Customer Reviews

Fundamentals of Nursing

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(14)

 

 

This book has a horrible layout and is poorly organized. The text is often times not very clear. Don't even get me started on the skills steps and rationales, have fun reading those tedious wordy procedures (the figures don't even match up with the steps). Don't even bother purchasing the workbook that goes along with this text because it doesn't help, it doesn't match up with the book either. What this book needs is more editing and a completely different layout that is user friendly for 1st year nursing students. The best thing about this book is the website that goes along with it (except even some of the answer rationales contradict what's in the book). If it were possible I would give this book a 0 star rating.

Our class found many errors in the exercises. It will ask for 11 fundamentals of Gordans but not list them. The exercises will ask for 6 theories of something and there will be 5. One Chapter has 10 answers but 9 answers in the book.
Material in book is easy to read, just can't depend or use the workbook.

I used this book my first semester... until I realized I could find much more accurate (and concise) information in other texts. This book has way too much garbage in it. In their attempt to highlight content by putting it in it's own box on the page, they've managed to completely clutter up the book... since you'll find one or two "important boxes" on virtually every page of this excruciatingly wordy text. I no longer waste 5 hours frustrating myself trying to learn a process... instead I've shelved this waste of a tree and cut my study time in half. Black and Hawk's Medical-Surgical Nursing is much more useful!

In my opinion, those that think this book is "good" either read much faster than I do and have altogether too much time on their hands, or they need to attempt to open another book... any other book! they'll soon find Potter & Perry to be as inundated as the rest of the reviewers have come to realize and trade up for a text that's actually useful when you've got less than a few hours to beef up on a given topic and don't want to be bored out of your mind.

I am an RN student and this is the worst textbook I have had. The ideas in it are really scattered, so it is difficult to find anything in it. The chapters are extensive, for no reason and with minimal content.

I am an honors student and hold a PhD in a related health care field. This book is the worst piece of garbage I have encountered in my entire academic career. It is wordy, convoluted, and makes concepts/procedures more difficult than they actually are. I cannot believe any nursing program would inflict this book on their students. What's even worse, is that in Canada, this text is the standard used for the nursing board exams. I too, would rate it a "zero" if I could.

This book is an extremely difficult read. Paragraphs repeat often on section headers. So often in fact, it's apparent that no one including the editor has read the whole thing. Coherent outlines are fairly nonexistent. Review sections do nothing to prepare you for the ridiculous test bank questions included in the teacher's edition. Contradiction between text, workbook, and test bank are common. If your instructors haven't the nerve to do some critical analysis of these questions, your nursing career will start out in an extremely painful manner.

This book is horrible! Repetitive, verbose - a total waste of a busy nursing student's time.

While this book does cover all of the fundamentals of nursing Perry and Potter have some real issues with filtering out what is important. The book is put together quite well chapter wise yet is much much too wordy. My major problem with this text is the shear length of the chapters. I find that I can read other books and get the same if not more information in a much more student friendly format and in about half the time. If you get stuck with this book get the study guide and work out each chapter along with the book. It makes reviewing the material much quicker and more focused.

I'm surprised by others' negative reviews. My friends and I think this is the best text book on basic nursing ever published. It covers everything one could want to know for basic nursing, including exact procedures for injections, IV's, surgical procedure, etc. It encompasses nursing history, ethics, laws, develpment, everything! Our nursing program doesn't go in the order of their chapters, so we just go to the chapter that applies. I use it for every class I have, whether or not it's an "assigned" text book. You could read it and literally have all the basic skills needed to be a beginning nurse. Um...did I mention I love this book?

I felt compelled to warn others about this book. It is unorganized, combersome, wordy, inaccurate, and talks in circles. Interestingly, Mosby/elsevier published Lewis' med-surg nursing, which is also poorly written. In fact, anything published by Mosby is absolute garbage, including their drug book, nurse aid book, and patho book. Anyway, I read texts often and know a good one from a bad one. This rates a -10.