Maternal-Child Nursing Care: Optimizing Outcomes for Mothers, Children, & Families
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The perfect balance of maternal and child nursing care in a new textbook conceived and written to be a combination textbook! An extensive review by nursing educators ensures that it offers just the right depth and breadth of coverage for students in today s maternity/pediatric courses. Its unique emphasis on optimizing outcomes, evidence-based practice, and research supports the goal of caring for women, families and children not only in traditional hospital setting… More >>
Maternal-Child Nursing Care: Optimizing Outcomes for Mothers, Children, & Families
The book i got was brand new and its pretty much the same price my campus bookstore is selling for a used one. So pretty good deal since i didnt have to pay for tax; however, the problem about this book is that it isnt as detailed as other books (but considerably way shorter to read). Also, there were so much typos in this book.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book is full of errors and the authors express their opinions on several topics rather than maintaining a professional neutrality.
The biggest error I have found to date is very serious. If a student (or nurse) were to give their patient the amount of fentanyl that is listed on the table on page 414, they are going to kill her since it is 1000 time more than the typical dose for humans.
One particular paragraph early in the text talks about individualism and claims that individualistic thinking leads to “choosing or creating your own reality.” This is absolute b***s***. The rational individual does not ignore their fellow human beings and does not create a fantasy to live in! The rational individual recognizes that taking care of oneself first is required in order to delivery quality care to others, but this does not mean the individual ignores others. Blaming the victim is endemic in all levels of society and from all manners of philosophies, this is a problem with society, not individuals. Individualism also does not prohibit or preclude compassion and empathy for others. As you can see, this particular bit of drivel really got my dander up.
The text is repetitive, poorly edited, duplication of sentences on the same page occurs, the index is incomplete – you can’t find some common terms in the index and you know they are in the text because you read them, it is not heavy on nursing implications – which is the stuff the NCLEX is made of, it focuses on anatomy, physiology and the changes that occur during development or pregnancy, it really likes to promote acronyms as study guides (some people like this, others don’t work well with this type of tool).
More errors include the misuse of terms (“ethnic” and “cultural” is not interchangeable, and culture would not have an impact on bilirubin levels!)…I am sure I will find more.
Recommendation, research for another more accurate well-researched text. If you are a student and have no choice, I suggest supplemental reading from other sources and double check ALL medication doses that are listed in this text!
Rating: 1 / 5
This text is somewhat repeative in context. It seems to repeat the same information several times in different ways to an almost confusing point. At other times, there are values that are not consistent. This is something that happens often, but still should have consistency throughout the same book. I was disappointed in this aspect. Charts and graphics are difficult and the explainations do not always line up with the pictures. Not a big fan of this reading.
Rating: 3 / 5