"LECTURES ON SURGERY TO NURSES. "

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVI, Issue 2, 1 April 1923, Page 69

"LECTURES ON SURGERY TO NURSES. "

Alan H. Todd B.Sc M.S.

(By

Loud. F.R.C.S. Eng.)

This book, published in 1920, has just been received in the Health Department 's Library. It would be a very suitable addition to nurses' libraries in the training schools. The author states that the book is based upon the course of lectures on surgery he has given in recent years to the probationers at Grey's Hospital. It is not a manual of surgical nursing, as the author says: "the igreater part of nursing properly so-called, cannot be learned from books at all . " It is merely an attempt to give the nurses that insight into "the why and wherefore" of what the surgeon does and what the nurse is told to do, that will enable her to be an intelligent co-operator in everything that is done. He maintains that if she does not know exactly what she is driving at, she cannot possibly nurse intelligently, or get the best results. The author's previous book, "Practical Handbook of Surgical After-Treatment" gives the details of nursing treatment which are purposely omitted in this book.