WEBWISE Imperial War Museum – First World War Centenary As the centenary of the outbreak of the conflict approaches, this new section of the Imperial War Museum website is a useful resource covering many aspects of the Great War. It gives access to a range of material such as photographs and posters, and accounts of key events and campaigns. The museum was a pioneer in the collection of oral history recordings and selected examples are available on this site. Two podcasts include material on nursing. Daisy Spickett recalls her enthusiastic decision to volunteer for nursing duties in military hospitals, and Olive Prentice, a Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, speaks of a day off only being allowed if it was quiet at the Front. Mairi Chisholm, who drove an ambulance behind the Belgian trenches, found that its painted red cross offered little protection. ‘We used to dart like anything and say, “Well, they didn’t get us that time, we’ll dodge them yet!’’’ Podcast 29 – Wounded – illustrates the complex system set up to convey casualties from the trenches to convalescence in a hospital in the UK. Mrs Bird, a civilian nurse at Colchester Hospital in Essex, observed the relief that wounded soldiers felt at being returned to Blighty: ‘They were so happy to be warm and comfortable and well fed and that sort of thing.’ An email newsletter service will provide updates on exhibitions and events as this period of commemoration continues. John Adams is a temporary lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University, Peterborough www.iwm.org.uk/centenary See www.nursing-standard.co.uk for previous website reviews
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TV :: radio :: books :: websites :: apps Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference – 38th edition ★★★★★
This hardback, two-volume boxed set is the world’s most comprehensive and reliable guide to drugs and medicines. At 4,688 pages and selling at £459, this is no pocket reference. It is the leading resource in terms of international coverage, with more than 6,000 drug monographs, 180,000 preparations and 54,000 reference citations. Volume one contains the drug monographs and the second volume has preparations, manufacturers, pharmaceutical terms in various languages, general index and Cyrillic index.
Innovations for this 38th edition include a complete redesign, with the layout of the monographs restructured around uses and preparation. More than 200 new monographs have been added, with increased coverage of proprietary preparations. This section now covers 43 countries, including China. Abstracts on the porphyria group of disorders have also been revised extensively and updated. Martindale is the key reference for reputable, referenced and unbiased information. It is easy to find information, check products and precautions, and is immensely readable. There is excellent material on herbal agents, radiopharmaceuticals, toxins and poisons that is unavailable in other drug references, formularies and pharmaceutical handbooks.
Alison Brayfield (Ed) | Pharmaceutical Press | 4688pp | £459 | ISBN: 978 0 8571 1139 5 Reviewed by Helena Soni, a practice nurse in south London
Annual Review of Nursing Research: Exercise in Health and Disease – Volume 31, 2013 ★★★★ The title only hints at the gems contained in this series of detailed reviews of the literature on exercise in health and disease. Other books in the series may also be underplayed, with covers announcing rural nursing, genetics, geriatrics, alcohol abuse, and disasters and humanitarian assistance. There are sections on exercise physiology and impact on human
biology, across lifespan and cultures, and in chronic and acute disease states. Much of the material is invariably technical, but the authors have made an effort to use plain speaking to describe and, more importantly, conclude the results of the evidence cited. Some of the content is heavily embedded in the healthcare system in the United States, such as the chapter titled Hispanic women and physical activity – an integrative review. But the material is fascinating and there is invariably a great deal of interest. My colleagues and students in renal, respiratory, cancer and communicable disease care will find much of interest and relevant to their work.
Barbara A Smith and Christine E Kasper (Eds) | Springer Publishing Company | 300pp $109/£93.95 | ISBN: 978 0 8261 1972 8 Reviewed by Irene Mabbott, practice development co-ordinator, evidence-based practice, Sheffi eld Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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TV :: radio :: books :: websites :: apps Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference – 38th edition ★★★★★
This hardback, two-volume boxed set is the world’s most comprehensive and reliable guide to drugs and medicines. At 4,688 pages and selling at £459, this is no pocket reference. It is the leading resource in terms of international coverage, with more than 6,000 drug monographs, 180,000 preparations and 54,000 reference citations. Volume one contains the drug monographs and the second volume has preparations, manufacturers, pharmaceutical terms in various languages, general index and Cyrillic index.
Innovations for this 38th edition include a complete redesign, with the layout of the monographs restructured around uses and preparation. More than 200 new monographs have been added, with increased coverage of proprietary preparations. This section now covers 43 countries, including China. Abstracts on the porphyria group of disorders have also been revised extensively and updated. Martindale is the key reference for reputable, referenced and unbiased information. It is easy to find information, check products and precautions, and is immensely readable. There is excellent material on herbal agents, radiopharmaceuticals, toxins and poisons that is unavailable in other drug references, formularies and pharmaceutical handbooks.
Alison Brayfield (Ed) | Pharmaceutical Press | 4688pp | £459 | ISBN: 978 0 8571 1139 5 Reviewed by Helena Soni, a practice nurse in south London
Annual Review of Nursing Research: Exercise in Health and Disease – Volume 31, 2013 ★★★★ The title only hints at the gems contained in this series of detailed reviews of the literature on exercise in health and disease. Other books in the series may also be underplayed, with covers announcing rural nursing, genetics, geriatrics, alcohol abuse, and disasters and humanitarian assistance. There are sections on exercise physiology and impact on human
biology, across lifespan and cultures, and in chronic and acute disease states. Much of the material is invariably technical, but the authors have made an effort to use plain speaking to describe and, more importantly, conclude the results of the evidence cited. Some of the content is heavily embedded in the healthcare system in the United States, such as the chapter titled Hispanic women and physical activity – an integrative review. But the material is fascinating and there is invariably a great deal of interest. My colleagues and students in renal, respiratory, cancer and communicable disease care will find much of interest and relevant to their work.
Barbara A Smith and Christine E Kasper (Eds) | Springer Publishing Company | 300pp $109/£93.95 | ISBN: 978 0 8261 1972 8 Reviewed by Irene Mabbott, practice development co-ordinator, evidence-based practice, Sheffi eld Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Key Excellent ★★★★★
Very good ★★★★ Good ★★★ Average ★★ Poor ★
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