Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Nursing Fundamentals (2nd Edition) Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
Essential for NCLEX, course and competencey review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of nursing fundamentals. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post chapter tests with comprehensive rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts and new test-taking strategies. Content includes all of the "need-to-know" facts covering the nursing process, physical assessment, communication, professional standards, health promotion through the lifespan, and more.
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Pearson; 2 edition (September 2, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0132240785
ISBN-13: 978-0132240789
Product Dimensions: 8 x 1.1 x 9.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
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Just completed my first semester of Nursing school, and could've scored a "B" using just this book and all the other online content assigned to class. This means I could've avoided reading the main textbook by Craven altogether! Our teacher was heavy on Nursing Behavior and light on Patient Pathology. This book did a much better job than the main text for test preparation. Each chapter has 20 questions with rationales, but the CD adds another 30 NCLEX questions per chapter, so over 500 questions total included.
I was down to a C bordering a D in Fundamentals Nursing class and it brought my grade up to a B plus it helped me get a good score on the HESI for this semester. I bought three different study aid books to help me and this one is the best. If you buy one book to help you please make it this one. It has excellent reviews of the information from Fundamentals class (breaks it down better and is more focused)and then the questions help prepare you for these tests. Trust me when I say these exams are not like any other test you have taken in college. I got a BS degree my first time though and this semester for getting my RN has been my biggest challenge yet. I have recommended this to several future first years to get an idea of what the tests are like and to get prepared. I love this book and will be using this to prepare for my final next week. I only regret that I got this mid way through the semester. Had I gotten this over the summer and used it to prepare I could have gotten an A in the class. Hindsight is 20/20. But hopefully for those of you looking at this review maybe I can save you the trouble. :)
This is a very good book. It gotten me through my Fundamentals class. This book was a life saver. Loved it.
I am using this book to help me for my Fundamentals nursing class. The questions are really great as well as the rationales. There are 20 questions per chapter, as well as 10 more on the CD (per chapter). It also has a nice review of the section that the questions are based on.
I swear by this book. My school uses Potter & Perry and quite frankly, it is way too wordy. This book has all of the important info that P&P has, and in a much more intriguing and organized way. I plan on purchasing the entire collection and wish that I had known about the Health Assessment book for last semester!
I found this book helpful my first semester. The division of the chapters were very closely aligned with what I covered in my class. It worked better for me when I knew the material, because I only used this for review. I wished that this book had more questions and rationales to help train me for those types of questions and a section on fluids and electrolytes (but there is another book for that). Overall, still helpful and not bad.
This book helped me out a lot with my fundamental class. I used the practice questions that could be founded online as well. The only draw back was some of the topics in class were only discussed in the book with another combined subject. I just wished some of the combined subjects had its own chapter and was discussed a little bit more in detail.
I purchased this to help me with my NCLEX style questions for a Nursing 1 course. While it definitely helps get you thinking in the right direction as to how to answer NCLEX questions, it is not the best. Many of the questions are too easy, and after reviewing their summaries on different topics, I find some things are simplified a bit too much. It highlights the main points very well, however.
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