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2006 PUBLISHERS DIRECTORY
2006 Publishers Directory
Resource Books for Nursing Students
F.A. Davis Company
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RNotes: Nurse’s Clinical Pocket
Guide (2nd Ed)
Ehren Myers
2006, 255 pages, $23.95
In this new refined, reorganized, and
updated second edition, RNotes®
continues to present practical, clinically-oriented content across a wide range
of topics in a succinct pocket-sized tool:
quick find features, portability, functionality, and more of the commonlyused but rarely memorized clinical
information that hundreds of thousands
of nurses and students refer to daily.
LPN Notes: Nurse’s Clinical
Pocket Guide
Ehren Myers & Tracey Hopkins
2004, 151 pages, $23.95
LPN Notes Focuses on clinical “needto-know” information — how to calculate common medication formulas, signs
of child abuse and the normal ranges of
vital signs. It combines commonly used,
but rarely memorized, clinical information with reusable patient assessment
tools and worksheets.
MedNotes: Nurse’s
Pharmacology Pocket Guide
Judith Hopfer Deglin & April
Hazard Vallerand
2004, 201 Pages, $21.95
Provides instant access to essential
medication information for the top 150
drugs commonly prescribed in acute
and ambulatory care, including “High
Alert” meds and emergency drugs.
Concise but thorough monographs,
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reusable assessment forms, and quick
reference tables combine to provide a
guide to safe medication administration.
LabNotes: Guide to Lab
& Diagnostic Tests
NutriNotes: Nutrition and Diet
Therapy Pocket Guide
LabNotes provides students, nurses,
and other health professionals with a
quick and portable reference tool for
competently explaining, preparing, and
caring for patients before, during, and
after common lab and diagnostic testing. Concise information explains lab
reference ranges and considerations,
diagnostic test purposes and procedures,
pre-test preparation, and post-test care.
Carroll A. Lutz & Karen
Rutherford Przytulski
2004, 147 Pages, $23.95
Pocket reference that offers at-yourfingertips nutritional facts such as how
to calculate someone’s body mass and
what to suggest when a diabetic patient
wants a piece of fruit. The perfect clinical companion, it can also be a great
reference when a full nutrition text is
not required.
MedSurg Notes: Nurse’s Clinical
Pocket Guide
Ehren Myers & Tracey Hopkins
2004, 216 Pages, $23.95
MedSurg Notes provides on-the-spot
guidance for caring for patients with
complex medical-surgical conditions.
MedSurg Notes offers focused assessments, immediate interventions, and
follow-up care for patients who develop
complications. Flowsheets allow room
for recording frequent vital signs, serial
lab values, stat meds, and interventions.
PsychNotes: Clinical
Pocket Guide
Darlene D. Pedersen
2005, 217 pages, $21.95
The psychiatric rotation can be among
the shortest (yet most intimidating)
clinical rotation. PsychNotes is a reliable, quick reference for key psychiatric
clinical information. It can help boost
the student’s confidence by offering
immediate, succinct, and need-to-know
information for improved on-the-spot
patient care.
Tracey Hopkins
2005, 216 pages, $21.95
ECG Notes: Interpretation
and Management Guide
Shirley A. Jone
2005, 200 pages, $21.95
This indispensable pocket guide
presents the basics (anatomy and
physiology of the cardiovascular system,
electrical conduction system of the
heart, basic ECG concepts and components), ACLS and CPR algorithms,
emergency medications, and comprehensive information on monitoring
leads and interpretation of over 100
ECG rhythms including 12-Lead and
pacemaker rhythms.
IV Therapy Notes: Nurse’s
Clinical Pocket Guide
Lynn Dianne Phillips
2005, 185 pages, $23.95
With a focus on safe administration
of IV therapy, IV Therapy Notes
references all types of intravenous fluids
and their contents and the essential
rules for calculating infusion rates.
With an entire section devoted to fluids
and electrolytes, IV Therapy Notes
covers it all!
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IV Med Notes: Nurse’s
Clinical Pocket Guide
Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses
for PDA, Web & Wireless
Gladdi Tomlinson &
Deborah A. Ennis
2006, 176 pages, $23.95
Judith Hopfer Deglin
& April Hazard Vallerand
2006, $49.95
Accessing an intravenous site and delivering fluids and medicine can be a difficult
and frightening experience for students.
IV Med Notes alleviates your fears by
providing, in a user-friendly scrub pocket
guide, up-to-date information needed to
safely administer medications by IV.
This vital PDA version of the best
selling Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses
provides a portable, quickly accessible,
versatile, and accurate source of drug
information that can be updated
quarterly. Like the book, it is focused
on patient safety and contains wellorganized monographs with an emphasis
on what nurses need to know. It’s like
having an experienced nurse at your
side! Go to www.fadavis.com for a free
trial download.
OB Peds Women’s Health Notes:
Nurse’s Clinical Pocket Guide
Brenda Holloway, Cheryl
Moredich, and Kathie Aduddell
2006, 172 pages, $23.95
This Davis’s Notes title provides quick
access to key clinical information for
the nurse or nursing student caring for
obstetric, gynecological, and pediatric
clients. With comprehensive yet concise
coverage of women’s heath and child
health topics from birth through adolescence.
Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical
Dictionary (20th Ed)
Donald Venes
2005, 2,788 Pages, $38.95
Taber's defines more terms than any
other health science dictionary. With
approximately 56,000 terms in all —
including more than 2,400 NEW terms
— Taber's 20th is the most comprehensive health science dictionary available
today. Each term was carefully reviewed
by a distinguished team of Health
Professions and Nursing consultants to
ensure that Taber's keeps pace with the
rapidly changing health care environment.
Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses
(with CD-ROM) (10th Ed)
Judith Hopfer Deglin & April
Hazard Vallerand
2006, 1,409 Pages, $39.95
Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses,
10th Edition contains well-organized
monographs with an emphasis on what
students and nurses need to know. The
new edition has expanded info on Peds,
OB and Geri. Plus, free updates and
recently FDA-approved drug monographs are posted regularly at
www.DrugGuide.com.
How to Survive and Maybe
Even Love Nursing School! A
Guide for Students by Students
(4th Ed)
Kelli S. Dunham
2004, 257 Pages, $24.95
This light-hearted, fun, and easy-to-read
guide for nursing students by students
is full of practical information to help
them cope with and get the most out of
nursing school. It will help keep students
on track about the ups and downs they
are likely to encounter and keeps them
focused on why they chose nursing as
a career.
Test Success: Test-Taking
Techniques for Beginning
Nursing Students (4th Ed)
Patricia M. Nugent &
Barbara A. Vitale
2004, 395 Pages, $29.95
Test Success is the only book that offers
students solid, reliable, advice about
studying for nursing exams to develop
the skills and confidence they need to
maximize success. They will learn time
management, effective studying habits,
and critical problem solving skills that
will guide them through the mastery of
the examination process.
Fundamentals Success: A
Course Review Applying Critical
Thinking to Test Taking
Patricia M. Nugent
& Barbara A. Vitale
2004, 364 Pages, $31.95
Using the techniques within
Fundamentals Success, nursing students
can develop, apply, and refine the
reasoning skills–and gain the confidence–
needed to pass exams. With more than
1,200 classroom-tested, NCLEX-style
questions that cover an entire nursing
fundamentals course, this book provides a blueprint for applying critical
thinking skills to answering the test
questions that students will encounter
throughout their nursing education.
Davis’s Comprehensive
Handbook of Laboratory and
Diagnostic Tests with Nursing
Implications (2nd Ed)
Anne M. Van Leeuwen, Todd R.
Kranpitz and Lynette Smith
2006, 1,568 Pages, $42.95
This practical clinical reference can
be used by nursing students at all levels.
Davis’s Comprehensive Handbook is a
solid textbook for theory classes and
a reliable quick reference in clinical
settings. It guides the nurse in planning
what needs to be assessed, monitored,
treated, and taught regarding pre-test
requirements, intratest procedures, and
post-test care.
Nursing Diagnosis Manual:
Planning, Individualizing,
and Documenting Client Care
Marilynn E. Doenges,
Mary Frances Moorhouse
& Alice C. Murr
2005, 880 pages, $35.95
Using the standard nursing language of
NANDA, NIC, and NOC, this manual’s
listing of diagnoses follows NANDA’s
own sequencing—alphabetized by key
term, prioritizes interventions, and covers more than 800 disorders and health
conditions with associated diagnoses.
Nurse’s Pocket Guide:
Diagnoses, Interventions,
and Rationales
(10th Ed)
Marilynn E. Doenges,
Mary Francis Moorhouse
& Alice C. Geissler-Murr
2004, 792 Pages, $31.95
Make sure your students use the best
selling pocket guide to plan their
patients’ care! This pocket sized reference helps nursing students identify
interventions most commonly associated
with nursing diagnoses when caring for
patients. It’s the perfect resource for
hospital and community-based settings.
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Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines
for Individualizing Client Care
Across the Life Span (7th Ed)
Marilynn E. Doenges,
Mary Frances Moorhouse,
& Alice C. Murr
2006, 990 Pages, $49.95
More than just a book of Med-Surg
care plans –– this is an all-in-one
resource that includes four new care
plans, an introduction to Mind
Mapping, and a bonus CD-ROM
covering all the care plans found in
the book (plus 84 only available on the
disc) and the top 400 health conditions.
Nursing Diagnoses in
Psychiatric Nursing: Care Plans
and Psychotropic Medications,
(6th Ed)
Mary C. Townsend
2004, 577 Pages, $34.95
Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric
Nursing remains the most complete,
easy-to-use resource available to help
students develop practical, individual
care plans for various psychiatric
clients. The concepts can be applied to
various types for health-care settings
from inpatient hospitalization, outpatient clinic, home health, and private
practice.
Diseases and Disorders: A
Nursing Therapeutics Manual
(3rd Ed)
Marilyn Sawyer Sommers, Susan
A. Johnson & Theresa Beery
2006, 1,008 Pages, $43.95
Still a "must have" reference for every
nurse. Now in its third edition, Diseases
and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics
Manual contains complete information
on hundreds of disorders In a concise
format to allow nurses and students
to quickly find –– and understand ––
information on disorders so they can
effectively plan nursing care. Offers
a clear but comprehensive discussion
of pathophysiology, along with new
information on genetics.
Psychosocial Nursing for
General Patient Care (2nd Ed)
Linda M. Gorman, Marcia L.
Raines & Donna F. Sultan
2002, 423 Pages, $36.95
This concise, quick reference handbook
will help prepare students and nurses for
common psychosocial and psychiatric
problems that can coincide with
patients' medical problems. Its quick
reference format allows them to find
information to intervene quickly and
effectively and keep the patient –– and
the student or nurse –– safe.
Guide to Culturally
Competent Health Care
Larry D. Purnell
& Betty J. Paulanka
2005, 512 Pages, $24.95
With its focus on clinical relevance, this
quick reference for students and health
care practitioners, who provide direct
patient care in diverse settings, meets an
emerging need for information regarding
nursing care for crossculturally diverse
populations. Written in outline format,
it focuses on clinically relevant information for each culture discussed.
How to Survive and Maybe Even
Love Your Life as a Nurse
Kelli S. Dunham & Staci J. Smith
2005, 304 Pages, $22.95
Written by RNs in the trenches, and
with the input of over 300 working
nurses, this book is organized chronologically (graduation, evaluating job
offers, coping with co-workers, burnout
and legal issues), and is loaded with
tools to reduce anxiety and master the
challenges of clinical practice.
Health Assessment Through
the Life Span (4th Ed)
Mildred O. Hogstel and Linda
Cox Curry
2005, 433 pages, $31.95
This information-packed, easy-to-use
pocket guide serves both as a reference
for nurses working in clinical settings
and as a student text for programs
that offer condensed coverage of health
assessment in lieu of a more comprehensive, more expensive book.
Organized by body systems, the focus
of this updated edition remains on
assessing, documenting, and reporting
the current status and changes in the
condition of patients for all age groups.
Davis’s NCLEX-RN Success
(2nd Ed)
Sally L. Lagerquis
2006, 942 pages, $42.95
The new 2nd edition of Davis's NCLEXRN® Success is based on the latest test
plan and incorporates new question
formats into the test review itself, in both
the book and the enclosed CD-ROM.
This review book brings a money-back
guarantee and a free phone consultation
with the author who has spent nearly 40
years teaching exam prep.
Elsevier
11830 Westline
Industrial Drive
Louis, MO 63146
Karen Howard
Marketing Manager
1-800-545-252
1-800-535-9935 (Fax
[email protected]
www.elsevierhealth.com
Evolve ReachPowered by HESI Elsevier
2006, online, retail price (optional)
1100-character description in upper
and lower case. The 100-characters
include punctuation and spaces. Evolve
Reach predicts your success on the
NCLEX® exam with 98% accuracy!
Does your instructor know?
NCLEX®- RN Review Manual
with STUDYware CD-Rom
HESI
2005, 413 pages, $59.95
100-character description in upper and
lower case. The 100-characters include
punctuation and spaces. 100% critical
thinking test items boost your confidence on the NCLEX® exam! Practice
tests on CD!
Jones and Bartlett Publishers
40 Tall Pine Drive
Sudbury, MA 01776
Serena Ciamp
Marketing Associate
(800) 832-0034
(978) 443-8000 (Fax)
[email protected]
www.jbpub.com
Clinical Nursing Pocket Guide
Marilynn Jackson & Lee Jackson
2006, 200 Pages, $21.95
Includes charts, scales, tables, lab tests,
medication indications/administration,
and much more!
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Manual of Nursing Diagnosis
(11th Ed)
Marjory Gordon
2007, 400 Pages, $32.95
Contains major diagnoses listed by
NANDA; standard diagnoses for
patients with any range of ailments.
Rapid Reference for Nurses
Karren Kowalski
& Patricia Yoder-Wise
2007, 690 Pages, $36.95
A quick and convenient reference
for students and professional nurses in
various clinical settings.
The Nursing Career
Planning Guide
Susan Odegaard Turner
2007, 226 Pages, $24.95
Presents tips for beginning a nursing
career and acquiring supervision and
career development skills.
MEDS Publishing
7901 Sandy Spring Rd,
Ste 203
Laurel, MD 20707
[email protected]
www.medspub.com
RN Exam Essentials Review
(12th Ed)
Patricia A. Hoefler, RN, MSN
2006, 220 pages, $39.00
National Nursing Review
342 Sate Street, Suite
Los Altos CA 94022
650-941-5784 Tel.
650-941-4354 Fax
nationalnursingreview@
hotmail.com
www.NationalNursingReview.com
Sandra Smith’s Review
for NCLEX-RN
Sandra F. Smith, RN, MS
2006, 896 pp, $39.95
Complete content review in concise
outline format with practice questions,
NCLEX tests and CD-ROM.
Pass the NCLEX on your first attempt
with MEDS’ best-selling review book.
Learn how to eliminate inefficient
studying, boost confidence, and focus
on essential NCLEX information with
MEDS’ unique learning methodology.
This comprehensive NCLEX review
book comes with a bonus Q&A
CD-ROM. Also available in PN version.
Thomson Delmar Learning
Executive Woods
5 Maxwell Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065
Danielle Pacella
Marketing Coordinator
1-800-998-7498 x2374
518-373-6274
[email protected]
www.delmarhealthcare.com
The Complete Q&A for the
NCLEX-RN Exam (5th Ed)
Complete Review
for NCLEX-RN®
Patricia A. Hoefler, RN, MSN
2004, 490 pages, $39.00
Test-drive the NCLEX exam and be
prepared for even the most difficult
questions! MEDS’ best-selling book
contains over 1,200 questions, answers,
and rationales in all areas covered on
the NCLEX. This book comes with a
bonus Q&A CD-ROM. Also available
in PN version.
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Donna Faye Gauwitz, MS, RN
2007, 1216 pages, $41.95
This comprehensive review includes
4400 questions with a 500 question
CD-ROM and free PDA downloads.
Complete Review for
NCLEX-RN® CD-ROM
Donna Faye Gauwitz, MS, RN
2007, 4000 Questions, $29.95
This CD-ROM mimics the RN licensure exam and has 4000 questions
available for free PDA download.
NCLEX-RN® Review Cards
Donna Faye Gauwitz, MS, RN
2007, 1500 Cards, $33.95
1500 questions reflecting the current
test plan of the NCSBN with answers
and rationales.
Thomson Delmar Learning's
Practice Questions for
NCLEX-RN®
Thomson Delmar Learning
2007, 896 pages, $37.95
4400 questions including 1500 on an
interactive CD-ROM with 500 available for PDA download.
Thomson Delmar Learning's
Nursing Review Series
Thomson Delmar Learning
2007, Varies, $25.95
Organized by NCLEX content areas,
this series contains practice questions,
answers, and rationales.
2007 PDR Nurse's Drug
HandbookT
George R. Spratto, PhD &
Adrienne L. Woods, MSN, ARNP,
NP-C
2007, 1712 pages, $37.95
With over 1,000 of the latest and most
common FDA-approved drugs, this
book is a clinical necessity. ¥