COLLEGE CHEMSTRY IN NURSING EDUCATION Edna C. Morse, Assistant Professorof Home Economics, Teachers College, Columbia University. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1947. xii 260 pp. 13 X 20 cm. $4.
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has had nearly ten years' experience teaching student nurses both in college and in nursingschoolchemistry courses. In conclusion, the reviewer would like to recommend this book to all chemistry teachers who have student nurses in their classes. They will find its subject matter useful. Moreover, the book should find a place on the desk of any administrator who is concerned with curriculum planning for student nurses either in college or nursing school because the author summarizes in an unbiased fashion the needs of the students and the facilities available for their satisfaction.
Tars BOOK examines a problem which faces all college teachers of general chemistry. I t deals with the ability of the course to satisfy the needs of a particular vocational group, in this Case prenursing school students. However, there are useful implicbtions here for other groups because the author discusses such general topics as "the liberal arts tradition versus vocational interests" HELEN I. MINER and "the attitude toward the vocational course" in college. The WATNEUNZVERS~R book should also have value for those engaged in planning preDmmm, Mzoaro*~ nursing college program, as pointed out in the preface by Isabel Stewart, Professor of Nursing Education in Teachers College, Columbia University. 0 MANUAL OF QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS After careful consideration (89 pages) of both the needs of student nurses and the material offered i n the general college Donald R. Clippinger, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Ohio 339 pp. chemistry course, the author concludes on pages 87-88 that "the University. Ginn and Company, Boston, 1947. v i 38 figs. 11 tablea. 20 X 26.5 cm. $3.50. conventional course in colleee chemistrv. even at,it,s heat mer .... 3 n--oniy part way toward meeting the requirements of the student in loose-leaf manual not only the Tms nursing.. .. It will provide the necessary foundation in organic or in physiological chemistry, and some of the contents of conventional material found in an elementary textbook of quautitative analysis but also directions and model report blanks for general will need to be strengthened, Moreover, the 59 experiments. Some of the older time-consuming experiments responsibility for helping the student to acquire insight into the functioning of chemistry in the professionel situation, and for have been eliminated but the substitutes make up for them. For example, there are procedures for colorimetric, electrophotointegrating this academic material in the new setting, rests with metric, electrometric determination of pH (using hydrogen, the school of nursing." This designation of responsibility is analyses, important in the opinion of the reviewer and should be kept in quinhydrone, and glass electrodes) and complete for a ~h~ theoretical part is well done and mind when planning programs for all vocational groups. book of this type. My only criticism would be that there should The last half of the book outlines, with detail sufficient to be be more problem involving numerical answer-and an index. a lLsefulto course for the school of nursing which is to follow the in$roductory college chemistry course. 6. B. ARENSON The author's wealth of teaching experience shows clearly here. 1884 L m x m Cmron Boar.nvano Homrwoon 48. C ~ ~ m o a r r u She makes a point on page 111which is applicablein all vocational fields. namely. the sueeestion that the teachers of ehemistrv. anatomy andphysiology, and biology should study together a; FUNDAMENTALS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC THEORY group and "work out serviceable sequences and correlstions." Such integration has been neglected too frequently in all phases of Thomas H.James, Research Chemist, and George C. Higgins, our science teaching. Research Physicist, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, New York. The course outlined by Miss Morse is of the length usually pre- John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1948. vii 286 pp. sented in nursing schools (6040 hours). It consists of eleven 106 figs. 9 tables. 14.5 X 22 cm. $3.50. ' units, approximately two-thirds of which deals with organic As TBE title states, this is a treatment of the fuudlunental chemistry and biochemistry. The biochemical topics stress the chemistrv of the normal individual. leavine a consideration of theow. of ~hotoeraohv. . - . - The historic side is scarcelv mentioned. pathologk conditions to other ~ o u r & ~~. L c unit h is considered The references, many of them recent, extend the presentation but with respect to (1)itsobjectives, (2) an "overview," (3) an outline donot pretend to make a complete bibliography. Each reference of content, (4) suggested development, (5) suggestions for study list starts with: Mees, "The Theory of the Photographic Procand discussion, and (6) references. These reading references are ess." In the preface the authors say: "The very existence of well chosen on the basis of availability to the studeut and are of the book owes much to the encouragement and advice of Dr. recent date. Certain ones of more advanced character are desig- C. E. K. Mees." Aid from other associates a t Rochester is fully nated for the use of the instructor. .The suggestionsfor study and acknowledged. The seven pages of Chapter I outline the essential steps of black discussion seem to be very worth while. They include specific applications which should be helpful not only to instructo~sof and white photography. Terminology is presented under the such a course as is presented here, but also to all chemistry headings, Light-Sensitive Material, Latent Image, Development, teachers of nursing school students who are either in their pre- Fog, Fixing, Negative and Positive, the Characteristic (H&D) Curve, Density and Gamma. clinical or clinical years. The following chapters enlarge on these various topics in a Thestudy of "theimportant classesof organiccompounds" was arrsnged with the realization of the value to the studeut of acquir- detailed, clear, and thorough manner. The authors assume that ing "an understanding of group relationshipa and significant their readers will have, "a basic knowledge of physics and physical group behavior," as stated on page 129. The section on cyclic chemistry." They use the vocabulary of these fields. Readers and heterocyclic compounds stresses "pointing out chemical rela- of the JOURNAL OF CAEMCAL EDUCATION should feel a t home tionships and the frequency with which common group action is with their style. Organic structural formulas'and equations are associated with common structural festures," m noted on page used freely. Threg chapters deal with various phases of the theory of 157. This approach seems very practical to the reviewer who ' 359
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