INDEX.

Books for Nurses

Published by Saunders

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STONEY’S NURSING

This work gives you clear, definite instructions how best to meet all emergencies—medical and surgical; how to improvise things needed in the sick-room. There are chapters on the nurse—her responsibilities, duties, deportment, etc.; on the sick-room—its preparation, care, hygiene, etc.; on nursing medical cases—observations of patient, bodily care, relief of functional disturbances, administration of medicines, general and local applications; on obstetric cases—signs of pregnancy, disorders of pregnancy, conduct of labor, care of mother and child, cesarean section, etc.; on gynecologic nursing—preparation for operation, after-care, sequelæ, surgical disinfection, accidents and emergencies, nursing in infectious diseases, nursing of sick children, etc.

GOODNOW’S WAR NURSING

This complete text-book shows the inexperienced nurse how to care for a ward of wounded men from arrival to dismissal; it introduces the auxiliary war nurse to actual conditions, and shows her how they are best met. It is the ideal text-book on this important branch of the service.

STONEY’S SURGICAL TECHNIC

The first part of this work deals with bacteriology, antiseptics, disinfectants, deodorants, including the theory of antitoxins. The second part is devoted to a careful treatment of surgical technic. An important chapter is that giving you the list of instruments and supplies needed for the various operations—illustrated. The chapter on bandaging covers 20 pages, illustrated with 33 clear line-drawings. Preparation of artificial foods for infants and the exact formulas for antiseptic gauze dressing, etc., are given.

LEWIS’ ANATOMY and PHYSIOLOGY

This work gives you the regions of the body, the internal organs, their names, locations, functions, and the relation each bears to life. The final chapter takes up repair and waste, nutrition, animal heat, perspiration, and the power that supports and preserves health. At the end of each chapter is a list of selected review questions, of great help in self-examination. Throughout the book the application of anatomy and physiology to actual nursing is emphasized. There are 161 illustrations. Those showing the arteries, veins, and nerves are in colors.

WARNSHUIS’ SURGICAL NURSING

Here you are given the essential basic principles of operative nursing. Dr. Warnshuis presents facts gleaned from his own personal experience. You are told the definite, specific things you must do throughout the entire surgical procedure. Dr. Warnshuis’ instruction is always clear and definite, and, in addition, he takes you through a typical operation and shows you exactly how each little thing should be done.

AIKENS’ PRIMARY STUDIES

Miss Aikens brings together in this book well-rounded courses of lessons in anatomy, physiology, hygiene, bacteriology, therapeutics, materia medica, dietetics, and invalid cookery—subjects which, with practical nursing technic, constitute the primary studies in a nursing course. Throughout the book there are many practical suggestions and helps. The chapter on dietetics is really a monograph. At the end of the book there are questions for self-examination, arranged by subjects.

AIKENS’ CLINICAL STUDIES

This work by Miss Aikens is written along the same lines as her successful book for primary students. It takes up all the studies the nurse must pursue during her second and third years in the training-school. It gathers together in one volume matter previously scattered in several books and often very unsystematically taught by lectures. Here you get all this information stated in such a way that the nurse will be able to grasp the subject with ease.

AIKENS’ HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT

The keynote of this work is highest efficiency. It is a book on modern hospital construction and management. Every phase of hospital management is taken up and most profusely illustrated. Some of the more important chapters are: The superintendent, the medical service of a hospital, the furnishing of a 100-bed hospital, hospital incomes and management, bookkeeping, the hospital store, the kitchen, the laundry, surgical supplies, drug room, the training-school, out-patient department, and laboratory.

AIKENS’ TRAINING-SCHOOL METHODS

Miss Aikens solves for you those many problems that constantly arise in the management of a training-school. She tells how to teach, what should be taught the nurse, and how much. The chapter on hospital ethics and discipline includes such subjects as head nurse’s relation to rules, first principles in teaching ethics, honesty, obedience, personality, social relations, discreteness of speech, carriage, quietness, expression of appreciation, criticism, maintaining discipline, personal responsibility, etc.

AIKENS’ ETHICS FOR NURSES

This book emphasizes the importance of ethical training for nurses. It is a most excellent text-book, particularly well adapted for classroom work. The plan of the book calls for a combination of the recitation and discussion method of class teaching. The book is inspirational in that it will arouse desires to work up to higher standards of life and conduct. The illustrations and practical problems used in the book are drawn from life. There is no other work just like this one.

ASHER’S CHEMISTRY AND TOXICOLOGY

It was Dr. Asher’s constant aim to make this work unusually useful to the student nurse and to the nurse in postgraduate practice. You get chapters on the elements, nomenclature, molecular and atomic weights, non-metallic elements, the metallic elements, carbon and its compounds, the acids, physiologic chemistry (proteins, milk, urine), giving the technic for the tests, the formulas, chemical equations, etc.

WILSON’S OBSTETRIC NURSING

Dr. Wilson’s little book presents in detail everything connected with pregnancy and labor and their management. The entire subject is covered—from the beginning of pregnancy, its course, signs, on to the approach of labor, its actual accomplishment, the puerperium, complications, care of the infant, and after-care of the mother—always emphasizing the nurse’s duties.

MACFARLANE’S GYNECOLOGY

Dr. Macfarlane’s work is a companion to Dr. Wilson’s successful book. Both are flexibly bound in red leather with gold stamping, and fit into the pocket. Here you get chapters on anatomy, physiology, hygiene, menstrual disorders, gynecologic examinations and positions, douches, diseases and their treatment, gynecologic operations—preparation for them, after-care, etc.—urinary organs, rectal diseases. The text is illustrated. It is decidedly a book you will carry with you in your pocket.

BECK’S REFERENCE HAND-BOOK

You get in this one volume such important information as the action, use, and dosage of the important drugs, poisons, and their antidotes, miscellaneous formulas, tests for albumin, infant feeding, nursing in the acute fevers, disinfection, all information needed for surgical cases, emergency helps, baths and packs, massage, electricity, recipes, obstetrics, nursing in children’s diseases, miscellaneous remedies, essential anatomy. This work has been called the nurse’s encyclopedia.

DUNTON’S OCCUPATION THERAPY

Dr. Dunton emphasizes the basic principles of occupational therapy and gives those forms likely to be of most service to the nurse in private practice. You get chapters on puzzles, reading, physical exercises, card games, string, paper, wood, plastic and metal work, weaving, basketry, chair-caning, book-binding, gardening, nature study, drawing, painting, pyrography, needlework, photography, and music.

FRIEDENWALD and RUHRAH’S DIETETICSM

This work gives the essentials of dietetics, and considers briefly the chemistry and physiology of digestion. It gives you many excellent recipes for beverages, cereals, breads, vegetables, soups, milk preparations, eggs, meats, raw beef, panopepton, meat jellies, diabetic foods. But the strong feature about this book is the practical information it gives you on the dietetic management of your cases. Then you get the milk cure, the salt-free diet, the dietetic management of surgical cases, diet after operations, etc.

McCOMBS’ DISEASES of CHILDREN

Dr. McCombs emphasizes just those points you most want to know. He gives you a short but adequate description of each disease, considerable attention to prophylaxis, methods of nursing, emergency measures, illustrated descriptions of how to take the temperature, pulse, respiration, perform intubation, give hypodermics, etc. You get also special chapters on infant feeding, modification of milk, and therapeutic measures employed in childhood.

DeLEE’S OBSTETRICS

This work is used more extensively by nurses than any other book on obstetrics. It really considers two subjects—obstetrics for nurses and the actual obstetric nursing. A chapter of special value is that on massage of the breasts, covering 20 pages, and showing you by lines and arrows just exactly what directions the strokings should take. In addition, you get the anatomy and physiology of the female reproductive organs. The work contains 235 illustrations, many of them in colors.

DAVIS’ OBSTETRIC NURSING

In this work every phase of obstetric and gynecologic nursing is considered. You get really two books in one, the first half being given over entirely to obstetric nursing in all its complications, and the second to gynecologic nursing, and the special training it demands. You are told how to manage a case from pregnancy right on to the care of the baby. You are told just how to meet every emergency. There is an entire section on obstetric surgery. The Fifth Edition has been thoroughly revised.

BOYD’S STATE REGISTRATION

For this new edition the entire work has been re-written, more than doubled in size, and reset. You get a comparative summary of the laws of the various States governing the registration of nurses, presented in such form as to furnish a means of ready reference for the trained nurse in choosing her field of activity. You get the requirements for registration, the fees and their disposition, exceptions and restrictions, violations and their penalties. This book tells you what you have to do in any State.

PAUL’S MATERIA MEDICA

In this work you get definitions—what an alkaloid is, an infusion, a mixture, an ointment, a solution, a tincture, etc. Then a classification of drugs according to their physiologic action, when to administer drugs of the various classes, how to administer them, and how much to give. Next, the individual drugs are taken up. For convenience, all the newer medicinal agents are placed in one section.

PAUL’S FEVER NURSING

In the first part you get chapters on fever in general, hygiene, diet, methods for reducing the fever, alleviation of symptoms, detection of complications. In the second part each infection is taken up in detail. In the third part you get antitoxins and vaccines, bacteria, urine examination, warnings of the full dose of drugs, poisons, enemata, etc.

HARDING’S HIGHER ASPECT OF NURSING

Miss Harding’s book is a study of character building, founded on personal experience. It will be a help not only to the student nurse, but also to those in active practice in hospitals or private homes. She tells you how to become a “real” nurse, emphasizes the necessity for striving for higher ideals, telling you many things that will make for this end. She impresses upon you the responsibilities of nursing service, shows you how to anticipate difficulties and how to avoid or overcome them.

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Transcriber’s Notes:

The cover image was created by the transcriber, and is in the public domain.

Antiquated spellings were not corrected.

The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate.

Typographical and punctuation errors have been silently corrected.

The “ADDITIONAL NOTES” section, pages 211 to 226, have been removed as they serve no function in an ebook.