Product Description

Comprehensive, logically-organized, and easy to read, this market-leading fundamentals text provides students with a solid base for their nursing education. Encompassing principles, concepts, and skills, it offers thorough coverage, a nursing process framework, an emphasis on critical thinking, and a focus on care in all settings. This new edition addresses a number of key issues, including evidence-based practice, safety concerns, and end-of-life care. To better meet the needs of beginning students, care plans have been expanded to more clearly explain assessment findings leading to nursing diagnoses, as well as evaluation of outcomes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87325 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1728 pages

About the Author
Patricia A. Potter, RN, MSN, PhD, CMAC, Research Scientist, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO; and Anne Griffin Perry, RN, MSN, EdD, FAAN, Professor, Interim Director of Research, Saint Louis University School of Nursing, Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, MO

Customer Reviews

Horrible Text
This book has a horrible layout and is poorly organized. The text is often times not very clear. Don't even get me started on the skills steps and rationales, have fun reading those tedious wordy procedures (the figures don't even match up with the steps). Don't even bother purchasing the workbook that goes along with this text because it doesn't help, it doesn't match up with the book either. What this book needs is more editing and a completely different layout that is user friendly for 1st year nursing students. The best thing about this book is the website that goes along with it (except even some of the answer rationales contradict what's in the book). If it were possible I would give this book a 0 star rating.

Fundamentals workbook and review questions
Our class found many errors in the exercises. It will ask for 11 fundamentals of Gordans but not list them. The exercises will ask for 6 theories of something and there will be 5. One Chapter has 10 answers but 9 answers in the book.
Material in book is easy to read, just can't depend or use the workbook.

Absolutely Horrible
I used this book my first semester... until I realized I could find much more accurate (and concise) information in other texts. This book has way too much garbage in it. In their attempt to highlight content by putting it in it's own box on the page, they've managed to completely clutter up the book... since you'll find one or two "important boxes" on virtually every page of this excruciatingly wordy text. I no longer waste 5 hours frustrating myself trying to learn a process... instead I've shelved this waste of a tree and cut my study time in half. Black and Hawk's Medical-Surgical Nursing is much more useful!

In my opinion, those that think this book is "good" either read much faster than I do and have altogether too much time on their hands, or they need to attempt to open another book... any other book! they'll soon find Potter & Perry to be as inundated as the rest of the reviewers have come to realize and trade up for a text that's actually useful when you've got less than a few hours to beef up on a given topic and don't want to be bored out of your mind.