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1: Nursing book
This book was a required text for my nursing course and the book itself was very helpful for skills lab. Compared to the bookstore at school, this was a very good deal. However, I wasn't too happy about the condition of the book. I purchased a brand new one and paid extra to have it shipped overnight. The book arrived to me in a very bad condition with the first chapter all torn off and sloppily glued back in. The books condition wasn't worth my money.
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2: Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques Text and Checklists Package
Book was required for nursing school, checklist has too many steps. But other than that it's a pretty good book with lots of pictures demonstrating the different techniques.
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3: Good but look for something better
Many of my classmates stopped reading the text half way through the semester. Perry & Potter are masters of creating step by step lists of fundamental procedures, but often leave out important details (especially during procedures requiring aseptic technique). We used this text in conjunction with the evolve course. The evolve course has great videos, and the lessons and explanations are better written than the accompanying text. I am actually looking for another fundamentals book because I just don't see myself referring back to this tome of "written ambien" anytime in the future.
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4: Poorly written
I would not have purchased this book had it not been required by my "Intro to Professional Nursing" course. This reference book contained many typos (like not converting properly to metric units), conflicting information in some areas, not enough information in others (like finding important landmarks for assessments), not to mention it weighs a ton. On the other hand, the NCLEX review questions at the end of each chapter are somewhat helpful to evaluate your comprehension. If you have the option, don't waste your money on this text. If you don't have the option, I still would not buy the book but pay close attention and take good notes during skills lecture/lab.
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5: lab in a book
I don't understand why we had to purchase this book for a nursing fundamentals lab since the lab instructor gives us the relevant information verbally. Not useful except maybe as a reference for the forgetful.
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