Product Description

Pocket quick reference explains difficult concepts, offers tables of root words and a guide to Spanish terms related to health care, and enhances recall of precise meanings of terms. Previous edition: c1998. Wire-spiral binding. DNLM: Terminology.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #440849 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 352 pages

Customer Reviews

Highly Recommended!
This is an excellent resource for the new or "seasoned" nurse. Covers just about every disease we are going to encounter in our work. A lot more portable than carrying around a med-surg book and a lot more succinct that a med-surg book. Gives you "just the facts, ma'am!". Provides a summary of the disease and nursing considerations, treatment, and other practical infor for caring for pts. Highly recommended for the student or practicing nurse. I have it on my PDA. If you are going to get the software version, get the Skyscape software version, not Mobipocket. Skyscape software is much more user-friendly in terms of manuevering around each entry. Skyscape uses a tabbed format for access of the various types of info within each entry (such as Summary of the disease, nursing considerations, treatment and tests, pt teaching etc), whereas Mobipocket is basically just an electronic reader. You must cursor through the entire entry until you find what you are looking for. I can recommend this by experience and I bought several of my first reference books in the Mobipocket format and have since taken them off my PDA and replaced them with Skyscape versions. A major waste of money, but the Mobipocket versions just took too long to find the info I wanted. Skyscape allows much quicker access.

Just What The Nurse Ordered!!
If you need a quick reference to know the diseases, pathophysiology, incidences, treatments, and nursing interventions, this is the book for you!! My professors think that I did some real searching for all of this information, and here it is, in the palm of my hand. Take advantage!

an easy read for diseases!
This book has allowed me to review a disease with ease. Only the needed information is in this handy book. All of the dieases are alphabetized for a quick reference. I particularly find helpful the disease definition, the brief pathophysiology of the disease and the signs and syptoms. With the help of this book, my nurse processing paper work is completed much faster! This book should be recommended for all nursing courses and nurses as well!