| View Larger Image | Maternal Child Nursing Care (Wong, Maternal Child Nursing Care) | Hardcoverby Donna L. Wong PhD RN PNP CPN FAAN (Author), Shannon E. Perry RN CNS PhD FAAN (Author), Marilyn J. Hockenberry PhD RN-CS PNP FAAN (Author), Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk RNC PhD FAAN (Author), David Wilson MS RNC (Author)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Mosby | | Edition: | 3rd Edition | | Page Count: | 2,016 Pages | | Publication Date: | November 07, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 103,562rd |
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Product Description
Designed for shorter pediatric and maternity nursing courses, this useful textbook provides students with the "right amount" of maternity and pediatric content in an up-to-date, easy-to-understand manner. Divided into two sections, the first part of the book includes 28 chapters covering maternity nursing content and the second part contains 27 chapters covering pediatric nursing content. Numerous illustrations, photos, and tables help illustrate and clarify the information for the student. Many special boxes, pedagogical features, and an inviting full-color design also help make key information easy to find and review. * Nurse Alerts identify critical information that students should not overlook when treating patients. * Guidelines boxes outline nursing procedures in an easy-to-follow approach. * Emergency boxes highlight emergency procedures in a step-by-step format to help students understand how to perform them. * Home Care boxes detail important information to help prepare students to deliver care to patients and families in the home setting. * Atraumatic Care boxes (in the pediatrics section) teach students to provide competent care without creating undue physical or psychological stress to the patient. * Community Focus boxes emphasize community issues, provide resources and guidance, and illustrate nursing care in a variety of settings. * Critical Thinking Exercises provide students with case scenarios that depict real life situations to help them choose the best interventions and make good clinical judgments. * Cultural Awareness boxes provid |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 9 reviews)
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Horrible Textbook by d (Haha, USA)  2 Stars
November 24, 2009
I cannot understand the praise for this textbook I have seen from other reviewers. While the authors treat the medical/surgical aspects of maternal and pediatric nursing with due attention and thoroughness, the book suffers from an overall absence of consistent internal organization. Unlike my med/surg or psych textbook, each chapter has a different layout, and many of the chapters contain passages that wander, endlessly, until I actually forgot what subheading in what chapter I was reading. "Information overload" is a good way to describe it, although this probably would have been bearable if the authors had spent as much time organizing their material as they did actually cramming material into the book.
Where the textbook completely loses me, though, is in its many chapters devoted to the same old pop-PC psychobabble I've come to know and loathe in so many nursing books. Professors and other students may disagree with me, but I regard the inclusion of what is essentially sociology with a healthcare spin in what should be a book predominated by med/surg content a particularly loathsome phenomenon. This book, of course, has it in spades. Entire chapters are devoted to explorations of women's health, and are loaded with nauseating multi-cultural, politically-correct, New Age jargon. I'm not saying there's not a time and place for that (preferably in an entirely different textbook). Community health and women's health nurses, in particular, seem to love that sort of content (interpersonal energy flows, anyone?). At least the ones I've met. I'm saying it distracts from the med/surg fundamentals of women's health- you know, the actual medical and nursing science- to include hundreds of pages of social science in the same textbook.
There's also not a few unintentionally hilarious passages, such as this gem: "Gender influences provider-patient communication and may influence access to health care in general. The most obvious gender consideration is that between men and women."
Really? Between men and women, eh? Is that how that works? One wonders if the authors wanted to include a discussion of gender differences in health care between, say, men and hermaphrodites, or men and an alien species with a third gender, or men and transgendered men, or men and Archaea. Sheesh.
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Great Condition by Brianne N. Bodenham  5 Stars
June 26, 2009
The book was in great condition and the shipping was on time as well. No complaints.
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Maternal Child Nursing Care by C. Carshult  1 Stars
December 02, 2008
This book is horrible. It is redundant, full of fluff with no end of chapter questions, no glossary and a non-user friendly index.
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Hopelessly disorganized by Maggie Smith (middleamerica USA) 2 Stars
November 19, 2008
This book would not be so bad if it were better organized and had a better index in the back. A glossary would also be a great addition. The organization of the book causes me to spend way too much time trying to find the information. The index is poor which is another huge frutration. Because the information on a particular topic is so scattered, if you found the info. once you may never find it again. When I am looking for information on a particular topic I do not want to have to read half the book gleaning a bit out of every chapter. This book frustrated me to the max. The information is all there if you can just find it. I will sell it with glee and purchase another OB nursing book for my shelf for reference purposes.
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fast delivery; product arrived in stated condition by C. Agacinski (Seattle, WA) 5 Stars
October 02, 2008
Appreciated how quickly this product arrived, and it was in the condition as described on Amazon.
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