Nursing Books

A very good book for all healthcare professionals.
I used to use my PDA as an address book and appointments manager.
Reading this book made my usage of my PDA essential to the extent that now I can't afford to round in the hospital without that small machine in my pocket.
I liked very much chapter 10 " Carrying the web wiyh you "
Thank you Dr. Al-Ubaydli.

Dr.Fahad Al-Nouri

Prince Sultan Cardiac Centre, Riyadh
Saudi Arabia.

A better title for this book would be, "Handheld Computers for Medical Professionals". Nurses, Respiratory Therapists, Physical Therapists, Clinical Pharmacists and anyone else in the clinical environment would benefit from the ideas presented in Dr. Al-Ubaydli's book.
Best of all, he gives web addresses for software information that can be modified for any specialty. If you're interested in increasing your productivity in the clinic either as a student or full fledged professional, this is the book to start with.

'Handhelds For Doctors' by Dr Al-Ubaydli is an excellent book for beginners like myself. The information provided is easy to understand and the style of writing makes reading it a pleasure. It has inspired me to start using my PDA 1 year after purchasing it!

This is a great little book, full of hints and tips on how to manage your handheld. Written with hospitals and doctors in mind, there is still a wealth of information for those who just want to get to know their handheld better. It covers both Palm and Windows operating systems. Mo Ubaydli is a handheld guru and his enthusiasm for these wonderful machines shines through. Even better is that it is also a very easy book to read. Thoroughly recommended and a great resource, well written with several examples of how to make the most of these little marvels!

This book is the best guide around which explains the various a PDA applications that doctors can use in their day to day work . My PDA was a glorified diary before I found this book. Now its an integral part of day to day work. I am now trying to convert my colleagues to do the sameBut beware ! The enthusiasm of the authors can be infectious !!!

When I started in the ICU recently, after 7 years of pedi outpatient nursing, hemodynamics was once of my greatest fears. This book really breaks it down and gives you a great visual look at what you are doing. I highly recommend this book for anyone starting the the ICU.

i own this book & LUV it - the whole series is great! i find the illustrations & pics make learning the information much easier than just reading from a txt book! it's a good book 2 use as a refresher or along with nursing school txtbooks.

I bought this book to help me write a lecture for nursing students. This was a huge help. Hemodynamic monitoring is a difficult concept to understand. This book helped make it more visual for my students.

What a fabulous book, easy to read and understand with wonderful diagrams. I bought this as a reference book for new staff to my area. Even the most experienced staff in the area have found this book to be an excellent resource. I would recommend it to anyone wanting a comprehensive easy to read and understand guide to hemodynamic monitoring.

Finally! A book that works easily for visual learners!! I precept lots of new grads and new RN's (new to critical care) and I find this is a useful tool to help them put all the written/spoken theory together and understand Hemodynamics.

In nine chapters Marilyn Yalom covers European and American attitudes and use of the female breast from the earliest cities of the Near East to the end of the 20th century. The book is very Western in it's focus, so not a comprehensive history. However, if you know that then you will find a good solid historical approach to an symbol and a body part that has played a huge role in art, literature, politics, religion, and even economies. Generous use of images and quotations are helpful in demonstrating how historians reason and use evidence without making the book very appealing to those looking for a sexual thrill. Overall the book is arranged both thematically and chronologically when possible. This is a book I could have undergraduates read as a feasible example of how history can be interesting and still be focused on the discipline's methods.

Yalom's book meets the highest standards for careful academic work, and, as a source, will turn out to be the standard for investigation into the subject in the future. But the appeal is broad and will engage the general reader, the historian, the physician. In short it is a good history, a good cultural study, and a good read. Fine writing, intriguing illustrations dilated to include such diversity as the political breast, the surgical breast, the nursing breast, the pornographic breast. An excellent analysis.

With a wonderful blend of serious history and modern humor where appropriate, the author presents a thought provoking run down on the history over 25 centuries and the photos of Annie Sprinkles Bosom Ballet on page 268 made the purchase worth every cent.

As the author wisely notes that Westerners assumptions about the breast is often wrong, and that Non western cultures have their own fetishes be it small feet in China, the nape of the neck in Japan, the buttocks in Africa and the Caribbean. That through out western history the breast has been viewed as good and bad, and by men mostly and religious men in particular.

The book is excellent in showing how the breast has been used to depict power and justice be it in war posters (Bosoms For The Nation) or the lady of justice with one breast exposed. To breasts used to sell products or alas slaves. (The commercialized Breast) How the whole idea that breasts were owned according to some by the husband, or were considered babies domain. That it wasn't until the women's movement that women demanded that what was on their bodies belonged to them to do with as they wished, be it nipple piercing, nudity, no bra etc. (The liberated Breast)

There are photos of mastectomy survivors and lord knows dozens of bare, exposed, all size breasts, which I assume the reader would expect in a serious book about the human breast.

It is a book I am so glad I bought. Also check out her excellent History Of The Wife book.

Marilyn Yalom has a fascinating way of blending history, culture and personal stories in her new book. It reminds me of what Ken Burns has done in some of his documentaries, where you learn as much about life in the times as you do about the specific topic. The book is a wonderful and easy way to learn about the wife in different times, cultures and religions, and also the possibilities of what it might mean to be a wife in the future. Excellent reading.

Marilyn Yalom (her latest work, History of the Wife, is spectacular) shows her characteristic style of humor and scholarship in history of the breast. Relying on both art and personal accounts, Yalom goes era by era detailing various Western cultures' attitudes toward the female body and specifically the breast. She spends a great deal of effort detailing modern concerns like breast cancer treatment and breastfeeding controversies and with the background in the first half of the book, the reader is easily able to see how current attitudes have been shaped throughout history. An excellent book for the social historian, women's studies person, or art historian.

About 10 years ago, I became very sick and thought I was going to die. I took several diagnostic tests which came out negative. So I decided that I will help myself and did some research. By some stroke of luck or miracle, I received a brochure of this book in the mail so being desperate, I bought it and tried what was suggested for my symptoms. Well, I did get back to health. My symptoms disappeared. Thanks a million Dr. Wagner. I think I will buy another copy of this book since mine has become very worn out due to use.

I would like to know where to obtain a purtaneous distcotectomy as outlined on page 236 by Dr Wagner, to enable me to write a review.
Would it be possible for me to talk to him either through yourselves or myself?
Regards....Ray Kirton ..Sydney..Australia

I have read the book and am very impressed with Dr. Wagner's belief and success in alternative healing. I live in Australia and would be most grateful if I could have an address to write to Dr. Wagner about a problem that is not covered in his book. Could you please e-mail a contact address, if possible. Many, many thanks.

I purchased "How To Stay Out of the Doctor's Office" several years ago, and I am convinced the book has saved me thousands of dollars in medical bills. Wagner's book helps you to diagnose common physical ailments, and he gives natural solutions for healing. He gives precise descriptions of problems like kidney stones, gallstones, high blood pressure, cholesterol control, thyroid problems, multiple sclerosis, gout, tinnitis, yeast infections, ulcers, and diabetes. I have read some sections of his book several times, and I am convinced that I have avoided/cured gallstones, kidney stones, gout, and ulcers by following his advice. I highly recommend this book to everyone. (jsoverton@excite.com)

Three years ago I read "How to Stay Out of the Doctor's Office" and was so impressed with it that I contacted the publisher to find out where Dr. Wagner was located. Several days later he called me directly and asked how he could be of help. Since then Dr. Wagner has become our family doctor, and we have come to appreciate his straightforwardness in telling his patients to ask questions, to become educated in making informed decisions, and finally, to "take control" of their own health. I keep his book with me at all times and treat it as my "medical bible". Each chapter is extremely informative and I have used many of them to help family and friends with common sense solutions to their medical problems. Easy to read, its format offers the layperson a basic understanding of his/her ailment, what causes it, the conventional treatment, problems associated with that treatment, and then a "no nonsense" approach to alternative remedies that include a good nutritional program, vitamin and supplement support, amino acids, herbs, adjunctive remedies, and exercise regimens. Dr. Wagner is located in Philadelphia, PA. He has a radio program, "The Dr. Wagner Health Show" which airs on Tuesday and Thursday at 2:00 p.m. on 1540am. He has written another book, "How to Stay Out of the Hospital" which addresses the problems of orthodox medicine and offers many case histories. With Dr. Wagner's permission, I am including his office number for those readers who need to contact him: (215) 455-0717.

This is an awesome and easy to read book. I took A&P I & II with the author Herlihy as my professor. At the end of the semester, I sold the book back to the bookstore. Who new that after I graduated and decided I wanted to go back to nursing school, I would be looking to re-buy the book online!

I was required to get this textbook for the anatomy and physiology class that I am taking. It is a GREAT book. It is easy enough to understand which will allow me to use it when I beging to teach HS Bio. It also comes with a CD-rom which allows you to color and name the different parts of different systems. I highly recommend this book!

This book is really easy to reed and to follow. It goes in depth but the pictures and the way that the vocabulary is explained makes it fun, interesting and easy to comprehend. It is the best Anatomy and Physiology book that I have read so far.

This is a great textbook - a fun, readable format for a topic that could very easily be really dry. Other texts I have used in continuing my nursing studies have paled in comparison to this one, which I used in my first course, A&P. Nothing can live up to this. Good job!

It's a good book, it's just a tad basic. Meaning it was written in mind for students just out of high school, adult learning and where English is a second language. The main topics are covered for A&P, but it distinctly lacks detail. What I mean by that is, it does a good job covering anatomy (the pictures are really nice), but the physiology aspects of the human body is not covered very well. For example, Kreb's cycle in Herlihy's book is a one sentence mention. It's not even discussed. The book just doesn't compare to Elaine Marieb's Human Anatomy & Physiology edition. I own both textbooks and found myself going back to Marieb's. Marieb's text is over 1000 pages where Herlihy's is less than 500 pages. Our instructor (a Dr.), didn't once pull out this book, but he did use Marieb's as a reference. If you plan on just passing A&P use this book, but if you plan to understand the human body and ace your A&P use Marieb's.

THIS BOOK SAVED MY LIFE! At 50 years oldI was told I needed a complete hysterectomy. Someone suggested I read The Hysterecomy Hoax. I did and it changed my life. Instead of a hysterecomy, I went to Dr. West for a myomectomy. That was two weeks ago, when he removed 18 pounds of fibroids!! Today I feel fantastic. Everything he promised in his book was true. I had the surgery in New York on a Tuesday and was flying home to California on Thursday. I needed no pain medication, and no blood transfusions. The large size of my fibroids did not present any problems. Dr. West gave me my life back! IF YOU HAVE FIBROIDS, PLEASE READY THIS BOOK!!!!

I have read this book and its' contents are electrifying and informative and dispels the myth about hysterectomies. I concur that this is a MUST READ for women who are faced with major decisions concerning their health. This book is worth reading as it provides mounds of statistical data and research. Thank you Dr. Stanley West for your contribution to health and medicine.

The explanations are clear, extremely helpful to anyone facing the possibility of this kind of surgery. A good reference and recommended reading for all women.

This book details women's reproductive system and offers easy to understand reproductive surgery. It is excellent as is Dr. VG Hufnagel's NO MORE HYSTERECTOMIES published in l989, five years prior to this one. BOTH should be on every woman's bookshelf. Both expose the unjustified medical practices women are constantly being subjected to. Intelligent, questioning women everywhere need these tools in order to demand the care they require if they are to remain healthy. If 51% of the world's population is female, someone better catch on or there're going to be massive legal problems ahead for the medical and insurance world.

This book is designed to help a woman ask the right questions, the most important of which is "What are my alternatives to hysterectomy?" No doubt having a female ghost writer, recognized on the front cover as one would expect from a sensitive person such as West appears to be, helped make this a clear and interesting read for the women to whom it is targeted. Everything one would want to know is included--that is, everything that is available to know. West is not vague in discussing areas of ignorance for the medical community. From the workings of the female organs to the myriad of ills that may befall them to the treatments that are available, everything is presented. At the end of each chapter discussing specific dis-eases of the female organs, West has included a list of specific questions to ask a prospective surgeon. To aid the woman who fears questioning the big daddy in a white coat, West reviews research on doctor-patient communication and gives soun! d advice on communicating effectively and fairly and expecting the same fair treatment from the physician. Among the many books on the market today, I would place this first for the woman weighing her options when hysterectomy has been advised or considered.

The process of selecting a nursing home amongst the hundreds and perhaps thousands in a region is beyond the ability of any one person. In the past most people would rely on the good or bad things that they had hear about various facilities as the basis for their decision making. Mr. Bua's book gives the readers an idea about how to evaluate nursing homes as well as a starting point from which to begin an educated search. Philip Johnson

As a financial consultant, I am faced with an increasing demand from clients to assist them, or their aging parents, with long-term care planning. When you deal with the emotional issues of admitting a loved one to a nursing home, where do you start your research? Right here! Wouldn't it be nice to know, ahead of time, if a home has ever been cited for any violations? Wouldn't you like to know what those violations were and whether or not they had been addressed and rectified? This guide provides you with much of that information. Furthermore, the crash course on long-term care planning, at the beginning of the book, is excellent. This guide proves to be particularly valuable for the children of aging parents who are geographically distanced from their parents and they don't have a first-hand knowledge of their parents' city or the homes within that area. An absolute must for anyone who is struggling with the issue of admitting a loved one into, or caring for a loved one who is already in a long-term care facility.

This book was an invaluable resource to help me with the difficult task of finding the best care for my mother with Alzheimer's. I was even able to read it for free, online at CareScout.com! Cuts through the clutter, gives you insider industry information that helps you separate the good from the bad in terms you can understand. There's also info on long term care insurance, and helpful checklists for finding the best care.

Great book. Mr. Bua seems to be the only person willing to tell us which nursing homes are better than others, and back up his rankings with facts.

For those about to make the important decision of placing a loved one in a skilled nursing facility, this is an important tool. As a nursing home administrator, I know how tough it is to maintain a quality nursing home. Some succeed and some do not. As part of your preparations for this major move, read this book.

Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author of "Nursing Home Leadership" docwifford@msn.com

Very useful! This is the one source for test interpretations that you need. Sensibility and specificity? This book will give you much more than that, including indications, limitations, factors that alter the results and more. I highly recommend it.

An indispensable guide. Thorough and complete. Very helpful both in determining what tests to order, and how to interpret test results; especially helpful for the less common and more esoteric tests.

I am surprised that many professionals are not aware of the results of the diagnostic test results that are listed in this medical reference. Every doctor's office should have this manuscript in their library. Especially for the nurse practioners and physician assistants in their employ.
My initial curiosity was with the results of urine tests/toxicology tests and the way certain tests are skewed by other drugs/agents in the patients regimens.
One should be especially interested in false positives in urine tests, that can be caused by other medications.

A patient of mine was acccused of being positive for benzodiazepines on a urine test by the same nurse practioner that prescibed him/her high doses of ibuprofen. This manuscript proved that the results of the urine test were wrong. There are no blood tests to prove otherwise. The medical facility now agrees that this book should be in their library. Saving the patient undo stress/ridicule/delay of actual competent therapy.

I, too, have been using this reference for several years. I consider it to be one of the five most useful medical books on my shelf. This is probably the only book I feel the need to purchase every time there is an updated edition. I strongly recommend it for medical students, residents, midlevel providers and practicing physicians. It is a core reference in medical board review. It may also be of value for nursing staff in the hospital or clinic setting, especially for critical care nurses, or for anyone who is motivated to learn about medical diagnosis. The book is less likely to be useful to patients and their families, due to its highly technical nature.

This is a little book I've been using since day one at work, and let me say it is simply the most practical reference I had ever bought. It has a very concise overview of the principles underlying any diagnosis, an overview of some critical values, a pathologist incline clasification in the book (more disease oriented), and a super complete list of causes that may provoque the anomalies detected and outlined in this book. All in a minute consultation, really fast and easy to use. Simply very, very good.

This is an excellent overview of EEG for the novice as well as the experienced EEG researcher. THe language is understandable and examples abundant.

This book is a tremendous resource and its requried reading in my lab. Each chapter introduces important concepts in ERP research and discusses the pros and cons of common ERP practices. Everyone who conducts ERP research, reviews ERP studies, or wants to understand the fundamentals of the technique should read this book.

Steven Luck has written an excellent introduction to the ERP technology. The book is informative, easily comprehensible, and full of wisdoms. One learns not only crucial issues involved in ERP, but also important experimental designs in cognitive neuroscience in general. This book is a must-read for cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists. It is a pity that something like this isn't available for fMRI, TMS, single-unit recording.

I'm a graduate student who is using ERPs in my research. I received this book from my supervisor after I've already become quite familiar with the technique. I would have saved myself alot of frustration if I'd read the book earlier. It's very easy to read and unlike a manual is actually a pleasure to read. I would recommend this book as a place to start for anyone using ERPs.

I've been working with ERP's for nearly 6 years now, and as I become a more independent scientist, I've started to realize that I do not have a very integrated knowledge of the specifics underlying ERP's. This book has been a god-send! It's an easy read - seemingly quite suited for undergraduates even, and describes the basic nuts and bolts for any ERP lab. There is a larger focus on later components, as this seems to be the primary focus of the author's reasearch, with some popular midlatency components getting glossed over, but this in no way diminishes the relevance for any person interested in understanding and performing ERP research.

What a great book to finish this year. This is the history of viruses, those nanoparticles wrapped up in protein, a history of smallpox, polio, herpes, hepatitis, flu, Human T Leukaemia Virus, HIV and others little viruses that have made difficult our existence. But this book is more than that, a book to understand how this virus operate, their relation with cancer, how we have combated them via immunization, vaccines and antivirals, and the amazing advances in dealing with them, including the use of viruses to deal with cancer.
There is much more to understand about viruses, the purpose of them, an effort that perhaps allows to understand life itself. This is a book to be read by everybody, a book that should have a spanish version and be given to high school/University students. Prevention is the first step.

Probably the only reason I gave this a four star is because the book was a repeat basically for me of information I'd already read more completely somewhere else. That's not to say I didn't think this book was interesting. The Writer is British, and most all the books I read were from American writers. Her writing is impeccable as per usual with the British, but also there is a distinctly different point of view.

I would highly recommend this book for people who want a good introduction into the area of virology. It applies to everyone, since emerging and man-made viruses are such a threat at this point. The book doesn't overdo the scientific jargon you find in textbooks, and makes the science accessible to everyone who reads the book. It addresses most of the past big problems, introduces some emerging problems like Ebola...but this is very general. That can be a good thing...I just wanted some more information than what I got.

Karen Sadler

"The Invisble Enemy" is a very good overview of the world of viruses. Virologist Dorothy H. Crawford has written a book that is scientific, but it is also interesting, enjoyable, and very readable. In fact, I became so immersed while reading the book that I felt that I was reading a historical novel and not a book on the science of viruses. But that is what is so enjoyable about this book - Ms. Crawford weaves together interesting tales, scientific data and her thoughts on viruses in a way that helped me to understand these primitive proteins and their impact on the history and evolution of the human race.

Throughout the book there is information about the history of a variety of killer viruses such as yellow fever and polio and the vaccines that were developed to eradicate them. There is also information about the origins of HIV - how HIV infects a cell and the ways that HIV drugs interfere with the replication process. Also information is included on hepatitis A, hepatitis B and a little information on hepatitis C. There is also an overview of the emerging killer viruses such as ebola, hanta virus, and the bird flu.

After reading this book I came away with a better understanding of viruses and their remarkable ability to survive.

This is a nice book about viruses. The book is slightly technical, but reading it while able to access wikipedia should do it, if you want to understand each detail.

Recently I came across a theory came which says that viruses played a crucial role in the evolution of humans. After reading this book the above theory made sense to me.

I assumed this would be another text book style read consisting of sterile,bare bones info. I was very pleasantly surprised. This book is increadible. It reads like a novel and yet the info is present in every sentence. The author is clearly beyond knowledgable about the topic. I would recommend this book to anyone . Truely amazing!