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Nursing Programs 2010 profiles nearly 3,500 undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral options at more than 700 institutions in the United States and Canada. A special section, “the Nursing School Advisor,” includes in-depth articles about degree and career options, the admissions process, and specialized programs for professions such as nurse practitioner and clinical specialist.
Hard to be complete or up-to-date, but no excuse for some of the
holesReviewed by Jeffrey Angus, 2010-01-05
There is some good info in this book, but what a
disappointment.
Two main shortfalls:
1) While they try to achieve a common outline so you can compare
schools, the information that goes in each section is too
non-uniform. If you're trying to compare, for example, tuition
costs, you're out of luck -- many schools include none, some public
ones list only for out-of-state, and so on. So lack of uniformity
makes it difficult to compare.
2) They get a partial pass on being out of date -- it's a big book
with a lot of complex content, and schools are changing all the
time. BUT they're not trying hard enough. University of California
at Davis' nursing program, for example, is not listed at all. The
program started in 2005, it's been accredited since it started,
it's been graduating students; they really should have started
including it by now. I only discovered the school by an accident
during a web search for something else. Maybe the school refuses to
return questionnaires or something, but they really should be
listed as existing. If the publisher can only make a go of it by
counting on schools' self-descriptions, it's a pretty weak model
(and how credible are the responses if there is no independent
verification?).
Its incompleteness and out-of-date-ness and apparent reliance on
self-reporting combine to make me question the credibility of about
every item in it. This leaves Nursing Programs 2010 as a starter
kit for research, not a place to get trustworthy answers.
I'm not sorry I bought the book to help out a nursing student; I'm
sorry it was of such middling utility.
Nursing Programs 2010Reviewed by D. L. Maddox, 2009-07-12
Weak! A total waste of money! Wasn't as helpful as I would have liked, and not all the information is complete! Several schools and programs are not included, and those that are, are not up to date with their information! Very disappointing!
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