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This is a great book and a Must-have for any nursing student that truly wants to excel in class and on exams. It really helped me to understand some difficult concepts, such as ABG's. It explained concepts in such a way that you weren't simply memorizing facts, but lying a foundation of understanding to carry on throughout more complex classes. I'm glad that I spent the extra money to purchase this book early in my nursing school education.

This is an extremely informative book packed with valuable information. I can't say enough good things about this book! It covers more than just nursing, however.

The first section is entitled "You Too Can Get Through Nursing School." Chapters here include: Study and Test-Taking Skills, Papers, Computers, Texts, Faculty Variability, Asssertiveness, Professional Possibilities, Legal Considerations, and Risk Management. This section covers the basics of getting you through school. The study tips chapter was especially useful to me.

Other sections include "Universal Issues That You Will Encounter Wherever You Go," (which includes Culture, Stress, Pain, Rehabilitation, etc); "Concepts That Are Difficult to Understand," (which incudes ABGs, Endocrine, Drug Calculations, ECG, etc); "Content You Needs To Know," (which has just 3 chapters: Critical Thinking, Research, and Theory); "How to Get Your Point Across," (which includes Communicaiton, Documentation, and Nursing Process); and a final section entitled "How to Access Information Via the Internet and Beyond."

I highly recommend this book to you. It is a wonderful resource as it explains hard concepts AND teaches you study skills, how to get along with others, and so much more!

this is book is not very good. It tells you vaguely some nursing concepts, but not enough to help explain 'difficult concepts' I wish i hadn't wasted my money on this book.

I love this book!!! Very helpful for pre-nursing students and nursing students. It reads as if someone is talking to you about the subjects.

This book is truly excellent. It gives lots of information & tips on how to handle nursing school. I definitely recomend this book to anyone who is beginning nursing school. It contains conversions, time management skills.. and much more!!

This book was in good shape and cheap. It took a little longer than expected to get but not too bad. It was very helpful. Thank you.

I purchased this book for my personal library, and I was not disappointed by how the material in the book presents math in an enjoyable way.

I was terribly disappointed as the text received is the instructors edition with all answers noted within the text. As a student of course this text was not what I thought I was purchasing. It was too late to return the text as the semester was in session at the time the text was purchased. I will definitely not use this service again as there will questions as to what I will receive and there is no time for returning and reordering text. Thanx for asking

Not having paid much attention in school (60 yrs ago) and learning computer programming dicated the need for a refresher course in basic mathematics. The author's approach to teaching is to demonstrate the problem and its various solutions and then provide numerous (up to 60 or more problems for the student to work. Answers are provided only for the odd-numbered review exercises. Chapter tests and cumulative review exercises have answers to all the problems. The text is written in clear language that is easily understandable. As with all endeavors effort is needed on the part of the student. The title is somewhat misleading in that I view this book as a "review" or "refersher" course in basic math not as an introduction to college mathematics which I assumed to be on a much higher plane. At the present I am a third of the way through the book and enjoy it. I highly recommend this book for someone who needs to catch up on their abc's of math. Unlike a lot of books this one has plenty of the hands-on approach to doing math. If you need to learn numbers, this is the place to start.

at the ripe old age of 45, I had to retake math and for somebody whose math skills aren't above fourth grade, I dreaded the idea. This book made things easy for me. The only reason I do not give it 5 stars is that the algebra section was severely lacking but one math book cannot cover everything. I even used this book in my allied health math class and that book for that class STANK. I resorted back to this book many times as a refresher. My professor for the allied health math class would explain a long, drawn-out version of how to find an answer and a simple shortcut was supplied in this book. I would have the answer before the professor was even half way done with HIS method! I can't imagine ever giving up this book.

After taking a year of General Physics with this testbook, I have really come to hate this book. Its not that I hate physics (I'm a physics nerd with multiple majors in Physics, Mathematics and Engineering), it is the fact that this book is so poorly written. The typical examples are less than illuminating in attempting to be conceptual without actually assigning values to the equation.

My professor had to continually use supplemental text and illustrations from other testbooks in order to explain what Serway & Jewett had made confusing. Randall D. Knight's "Physics: A Strategic Approach" has been recommended as a much better text.

Snark of my title aside, this book is really poor for trying to learn physics from, on your own, which with the quality of many teachers today you are most likely to end up doing. If you find a quality teacher willing to take the time to form his or her own explanations for everything in this book, in more understandable terms, then it is a good reference.

But if you are not that fortunate, I suggest you choose another book, even books that are 10-30 years old now only lack one or two things this book has. I've been looking into other explanations of the same material and they are a million times more comprehensible than how the same topics are presented in this book.

I think this book has been rearranged and rewritten, to suck a few more dollars out of college students, a few too many times and no longer has any sensible order to it - if it ever had any. Again, it comes down to this: I can see this book being useful only as a reference, to be used by a good teacher who can pick and choose chapters, sections, and problems to be read and discussed in a DIFFERENT order than they are presented in the book, and also to explain the concepts in English rather than muddled jargon. I was not impressed by the authors' thick Physics accent.

Finally, the single biggest personal complaint I have with the book is the EXTREME liberties taken with shrugging off analytical thinking in physical problems. It only encourages students to stop thinking and just memorize, which should be a punishable crime. The book lightly whisks by methods of analytical thinking in a brief free body diagrams discussion, which would probably have been left out by the authors if it was not so ubiquitous in physics textbooks that it would have been notable missed and criticized (rightfully so) without it. I have many fellow students who think they are excellent at physics, but they're really just impressed that they understood some of the things in this book - which should are actually extremely basic physics concepts. And if that wasn't sad enough, they completely lack the analytical skills that a physicist needs; both because their teacher (not the fault of this book, of course) AND this text DISCOURAGE asking questions.

I don't know of a better -single- physics textbook to choose from, since I can't exactly sample the lot (at the prices these things are going for they should come with a private tutor), but it is worth suggesting two sources for help in understanding physics: the Feynman lectures - these are extremely dated and somewhat hard to follow but very helpful in understanding how to deal with the "what ifs." The MIT OCW lectures by Professor Lewin are invaluable.