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l’his is an excellently presented text with clear a welcome addition to any School of Nursing

headings and diagrams; although its price perhaps library.

detracts from individual purchase by many students

it is a must for all School of Nursing libraries, and is S A Hor;c>

an invaluable text for all students and trained nurses s&V SCIM R&T

pursuing research studies as part of their basic or PostGradDip(Ed)

post-basic programmes. Case Studies in Mental Health Nursing

S A Hocc; K Briggs & A Stewart

SE& SCM &$fT Churchill Livingstone

PostGradDip( Ed) 1987 15Opp ISBN: o-443-03570-9 L6.95

Nursing Education: Research and Developments

Bryn Davis

Croom Helm 1987 266pp Illus ISBN: o-7099-4508-6

E10.95

This is an interesting and useful text about develop-

ments within Nursing Education. It provides reports

of UK research studies and reviews of recent re-

search and developments within Nursing Education.

It features chapters on curriculum planning, specific

aspects of content, teaching methods and curriculum

evaluation. Although some chapters appear specific

to particular training, e.g. RGN. RMN, Continuing

Education programmes, the principles of each can

be applied across the various curricula.

The book does not aim to provide an in-depth

study of Curriculum Development. However, it is

extensively referenced and has immense value for

progressive Schools wishing to adopt a research-base

to their curriculum developments. This text would

be of particular interest and value to curriculum

This book offers an interesting approach to helping

student psychiatric nurses to preparc for their final

examinations. It contains a variety of psychiatric

problems under 13 different sections, presented in

the form of short case studies. Following each cast

study is a series of multiple choice questions and

three structured essay-type questions. The answers to

the multiple choice questions are given in a follow-

ing section and those answers are explained. In the

case of the essay-type questions, one model answer is

offered and answer guides for the other two.

The book will be of great value to any psychiatric

nursing student approaching his/her final examin-

ations in that they offer not only examples of

questions and how to answer them, but they also

explain the principles behind those questions. <;ivcn

the authors’ backgrounds as examiners for the ENB.

the questions are authoritative and up-to-date. ‘l’hc

answers also demonstrate a sensitive and modern

approach to psychiatric nursing. The book may also

help tutors to write multiple choice questions and

may serve as a source of discussion about a wide

variety of psychiatric nursing issues.

developers, nurse teachers, or teacher students and is CutEd KY7