title: Rheumatoid arthritis in practice Peter Taylor Rheumatoid arthritis in practice The Royal Society of Medicine 114 £18.95 1 85315 670 1 185315 6701 [Formula: see text].
abstract: The concise, relatively small book is an excellent resource for aspiring or established nurse specialist or advanced practitioners and prescribers who are interested in evidence based care of the individual with rheumatoid arthritis. However, there are one or two caveats to recommending this book. Firstly it fails to describe the full benefits of key roles that nurses and multi-professional teams play - although these are briefly discussed it will not give the reader enough information about the scope of each individual role. In addition, the social and psychological impact of the condition is not really considered in this book. So these issues and aspects of managing symptoms and supporting the individual with rheumatoid arthritis are sadly lacking and the reader would need to other key nursing textbooks to compliment this otherwise excellent book.