Nurse's Quick Check: Diseases

I am currently using this book for clinicals and it is great. It easy to understand and it has many pictures, which is helpful if you are a visual person. Everything is laid out in an organized fashion (Description --> Causes --> Complications --> Assessment --> Diagnostics --> Treatment --> Nsg Diagnosis --> Nursing Interventions). Invaluable resource for nursing students and nurses!

This book has allowed me to review a disease with ease. Only the needed information is in this handy book. All of the dieases are alphabetized for a quick reference. I particularly find helpful the disease definition, the brief pathophysiology of the disease and the signs and syptoms. With the help of this book, my nurse processing paper work is completed much faster! This book should be recommended for all nursing courses and nurses as well!

This is an excellent resource for the new or "seasoned" nurse. Covers just about every disease we are going to encounter in our work. A lot more portable than carrying around a med-surg book and a lot more succinct that a med-surg book. Gives you "just the facts, ma'am!". Provides a summary of the disease and nursing considerations, treatment, and other practical infor for caring for pts. Highly recommended for the student or practicing nurse. I have it on my PDA. If you are going to get the software version, get the Skyscape software version, not Mobipocket. Skyscape software is much more user-friendly in terms of manuevering around each entry. Skyscape uses a tabbed format for access of the various types of info within each entry (such as Summary of the disease, nursing considerations, treatment and tests, pt teaching etc), whereas Mobipocket is basically just an electronic reader. You must cursor through the entire entry until you find what you are looking for. I can recommend this by experience and I bought several of my first reference books in the Mobipocket format and have since taken them off my PDA and replaced them with Skyscape versions. A major waste of money, but the Mobipocket versions just took too long to find the info I wanted. Skyscape allows much quicker access.

If you need a quick reference to know the diseases, pathophysiology, incidences, treatments, and nursing interventions, this is the book for you!! My professors think that I did some real searching for all of this information, and here it is, in the palm of my hand. Take advantage!

The pocket size and light weight make this a great addition for reference while at your nursing clinicals. Contains synopses of disease process, typical tests for diagnosis, and basic nursing assessments and interventions. I am doing a clinical nursing internship this summer and needed something compact for my briefcase, yet containing good info to refresh me on the diseases and illnesses I was encountering in my patients. This book fills the bill. My prof loved it too. The spiral binding is nice rather than a glued binding, but needs a bit of redesign as the back cover falls off. I just sewed up the openings with some fishing line to solve that problem. Highly recommended addition to your working library.