TY  - JOUR
T1  - Essentials of surgery: A textbook of surgery for student and graduate nurses and for those interested in the care of the sick.
Y1  - 1919/05/24
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1919.02610210061032
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1565
EP  - 1565
VL  - 72
IS  - 21
N2  - For the past five years it has been the fortune of the reviewer to be called on to give the course in junior surgery at a large nurses' training school. He has often been at a loss to recommend to his students sources from which they might supplement the lectures. The average textbook on surgical subjects is written for the medical student or graduate in medicine, and hence presupposes a thorough medical training on the part of the reader; such books, therefore, are confusing to the student nurse, and she often gains an erroneous impression of a subject, even if she may be persuaded to struggle through the appropriate chapters of the recognized authorities."Essentials of Surgery" appears to have been written with a clear understanding of the needs and of the capacity of those for whom it is intended. In the preface, the author states:These notes are prepared
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.02610210061032
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610210061032
ER  -