Customer Reviews

Mosby's Critical Care Nursing Reference, 2e

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This is the best critical care reference tool I have used. The content is clearly written, and offers easy to find answers to common and not so common situations. The content has a brief review of the major body systems, and also includes the "what to look for, what to do, and How to do it" information we critical care nurses are sometimes looking for. Nursing diagnosis is included, as well as many indexes of quick reference information. I bought this book when I first entered critical care five years ago, it has been very useful.

I have graduated from ASU's Nursing College 2.5 years ago and was privileged to have Susan Stillwell, the author of this book, as a professor. She is an excellent and knowledgeable teacher. Since graduation I have worked as a CVICU & CV Recovery nurse at a cardiovascular specialty hospital.

I found this book difficult to navigate while taking the critical course and I have not found it helpful since graduating. In my opinion it is not organized clearly enough to be helpful as a quick reference (like say Kathy White material). The explanation of how to do tasks is broken down into too much common-sense minutia (like "gather materials"). On the flipside it is not detailed enough to qualify for a textbook, so the book falls into some unfortunate I-don't-know-what-to-do-with-you middle ground. I suppose that accounts for the low resale costs. I think most students sell this one after school.

What the book does well that I have not seen others do is to group critical care topics according to nursing diagnoses; therefore, it will serve the nursing student very well, and may help you to think more like they teach nurses are supposed to think and less like a doctor.

Still gets the job done and helpful with making some aspects of nursing easy to understand but I was surprised that there wasn't anything about cholelithiasis! Still had a patient come in to ccu with this complication with her having respiratory issues so yeah this book still has gaps! It is useful though

Simply the Only Nurse reference to own! This concisely written book indexes topics into easily accessible headers by systems head to toe.
It's sturdy pages, waterproof, flexible binding and 7"x5"x1" size makes it pocket- and backpack-friendly. With pages recessed 1/4 inch beneath the cover crisp pages stay clean. This book is so packed with beautifully-presented, relevant information the only other book I take to work is the 4-page AHA ACLS Cheat Sheet.