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.

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.

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.

Just a practical, real-world application sort of review here: Good lord. This book is the size and weight of a dictionary, with a cover that looks and feels like a laminated sheet of paper. I can't stand trying to read, hold, or carry it. It weighs a ton and flops right out of my grasp at every turn. I think it's actually trying to frustrate me.