Item Condition: Used; Good 1945
FOREWORD
BooKs play a small part in the education of a good nurse.
The qualities that endear her to her patients, and the
experience that enables her to carry out their treatment,
can only be gained in the practice of nursing, whether that
nursing be done in the wards of a hospital or in private
houses
the syllabus of the General Nursing Council covers a wide
ground, including contributions from many different
sciences, it is essential that the books that nurses use should
be written in as short a form as the syllabus allows us, and
as clearly as the technical nature of the subjects permits.
Books, however, must play some part, and, as
The writers of this book have both had long experience
of teaching and examining nurses, and it is hoped that it
will formna suitable companion to the well-known text-book
which one of them has written, and which has been of such
great value to many generations of nurses during their
training
GEORGE F. STEBBING.
I935.