Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Nursing Care

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Summary: nursing book review
Review: I found that this book was very helpful in my quest to become a nurse. There were many pictures and charts throughout the book to make the information easier to retain. Another good quality to this book was that there were directions to performing a particular nursing skill and rationales to why a step was necessary. Overall I thought that this was an easy book to read and understand.

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Summary: Love this book
Review: Okay, maybe it's just because our nursing director helped write the book, but we all love it. The questions at the end of chapter are theory based questions that are very similar to the NCLEX. Our school has a 98% pass rate on the NCLEX and we owe a lot of it to the practice in answering questions in this book and the study guide for this book. I would highly recommend this book even if you don't need it for your school. At least get it from the library for the questions.

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Summary: Love this book
Review: Okay, maybe it's just because our nursing director helped write the book, but we all love it. The questions at the end of chapter are theory based questions that are very similar to the NCLEX. Our school has a 98% pass rate on the NCLEX and we owe a lot of it to the practice in answering questions in this book and the study guide for this book. I would highly recommend this book even if you don't need it for your school. At least get it from the library for the questions.

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Summary: required text for nursing class
Review: The information in the book is scattered throughout, making studying difficult. Critical thinking was not encouraged and nursing diagnosis was not included in each discussion area.I would not recommend this book.

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Summary: Required text for New Zealand Nursing school
Review: This book was actually a required text for my course. So far I am finding it really helpful in learning the basics of nursing such as taking Blood Pressures. However, as I am from New Zealand and the book is published in America, some of the terminology is different. Also, the illustrations in the book are old and are the same ones that were used in earlier editions - I felt as if more modern illustrations could have been included although the illustrations serve their purpose. Overall, a fairly good book.