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by: William Gossman, Scott H. Plantz, Sheryl L. Gossman, Roger Skebelsky, Brent Grady, Nicholas Lorenzo  List Price: $34.95 Amazon.com's Price: $31.45 You Save: $3.50 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 616.028076 EAN: 9780071464239 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0071464239 Label: McGraw-Hill Professional Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 177 Publication Date: August 30, 2005 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Studio: McGraw-Hill Professional Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 Q&A 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Out-of-Date and InaccurateNursing test study guides must provide correct information not just to help the reader pass the test, but to aid the reader in improving nursing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." ... Read More Rating:  - Lots of great bite sized bits of knowledge!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 ... Read More Rating:  - Look at the authors!!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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