Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing

by Marilyn J. Hockenberry

Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing is the #1 pediatric nursing textbook on the market, owing its success to its scrupulous accuracy, current research, and highly readable writing style. The seventh edition retains the very successful organization of previous editions. The first part of the book on child development and health promotion lays the foundation for understanding later chapters on specific health problems -- organized by age groups and body systems. The nursing process is used to format major diseases, disorders, and conditions. Students will find the book's appearance highly appealing with superior illustrations and a beautiful full-color design throughout, making key information in the text easy to find. Instructors will appreciate the comprehensive package of ancillary materials, making teaching from the text a delight!

Genres: Nursing, Textbooks

1344 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2004

Reviews

[Duchess Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

I agree with a couple of other reviewers in that this gives a somewhat superficial overview of pediatric nursing. The charts, graphs, and tables are wonderful but if you're digging for pathophysiology or pharmacology relevant to a disease process, this is not the place to look. Great for my 8 week crash course, but if I were to choose pediatric nursing as my future, I would look somewhere else.

[Dafne · Rating 1 out of 5]

Mid dont read it

[Nicole · Rating 2 out of 5]

Clear and easy to understand, but information is pretty superficial. If want detailed info regarding pathophysiology or treatment modalities, you'll have to look elsewhere. It does a great job, though, of sensitively discussing the deep psychosocial impact of child's illness, injury and/or death on the entire family.

[Sophia Moccio · Rating 1 out of 5]

thanks latoya rawlins for another terrible mandatory read

[Deidre · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is NOT a great resource for childhood infections, diseases, or specific information. I couldn't use it for a reference on any care plan, because it really isn't specific enough with rationales or theory.


Good introduction to the mentality needed to work pediatrics, though, which is probably great for nurses in the field. Not as helpful to students who really need a valuable resource for information that is conscise and clear, but a decent start to perspectives in pediatrics.

[Bobbi Jo · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book.. It's .. no wait. Let me go back and make it one star. There we go. This book.
If I learned anything from it, it was in spite of the authors who, I am telling you, must have had a thesaurus open when they were writing. Every time they could, they used a word just slightly more technical than the rest of the writing. Without access to the internet, I wouldn't have known what was going on. I'm not a professional, yet, but I have been attending related courses for several years, now. Even if my personal vocabulary was inadequate, I find it frustrating to have to refer to wikipedia to get answers when the book could just as easily do so.
Further, they would introduce diseases by acronyms that it would not define for multiple paragraphs. This would almost always send me back, searching for where the term had been explained prior to its actual introduction. I'm not entirely certain many of the abbreviations used were actual 'official' or if they just didn't feel like typing out the disease name more than once.
Somehow, even with all of this, it was incredibly repetitive. I kept thinking I'd already read something only to find that it repeated itself. In one notable instance, it used the same sentence twice in one paragraph (with one sentence in between). This book cost quite a bit of money. It would be nice if by the 9th edition it had experienced more thorough editing.

All in all? I'm glad I'm not using this book to learn from, any longer. I recommend you seek elsewhere, if at all possible.

[Vanessa · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really great source for pathophys of children's illnesses and diseases, as well as info on family-centered care and child development. I will keep it!

[Thais · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was ok, it is a textbook after all. Pediatrics was difficult, short course, and lots of differences because of age.

[Gema · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremely informative. I've been using quite often during my clinical placement.

[Christina]

I dont like reading school books.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved my Pediatric rotation! The book gave me a good foundation for what I was learning, but it is a bit outdated.

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