palate operation. Hospitals for sick children and even children's wards in general hospitals are conspicuously absent in India and the training of nurses in this aspect of their profession is very inadequate. This is the more regrettable since it is just in this field, where the patient can give little help by describing symptoms, that the nurse trained to observe and record can be of most value to the doctor and of most comfort to the parent. ' The