Customer Reviews

Maternal Child Nursing Care, 3e (Wong, Maternal Child Nursing Care)

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

This book is so bad my school is switching it out after only one semester of use.

The book is too wordy. There are newly introduced terms with no definition given until several paragraphs or often pages later. The terms are not bolded in any way. Some are in italics but you're so cross-eyed from reading the small print that everything looks italicized. No glossary to help you out either.

Finding information is a huge time commitment since the index is nearly useless. There are few things you can look up as common terms and find what you want.

There are no review questions at the end of each chapter which is something that we nursing students want to help us with the NCLEX. The accompanying website does have some questions but most of the chapters I've studied only have 3 or 4 questions. Not nearly enough for adequate review.

The content of many sections does not always provide the information that the section heading suggests. It may be several sections later when the authors repeat the subject. You will also find that different sections have conflicting data.

This book is completely frustrating. If your school uses it, good luck, and do your best to get them to change it if you get the chance.

This book was required for my last semester of nursing school (OB/Peds), but I still think it's a good book. It does a good job of combining OB & Peds instead of having two separate (and often confusing) references as we've had in other subjects.
~~~It's now near the end of the semester and I wanted to amend my review of this book. I tried to change my rating to 4 stars and couldn't. I personally feel that the book contains too much information, half of which was not covered the entire semester. Even in the parts we have covered, the information is often repeated in two or three times, greatly adding to the bulk of the book. The information could have been written in a much more concise manner, and is often verbose and wordy.

Take it from a nursing student that this book has way too much detail.When trying to read for class you need a book that gets to the point while supplying a sufficient amount of detail.My classmates and I both complain about the extra information in this book.

I cannot understand the praise for this textbook I have seen from other reviewers. While the authors treat the medical/surgical aspects of maternal and pediatric nursing with due attention and thoroughness, the book suffers from an overall absence of consistent internal organization. Unlike my med/surg or psych textbook, each chapter has a different layout, and many of the chapters contain passages that wander, endlessly, until I actually forgot what subheading in what chapter I was reading. "Information overload" is a good way to describe it, although this probably would have been bearable if the authors had spent as much time organizing their material as they did actually cramming material into the book.

Where the textbook completely loses me, though, is in its many chapters devoted to the same old pop-PC psychobabble I've come to know and loathe in so many nursing books. Professors and other students may disagree with me, but I regard the inclusion of what is essentially sociology with a healthcare spin in what should be a book predominated by med/surg content a particularly loathsome phenomenon. This book, of course, has it in spades. Entire chapters are devoted to explorations of women's health, and are loaded with nauseating multi-cultural, politically-correct, New Age jargon. I'm not saying there's not a time and place for that (preferably in an entirely different textbook). Community health and women's health nurses, in particular, seem to love that sort of content (interpersonal energy flows, anyone?). At least the ones I've met. I'm saying it distracts from the med/surg fundamentals of women's health- you know, the actual medical and nursing science- to include hundreds of pages of social science in the same textbook.

There's also not a few unintentionally hilarious passages, such as this gem: "Gender influences provider-patient communication and may influence access to health care in general. The most obvious gender consideration is that between men and women."

Really? Between men and women, eh? Is that how that works? One wonders if the authors wanted to include a discussion of gender differences in health care between, say, men and hermaphrodites, or men and an alien species with a third gender, or men and transgendered men, or men and Archaea. Sheesh.

Edit: I bumped up the rating a star and changed the title of the review. Though the flaws I pointed out in this textbook remain, the material really starts to shine in later chapters that deal with the pathophysiology of pediatric illnesses. First-rate material, as good as or better than any straight med/surg text I have ever read.

While I think this book has very accurate information and is well organized, I also feel that there is too much supplementary information surrounding the core concepts. I honestly feel that the authors write like they were speaking and they like to hear themselves talk. I had to buy this book for class, so I did. If you do not, I recommend buying something where the information is a little more condensed and to the point. If you do have to use it, like me, then understand that you will be reading a lot of information in order to understand a few concepts.

This book is horrible. It is redundant, full of fluff with no end of chapter questions, no glossary and a non-user friendly index.

This book has just too many authors and they didn't consult on who was doing what. So much of the book is repeatative that it detracts from it's worth. Very disappointed in the book. The order of the chapters is not well thought out, either.

It's got a lot on info - a little more than I need to use as a 3rd semester nursing student. And for the amount of info it's got, it needs to be better organized: not enough key words are bolded, none are italicized; the review points are way too brief; no review exercises; no supplemental e-guide, which seems to be a bit behind for a 2010 Edition. It may prove to be a challenge when I use it for Peds in the 5th semester.

My nursing program used this whole book and it is comprehensive. Did not use the study guide.

This a well written book and one I don't mind keeping as a reference for the next few years. It shipped in a timely manner as well.