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Integrated Knowledge Development in Nursing, 6e

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I'm sorry if you have to waste your money to buy this book. I want my money back! I had to read this for my MSN program; it made me so confused and frustrated that I just stopped using it and relied on Polit & Beck--much clearer. The worst were the explanations of nursing theories; many condradict themselves and the meanings are lost among the authors desperate attempts to sound scholarly; besides needing a decent editor, the authors need to review their APA manual, specifically under "economy of expression" where it very clearly says "say only what needs to be said"---a review on how to use a thesaurus wouldn't hurt either.

I had to give it a one star rating--that is still too many stars for it.

This book is written very technically. I read through the first few pages and have no clue what any of it actually meant. Our teacher said we wont even use it because it's such a bad text. I wish she would have told us that before I bought it. If I were you, I'd hold off on buying it to make sure you'll actually use it (although I dont know how anyone would). I didnt even want to give it a whole star.

If I could give this horrible piece of "literature" zero stars I would. This is undoubtedly the worst written textbook I have ever had to endure. I wish I could get the hours of my life back that I spent hacking my way through the excess language and nonsense. This was required for my MSN program. Total waste of time and money! Good for a few laughs when reading passages outloud to people and watching their confusion grow.

I am also in a MSN program, will graduate this Sunday, and found this book to be very difficult!! I felt like each word was easy, but when combined with other easy words, made it impossible to understand.

If you have your PhD, this is good book. I am in graduate school for MSN and will throw this book away after my course is finished.
Over the top vocabulary.

the book is great... the shipping sucked! International courrier express mail took over 2 weeks to get here!