Excerpt from Practical Physics for Nurses The criticism is often made that nurses are not intelligent about the handling of ordinary household and hospital appliances, and that they make no attempt to understand the workings of plumbing, heating and ventilating apparatus, surgical instruments and appa ratus, etc. The fault lies not so much in the nurse herself, nor m any lack of inclination to learn, as it does in the fact that she has not been taught the laws which govern some of the simplest activities of life. Very many nurses are not high-school graduates, and of those who are, not all have studied physics, nor know how to apply their knowledge to nursing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.