Feuer Nursing Review

WorldTravelingYogi · Nov 19, 2012

The Feuer Pharmacology Set is a 6 CD set and includes: Legal Issues, Methods of Administration ( lot of helpful review as well as tips from experienced nurses and including little things that could cause or prevent a lawsuit ), Pharmacokinetics, Drug Classifications, Herbal Meds, IV Therapy, Drug Calculations.

Does not sound like it would help me but thanks for the description. I just need to learn all the drugs and there really is no easy way to do it. I really like audio though as I can listen to it in my car and at the gym.

renee63 · Dec 2, 2012

I highly recommend the Feuer CD lectures and booklets. First, I have no gain or association whatsoever with Feuer.
I am just writing because I am very impressed with these nursing reviews, and it is nice to have them to listen to and be able to listen again to drill it in.
For the NCLEX, I also used the Saunders Review Book along with Feuer and a Saunders NCLEX Q& A book, that I used partially.
It is nice to have the Feuer audio lectures to reinforce what you learned and what you are reviewing, and there are many valuable tips these lectures will give you in terms of your future nursing practice and legal pitfalls to beware of / avoid as well as just using these to help you pass your NCLEX. They also review delegation and prioritization issues very well.
I ordered the Pharmacology Review CD's and booklet, and was was so impressed with the content and quality of presentation, that I went back to Amazon.com to purchase the 28 CD and booklet Nursing Review set by Feuer which covers 11 CDs on Med/Surg, 6 CDs on Peds, 6 on Women's Health and Maternal / Newborn Nursing, and 6 on Psych.
These sets will not only help you review to pass the NCLEX, but they are wonderful just to listen to and gain valuable knowledge that you may not have fully gotten from nursing classes. The sound quality is excellent and the speakers are highly experienced, yet take a down to earth approach that maintains your interest with little stories that will help you remember the content better. It is well organized and very professionally done. They stay focused on delivering what is important to know while holding you interested. I learned so many things I did not know or did not know as well as I thought I did.
Even if you have already taken the NCLEX, I think these lectures will help build your confidence and help you think more like an experienced nurse. The Feuer nurses take a much more friendly approach to teaching than what you may have experienced in your clinicals and classes. It makes you relax. Sometimes, they will explain how to answer certain questions on NCLEX. Their approach is that they are there to help you. It is a very friendly relaxed yet professional approach. I wish some of my nursing instructors had been a bit more like Feuer instructors.
The Pharmacology CD set as well as the MEDSURG CD's and the Maternal Newborn/ Women's Health are all given by the same Nurse Practitioner, Kenya Beard for the 2009 CD Feuer. (The booklets are 2011). The content is up to date.
Kenya has a beautiful voice and a beautiful way of inflecting her voice that really holds your interest, and she finds ways to add humor and interesting stories that stay on the task of reviewing the material.
The psych lectures are also phenomenal in the content. There is a LOT of info given about communication techniques in such situations as dealing with an angry patient, psychotic patient, paranoid patient, etc. She also goes over a lot of medication information that is much more clearly presented than my school lectures. Also, she gives a lot of interesting stories as examples of mental disorders and legal issues, etc., but it is done in such a way that it helps you understand the material better and it is very interesting to listen to. The material is well-organized and very interesting. The material in the booklets reinforces what you should know as well as adds some things not covered in the CDs. By the time you are finished listening to the Psych CDs, you will feel like you have a much better understanding of your role as a nurse in helping these types of patients, the legal issues, communication issues, and medication issues. The learning curve is incredible for all of these CDs.
I wish I had had these CD's to listen to around NUR241 or so. These people really know how to teach ins such a way that you won't forget and they put it in a nutshell ( so to speak).
The pediatrics lectures have wonderful content, but I did find the nurse who did those to be a bit "shouty" and seemed to have a more anxious feel to her voice. She certainly knows her peds, but I wished that it was presented in a little more calm manner. You will still gain a lot from listening to her lectures... it is just her manner of delivery that creates a little anxiety tone. They are still great lectures.
Someone stated that these Feuer sets were a bit "pricey", but I feel that they are pretty good for the money, considering how many CDs you get and the ease of listening and the effort Feuer company has made to make these top quality reviews. For the 28 CD set, not counting the booklets, it is about $205.00 and only about $7.00 a lecture. Along with that, the booklet material is good also.

Hey! I downloaded the Feuer review online. I managed to find 25 out of 28 CD but not sure if its the updated version to what they are selling on Amazon and the Feuer website, would really appreciate it if you would tell me the first few things that are talked about on any of the parts. Just recently failed the nclex and can't afford to actually buy the whole set so I'm really happy I was able to download it but would be disappointed if it wasn't the updated one. Anyway.. thanks in advance!