Public Health Nursing

First off, the quality of the book - a brand new book - is substandard. They put some tear out pages in the front that made the cover pull away from the binding. When you drop the better part of a Benjamin on a book you want it to stand up.Second, the pictures are irrelevant and sometimes outdated. Look at figure 44-5 or the unlabeled one on page 743. What do they add to the subject? Nothing would be my answer. There are many more examples. I mean, thanks for giving a break from the wordy text, but at least make the pictures interesting and relevant.There are attempts to break up the wordy writing with the typical Elsevier "What do you think" and "nursing tip" and some "cutting edge" stuff but it was usually distracting and not informative. Oh, don't forget the "how to" blurbs - probably the most interesting.There are 10 pages before you even get to the table of contents. Ridiculous.I did learn from this book and especially the class, but the book is overpriced, heavy and could really benefit from the concept of bullet points. Also, it is poorly constructed.

This book was excruciatingly boring to read. There were regularly entire paragraphs that literally said nothing. It's a great book if you want to memorize 40 different acronyms of organizations that you will never need to know about per chapter. Even the online review Q's were crap, which is unfortunate, because usually the Evolve Q's are very helpful. Some of them didn't even have the right answer keyed. If your teacher picks this book for your class, then try to just answer the objectives at the beginning of the chapter, know the terms, and look at the tables. Of course all teachers test Q's are different.

Had to take this garbage class for my bachelors degree and it was thoroughly unenjoyable. Got the old book for like three bucks. It got the job done so it’s good enough for government work.

Very boring book but I needed it for my BSN program so I bought it… bought it brand new. No damages came sooner than suggested.

Love the rental service!

Good book, but costly. Not sure why tuition has to be so high and books also.

I love the condition of my book, and how soon I had received my book in the mail. Oh yes! I would order from them again!!!

I paid alot for this New book. It did not have a sticker on the front page for the scratch off access code for evolve. My school uses this site and I am just now noticing it was missing.

A must have for community nurse specialists!