Best Nursing Administration
Nurse as Educator: Principles of Teaching and Learning for Nursing Practice, Fourth Edition prepares nurse educators, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse practitioners for their ever-increasing role in patient teaching, health education, health promotion, and nursing education.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Decent book - used for 2 courses."
"Great condition... just the book I neede for a class."
"My other Bible."
"Well organized book."
"Book was required for my class, received as promised."
"This was a required textbook."
"Brand new with CD unopened."
"I thought it was geared more towards instructors rather than the bedside or clinic nurse."
New for 2010, this book matches the latest version of the Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS) that is used as a pre-entrance exam by nursing schools across the country.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"First, let me state that I graduated from college over 25 years ago and have not taken a formal class since then. I decided to start a second career as a nurse but had to take the TEAS test to get accepted into the ADN program at my community college. I have never taken microbiology or anatomy, and my last chemistry and biology classes were taken over 25 years ago. I almost started to cry after reading the first page because I could only confidently answer one of the first five questions. But I took a deep breath and thought about what I did know for each question, and used that information to make a best guess. They are all short (about 5-12 minutes long) and cover every topic in the book in greater detail. Even though I felt like I guessed on half the questions, I got a raw score of 77% so whatever I did must have worked."
"I highly recommend everyone to take at least one practice test. I took a practice test (~2.5 hours) the day before my big test (~3 hours) and received the same score! The test is computerized and you need to create a username and password on ATItesting.com. The score sheet shows the adjusted individual score, the mean score (national and program level), and the percentile rank (national and program level)."
"So I am writing this review a few days before my test, and I'm pretty upset with this book. I have been working on studying for this test for about a month, and I think I can give an honest, thought out review. You will see what yiu need to know, and it will give you a general prepared feeling for the test. Be prepared to Google alot of terms and functions to actually understand what you are reading."
"It also tells you in the book how many questions are on each section of the test and how much time you have to complete."
The new edition is designed to prepare you for the nursing leadership issues of today and tomorrow, providing just the right amount of information to equip you with the tools you need to succeed on the NCLEX and in practice. This thoroughly updated edition is organized around the issues that are central to the success of professional nurses in today’s constantly changing healthcare environment, including patient safety, workplace violence, consumer relationships, cultural diversity, resource management, and many more. Each chapter opens with The Challenge , where practicing nurse leaders/managers offer their real-world views of a concern related in the chapter, encouraging you to think about how you would handle the situation. Research and Literature Perspective boxes summarize timely articles of interest and point out their relevance and applicability to practice.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book was a required book by my Nursing Leadership class so as any starving student would do I rented it."
"This book was required but I could barely stay awake reading it."
"very interesting and always less expensive than through school."
"Exactly what I needed for class!"
"for class, not much to say about this book."
"One week out from the start of classes and already have assignments that call for reading chapters."
"Book was labeled as in “good” condition."
Best Nurse-Patient Relations
The bestselling nursing care planning book on the market , Nursing Care Plans: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes, 8th Edition covers the most common medical-surgical nursing diagnoses and clinical problems seen in adults. Written by expert nursing educators Meg Gulanick and Judith Myers, this reference functions as two books in one, with 147 disorder-specific and health management nursing care plans and 70 nursing diagnosis care plans to use as starting points in creating individualized care plans . 70 nursing diagnosis care plans include the most common/important NANDA-I nursing diagnoses, providing the building blocks for you to create your own individualized care plans for your own patients. Student resources on the Evolve companion website include 36 of the book’s care plans ― 5 nursing diagnosis care plans and 31 disorders care plans.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"But this book makes student nurse life a little more easier with eye friendly pages and easy to understand tips and tricks."
"Best care plan book that I have found to date."
"It cut down the amount of time needed finding nursing diagnoses and interventions by A LOT."
"I love this care plan book."
"This book has and continues to help me with every care plan that I'm writing, giving me not only ideas but the precious rationales needed to support them."
"I loved it and once I showed it to classmates who purchased different ones, they switch to this one because of the easiness of it."
"After pulling my hair out trying to use Ackley, our required nursing school book to write POC's, I decided to take a chance and buy Gulanick's book."
"Got for my daughter and she says it is great and just like it was described."
Best Nursing Test Preparation
ATI TEAS Secrets Study Guide is the ideal prep solution for anyone who wants ace the Test of Essential Academic Skills, Sixth Edition. Not only does it provide a comprehensive study manual for the TEAS 6 as a whole, it is the only guide that provides three full-length practice tests with detailed explanations of each answer and 74 video tutorials to help you review. A thorough and detailed review of all ATI TEAS test sections Review video tutorials to help you master difficult concepts Comprehensive practice questions with detailed answer explanations Tips and strategies to help you get your best test performance. Our test designers have provided hundreds of test questions that will prepare you for what to expect on the actual ATI TEAS. We have done this by setting high standards for our test preparation guides, and our ATI TEAS Secrets Study Guide is no exception.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I bought this book under my mother's amazon account so I'm posting this as a 22 year old who had to take the ATI TEAS test for entrance into nursing programs. I felt like I got some questions on the test that the science section touched on but didn't delve very deep into (mostly concerning with the endocrine system), but a majority of the science questions could be answered by reading and studying the book. I recently graduated from college with a health related degree, but I do think that without this study guide I wouldn't have done as well, it helped me brush up on topics I had forgotten as well as teach me things I never knew (mostly relating to English grammar section)."
"Yesterday, I took my TEAS test after using this guide for approximately three weeks, and I am pleased to have earned an 88% with a national percentile rank of 97. Since statistics is tested, albeit very slightly, I would recommend you study the regression charts and lessons for positive/negative skew. Some topics I would recommend for students to reassess are: the components and anatomy of eukaryotes / prokaryotes, ionic and covalent bonds, the products of both mitosis and meiosis, and DNA replication. Test yourself with flash cards the most commonly misspelled words, prefixes and suffixes. In conclusion, this is a wonderful guide that will wrack and plumb your brain for all of the information you should have learned up to this point."
"I recommend using the first practice test as a starting point to determine what you need to study, then spend some time studying before taking the second and third practice tests."
Best Nursing Reference
With over 4,500 high-quality review questions, this unique, bestselling review and preparation guide offers the perfect combination of core content review, comprehensive rationales, and detailed test-taking strategies from the NCLEX expert herself: Linda Silvestri. Question codes categorize each question by cognitive level, client needs area, integrated process, clinical content area, and priority concepts to allow you multiple study and exam selections on the companion Evolve site. Pyramid to Success sections supply an overview of the chapter, guidance and direction regarding the focus of review in the content area, and its relative importance to the most recent NCLEX-PN text plan. Special text highlights specific test-taking strategies, and specific content areas in the practice questions provide you with guidance on what topics to review for further remediation in Saunders Strategies for Test Success: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX® Exam and Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN® Exam. Comprehensive exam consists of 85 questions related to all content areas in the book to represent the percentages identified in the NCLEX-PN test plan. Testlet questions familiarize you with a new alternative item format question type expected to appear on future NCLEX test plans.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I did not read the whole book and I did a couple of the online practice test through the book."
"Helps break down what I need to know."
"It's a good reviewer."
"I purchased this book for my sister who is taking a LPN coarse."
"really nice."
"Easy to understand and best book I've ever purchase for my review."
Best Nursing Fundamentals & Skills
This edition includes a NEW Epigenetics and Disease chapter along with. additional What’s New boxes. highlighting the latest advances in pathophysiology. Over 1,200 full-color illustrations and photographs depict the clinical manifestations of disease and disease processes ― more than in any other pathophysiology text. EXTENSIVELY Updated content reflects advances in pathophysiology including tumor biology invasion and metastases, the epidemiology of cancer, diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, thyroid and adrenal gland disorders, female reproductive disorders including benign breast diseases and breast cancer, and a separate chapter on male reproductive disorders and cancer.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Slight highlighting ang cover aging signs, and what looks like a coffee stain."
"Product was just as described."
"Amazing book, informative."
"Perfect condition.. thank you."
"The binding is falling apart so i need to be careful it doesnt completely come off considering its a huge book."
"Very difficult to follow."
Best Nursing Research & Theory
Take your learning beyond the book with a wide range of online resources, including the American Journal of Nursing EBP Step-by-Step Series, which provides a real-world example of the EBP process, plus learning objectives, journal articles, and checklists, templates, and evaluation tables.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Melnik & Fineout-Overholt are the leaders in EBP nursing and healthcare."
"I bought the book used but it look like a new book."
"Not an exciting read or ground breaking, but its for school so read on."
"This book is easy to understand and well organized."
"Explains research concepts in good detail."
"I did not like this book."
"seller is awesome, but book not so great in my opinion."
Best Clinical Nursing
Written by Carolyn Jarvis, an experienced educator and clinician, this gold standard in physical examination reflects what is going on in nursing today with coverage of emerging trends and the latest on evidence-based practice. A clear, logical, and streamlined approach simplifies content and helps you learn to perform the complete health assessment: The conversational, easy-to-understand writing style. 150 NEW normal and abnormal examination photos for the nose, mouth, throat, thorax, and pediatric assessment show findings that are unexpected or that require referral for follow-up care, with cultural diversity and developmental variations. A holistic approach to assessment accommodates the diverse types of patients that you will encounter in the real world: Documentation and Critical Thinking sections. Developmental Competence sections provide age-specific assessment techniques for infants, children, adolescents, pregnant women, and older adults.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great book, this book has helped me immensely in Nursing ."
"As expected."
"I loved this book and it was exactly what I needed for my class!"
"Excellent Lab Manual."
"Excellent book and condition."
"Great assessment book I needed for my adult assessment class."
"Some pictures were kind of disturbing though."
"The book I bought is actually a copy which was not stated in the description because of this the images are not clear."
Best LPN & LVN Test Preparation
With over 4,500 high-quality review questions, this unique, bestselling review and preparation guide offers the perfect combination of core content review, comprehensive rationales, and detailed test-taking strategies from the NCLEX expert herself: Linda Silvestri. Question codes categorize each question by cognitive level, client needs area, integrated process, clinical content area, and priority concepts to allow you multiple study and exam selections on the companion Evolve site. Pyramid to Success sections supply an overview of the chapter, guidance and direction regarding the focus of review in the content area, and its relative importance to the most recent NCLEX-PN text plan. Special text highlights specific test-taking strategies, and specific content areas in the practice questions provide you with guidance on what topics to review for further remediation in Saunders Strategies for Test Success: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX® Exam and Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN® Exam. Comprehensive exam consists of 85 questions related to all content areas in the book to represent the percentages identified in the NCLEX-PN test plan. Testlet questions familiarize you with a new alternative item format question type expected to appear on future NCLEX test plans.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I did not read the whole book and I did a couple of the online practice test through the book."
"Helps break down what I need to know."
"It's a good reviewer."
"I purchased this book for my sister who is taking a LPN coarse."
"really nice."
"Easy to understand and best book I've ever purchase for my review."
Best General
View anatomy from a clinical perspective with hundreds of exquisite, hand-painted illustrations created by pre-eminent medical illustrator Frank H. Netter, MD. During his student years, Dr. Netter’s notebook sketches attracted the attention of the medical faculty and other physicians, allowing him to augment his income by illustrating articles and textbooks. Now translated into 16 languages, it is the anatomy atlas of choice among medical and health professions students the world over. No matter how beautifully painted, how delicately and subtly rendered a subject may be, it is of little value as a medical illustration if it does not serve to make clear some medical point. Dr. Netter’s planning, conception, point of view, and approach are what inform his paintings and what make them so intellectually valuable.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great illustrations, expected of Netter, but it just doesn't have as many angles as I would like."
"Nice and helpful atlas, great diagrams and pictures."
"Great atlas for anatomy."
"Could not recommend this atlas more!"
"Its an awesome book, and keeping it with me al day with the kindle app is really useful...it makes surgery related courses easier!"
"What ca I say?"
"When you are looking at the 3-D models in lab, it looks like they designed it after this book's renderings (because let's face it, cadavers do not look like the lab models)."
"I purchased this book as new and instead I got one with a sticker on the back of the last page and with coffee or something spilled all over it, the first pages were even like stuck together due to this coffee."
Best Issues
What's more, it addresses emerging health law issues with analysis of key cases, including: * Examples regarding trouble over NPs and kickbacks. * Stark Law compliance issues and related criminal cases involving nurse practitioners who are employed by hospitals. * Nurse practitioners who have encountered issues with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). * An attempted work around for the Medicare requirement that a physician order home care resulting in an NP using a physician's name to order home care and then being prosecuted for identity theft. * An NP and physician who did not follow Medicare's incident-to rules and both the NP and MD were charged with health care fraud. * Criminal cases against NPs who prescribed opioids or steroids either without authorization or without appropriate evaluation and monitoring.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"If you are a nurse practitioner you should not be practicing without this helpful book."
"Great book in perfect condition."
"exactly what i was looking for."
"Just what I needed, when I needed it!"
"Everything professed to be, and more."
"Indispensable guide; no NP should practice without it."