Critical Care Nursing Review: Pearls of Wisdom, Second Edition
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional
Written By: William Gossman, Scott Plantz, Sheryl Gossman, Roger Skebelsky, Brent Grady, Nicholas Lorenzo
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.028076
EAN: 9780071464239
ISBN: 0071464239
Label: McGraw-Hill Professional
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 177
Publication Date: 2005-08-30
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Studio: McGraw-Hill Professional
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Editorial Reviews for Critical Care Nursing Review: Pearls of Wisdom, Second Edition
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Why waste time guessing at what you need to know for the CCRN exam? Maximize your exam preparation time with this quick-hit question and answer review. The unique question and single-answer format eliminates the guesswork associated with traditional multiple-choice QAndA reviews and reinforces only the correct answers you'll need to know on exam day. Emphasis is placed on distilling key facts and clinical pearls essential for exam successs. Great for certification and re-certification, this high-yield review for the CCRN exam is the perfect compliment to larger tests for intense, streamlined review in the days and weeks before your exam.
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Summary: Out-of-Date and Inaccurate
Comment: Nursing test study guides must provide correct information not just to help the reader pass the test, but to aid the reader in improving nursing care.
This book's Q&A format will not aid the nurse in improving nursing care. For example on page 40 the the answer to the question "What is the suspected diagnosis if a patient's blood pressure drops significantly with administration of nitroglycerin in the setting of an acute MI?" is "Inferior wall MI with right ventricular involvement." A better answer would include the recommendation of volume replacement and why instead of addressing the treatment under the cardiogenic shock question.
I checked the copyright date twice to confirm this was published in 2006 before I decided to write a negative review.
The book uses AHA 2000 guidelines instead of the 2005 guidelines which were widely available by August 2005. For examples: The book recommends the non-current practice of ventilation to compression ratio of 1 to 5 instead of the current 2 to 30; the old compression rate of 80-100 instead of the current compression rate of 100; and stacking of 3 shocks instead of 1 shock then start CPR.
What is it with the authors love of Lidocaine with all those questions about it? Lidocaine is NOT a first line drug choice for anything cardiac, thus it is NOT the treatment of choice for hemodynamically stable ventricular tachycardia (page 48). Nor is the drug "likely to be ordered" after " a patient is brought back to a normal sinus rhythm following defibrillation" (page 63).
In the answer about the preferred agent of choice in treatment of atrial fibrillation ( page 51), procainamide has not been recommended 2nd line treatment for 6 years or more.
Amrinone has not been that drug's name since 2000 - try using Inamrinone as the correct drug name. (Name was changed because of the confusion with amiodarone.)
What is with the questions about using LDH in diagnosing AMI in these days of bedside Troponin testing?
The Q&A on page 60 about "What is the treatment of Torsades de Pointes?" really misses the point about using magnesium. This poor answer was my breaking point and why I felt this book needs a warning label. Of course any books that list pressure on the eyeball as a common Valsalva maneuver, page 61, is asking for lawyers to attack.
A book that claims to address CCRN test should employ a better editor. For examples, EKG should be ECG, Troponia is the Spanish spelling for Troponin, and using "b-blockers" mixed with beta symbol-blockers mixed with "beta-blockers".
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lots of great bite sized bits of knowledge!
Comment: I think the previous reviewer was way to harsh... or possibly, arrogant? Hmmm... most of the info in this book is very signifigant, and unlike many review books, it is not weighed down by too much technically verbose fill. The book is written by the MD and nurses! I admit, he does throw some obviously useless bits of trivia (from a nursing standpoint) in occassionally, but most of it is really quite nice and well done. We should praise MDs who WANT to help nurses, not whip them!!! Anyhow, this is a really nice relaxing book to read through, one that allows you to learn without getting a big headache. I recommend it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Look at the authors!!
Comment: Since when does a MD know what a nurse does? I was looking for a review book to help me update my CCRN review class, this is not it.
Only 20 of the "rapid fire" topics were even listed on the exam.
This book and the "ER Pearls" are a waste of money.
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