Product Description

Designed for shorter pediatric and maternity nursing courses, this useful textbook provides students with the "right amount" of maternity and pediatric content in an up-to-date, easy-to-understand manner. Divided into two sections, the first part of the book includes 28 chapters covering maternity nursing content and the second part contains 27 chapters covering pediatric nursing content. Numerous illustrations, photos, and tables help illustrate and clarify the information for the student. Many special boxes, pedagogical features, and an inviting full-color design also help make key information easy to find and review. * Nurse Alerts identify critical information that students should not overlook when treating patients. * Guidelines boxes outline nursing procedures in an easy-to-follow approach. * Emergency boxes highlight emergency procedures in a step-by-step format to help students understand how to perform them. * Home Care boxes detail important information to help prepare students to deliver care to patients and families in the home setting. * Atraumatic Care boxes (in the pediatrics section) teach students to provide competent care without creating undue physical or psychological stress to the patient. * Community Focus boxes emphasize community issues, provide resources and guidance, and illustrate nursing care in a variety of settings. * Critical Thinking Exercises provide students with case scenarios that depict real life situations to help them choose the best interventions and make good clinical judgments. * Cultural Awareness boxes provid

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #233460 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 2016 pages

About the Author
Donna L. Wong, PhD, RN, PNP, CPN, FAAN, Adjunct Professor, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine-Tulsa; Adjunct Professor, University of Oklahoma College of Nursing; Adjunct Professor/Consultant, Oral Roberts University, Anna Vaughn School of Nursing, Tulsa, OK; Shannon E. Perry, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA; Marilyn J. Hockenberry, PhD, RN-CS, PNP, FAAN, Director, Center for Clinical Research; Nurse Scientist, Texas Children’s Hospital; Director of Nurse Practitioners, Texas Children’s Cancer Center; Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, RNC, PhD, FAAN, Clinical Professor, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC USA; and David Wilson, DVM, MS, DACVS, Associate Professor, Equine Surgery, Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Customer Reviews

Too much
Take it from a nursing student that this book has way too much detail.When trying to read for class you need a book that gets to the point while supplying a sufficient amount of detail.My classmates and I both complain about the extra information in this book.

Good book, even though it's required
This book was required for my last semester of nursing school (OB/Peds), but I still think it's a good book. It does a good job of combining OB & Peds instead of having two separate (and often confusing) references as we've had in other subjects.
~~~It's now near the end of the semester and I wanted to amend my review of this book. I tried to change my rating to 4 stars and couldn't. I personally feel that the book contains too much information, half of which was not covered the entire semester. Even in the parts we have covered, the information is often repeated in two or three times, greatly adding to the bulk of the book. The information could have been written in a much more concise manner, and is often verbose and wordy.

Good but too much
While I think this book has very accurate information and is well organized, I also feel that there is too much supplementary information surrounding the core concepts. I honestly feel that the authors write like they were speaking and they like to hear themselves talk. I had to buy this book for class, so I did. If you do not, I recommend buying something where the information is a little more condensed and to the point. If you do have to use it, like me, then understand that you will be reading a lot of information in order to understand a few concepts.