Science for Nurses (Tropical Health Series)

(The Churchill Livingstone Tropical Health Series provides up-to-date, informative texts, designed specifically for nurses, midwives and health workers in tropical countries. The hooks, with their emphasis on problems occurring daily in the tropics, will prove invaluable to both studentsand trained nurses.Science for Nurses is designed to cover the science element of basic nursing courses in tropical countries. It revises and extends school-level physics and chemistry and provides student nurses with a firm scientific foundation for their subsequent nursing studies. It is written in a nontechnical and easily accessible style with numerous helpful illustrations. Throughout the text, the medical applications of physics and chemistry are discussed and related to nursing procedure. SI units and IUPAC nomenclature are used and each chapter is supported by a selection of questions on the text)