Assessment Made Incredibly Easy!

If you are new to Nursing and the assessment process, I highly recommend this book for clarity! It is straight to the point and touches on the important area's that most instructors focus on.

This book was so helpful to the new nursing student. Prior to exams I would read the chapter related to the topic and always receive further clarification. The diagrams and examples always helped things make sense. Other classmates ran out to buy this also as well as the visual assessment guide. I have since purchased more of the Incredibly easy series books and have been very pleased.

Very few books actually take the time to hold your hand without simultaenously patronizing you. One might see this text as a doorway to the entrance of medical care. I am a newly trained Navy Hospital Corpsman (military medic), and right out of training, I am already expected to be familiar with patient Sickcall procedures and writing SOAP notes. This book greatly helped me in taking the patient's basic history/exam and provides common assessments to choose from. It also reinforces it's contents with small quizzes after every chapter. Numerous pictures and examining techniques are also clear and concise. Keep in mind, however, that it's "user-friendly" demeanor makes everything simple and to the point; I've learned that nothing in the medical field is simple. For more information on disorders, diseases, or illness, I suggest using traditional medical references, like Mosby's. All in all, I commend this book's ability to boost a medical practitioner with little experience up to one of professional competence and skill. And, it's fun!