The text will serve as an invaluable teaching tool and would be an asset to any medical

Much is to be learned about newer concepts involved in the care of the newborn infant,

library. It will certainly prove valuable to personnel working in recovery rooms and intensive care units.

The necessity is obvious for more nurse specialists in this type of nursing to cope with future organ transplantations.

FRANCES E. REESER, RN Bronx, NY

THE FIRST DAY OF LIFE-PRINCIPLES OF

NEONATAL NURSING, McKilligin, Helen R., MD, New York, Springer Publishing, Inc., 1970,110 p p , $3.75. This is one of those rare little books which a nurse will pick up and while throughly enjoying it will learn much about the care of the newborn infant, especially during that important first day of life.

Although interestingly presented and filled with a wealth of information, this is not a textbook in the visual sense of the word.

Content is centered on providing the nurse with current concepts in understanding the needs of the newborn. The nurse reader is shown the importance of observation and concern and the reasons many ideas of the past can no longer be justified today.

Following a study of the mother’s relation- ship with the fetus before birth, the book concerns itself with the many influences birth has on the newborn.

The chapter “The First Day of Life” finally explains what to expect of the newborn in normal and abnormal conditions. Described are signs for which the nurse should be alert, complications to observe and/ or prevent, differing needs of the infant, and abnormali- ties to anticipate.

Two chapters are devoted to the special problems of infection and jaundice, a final chapter is concerned with the mother and her new child, and references and a bibliography are provided.

This book is highly recommended to all nurses, regardless of their nursing speciality.

and nurses working in the emergency room or the operating room may care for newborns shortly after birth. They should surely be given an awareness of the importance of observation and care of the newborn, especial- ly in those critical first hours of life. This book is an excellent way to gain that knowledge.

SR. DOLORES KANE, RHSJ, RN Chicago, I11

THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN NURSING, ed 2: Bullough and Bullough, Toronto, Ontario, Macmillan, 1969. This is one of today’s most informative and interesting histories of nursing.

It is more than the usual chronological review of names and dates-it gives a basis for present day nursing practice by describing primitive and early historical nursing.

A section on each era correlates the progress of each nation and the progress of nursing and its struggle for professionalism.

The development of differences in the types of nursing, the dedicated work of pioneers in the field, and the role of nursing in the development of hospitals is written so that it is easy to read yet informative. The role of women and their fight for independence and equality seems to parallel the emergence of nursing as an independent profession.

The problems and prospects for nursing in the future are discussed in the closing chapter. An extensive bibliography is a welcome addition for those who are interested in making a really detailed study of nurses and nursing. I believe that this would be an excellent book for all student nurses.

JOAN MILLER, RN Battle Creek, Mich

PERSUASION-HOW OPINIONS AND ATTITUDES ARE CHANGED, ed 2: Karlim, Marvin and Abelson, Herbert, New York, Springer Pub- lishing Co., Inc., 1970, 179 p p , $2.75.

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