Medical-Surgical Nursing - Single Volume Text and Virtual Clinical Excursions Package: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, 7e (Mosby's Medical-Surgical Nursing (Single Edition)) [Hardcover]

Sharon L. Lewis RN PhD FAAN (Author), Margaret M. Heitkemper RN PhD FAAN (Author), Shannon Ruff Dirksen RN PhD (Author), Patricia Graber O'Brien APRN BC BSN MA MSN (Author), Linda Bucher RN PhD CEN (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0323052274 | ISBN-13: 978-0323052276 | Publication Date: May 22, 2007 | Edition: 7

This convenient, money-saving package is a must-have for students training for a career in nursing. It includes Lewis' Medical-Surgical Nursing Single Volume Text, 7th edition and Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0 for Lewis' Medical-Surgical Nursing, 7th edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Mosby; 7 edition (May 22, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0323052274
• ISBN-13: 978-0323052276
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.9 x 3.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #570,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Shannon Ruff Dirksen, RN, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Primary reference for nursing school, January 11, 2009

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Raven E. Asher "Nurseraven09" (Somewhere in Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Medical-Surgical Nursing - Single Volume Text and Virtual Clinical Excursions Package: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, 7e (Mosby's Medical-Surgical Nursing (Single Edition)) (Hardcover)

This has been my primary reference throughout nursing school, but I had, as advised, bought the two volume set. It was recommended d/t the size/weight, but what I found is that it was inconvenient, as I was constantly flipping from book to book. I sold the two-volume set and re-purchased this one--much better--way faster and more convenient doing research. Love it.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculously fluffy and needy book that takes most of your time!, October 25, 2010

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This review is from: Medical-Surgical Nursing - Single Volume Text and Virtual Clinical Excursions Package: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, 7e (Mosby's Medical-Surgical Nursing (Single Edition)) (Hardcover)

I am in the 4th semester, almost the end of Nursing, and this book is my most disliked book for Med-Surg 1 and 2. The reason is this: The book is full of abbreviations that keep on rolling and rolling from chapter to chapter: for heart diseases for example it is impossible not to get frustrated when you read the meaning of abbreviation of dozens of abbreviations while reading a chapter. If you don't remember what it stands for later in chapters for heart, you've got to go back and look for it god knows where now. For Neuro, as I am reading it now, we have: ICP, MAP, CPP, TBI, GCS, CBF, etc., For example if you forgot what CBF was, you would simply encounter a sentence "....Transcranial Doppler allows for measurement of CBF velocity", then you go back page by page trying to find out what CBF was for to decipher the sentence( Cerebral Blood Flow).
Not only that, but the book is full of fluff information, old statistics, philosophical dilemmas, controversies, for example if would start to describe a process of how something works, like raising a Head of Bed during intra-cranial pressure (ICP) elevation to decrease this pressure, and then it would say there is controversy because it decreases blood perfusion to the brain, and body constricts periphery to raise the BP and this elevates ICP. So the book would give you controversies like these and lots of theories as to "why things are working that way" and then it would say "it is still debatable.". I am sorry, in nursing NO ONE has enough time to read controversies, debates, studies that are still ongoing and not done, we need to the point information, precise and condensed without fluff! The book is very heavy to hold on your knees if you like to sit on a sofa and study. In school they give us to read 8-12 chapters per week, and it amounts to HUNDREDS of pages, by the time you are done with reading your 1-2 chapters you forget half of what you have read as the information is heavy and fluffy in this book and NOT EASY to read, it just doesn't flow! Now imagine taking other classes and finding time to read everything! If I had known, I would have looked into buying just the companion guide to this book, as I heard that book is condensed and to the point and weighs 6 times less. If you have time, read this big Lewis 7th Ed, and buy the companion if you have extra cash. If not just buy the companion and do class notes, and read class powerpoints and you should be fine and stress free with time to spare on your hands.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This book has too much fluff !, October 2, 2009

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This review is from: Medical-Surgical Nursing - Single Volume Text and Virtual Clinical Excursions Package: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, 7e (Mosby's Medical-Surgical Nursing (Single Edition)) (Hardcover)

This book is okay and okay only. The reason why it is only okay is because it is way too long.This is a required book for my Med Surg 1 and 2 class. I don't have a problem with staying up until 4:00 am in the morning studying for all my classes. However, this book has so much fluff in it that I'm up reading until 4 am for this class only and I don't have time to read for my other classes and this is a daily thing.

If this book didn't have so much fluff and would get to the point, this would have been an excellent book. However since it is so long, this is only an okay book.