Lippincott's Review Series Pediatric Nursing (Book with CD-ROM for Windows) [Paperback]

Mary E. Muscari (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0781721873 | ISBN-13: 978-0781721875 | Publication Date: January 15, 2001 | Edition: Third

This thoroughly-updated volume of Lippincott's Review Series provides the most comprehensive outline review of pediatric nursing available. Each chapter concludes with study questions and rationale for the correct and incorrect answers. A 100-question comprehensive examination helps students evaluate their knowledge. All questions are coded according to NCLEX components to direct readers to areas that require additional study. New Third Edition Features: a CD-ROM with 200 NCLEX-style questions for additional study; a consistent format that incorporates a nursing process overview; client and family teaching boxes, medication tables; and a developmental considerations box.

Product Details

• Paperback: 414 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Third edition (January 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781721873
• ISBN-13: 978-0781721875
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #826,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Many errors... beware, but may be useful., August 4, 2005

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Alison (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Lippincott's Review Series: Pediatric Nursing (Paperback)

I am an instructor in pediatric nursing in an RN program, and I reviewed this book and found dozens of typographical, editorial, and content errors, which were submitted to the publisher. The content errors were few, but the other mistakes in editing show that this book was put together rather poorly and hurriedly. I would NOT recommend reading this in place of class notes or textbook. Doing so will be career suicide. Helpful for those studying for the CPN exam or a final exam for class, but only if you identify the content errors in the book.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BUY BUY BUY, June 8, 2000

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Barbara Anne Dale - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pediatric Nursing (Lippincott's Review Series) (Paperback)

This book got me an A in peds! I followed this book in class and never opened my textbook! There are several more in the series and all are wonderful. Bravo, Lippincott. I keep the book for reference now.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unforgivable errors for a medical book, December 17, 2009

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Bret J. Sutton (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lippincott's Review Series: Pediatric Nursing (Paperback)

Alison and Orestes were correct. The text had numerous errors in spelling which plainly show the need for a proofreader who knows medicine. The difference between "symptomatic" and "asymptomatic" is only one letter, but oh, what a difference in meaning! At least one condition is repeatedly misnamed (misspelled) throughout the text. The book is useful for review, but much more so when the reader has prior knowledge and can recognize these mistakes. Given that it's the fourth edition, I would have expected at least an insert of Errata. Given these problems, the book's worth three stars.

However, the accompanying CD, which contains reviews/tests, drags it down. To be fair to the author, this is probably the fault of the publishers.

The program appears to be Windows-95 vintage. That in itself is not a problem. But it simply does not work. If you want to do the review, answering the questions is supposed to give immediate feedback. If you want to take the test, it should provide a total score without the feedback. Unfortunately, it was impossible to find out. For either one, the user is presented with a starting menu: Do you want 10, 25, 50, or All questions, or do you want to specify a different number? The 10/25/50 choices were always grayed out. The All, when selected, immediately proceeded to a summary stating that 0 of 0 questions were answered correctly. The final choice, where the user is prompted for a specific number of questions to be asked, presents a true conundrum: if a positive number is entered, a message pops up: "The number of questions must be equal to or less than 0." If zero is entered, it states "The number of questions must be greater than zero." Taken in sum, these behaviors make the CD absolutely worthless: zero stars. The test cannot be used to confirm or deny the accuracy of the text or the knowledge of the user. The problem would be easily remedied, if I had access to the source code. I sent a query to tech support at the publisher, but have not received an answer, four days after sending it.