Mosby's Tour Guide to Nursing School: A Student's Road Survival Kit

By Melodie Chenevert and Melodie Chenevert RN BSN MN MA

Book Overview

Mosby's Tour Guide to Nursing School fourth edition provides students with a realistic, humorous description of the stressful situations that nursing students typically encounter. The text offers practical advice and guidance for coping with these problems and for making the most of the nursing school experience. Helpful suggestions are provided for time management, improving study habits, surviving clinical rotations, and balancing school, work, and family obligations. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated with new information.Provides a light-hearted and practical approach to getting through nursing school.Uses an easy-to-follow "road trip" theme throughout.Endorsed by the National Student Nurses Association.Offers down-to-earth advice and suggestions for improving time management and test taking skills, forming support and/or study groups, and improving oral and written reports.Describes effective strategies for dealing with stressful situations such as failure, procrastination, and depression.Addresses challenges like balancing school, work, and family obligations.Includes appendixes that provide useful information on resources for NCLEX review, questions and answers on the computerized NCLEX-RN exam, sources of scholarships and loans, and U.S. and Canadian nursing organizations.Includes new chapters on the effective use of the Internet and online sources for research and study, and on the career opportunities and possibilities in nursing.Provides updated statistics on college tuition, employment rates, and salaries.Presents information on the risk of depression and chemical use/dependency, as well as ways students can obtain help.Includes content on how both women and men can survive in nursing school.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323014410
• ISBN13: 9780323014410
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Awesome guide!

I agree with Sweet girl's review, I just started taking my first classes and this book has helped me to stay motivated and on track. She gives excellent advice and practical tips that I'm already using. I'm also planning on buying it, so I can read over and over, especially every time I get side tracked by all the stuff that doesn't matter. I also love the motto Graduating is your goal. My husband just finished grad school and wishes he would have read that book before he started, even though he's field is counseling. I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting pursue nursing. In fact I'm buying it for my cousin who is going to nursing school too. I also read How to survive and maybe even love nursing school, which was really good but reading it, really stressed me out,it focused a lot on the difficulty of nursing school, it had a lot of information and tips as well, but I think Mosby's guide gives more practical to the point advice.

Your Number 1 Goal is to Graduate!

The author repeats this mantra several times. It's something to keep in mind when times get tough. No matter what, your number one goal during your 2 or 4 years of nursing school is to GRADUATE. Delegate housework. Work part-time or not at all (if possible). Study, study, study! She does encourage students to get their BSN, not just their ADN, and brought up several good points about that. She gives ideas in finding money for school and has a section from nurses entitled "What I Wish I'd Known Before I Chose to Major in Nursing." She gives tips on how to be more efficient, organized, be a good student, how to take a test and reduce test anxiety, how to study better, make tbe most out of clinicals, and how to prepare for school. I loved this book. I actually had checked it out of the library because of the first person's review (didn't want to waste my money if it was a bad book), but now I plan on buying it. This is a great book and has tons if useful information inside. I think this is a must-have for every nursing student.