Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual [Paperback]

Marilyn Sawyer Sommers (Author), Susan A., Ph.D. Johnson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 2002 | ISBN-10: 080360811X | ISBN-13: 978-0803608115 | Edition: 2nd

This reference for nurses contains complete information on 246 disorders. Tables containing diagnostic highlights aim to make locating test results easy, while pharmacologic tables outline drugs most commonly used for each disorder, along with dosage and rationales for use.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1136 pages
• Publisher: F a Davis Co; 2nd edition (January 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 080360811X
• ISBN-13: 978-0803608115
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,761,803 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #35 in Books > Medical Books > Nursing > Diagnosis

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nursing book every nurse should have, June 29, 2007

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This review is from: Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual (Paperback)

This book helped me more than any other text book during nursing school. It takes a disease or disorder and breaks it down to the nuts and bolts. With every disease you get: a brief description of what it is, it's causes, gender and life span considerations, what to assess, primary nursing diagnosis, planning of care, common drugs used, what labs to look for, discharge guidelines, and what to document. This is all done in less than six pages on most diseases. This book saved me a tremendous amount of time, and I still use it in my nursing practice today. This book was my life line in nursing school, and I wouldn't have made it through without it. You won't regret getting this book. It can be a life saver.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Davis' Manual of Nursing Therapeutics for Diseases and Disor, July 6, 2000

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Deanna Armstrong (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Davis's Manual of Nursing Therapeutics for Diseases and Disorders (Paperback)

This is a MUST HAVE book for all nursing student and health care professionals. The book is easy to read and provides all the essential details needed to properly care for patients. I utilize this book in all my classes. This is one of the best reference books that I have invested in.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Use it constantly for RN school., November 25, 2010

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amelia "amelia" (midwest) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual (Paperback)

This is one of my favorite resources for RN/nursing school, and I am a serious resource-a-holic! But this book is amazing, and I really urge people starting out with nursing to get it. It won't help much with foundations/fundamentals, but when you start studying pathophysiology and med/surg, you will often run into diseases you've not heard of before (or know very little about). This happened to me in my first med/surg clinical -- I didn't know what my patient's diagnosis even was! Obviously, I had a clinical instructor teach me, etc. but it seemed weird to me that there was no book (other than my huge med surg book) to look at for a quick and pertinent overview organized by disease.

This book fits the bill. I use it to review the pathophysiology of various diseases with basic nursing interventions all the time. If we study a disease or system (e.g. renal, or "chronic kidney disease"), I read the accompanying portions of this book. I was looking for something like this for a while -- sort of a disease encyclopedia with a nursing focus. This is the book for that. I actually bought the digital version via Skyscape for my phone (we use digital devices/phones/iPods during clinicals) also, but I keep this book at home and reference it when I'm studying. I wish it had more diseases in it, but it's invaluable -- sometimes the med surg textbook gets me bogged down in details (which is good much of the time) but when I need quick information or a general overview (to review, or to introduce myself to a disease I don't know much about), this is the best book I've found.

It would be great if there were one of these for each discipline within nursing/medicine (i.e. psych, OB, pediatrics, etc.).

I see a lot of students just using Google or Wikipedia to look up diseases, and that makes me really nervous...those are not reliable sources...anyone can publish something in either place. I'm glad I found this book so I don't have to do that.