Nursing Life and Discipline

extent " progressive ". Many aspects of the nurse's life are considered, such as feeding, health, life in the Nurses Home, hours of work and systems of training both in ward and lecture room, and although full weight is given to administrative difficulties, practical measures for reform are freely advocated. Probationers' difficulties are explored, particularly those inherent in the double role of employee and student. " The pressure under which the majority (of ward sisters) now work " is fully appreciated and " optional non-residence" as a contribution to its relief is advocated, while two chapters are devoted to the need for the nurse's training in dealing with disciplinary matters and "in the art of constructive criticism ". The Lancet Report, 1932 and the Interim Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee are referred to fully. Dr. Bevington is a well qualified and trained investigator and has dealt with the problem in an unbiased and constructive way. Comparisons have been made between nursing and school and prison discipline. The cultural and social needs of the nurse in training