This page features the most popular and useful nursing textbooks.
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Textbook
Of Basic Nursing This essential nursing textbook presents a comprehensive overview of Nursing's entire curriculum in easy-to-use text. Topics covered include basic sciences, foundational material, nursing concepts and all clinical nursing areas. This nursing textbook is organized from less complex subject matter to more complex to enable students to easily understand fundamental information--and naturally progress through the material. There are numerous charts and illustrations that make difficult nursing concepts easier to understand. |
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Study
Guide To Accompany Textbook Of Basic Nursing This is the study guide to accompany Textbook of Basic Nursing, 7th ed., c1999, by Rosdahl. Each chapter includes an overview, key terms knowledge check, common terms, and fill-in-the-blank questions. Answers are in the back of the book. |
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Techniques
in Clinical Nursing This nursing textbook features nursing procedures for students and practitioners. Abundant color and half-tone illustrations. |
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Nursing
2004 Drug Handbook The only nursing drug guide organized by therapeutic class, this year's fully updated edition contains more than 900 entries, and covers more than 1,000 generic and 3,500 brand-name drugs. The value of this comprehensive reference is enhanced with the inclusion of a free mini-CD-ROM, which features 10 CE tests and 200 drug monographs linked to 200 patient-teaching handouts. This handbook also includes an updated and expanded 32-page full-color photo guide to the most commonly prescribed tablets and capsules. New to this edition: more than 30 monographs on newly FDA-approved drugs, new FDA-approved indications and dosages, and off-label indications included in every appropriate drug monograph. Appendices include herbal medicines, infusion flow rates, dialyzable drugs, drugs that shouldn't be crushed, look alike and sound alike drugs, English-Spanish drug phrase translator, therapeutic drug monitoring guidelines, and combination drugs for pain management, and more. |
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Encyclopedia & Dictionary
of Medicine, Nursing Allied Health (6th Ed) This seventh edition of a dictionary for medical professionals includes 3,900 new terms, increased cross-references, and several hundred new tables and illustrations. In addition to brief definitions, encyclopedic entries present detailed descriptions and background information, and boxes provide further insights on selected topics. An accompanying mini-CD-ROM contains spellcheck software. |
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Mosby's
Textbook for Nursing Assistants The dominant book in its subject area, the current edition was expanded and updated in keeping with today's needs and practices. OBRA standards are incorporated throughout. Full-color illustrations reflect today's emphasis on total patient care, and assist in comprehension of each procedure. |
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Nursing
School And Allied Health Entrance Exams This exam review is designed for those preparing for nursing/allied health entrance examinations. Trusted and relied upon by prospective nurses nationwide for 30 years, this textbook offers expert, in-depth preparation for the entrance exams required by Registered Nurse and Practical/Vocational Nurse training programs and for numerous specialized Allied Health programs. This all-in-one textbook to nationwide entrance exams provides more than 1,500 practice questions and subject reviews. Includes facts about RN, LPN, and allied health training programs. |
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Nursing School and Allied Health Entrance Exams (Arco Academic Test Preparation) This unique textbook has been an ARCO bestseller for 30 years! Trusted and relied upon by prospective nursing students nationwide, the guide offers expert, in-depth preparation for the entrance exams required by Registered Nurse and Practical/Vocational Nurse training programs, and also for numerous specialized Allied Health programs. Includes over 1,500 practice questions and reviews of verbal and mathematical skills, general science, physical sciences, chemistry, and health. Covers everything the nursing student needs to know about entrance examinations for nursing and allied health programs. It arms the prospective student with test-taking strategies as well as useful information on nursing schools and financial aid. |
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How
to Prepare for the Nursing School Entrance
Exams This new textbook was prepared for all students who plan to enroll in a nursing school, as well as for high school counselors. General test-taking strategies are offered, and an extensive subject review covers verbal skill building, reading comprehension, math, and science. Model exams feature answer keys and explanations. |
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How
to Survive and Maybe Even Love Nursing School!:
Guide for Students by Students This light-hearted and user-friendly textbook offers advice and information to help a student cope with and excel in nursing school. It traces the entire course of study from selecting a school to taking the NCLEX. It also provides suggestions relating to finances, employment, stress, time management, the concerns of nontraditional students, computers, tests, and clinicals. |
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Stressed
Out About Nursing School! An Insider's Guide to Success. The authoritative student textbook to one of the fastest growing, most in demand professions today! Loaded with resources and written from a student's perspective. This title guides the student through: The rigors of making it into nursing school (applications, interviews, types of programs, is nursing for you? and more). Surviving nursing school (what to expect, study tips, time management, the truth on clinicals, working and going to school plus tons more). Life after school (acing the NCLEX, getting your dream job, what is nursing really like, salaries, specialization, grad school and much, much more!). Helpful icons guide you through a myriad of resources and present expert advice on everything you ever wanted to know about nursing school. The lighthearted manner makes it a joy to read! |
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NCLEX-RN
2003-2004 with CD-ROM You will pass the NCLEX®. We guarantee it. NCLEX® 2003-2004 comes complete with a detailed analysis of the types of questions you'll see on the NCLEX®, with special emphasis on therapeutic communication and management of care, plus Kaplan's highly effective test-taking strategies to help maximize your performance on the exam. This powerful combination provides you with everything you need to pass the NCLEX®. |
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AJN/Mosby
Nursing Boards Review for NCLEX-RN Exam A comprehensive outline review of the core content used in NCLEX-RN certification exams, this resource includes tips for preparing for the exam, four sample tests with answers and rationales, and reprints of pertinent articles from the American Journal of Nursing. New information on infection control guidelines has been added. |
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Springhouse
Review for NCLEX-RN (Book with CD-ROM) Exam review offers content in all major clinical areas, test-taking hints, and more than 1,500 NCLEX-style practice questions. Includes 1,200 questions on the CD-ROM. |
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NCLEX-RN
250 New-Format Questions: Preparing for the
Revised NCLEX-RN This brand-new review guide has 250 questions written specifically in the Alternate-Format style recently introduced into the NCLEX-RN exam. Scores of multiple-response multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blank items, and questions based on illustrations, charts, and diagrams serve as ideal preparation tools and confidence boosters. Organized according to the major topics covered on the exam -- fundamentals, medical-surgical, maternal-neonatal, pediatric, and psychiatric nursing -- the book features a convenient two-column format, with questions on the left and answers on the right. For every question, the text also provides rationales for correct and incorrect responses as well as the applicable nursing process step, client needs category, client needs subcategory, and cognitive level. Also includes test-taking tips. |
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American
Nursing Review: Questions & Answers for
Nclex-Rn The second edition of this textbook is the perfect study tool for nursing students planning to take the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses. The text covers all clinical study areas and reflects the latest test plan. Each chapter tests the reader on nursing principles and procedures, disorders, diagnostic tests, and treatments. |
