AORN JOURNAL APRIL 1986, VOL. 43, NO 4

Any nurse serving on an institutional ethics committee should read this book. I would also recommend this book as a reference for in-service education on ethical dilemmas, or for personal growth.

JEAN M. REEDER, RN

MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER TACOMA, WASH

OR STAFF DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

Manual of Aesthetic Surgey. Jack C. Fisher, Jose Guerrerosantos, and Matthew Gleason, ed. Springer-Verlag Publishing Co, 175 5th Ave, New York, NY 10010,1985,125 pp, $165 clothbound.

The book is written specifically as a resource for surgical residents. It is one of a series designed to present current operative techniques and explore aspects of diagnosis and treatment. Educational requirements, patient selection, and patient sedation are covered as well as specific surgical procedures (ie, mammoplasty, abdominoplasty, and blepharoplasty).

The book emphasizes large, detailed, fullcolor illustrations, and schematic charts and photographs to demonstrate steps of the surgical procedures. The illustrations are depicted from the surgeon’s viewpoint to enhance clarity and comprehension. Information about the aesthetic procedures is presented in a simple how-to format. Points covered include background, complications and characteristics of surgery, anesthetic technique, and operative technique.

OR nurses can also benefit from this book because it offers nursing aspects in patient education and the intraoperative phase.

C H A R L O ~ E OWEN, RN OR COORDINATOR

SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN LARGO, FLA

Nursing Diagnosis Source Book-Guidelina for Clinical Application. Mary Ann Kelly. Appleton- Century-Crofts, 25 Van Zant St, East Norwalk, CT 06855, 1985, pp 353, $18.95 paperback.

This book, a product of workshops for registered nurses, attempts to combine useful information

on the concept of nursing diagnosis. The material addresses the nursing dqposis

concept and how to differentiate between nursing and medical diagnoses. It also discusses guidelines for diagnostic clinical judgement as well as guidelines for stating a diagnosis.

The listing of the current Approved Nursing Diagnoses of the North American Diagnosis Association comprises a large part of the book. Each diagnostic title lists definitions, subtypes, signs and symptoms, risk factors, and differential diagnoses. There also is a sample nursing diagnostic statement that includes the classitication number and a short narrative explanation of its clinical application. Diagnostic titles of a similar nature are grouped together rather than listed alphabetically.

This is a practical, readable, and understandable book. The tables, diagrams, references, and case studies in each chapter show how you can “put it all together.”

SISTER KANE, RHSJ, RN ADMINISTRATOR

MACDONELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORNWALL, ONTARIO, CANADA

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Gmtroenterologv in Clinical Nursing, 4th ed. Barbara A. Given and Sandra J. Simmons. C V Mosby Co, 11830 Westline Industrial Dr, St Louis, MO 63146,528 pp, $21.95 paperback.

This fourth edition has been written with the nurse in mind. Information has been organized in a more integrated conceptual manner, as it would be encountered by the nurse. Other parts still retain the disease-specific information needed for in- depth understanding and reference. Because more care is being done on an ambulatory basis, ambulatory-related aspects have been integrated into the appropriate sections.

The book focuses on all aspects of gastroen- terological care: assessment, nutrition, fluid- electrolyte balance, diagnostic measures, and perioperative care. Also s m c disorders of the esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, biliary tract, pancreas, and liver are explained.

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