Reviews (17)

like it
I got the book for my ICU rotation, its a easy read. Goes over the imp stuff and the basics too. Liked it a lot.

excellent book overall
Too little details in places (mechanical ventilation) but too wordy in others.Excellent cardiopulmonary phys review, good breadth of subjects.Kinda big book but fast reading.

My favorite
This book is rare because it is original. It welcomes you to the real world of critical care as seen by one expert physician. It was probably never intended for quick reference or board prep. The relatively large print and generous spacing make the book bigger but more pleasant to read. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Critical Care    2. Critical care medicine    3. Intensive care units    4. Internal Medicine    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    8. Intensive care medicine    9. Medical / Nursing / Critical & Intensive Care   

Reviews (19)

PASS CCRN
If you like reading material that will put you to sleep this is the book for you. I was very dissapointed in this book. The book is just a collection of material from other books. It reads like a research paper. I was hoping to have more material concerning nursing questions. The only thing that is more disappointing about this book is the price I paid for it. The only reason I did not give this book one star is that it has a cd rom that is somewhat helpful.

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I payed for express mail.I got it a week and a half later

never even rec'd the book
I never rec'd this book, never heard from the seller, etc.I do not recommend this seller. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Intensive Care Nursing    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    5. Nursing - Test Preparation & Review    6. Medical / Nursing / Critical & Intensive Care   

Reviews (2)

core curriculum for neonatal intensive care nursing
This book was extremely helpful when studying for my certification exam. It was easy to follow and understand. A good book for the experienced and new NICU nurse.

Never got the book
Considering Amazon took over 3 weeks to deliver/processmy book which I never received, I unfortunately cannot rate this book, but I can rate amazon...DON"T SHOP THERE!!! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Intensive Care, Neonatal    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Neonatal Nursing    5. Neonatal intensive care    6. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    7. Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health    8. Outlines    9. Outlines, syllabi, etc    10. methods    11. Medical / Nursing / Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health    12. Nursing   

Reviews (3)

Pricey
This is an expensive book, however a good resource to keep on hand. This book is set up as an outline.This is not a detailed text covering all the ins and outs of pathophysiology on the cellular level. It does cover pathophysiology but set up in an outline form, not a standard textbook. Easy to read and grasp information.

Cost effective
This book can be found cheaper at the AACN web site.

Excellent resource for critical care nursing
The Core Curriculum for Critical Care Nursing is a concise, thoroughreview of each body system.Each major chapter not only outlines athorough review of A&P, it also goes into common disease states withineach system and even discusses nursing concerns with each disease.I haveused this book for several years personally, and my director has one in theICU for a resource at work.I highly recommend this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    4. Medical / Nursing / Critical & Intensive Care    5. Nursing   

Reviews (1)

Not for Emergency Nurses
This text was the coarse requirement for my emergency nursing post grad certificate.Definitely geared towards ICU nurses, but does contain a lot of good information. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    4. Intensive care nursing    5. Medical / Nursing / Critical & Intensive Care   

Reviews (7)

Very good primary care office resource
Our busy office found this book an excellent resource.We hardly had to change the protocols much at all, only to update a few to reflect some changes in medications we use.The author has taken great pain to design a resource that saved us a great deal of time....I had started to do some of these for our office by myself BEFORE I came across this book and am embarrassed to admit the few protocols I managed to plod through were amateurish indeed compared to Ms. Briggs's work herein.Our office is a busy internal medicine practice with a heavy dose of geriatrics and we give this a "strong buy!"

Excellent Book
If the armed forces uses it and bases their clinical practice guidelines on it, it's got to be good, right? It is. I use this book in nurse telephone triage for a military pediatric clinic with 2700 patients. The book is spiral bound and easy to flip pages, and the pages stay open to the topic you are using. Topics are alphabetized which saves time when searching for a certain topic. There is a very useful table of contents at the front. The home care instructions are straight forward and acceptable to our parents. It doesn't have all the topics you would need (that's what pediatricians are for), but tab topics you use most, add a drug book and a pediatrician, and you're ready to go.

The most comprehensive/user freindly telephone triage book.
When it came time to select a book to use as a guideline for triage assessment, I searched through 15 books and a couple of computerized systems. This book is the easiest to follow, without being too simplistic.The format is exceptional and key questions are clear, concise and stillopen-ended enough to prevent "leading" your patient. There arecross-references for each complaint, as well as home care measures for eachailment. The final points are the blank formatted pages for writing yourown protocols, and tracking charts to complete QA.5 stars hardly seemenough! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Emergency nursing    2. Emergency reporting systems    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Nursing - Assessment & Diagnosis    6. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    7. Nursing - Emergency    8. Telephone    9. Triage (Medicine)    10. Accident & emergency nursing    11. Medical / Nursing / Emergency   

Reviews (6)

Really useful book
I found this book to be really resourceful and up to date. Definitely recommend to others.

orientation
This is a very good teaching tool for RN's new to a NICU, and also a reference for experienced NICU RN's. The 2002 version includes some added information.

Can put you to sleep.
I found a lot of valuble information, but this was after I weeded through some A&P 101 review and other things I think were of a very basic knowledge.Could get a little dry.Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    4. Nursing - Pediatric & Neonatal    5. Pediatrics    6. Intensive care medicine    7. Medical / Nursing / Critical & Intensive Care    8. Neonatal medicine   

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Emergency Medical Services    2. Emergency medical services    3. Emergency medical technicians    4. Infusions, Intravenous    5. Intensive Care Nursing    6. Intravenous therapy    7. Medical    8. Medical / Nursing    9. Medical Procedure    10. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    11. methods    12. Medical / Allied Health Services / Emergency Medical Services   

Subjects:  1. Diseases    2. Examinations, questions, etc    3. Infants (Newborn)    4. Intensive Care Nursing    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Neonatal intensive care    8. Nursing    9. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    10. Nursing - Pediatric & Neonatal    11. Nursing - Test Preparation & Review    12. Pediatric Nursing    13. Medical / Nursing / Critical & Intensive Care   

Reviews (3)

High Acuity Nursing
This book has been very helpful to our new nurses who seem overwhelmed when they first get out of school.Self-paced modules help them incoorporate their knowledge with the types of patients they take care of.I have used this book for seasoned nurses too.They like the validation they get from being able to pre- and post-test.
this book is horrible
I am a senior nursing student and I am appalled at this book. Our instructor loves it and has been using it. I brought to her attention that in the pediatric module, some of the pretest answers are WRONG!!! I know they are wrong- or I would not be a senior nursing student!!!! Out of all the majors and careers and textbooks that need to give accurate information- ACUTE CARE NURSING IS THE ONE!!!!! This is sooo extremely important! I am very disappointed.

Excellent training resource for new graduates
Filled with self paced modules applicable to the critical care, emergency room, and medical-surical setting, High Acuity Nursing is an excellent clinical resource to supplement orientation & training programs of new graduate nurses.Organized by body system, it integrates A&P, clinical nursing applications, and critical thinking all in one.I used it with my new graduates when orienting them to the IMCU, ED, and med-surg units.They found the information helpful in tying in the clinical content they were learning during orientation and the practical application of it.They rated the self learning modules highly in the evaluations.Internal transfers into the ICU have also found it to be helpful when orienting to that new setting. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Critical Care    2. Critical Illness    3. Intensive Care Nursing    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    7. Nursing - General    8. methods    9. nursing    10. Accident & emergency nursing    11. Medical / Nursing / General   

Subjects:  1. Critical Care    2. Critical Illness    3. Intensive care nursing    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    7. Outlines, syllabi, etc    8. nursing    9. Medical / Nursing / Critical & Intensive Care    10. Medicine   

Reviews (6)

Decent
I liked this CD - it has a lot of good information and is more fun than just reading a book. However, the animations get tedious after a while and I think they slow the review down some.
Critical Care Nursing Made Incredibly Easy CD-ROM
I thought that the CD was ok.

Great test review tool!
I love this CD! It is a great way to take a break from studying, have fun and still use your precious time effectively! It is filled with humor and even gives you praise for correct answers. If you answer incorrectly, you may get a pie in the face, or your desk may fall through a trap door in the floor! You can choose 3 different modes:endless lecture, problem patient, tedious textbook torture.You can then pick your content from a list of topics. I use it before our units tests to see what I still need to rewiew! Watch your test grades improve. I highly reccomend this fun CD for any nursing student, or anyone considering critical care. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Critical Care    2. Handbooks    3. Handbooks, manuals, etc    4. Intensive care nursing    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    8. Nursing Care    9. Medical / Nursing / Reference   

Reviews (6)

Emergency Nursing Core Curriculum
A must have for all emergency departments and emergency educators.
Great CEN Prep
This book was perfect for CEN prep. Following my CEN I found all of theinformation that I could remember that was tested in this book.Prior tothe exam, I used practice tests and when I identified my weaknesses, I usedthis book to study that material at an indepth level.

core curriculum review
It is the definitive work on core knowledge required of ED nurses.As with any other core curriculums the format is in outline. I've been an ED nurse for almost 25 years and use the core as a guide and to jog myoverloaded memory bank. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Curriculum planning    2. Emergency Nursing    3. Emergency Nursing Care    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    7. Nursing - Emergency    8. Study and teaching    9. education    10. outlines    11. Accident & emergency medicine    12. Accident & emergency nursing    13. Intensive care nursing    14. Medical / Nursing / Emergency   

Subjects:  1. Critical Care    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    5. Accident & emergency medicine    6. Medical / Nursing / Critical & Intensive Care   

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Nursing - Anesthesia    4. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    5. Nursing - Reference    6. Medical / Nursing / Reference    7. Nursing   

Reviews (4)

Excellent Resource
This book takes electrophysiology and breaks it down into manageable bites. I first bought this book when I took ACLS as a new grad and was scared to death of having to differentiate between Mobitz 1 and 2, etc...I also like using it with patients for the illustrations when trying to explain what "those strange blips on the monitor" mean.

Not "Incredibly Easy"!!
While this book advertises that it will make ECG interpretation "easy", it does provide the proper graphics to make this possible.The first few chapters of the book are accessible and the end of chapter quizzes are helpful.However, once you get to Chapter 3"Interpreting a Rhythm Strip", the strips are impossible to interpret due the small size of the strips!You need to be able to count the boxes to interpret the rhythms and this is virtually impossible, unless you have a large magnifying glass!I thought this might be one occurrence in the book, but it is throughout, making interpretation of strips near impossible!As a novice ECG person, this is not something that I would have looked for before purchasing the book.Other ECG interpretation books have much better graphics of the strips, making interpretation (while still not "easy") doable, and not frustrating!

does what it says in the title
I wanted to make sense of ECGs. I bought a few books to help but I learned the most from this one. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Arrhythmia    2. Cardiology    3. Electrocardiography    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Nurses' Instruction    7. Nursing - Assessment & Diagnosis    8. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    9. Cardiovascular medicine    10. Medical imaging   

Reviews (1)

A must-have for the ACNP candidate
This review book reminds me of the NCLEX reviews.It is concise, divides the questions into the key content areas and provides answers with the rationale.Read more

Subjects:  1. Examinations, questions, etc    2. Intensive care nursing    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    6. Nursing - Test Preparation & Review    7. Nursing   

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Might Be What I Need
I needed a book that focused only on Nursing Intervention because most of my exams are more based on "what does the nurse do?".At times, we do not really need all that the textbook says, especially when an exam comes up, and you just need to summarize.So far, it seems to be good, and I have a feeling that this is what will follow me through nursing school. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Clinical competence    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Nursing    5. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    6. Nursing - Fundamentals & Skills    7. Nursing - Nurse & Patient    8. Nursing Care    9. Nursing Process    10. methods    11. Medical / Nursing / Fundamentals & Skills   

Subjects:  1. Critical Care    2. Examination Questions    3. Examinations, questions, etc    4. Intensive care nursing    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    8. Nursing - Test Preparation & Review    9. Nursing Care    10. Intensive care medicine    11. Medical / Nursing / Test Preparation & Review   

Editorial Review

Caring for patients with chronic wounds is challenging because the causes of the injuries can be complex. This new edition has up-to-date coverage of stage 1 pressure ulcers, pressure ulcer monitoring, and the Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing (PUSH). While the illustrations may not make this book suitable lunchtime reading, it's an excellent choice for anyone preparing for the certification exam given by the American Academy of Wound Management. Read more

Reviews (3)

Excellent Tool for Multidisciplinary Wound Management
As a Physical Therapist and head of a rural health consortium's wound management team, I found this to be an invaluable tool for assesment, planning, monitoring and reimbursement. I feel this is the best clinicalresource currently available for PTs.

a basic wound care reference for inexperienced clinicians
if you're looking for wound care decision pathways, protocols, documentation guidelines and how-to instructions on basic dressing change type wound care - then this is the book for you. the book's shortcomingsare an almost complete lack of specificity on therapeutic interventionssuch as debridement techniques designed to activate certain tissueprocesses, and a wordy superficiality in most of the text. not a text forphysicians or experienced clinicians looking for sophisticatedinterventions. a good comprehensive guide for beginners

Best pressure ulcer reference available
This is a great reference for pressure ulcers, surgical wounds, vascular ulcers, and management of neuropathies.I found the title misleading because I expected it to cover all types of wounds including treatment offresh lacerations and puncture wounds from accidents.If your looking forinformation on these last two subjects, this is not the book to use. However, if you care for people with pressure ulcer risk or wounds,diabetic risks, surgical incisions,or venous or arterial ulcers in longterm care, rehab, home health, or are a wound care specialist, thisreference is the definitive resource.As an RN who works in amultidisciplinary environment with PTs, I found the information on the PTrole in wound management collaboration very informative. It actually has asection on managing wound healing with physical therapy technologies suchas diathermy, ultrasound, and electrical stimulation to name a few.If youprefer to buy hard cover books for your reference library, don't let the"paperback" disuade you.This book is really a hardback similarin type to school textbooks. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Physical Therapy    2. Emergency Nursing Care    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Nursing    6. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    7. Nursing - Emergency    8. Nursing - Nurse & Patient    9. Physical therapy    10. Treatment    11. Wounds and Injuries    12. Medical / Nursing / Medical & Surgical    13. Medicine: General Issues