Customer Reviews

Pediatric Nursing (Lippincott's Review Series)

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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.

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.

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.

I am shocked at how many errors there are in this book!! For having a PhD, Dr. Muscari should be a little more careful about the content she submits to her editors. I would agree with a previous comment that it is frightening that a student used this book in lieu of a textbook. Now that I have been through the whole book and tried to use the CD, I wish I had purchased another review book.

Do not purchase this book! Go for a Wong's, or Mosby's instead.

This book is great when it comes to the topic of Pediatric nursing. It is easy to read and understand. In addition, it has great test questions at the end of each chapter. On the other hand, the cd-rom that comes with the book is not helpful, in fact, it is confusing. All in all, this book is a blessing and it is worth the money.

I can honestly say that this book was responsible for a 1/4 of our pediatric students failing the class. I am not sure if our professors were familiar with the book, but the fact is that the material presented here is way too simplified and the fact that Barbara from Tennessee got through the class without ever opening the textbook really scares me to death. There is nothing wrong with using study aides but for the love of your clients don't rely 100% on them, you're going to find yourself having your rear-end handed to you one day and possibly losing your license.

i paid for a new book as advertised but received a used book.... this is unfair because i now have to paid a second set of shipping again...

I've tried a lot of NCLEX Reviewer and I would recommend the Lippincott Review Series as an excellent reviewer for those of you who wanted to study for the NCLEX exam. The way it is presented makes you understand most nursing concept even the difficult ones becomes easier. After using this books you could answer most review questions even those from other NCLEX review books.

I've tried a lot of NCLEX Reviewer and I would recommend the Lippincott Review Series as an excellent reviewer for those of you who wanted to study for the NCLEX exam. The way it is presented makes you understand most nursing concept even the difficult ones becomes easier. After using this books you could answer most review questions even those from other NCLEX review books.

I received this book promptly but it was boxed with another item I ordered and I failed to open the box. I thought my book would come separately. I emailed and tried to find my "lost book" and lo and behold, I opened the bigger box and there it was. I just didn't think a small book would come together with a tea set. Never mind, the timing and conditino of the book were great. Thank you!