Best Textbooks

[StephRN08]

I lend a hand as a casual clinical instructor with our hospital's SON. I sit on the student resources committee and one of our responsibilities is to make sure our textbooks are essentially the best on the market. I would like some opinions from nursing students, nurses, and faculty on some of the best textbooks. Specifically, we are looking for textbooks in the following areas:

-fundamentals

-nursing process/care planning

-drug handbook

-lab & diagnostic studies handbook

-medical/surgical

Thank you so much for your assistance!

[flyingchange]

Potter & Perry fundamentals is pretty comprehensive and (my version anyway, one behind the latest) includes detailed info on nursing process. They also have a clinical skills guide that local units often stock as reference.

Brunner & Suddarth's Med-Surg is also good and when you buy the book you can access the text online, which is great, because it weighs about 40 lbs...

I have a preference for the Davis drug guide but I think there are a lot of opinions on that one. Lippincott or Mosby are also pretty good.

My ABSOLUTE favorite care plan book is one I found with a great rating on Amazon - Gulanick & Myers.

Hope that helps. :)

[coast2coast]

NOT craven fundamentals. it's terrible !