Customer Reviews

Critical Care Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! 2nd Edition (Incredibly Easy! Series)

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A good exercise for review or learning in the critical care area. I found the questions to range from easy through very difficult. Some nurses only work in certain areas of critical care i.e., cardiac, burns, brain trauma, so this offers a chance to gain knowledge in areas other then your expertise. It's so simple to answer a cardiac question if you deal with it day in and day out, but a burn question may really stop you in your tracks. What is best is the answer is always given along with the rationale. Also hints are given if you need them, although I like to try and use that option only when really stumped. I also found there to be quite a lot of questions although some come up more often, which would be the only drawback. Another nice options is you can pick the categories you want and the amount of questions you wish to answer. The animation is an added attraction. It puts a little fun into the study time.

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.

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.

ATTENTION WINDOWS XP USERS - If you have the service pack 2 installed, you may get an error message concerning C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT when you try to install the program.
I was able to fix the problem easily by right-click + copy the AUTOEXEC.NT file from the C:/WINDOWS/repair folder and then right-click paste to the C:/Windows/System32 folder.
More information can be found @ http://www.voyetra.com/site/kb_ftp/3204002.asp or
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767&Product=winxp

(There is also a tech support line for the cdrom, but only available Mon-Fri).

It takes a light look at a serious and stressful job and teaches you at the same time. I did enjoy learning outside my specialty (CCU) as well as refreshing my memory. Not for those who enjoy white pages full of words..geeerrr puts me to sleep better than Ambien. Laugh, learn and enjoy.

While I am a big fan of the "Incredibly Easy" nursing series, this one glosses over areas that need more in-depth explanations. This book will give you a very basic overview of most critical care topics, but it isn't specific or technical enough to get the job done. Good for beginners, but a real ICU nurse needs more than this book provides.

This software is outdated. I couldn't run/install the software on Windows XP, or Mac OS(newer AND older versions of Mac). The tech support number is out of service. The Springnet website is defunct, it redirects you to its parent company, Lippincott. You're better off ordering the book, which I'm sure is a lot of fun, however, I won't know that until my CD-ROM is refunded and I order a copy of the paperback. Caveat Emptor.

This books is a terrific reference for any nurse working in critical care. The chapters are organized logically and the content is easy to grasp with great graphics and illustrations. The accompanying CD would be helpful for nurses studying for NCLEX boards, as well as a review while studying for the CCRN exam. The chapter quizes are comprehensive and help to solidfy the information presented. It's ideal for use as an educator in lectures and teaching moments. I would recommend this book to anyone working in ICU or PACU who want to review pathophysiology and patient care related to alterations in these systems. I also recommend this to clinical educators for the content and simple language and concepts, from which content would be easy to develop.

This is an inferior book. I work in critical care, and this is the weakest of the critical care nursing books I've bought...out of a dozen.

The writing is confusing and leaves the reader with more questions than it answers. It's also out of date.

Not worth it.

First off, this book is difficult to read. It's too concerned with being cutsie and doesn't flow. Each paragraph has a new heading, and you have to read the cartoons in the margins to get basic info. Also, the author assumes you have a very good working knowledge of anatomical vocabulary. I'm a critical care nurse and specialize in certain areas. I wanted to brush up in other areas, and some of the terminology in those areas I haven't used since nursing school. I had to pull out my medical dictionary to refresh in some areas. Also, I was looking more for something that will give me conditions, symptoms, lab results, and solutions. This book spent way too much time going back through anatomy and physiology and pathophysiology. You have to pick through too much to get the information you need. I cannot comment on the CD, as I have not tried to use it. Overall, this absolutely is NOT what I was looking for.

I really enjoyed this book, it really made things easy to understand. Only wished there were more questions. I would recommend it to others. Students in my class who did not need to buy this book because they were not taking the advance cardiopulmonary class saw us with this book and they decided to get it! It is great for acute care nursing in final semester.