Comments on: Change Your Career: Nursing as Your New Profession http://travelingnursejob.net/554/change-your-career-nursing-as-your-new-profession/ Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:05:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tab http://travelingnursejob.net/554/change-your-career-nursing-as-your-new-profession/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Tab Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:47:24 +0000 http://travelingnursejob.net/554/change-your-career-nursing-as-your-new-profession/#comment-149 </div> This book is just okay but is by no means great. My wife is considering going into nursing, so we picked up this book to give us some inside information in making the decision. <br/><br/>Overall, the book is rather dry and reads almost like a government publication or a very conservative textbook. There's little to no personality in it at all. Additionally, the advice comes off as rather generic, and we felt like it didn't give us much beyond what we had already read online. <br/><br/>Lastly, almost 100 or more pages are taken up with one-page summaries of every possible nursing specialty. That would be fine, perhaps, except for this great opportunity totally fails in the execution. Each specialty has one page. There are a few sentences of description, and then there's a lot of space wasted on the professional associations and publications for the specialty. It's just so dry and even a bit irrelevant for the target audience; it's almost like trying to read a reference book during these parts. <br/><br/>Anyway, we're going to try _How to Survive, & Maybe Even Love Nursing School_. We read a little of it in a bookstore, and it has a really personal tone to it and feels like you're being given the "inside scoop." Amazon reviewers rate it well also. <br/><br/>The verdict: probably wouldn't buy again and will be selling it online. This book is just okay but is by no means great. My wife is considering going into nursing, so we picked up this book to give us some inside information in making the decision.

Overall, the book is rather dry and reads almost like a government publication or a very conservative textbook. There’s little to no personality in it at all. Additionally, the advice comes off as rather generic, and we felt like it didn’t give us much beyond what we had already read online.

Lastly, almost 100 or more pages are taken up with one-page summaries of every possible nursing specialty. That would be fine, perhaps, except for this great opportunity totally fails in the execution. Each specialty has one page. There are a few sentences of description, and then there’s a lot of space wasted on the professional associations and publications for the specialty. It’s just so dry and even a bit irrelevant for the target audience; it’s almost like trying to read a reference book during these parts.

Anyway, we’re going to try _How to Survive, & Maybe Even Love Nursing School_. We read a little of it in a bookstore, and it has a really personal tone to it and feels like you’re being given the “inside scoop.” Amazon reviewers rate it well also.

The verdict: probably wouldn’t buy again and will be selling it online.

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