This book is an ideal book and discusses what the professional nurse should be and what the nurse should do. In this book the subject has been presented in a simple manner and can be taught, learned and practiced in everyday life. Since Service is one of the essential criteria of a profession. Ethics plays an important role in building a positive attitude for this service. Knowledge of ethics and professional adjustments helps to build a strong foundation for practice in the Nursing profession.

The book titled Basic Psychology is quite comprehensive as it deals with all the important aspects of general psychology and human behaviour in a very simple and readable form. The author has succeeded in including some thoughts and ideas of modern psychologists. The content is presented with utmost clarity and thoroughness. The illustrations and drawings will sustain the interest of the students. It will be a very valuable text book for nursing students as there are adequate explanations and thought provoking discussions. The summary and quiz in each chapter will be very helpful for the students to facilitate learning process and develop good study habits.

In this rich interdisciplinary study, Sujani Reddy examines the consequential lives of Indian nurses whose careers have unfolded in the contexts of empire, migration, familial relations, race, and gender. As Reddy shows, the nursing profession developed in India against a complex backdrop of British and U.S. imperialism. After World War II, facing limited vocational options at home, a growing number of female nurses migrated from India to the United States during the Cold War. Complicating the long-held view of Indian women as passive participants in the movement of skilled labor in this period, Reddy demonstrates how these "women in the lead" pursued new opportunities afforded by their mobility. At the same time, Indian nurses also confronted stigmas based on the nature of their "women's work," the religious and caste differences within the migrant community, and the racial and gender hierarchies of the United States. Drawing on extensive archival research and compelling life-history interviews, Reddy redraws the map of gender and labor history, suggesting how powerful global forces have played out in the personal and working lives of professional Indian women.

The main thrust of this book is to help the students to acquire the clinical skills through an approach that is quite simple and understandable. It covers the syllabus of nursing foundations practical prescribed by the Indian Nursing Council. It contains updated information and impressive illustrations to make procedures self-explanatory. New Chapter that covers common antenatal, intranatal and postnatal procedures, have also been included in this edition. The rationales given in Appendix have been included in the text side by side for easy access by the readers. This book cover standardized by including an organized and systematic approach to quality nursing care for the patient. Each procedure is divided in to a brief explanation, purpose, supplies, guidelines, nursing activity and recording. This book is helpful for students of all categories and educators in nursing practice.

Health and medicine cannot be understood without considering the role of nurses, both as professionals and as working women. In India, unlike other countries, nurses have suffered an exceptional degree of neglect at the hands of state, a situation that has been detrimental to the quality of both rural and urban health care. Charting the history of the development of nursing in India over 100 years, Indian Sisters examines the reasons why nurses have so consistently been sidelined and excluded from health care governance and policymaking. The book challenges the routine suggestion that nursing’s poor status is mainly attributable to socio-cultural factors, such as caste, limitations on female mobility and social taboos. It argues instead that many of its problems are due to an under-achieved relationship between a patriarchal state on the one hand, and weak professional nursing organisations shaped by their colonial roots on the other. It also explores how the recent phenomenon of large-scale emigration of nurses to the West (leading to better pay, working conditions and career prospects) has transformed the profession, lifting its status dramatically. At the same time, it raises questions about the implications of emigration for the fate of health care system in India. An important contribution to the growing academic genre of nursing history, the book is essential reading for scholars and students of health care, the history of medicine, gender and women’s studies, sociology, and migration studies. It will also be useful to policymakers and health professionals.