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The Official SAT Study Guide
The Official SAT Study Guide is the only book that features official SAT practice tests created by the test maker. It's packed with the information students need to get ready for the exam. They’ll gain valuable experience by taking eight practice tests and receiving estimated scores. With 900 pages and 21 chapters, the book helps students raise their confidence by reviewing concepts, test-taking approaches, and focused sets of practice questions.

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Price: $9.50 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Kaplan GRE Exam 2009 Premier Program (w/ CD-ROM) (Kaplan Gre Exam (Book & CD-Rom))
The Education Testing Service continues to make gradual changes to the content of the GRE. But with this unique multi-format preparation program, students will receive the most accurate, timely details on the GRE test change.

With features such as updates and useful resources on test changes posted directly to your online syllabus, test takers can depend on Kaplan for the most complete and up-to-the-minute information.

This customized study program includes:

-- The latest information on the November 2007 updates, including samples of the two new question types with detailed answer explanations.

-- Up-to-the-minute GRE updates online

-- 5 full-length practice tests (1 in the book, 1 online, and 3 on CD-ROM)

-- Hundreds of additional practice questions

-- Detailed answer explanations

-- Interactive online study plan and progress report that adapts to your goals and schedule

-- Diagnostic test to target areas for score improvement

-- Kaplan-exclusive score-raising strategies

-- Essential tactics for the computer-adaptive test (CAT) format.
Price: $21.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]



Medical-Surgical Nursing (Single Volume): Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems (MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING (LEWIS))
The bestselling Medical-Surgical Nursing, 7th Edition provides a well-rounded and comprehensive approach to nursing care. It covers patient care in various clinical settings by employing a unique levels of care approach, discussing nursing implementation at multiple levels. Special features highlight the content that is most relevant and challenging for today's nursing students, including patient teaching, nutrition, drug therapy, cultural and ethnic disparities, and more.

  • Identifies and discusses all levels of nursing management, including Health Promotion, Acute Intervention, and Ambulatory and Home Care, to prepare the nurse to effectively intervene at various stages of illness.
  • Online podcasts feature audio key points summaries for each chapter highlighting important information.
  • Extensive gerontologic content discusses age-related changes for each body system and alerts the nurse to differences often encountered in older patients.
  • Attractive four-color design and over 1,400 full-color illustrations enhance learning by presenting disease processes and related anatomy and physiology more clearly.
  • About 55 thoroughly updated, comprehensive nursing care plans incorporate current NANDA diagnoses, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, interventions with rationales, evaluation criteria, and more.


  • New chapters on Health Disparities, Stress and Stress Management, Infection and HIV, and Nursing Management: Obesity provide a more comprehensive look at the world of medical-surgical nursing.
  • Electronic Resource Summary at chapter openers alert students to additional electronic resources available on companion CD and Evolve.
  • Gender Differences boxes summarize how women and men are affected differently by medical conditions.
  • Drug Alert boxes highlight important considerations applicable to key drugs.
  • A glossary of key terms and definitions contains definitions and page references.
  • NCLEX examination style review questions in each chapter include a focus on prioritization of patient care.
  • All nursing care plans now incorporate NIC and NOC.
    Companion CD:
  • More than 50 interactive case studies with realistic, 3-D animations to help you visualize disease processes from the inside out
  • A unique Stress-Busting Kit for Nursing Students with strategies for managing your (and your patients') stress
  • A collection of Multimedia Supplements with audio and video clips, plus additional animations
  • 375 NCLEX® examination-style review questions
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Price: $79.68 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, Ninth Edition with E-Book (Guide to Physical Exam & History Taking (Bates))
The Ninth Edition of this classic text provides the best foundation for performing physical examination and taking the patient history. The book features a vibrant full-color design with over 1,400 drawings and photographs and a clear, simple two-column format with examination techniques on the left and abnormalities and interpretations on the right. Highlights of this edition include greater emphasis on patient communication and interview techniques, a new chapter on the older adult, and over 200 new drawings and photographs of abnormalities. A front-of-book CD-ROM includes videos of head-to-toe examination. Additional student resources now available include an online e-book, more than 15 medical and nursing journal articles, and new videos including Cardiovascular: Neck Vessels and Heart, and Thorax and Lungs.
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Price: $55.45 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care (Nursing Diagnosis Handbook)
This innovative resource teaches you the critical thinking and assessment skills you need to build customized care plans based on each patient's unique needs. Its step-by-step approach guides you through the process, helping you formulate a nursing diagnosis based on known information and assessment findings; identify the appropriate nursing diagnosis; and create a care plan that includes desired outcomes, interventions, and evidence-based rationales. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook is an essential care planning resource you will turn to again and again throughout your nursing education and career.

  • Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis.
  • Includes examples of and suggested NIC and NOC interventions and outcomes for each care plan.
  • A convenient A-to-Z organization in Sections I and II helps you quickly locate key information.
  • Evidence-based practice information is incorporated throughout.
  • Includes complete coverage of pediatric, geriatric, and multicultural considerations, as well as home care and client/family teaching guidelines for each condition.
  • A Care Plan Constructor on the Evolve website helps you create customized plans of care.


  • Features the most up-to-date 2007-2008 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, including approximately 15 new, 20 revised, and 5 replacement diagnoses.
  • Provides a more detailed explanation of NIC and NOC taxonomies and their use in care planning.
  • Explanations of assessment versus action interventions help guide you to the correct choice of intervention.
  • Covers important information on concept mapping.
  • Patient/Family Teaching sections offer expanded wellness and health promotion information.
  • Clustered wellness nursing diagnoses are quick and easy to locate.
  • Includes the latest evidence-based nursing rationales.
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Price: $37.76 [Notify me when price goes down.]


The Real ACT Prep Guide: The Only Official Prep Guide From The Makers Of The ACT (Real Act Prep Guide)
The Real ACT Prep Guide is the only book with insider test-taking tips and strategy, practice, and insight from the makers of the ACT..
Price: $14.92 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria From DSM-IV-TR (Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from Dsm)

The Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria From DSM-IV-TR& #174; is a concise, affordable companion to the ultimate psychiatric reference, DSM-IV-TR& #174;. It includes all the diagnostic criteria from DSM-IV-TR& #174; in an easy-to-use, spiralbound format. It includes a pull-out chart of the DSM-IV-TR Classification.

Changes were made to the following diagnostic criteria:

    • Personality Change Due to a General Medical Condition • Paraphilias • Tic Disorders

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Price: $31.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Student Laboratory Manual for Physical Examination & Health Assessment
With exercises and questions in varying formats, key terms, learning objectives, and regional write-up forms, this workbook may be used as a study guide to reinforce understanding or as a clinical tool in the laboratory setting.

  • Each chapter is divided into two parts, cognitive and clinical, and contains:
    • Purpose - a brief chapter summary
    • Reading Assignment - the corresponding chapter and page numbers from the Jarvis text
    • Audio-Visual Assignment - the corresponding video assignment from the Saunders Video Physical Examination and Health Assessment Series
    • Glossary - terms from the textbook chapter with accompanying definitions
    • Study Guide - specific short-answer and fill-in questions. Anatomy illustrations are reproduced from the textbook with labeling exercises
    • Review Questions - multiple-choice questions, matching, and short-answer questions
    • Clinical Objectives
    • Regional Write-up Sheets - physical examination forms to use in the skills lab or clinical setting
    • Narrative Summary Forms - SOAP format to chart narrative accounts of the history and physical exam findings
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Price: $26.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]


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