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Delmar Cengage Learning
5 Maxwell Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065
Michele McTighe
Sr. Marketing Manager
Telephone: 1 (800) 998-7498
Fax: (518) 881-1244 michele.mctighe@cengage.com
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Complete Review for NCLEX-RN
Donna F. Gauwitz
2007, 1168 Pages, $52.95
NSNA Members: Receive 25% off when you order from banner ad on nsna.org!
4,400 questions coded to reflect current test plan, CD has tests and PDA
Downloads. Endorsed by NSNA.
Practice Questions for
NCLEX-RN
Donna F. Gauwitz
2007, 1200 Pages, $47.95
NSNA Members: Receive 25% off when you order from banner ad on nsna.org!
4,400 questions coded to reflect current test plan, CD has tests and
PDA Downloads.
Complete Review CD-ROM for NCLEX-RN
Donna F. Gauwitz
2007, CD-ROM, $37.95
NSNA Members: Receive 25% off when you order from banner ad on nsna.org!
CD with 4,400 questions coded to reflect current test plan, has PDA
Downloads.
Nursing Review Series:
Medical-Surgical Nursing
Delmar, Cengage Learning
2007, 880 Pages, $41.95
NSNA Members: Receive 25% off when you order from banner ad on nsna.org!
Focused NCLEX review for Med-
Surg, PDA Downloads.
is your source for a variety of free and password-protected content, including learning tools and activities,
PowerPoint slides, review questions, web links, and more!
2009 Delmar Nurse’s Drug
Handbook
George R. Spratto and
Adrienne L. Woods
2008, 2088 Pages, $43.95
NSNA Members: Receive 25% off when you order from banner ad on nsna.org!
1,000 most common and new FDA-
Approved drugs, PDA Downloads.
Davis’s Comprehensive
Handbook of Laboratory and
Diagnostic Tests with Nursing
Implications (2nd Ed)
Anne M. Van Leeuwen, Todd R,
Kranpitz, & Lynette Smith
2006, 1,568 Pages, $44.95
Here’s all of the information you need to know about how tests work, how to interpret their results, and how to provide quality patient care pre-test, intra-test, and post-test.
Case Study Series:
Medical-Surgical Nursing
Gina M. Ankner
2007, 168 Pages, $25.95
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Test your ability to apply your skills!
20 Med-Surg Cases with answers.
Fundamentals Flash
Mastering Nursing Vocabulary
Lynn D. Phillips
February 2009, 263 2-sided cards, about $29.95
Overcome your first major hurdle in nursing school—vocabulary! The bonus CD-ROM gives you access to downloadable audio files to listen to anywhere, anytime. Plus, find 50 additional terms on Davis Plus .
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Student and Instructor Online
Resource Center http://davisplus.fadavis.com
This easy-to-navigate, centralized hub
Nurse’s Pocket Guide (11th Ed)
Diagnoses, Prioritized
Interventions, and Rationales
Marilynn E. Doenges,
Mary Frances Moorhouse
& Alice C. Murr
2008, 832 Pages, $31.95
Easily develop customized care plans!
All actions/inventions are presented by priority with easy-to-identify
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Nursing Care Plans
Guidelines for Individualizing
Client Care Across the Life
Span, 7th Edition
Marilynn E. Doenges,
Mary Frances Moorhouse
& Alice C. Murr
2006, 992 Pages, $49.95
Here’s a guideline approach to care planning that presents diagnoses by priority with rationales for every intervention. The bonus CD-ROM features 200 care plans and an index of the top 400 disorders and their associated diagnoses.
captivating clarity—fits in your pocket!
Whatever view you’re looking for… you’ll find it here.
Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical
Dictionary, 20th Edition
Donald Venes, Editor
2005, 2,788 Pages, $39.95
Taber’s defines more terms than any other health science dictionary—
56,000 in all—including more than
2,400 NEW terms. It’s the most comprehensive health science dictionary available. Free one-year subscription to Taber’s Online with purchase.
Informed Publishing
7110 SW Fir Loop, Suite 110
Tigard, OR 97223
Patty Durgan
Informed Publishing Sales
Telephone: (888) 624-8014
Fax: (503) 639-1369 sales@informedguides.com
www.informedguides.com
RN Nurses Pocket Guide™
(2nd Ed)
Julie Henry, RN, MPA and Paula Derr, BSN, RN,
CCRN, CEN
2008, 186 Pages, $21.95
Now in a 2nd edition, this guide will be an essential tool throughout your career. This popular reference provides instant access to information you’ll need every day, in a convenient
3”x5” pocket-size format with colorcoded tabbed sections so you can find what you need quickly and easily. Entire sections are devoted to cardiac, respiratory, neurological, mental health, pediatric and OB t opics. Vital assessment and reference information includes drugs, infusions, lab values, medications, blood products, calculations and PO, SQ,
IM, IO and IV safe administration guidelines. Built for durability, this guide is waterproof, alcohol-fast and tear-resistant.
Nursing Diagnosis Manual
Planning, Individualizing, and Documenting Client Care
(2nd Ed)
Marilynn E. Doenges,
Mary Frances Moorhouse
& Alice C. Murr
2008, 925 Pages, $42.95
This complete reference offers a practical to planning and documenting care—with rationales for all actions/interventions. 900 diseases with suggested diagnoses appear in the last section of the book.
Pharm Phlash!
Pharmacology Flash Cards
Valerie I. Leek
February 2009, 203 2-sided cards in full color, $24.95
Hone your clinical knowledge of nearly 400 of the most prescribed generic drugs with these classroomdeveloped, student-tested flash cards.
They’re great for class and exam prep as well as care planning.
Pocket Anatomy & Physiology
Shirley A. Jones
October 2008, 276 Pages,
About $24.95
The perfect A & P book—with spectacular full-color detail and
Emergency & Critical Care
Pocket Guide™ (5th Ed)
Paula Derr, BSN, RN, CCRN,
CEN
2006, 172 Pages, $21.95
The essential pocket reference for nursing professionals is now in its
5th edition, updated to include current AHA guidelines. This popular tool helps nurses check ACLS drug doses, interpret EKGs, look up patient medications, and more, in a convenient 3”x5” pocket-size format with color-coded tabbed sections, making it easy to look up information quickly. Critical information covered includes use of airway devices, a complete list of emergency
& ACLS drugs, an extensive prescription drug list, EKG interpretation page, dermatomes, hemodynamics, lab values, and a complete list of abbreviations. Built for durability, this guide is waterproof, alcohol-fast and tear-resistant.
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
40 Tall Pine Drive
Sudbury, MA 01776
Ilana Goddess
Associate Marketing Manager
(800) 832-0034
(978) 443-8000 Fax
IGoddess@jbpub.com
www.jbpub.com/nursing
Spanish for Nurses Pocket Guide
Donna Polverini, MSN,RN, and Arthur Natella, PhD
2008,112 Pages, $24.95
Spanish for Nurses Pocket Guide includes basic phrases and vocabulary relating to parts of the body and symptoms as well as questions and answers related to hospital facilities and caring for clients in the hospital setting. Cultural notes with helpful hints are highlighted in each chapter, with an introduction that gives general cultural concepts making this book useful for all nurses.
Spanish for Nurses contains a list of Spanish vocabulary words as well as a special glossary of “Spanglish” and border Spanish words and
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Getting the Most from Nursing
School: A Guide to Becoming a Nurse
Robert Atkins, PhD, RN
2009, 256 Pages, $28.95
Find Success in Nursing School!
Getting The Most From Nursing
School: A Guide to Becoming a
Nurse presents a roadmap to guide talented men and women along their journey from considering nursing as a profession to their first position as a registered nurse. This exceptional resource provides the necessary guidance to ensure that students get the most from their education and become excellent care providers, policymakers, educators, and researchers and achieve their goal of improving the health and wellbeing of others.
Getting The Most From Nursing
School is written by a doctorally prepared nurse, researcher, and professor and can be distinguished by its evidence-based information, its anecdotes, and its empirically grounded recommendations from nurses who have decades of experience in both clinical practice and as educators.
Sample chapters include:
• Why become a nurse?
• Nursing school is tough...getting
through the classes.
• Surviving and succeeding in clinical.
• Preparing for success on the
NCLEX ® .
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