Davis’s Notes: A Comprehensive Guide for Nursing Students and Practitioners

Davis’s Notes is a valuable resource for nursing students, educators, and practitioners. It provides clinically oriented content that is essential for delivering safe and effective healthcare in various settings. The guide is designed to be handy, with a pocket size and waterproof pages, making it perfect for those on the go. It also includes NCLEX tips, which are highlighted throughout the book, making it an excellent preparation tool for the licensure exam.

What Students and Practitioners Say

Students and practitioners have praised Davis’s Notes for its clear and concise content, ease of use, and portability. It is described as a “super great reference tool” that is “easy to find what I want” and “small enough to toss into my purse or backpack.” Many have found it to be an “excellent teaching aid for patients” that “increases comprehension and satisfaction.”

Updated and Revised Content

The latest edition of Davis’s Notes has been thoroughly updated, reviewed, and revised to reflect the current state of nursing practice. It includes new laboratory values sourced from Van Leeuwen: Davis’s Comprehensive Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests With Nursing Implications, as well as the 2020 AHA Guidelines. The ACLS content has been reorganized and now appears at the beginning of the Emergency section.

Key Features

Davis’s Notes offers several key features that make it an indispensable resource for nursing professionals. These include:

• Nursing Alerts that highlight critical safety information.
• HIPAA- and OSHA-compliant write-on/wipe-off pages and quick-access tabs for easy navigation.
• Critical level laboratory values highlighted in bold, red type to correlate to potential diseases and disorders described in other sections.
• Interventions and patient education information for the most common conditions.
• Coverage of life span considerations as well as complications and emergencies associated with pregnancy and delivery.
• Tools for a thorough general assessment of the adult patient.
• ACLS resuscitation procedures as well as pediatric and neonatal advanced life support information.
• The basics of 12-lead interpretation tailored to nurses with little or no 12-lead experience.
• An emphasis on symptom and patient presentation rather than medical diagnosis.

Product Details

Davis’s Notes is published by F.A. Davis Company and is available in a spiral-bound format. It contains 264 pages and has an ISBN-10 of 1719646252 and an ISBN-13 of 978-1719646253.