Customer Reviews

Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, and Women's Health Nursing (Ricci, Essentials of Maternity, Newborn and Women's Health Nursing)

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In a textbook review process designed for ABSN students on March 23, 2006, at the Duke School of Nursing, students reviewed, rated and chose this new text as their textbook for their summer 2006 course: The Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family.

As the course coordinator, I have become increasingly frustrated with the ongoing complaints of students about the size and "massive" amounts of material presented in the classic, maternity nursing text books. In frustration and in an attempt to be more sensitive to the adult learners (the ABSN students) I organized a team of 8 students who reviewed 12 contemporary maternity texts published or reissued in the last 12 months.

Hands down this was the #1 student choice. Students cited: the concise format, synthesis of core information, easy to understand nursing actions, readable charts, illustrations accompanied by real pictures, small size, and attractive cover as reasons for their choice. One students summed it up when she said, "When I look at this text book, I just know I can read it. It does not feel so overwhelming to me as a student."

While the author says it was designed for students in an ADN program, I would say it would be suitable for any beginning student. It has a very usuable on-line review section for students and a CD that accompanies the book.

While the vote is not in if the students will read the assigned readings in this text, I am confident that I am starting out the course with a text that is at least "user friendly" to students. I am very pleased with the choice of this textbook and would recommend it be given a review by maternity faculty and students.
Helen Gordon CNM, MS
Course Coordinator Duke School of Nursing

Great book, easy to read. I give it a 4.5/5 because there are few errors in the book.

Great nursing book, very easy reading! Has illustrated pictures in text which are very helpful!
Amazon worked perfecr for me to get my books and saved me a lot if money! Glad I didnt pay full price at book store.

I had never purchased a used book from Amazon & was worried about the actual condition but was pleasantly surprised. It was described as "Used, but like new" and that's exactly what it was. The corners were very slightly bent but other than that it was like a brand new book, complete with CD.

I received the book a little later than I wanted, but it was in great shape. I also had to pay additional shipping to the post office because the seller packaged the book wrong, that kind of ticked me off. Oh well, it was a cheap price on the book to begin with!

This book has everything you need to know about pregnancy. It is organized and easy to read and understand. The CD does not have many NCLEX questions but overall it is a very good book.

I had to read this book for a nursing class I took at the University of Michigan. We had 5 weeks in which to read all but a couple of chapters. A lot of the information seemed repetitive. You can get the full text online by registering the code that you scratch off on the inside of the book. I imagine this would be a good book to have on hand to use as a reference. I decided not to keep it, and sold it after the course finished.

I received my brand new book two days before expected. I am pleased with my order and would order with company again.