The practice questions in the beginning of the book replicate certain areas (thyroidectomy, hernias, GI) and lack in the areas of peds and maternal health. So, the review practice questions should not be used to judge your clinical knowledge in all areas nursing. On the upside, what other study guides lack, this book makes up for them by having nice illustrations with descriptions, good rationales and meds info. Saunders and Kaplan are two books that complement this study guide.

I found this book to be very helpful. The review of pathophysiology and the nursing process is great. Also, the test taking tips were good, espcially if you are not a good test taker. This book has helped me as a nursing student and I am confident that it will help when I take the NCLEX.

I have not finished reading this book yet, however, I think that It is a good book with the part of review. To save money, I bought a used book few days ago, and I thought that it included a disk with review questions because the seller just said the missing pages, but it didn't include the disk with review questions that I really need. So it makes me frustrated. Anyway, it is a good book.

this book is really good~ can't pass without it!

Nothing against the content, but the quality is bad.
Tables are badly printed, missing or overprinted entries,
some graphs are also missing.
Publisher was not interested to provide any correction.
Maybe next edition or revision will be better.
Do not count on it as a single source of the information.