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Handbook to Accompany Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing

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This little powerhouse helped me make it through nursing school! It's a GREAT resource! Its 673 pages are packed with every conceivable disorder and/or disease with methods of diagnosis, diagnostic tests, medications for treatment followed with a full nursing process from assessment through management and outcomes. I used this book to write many, many care plans & carried it back and forth from classes to clinical to home -- it's a very portable, invaluable tool -- I wouldn't have survived nursing school without it.

I carry this with me to clinical rotations and have used it for case studies. One of the downfalls is that not each disease is covered as it claims, and had to seek elsewhere for pertinent information. Other than that, it is great to have, and better than the text, which has more information than what is really necessary.

I am using this in my nursing program, it's a very condensed version of the garganuta Med/Surg book, great on the floor for quick reference.

I love this book because when you are doing your clinicals, you do not have lug around the heavy textbook. I kept this book with me and soon found all of my peers asking to use it to look up disease processes. It even breaks down the type of care you need to give your patient so you can plan your day wisely. I would hold on to this book tightly because it is a jewel on the floor.

I bought this book to accompany my textbook in my med-surg class. It has really helped me with studying and it is so much easier to carry to clinicals instead of trying to carry the big book. I was hesitant on spending the money, but the information that is offered in this book is information that I will use throughout nursing school and my nursing career.

I love this book for reference on the job. It has tons of diseases and has a great format. I used the full version in nursing school so I found it easy to navigate when i started to practive. It also comes with a code so you can download the book to your PDA.

This handbook cuts to the chase. As a nursing student I need to write Nursing Care plans before going to clinicals. These nursing care plans need to include medical diagnoses with the pathophysiology of the disease, medical management and nursing interventions; many times these write ups have to occur while I am in the clinical setting itself making using the whole testbook impractical. Being so concise and to the point this handbook really helps in completing the Nursing Care Plans and makes me look like I know what I am doing. Great book, great resource. Highly recommend it.

Bought this book by accident and now I love it. It is easy to take to clinicals or even to look up different disease process, it has nsg diagnosis with each one also and it is cheap!

This is a fabulous book! Care plans can be completed in no time with this book! I love it! One of my classmates had one and I always had his book, so I ordered one for myself. BUT I must say the shipper that I ordered from was awful! I ordered the book half way into the semester and was informed that I would have it within the next ten days.....well the semester was OVER before the book arrived. I did receive a very courteous email from the shipper addressing the issue but it didn't help me to get through the semester waiting on a book!

This smaller, pocketsize guide gives detailed info on almost everything I need to prepare for class. It is the "handbook" for the nearly 13 lb med-surg textbook without all the extraneous material. I have learned to read the 1-3 pages of a topic (for instance multiple sclerosis) before lecture, take notes on the subject in class, then refer to the behemoth text for specifics. This has allowed me to study and prepare for exams more thoroughly without getting bogged down in endless reading from the textbook. I have maintained a B average on all tests! Would recommend it to every nursing student.