Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community

Required for class, and hands down, THE worst written text I've ever had the displeasure of reading (or attempted to read)! If I was actually interested in becoming a community health nurse, I might be a little less resentful, but even then, the writers MUST attempt to keep the reader involved and interested in the material they're presenting. This was not the case in this book. So much information is given and so many details are listed that I could not focus properly on what I was suppose to learn. I passed, but that's because the class ran for only 1/2 a semester and I didn't have to have an in-depth knowledge of every aspect the writers presented.The best thing about this text...sending it packing for trade-in.

I understand textbooks are a tool for information; there are no guidelines for what makes a great textbook because let's be serious, it's rare to find a textbook that makes the content interesting enough to read for fun. So these complaints are real, it's not that the content for the CLASS is boring, it's that this book is just poorly put together.I was really excited for this class since it's an area that I'd like to work in the future, but this book is just horrible horrible. My biggest complaint is its redundancy. I feel like the editor just sent out topics for random nurses to write about, and stuck them in the book without regard to flow, redundancy, etc. If I have to read the words, "Community/public health nursing has three/four components...(insert whatever components each author decides are most important)" one more time I might have a stroke. It's comparable to reading a new book with each chapter, with the same topic but different criteria for what comprises PHN.Thank goodness my clinical for this class teaches me something, because I'm not getting anything from this. But the kindle version is really nice, it's easy to highlight and you can read all your highlights on a single page without having to skip around, and it has a nifty flashcard tool that I haven't utilized yet, but looks promising. But the textbook itself...yeah no. But I had to get it anyway so what can I do.

This book was excruciatingly boring to read. There were regularly entire paragraphs that literally said nothing. It's a great book if you want to memorize 40 different acronyms of organizations that you will never need to know about per chapter. Even the online review Q's were crap, which is unfortunate, because usually the Evolve Q's are very helpful. Some of them didn't even have the right answer keyed. If your teacher picks this book for your class, then try to just answer the objectives at the beginning of the chapter, know the terms, and look at the tables. Of course all teachers' test Q's are different.

This book will not open on my computer with Windows 8.ey discouraging because I would like to have my book open and Word at the same time so I am focused at on area instead of having to flip through a book. The book is heavy and smaller print so that is why I wanted a digital way of access also. Guess my money for the book at least got it on my android tablet but very disappointed in the inability to use it on the computer. Is there a way that we can fix this problem please?????

Rented this book - the corners were kinda frayed & curled back but the text was still readable. Maybe if it was a more interesting topic, I'd be giving it more stars. It wasn't a difficult read - the chapters were laid out ok and the material presented alright, but it was just eh, average. Nothing about this book was memorable or made me think, "OOooo, I wish I had bought it instead of renting it".

This book is disorganized and is so filled with APA citations it is painful to read. It does fine on the political/ policy end of things, but for those pursuing direct patient care in the public health sector it is weak. It goes to great lengths to make broad sweeping categorizations of conditions like homelessness, but does an inadequate job of promoting successful or promising interventions.

Pro tip for nursing students -- read the first sentence of every short paragraph, and the first and last sentences of every long paragraph. That will tell you anything you need to know. Two-thirds of this book should have been deleted by the editor -- a waste of time and brainpower, total fluff.

Textbook was delivered as expected