JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. This content downloaded from 129.16.69.49 on Fri, 01 Jan 2016 10:39:09 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Reviewed by Alberta B. Wilson, R.N., M.S., Chief, Bureau of Public Health Nursing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A REPORT that describes five of the forty or more combination public health nursing services in this country. A combination agency is defined as "a service that is jointly administered by both governmental and voluntary agencies; financed by tax funds, earnings, and contributions; and in which all field service offered by the participating agencies is rendered by a single staff of public health nurses." Each community's effort to develop a single public health nursing service has resulted in a variety of patterns, although certain fundamental principles are characteristic of them all.What special legislation may be necessary . to provide for joint financing and joint administration when a governmental and a voluntary agency are combined? What does combining public health nursing services mean in the preparation of the staff and in improving services to families? The study provides the answers to many questions as well as certain guiding principles which are essential in developing combination services. These include the desirability of written agreements between agencies; need for both tax and voluntary funds to provide the necessary amounts of public health nursing service; participation of various persons concernedrepresentatives of governing bodies, administrators, and staff nurses-in planning the change from two or more services to one service.All nurses who want to know about public health nursing trends will find the book helpful. With the increasing demand for nurses and with the growing interest in community, state, and regional planning, more and more public health nursing agencies probably will be combining their services. The book will, therefore, be a must for every college and school that prepares students for all types of first level nursing positions, and for schools where students have public health nursing experience as part of the basic nursing curriculum.In fact, it should be of interest to the general public as well, for the community experiments "furnish still another illustration of American democratic adaptability-examples of the American Way." is directed toward nursing students and emphasizes social problems met by the medical social worker.The author is at her best when explaining interactions between the patient and his environment, between the patient and his family, how to observe social problems, and in indicating some of the social treatment to be carried out. Many anecdotes citing patients' problems add interest. She descri...
