Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice [Hardcover]

Lillian Sholtis Brunner (Author), Doris Smith Suddarth (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1986

A new edition of the most widely used reference book in nursing. Published byLippincott.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1562 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins,Australia; 4th edition (July 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0397544995
• ISBN-13: 978-0397544998
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.4 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,305,978 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NURSING STUDENT MUST!!!, February 28, 2006

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Beth Lynn (Pierson, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice (Hardcover)

This manual is a MUST for nursing students who want to review a medical diagnosis before clinical and before a test. Contains everything you need: pathophysiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests, medical management, complications, nursing assessment, nursing diagnoses, and most importantly - nursing interventions. Manual contains Med/Surg, Maternity, Neonatal, Pediatric and Psychiatric nursing. Patient education portions contain specific diets (ie for Hypertension). Tables are included for drugs (class, drug name, usual dosage range and side effects). Excellent resource for licensed nurses, too!

45 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A great disappointment, July 1, 2007

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msedrn "msedrn" (TX. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice (Hardcover)

I have used this book since the first edition and am very disappointed in this revision. The info I was looking for was either superficial and incomplete, very poorly written, or missing entirely. For example, there is nothing listed about:

a). Using a NIOSH-approved respirator in airborne precautions or a surgical mask in droplet precautions. This content is confusing and implies a surgical mask should be used for both types of precautions, which is a risky practice. It seems like this is an important differentiation to make.
b). Caring for patients with conditions for which alcohol hand cleaners should not be used (such as C. difficile, Norovirus, those spread by spores)
c). Tertiary syphilis being noninfectious; it seems like the nurse may need to know this.
d). Domestic violence is not covered; again this is something the nurse needs to recognize. A few paragraphs would have been sufficient.
e). Factitious disorder, Munchausens, Munchausen's by proxy. Again, a few paragraphs would suffice.
f). Infection control information on standard precautions, transmission-based precautions, and Clostridium difficile is either inadequate or absent.
g). The section on checking tube feeding placement and checking pH of the aspirate is deficient/incomplete
h). Information on heel pressure ulcers is also inadequate or absent.
i). In 1991, the American Spinal Cord Association asked health professionals to stop using the term "quadriplegia," and replace this word with "tetraplegia," for uniformity and consistency with the rest of the world. (The US is the only country that uses quadriplegia.) This recommendation has been published and available for 16 years, yet the term "tetraplegia" does not appear in the book.

I recognize that some RNs may not need this information. However, nursing students and LPN/LVNs depend on this book for information that meets the standard of care. I also recognize that Lippincott has branched this book off into numerous subtitles, probably to increase profitability. However, the missing information is so basic (and in some instances, potentially dangerous to the nurse and patient) that it belongs in the primary book, even if it is only an introduction and referral to another source.

Generally speaking, I am very disappointed with this revision and the deteriorating quality of LWW's books in general.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice, June 14, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice (7th Edition) (Hardcover)

This book could literally be "a student nurses' bible for writing diagnosis and intervention". It is concise and very practical. I would be totally lost without one. It is a self taught manual.