Taylor's Video Guide to Clinical Nursing Skills

I wish I had known this DVD was available day one of nursing school. This is a great product for those people who learn visually and audibly. It gives me an opportunity to view the procedure we learn before it is taught in class and then to review it again later as many times as I want. This series is really good for helping students to understand much of the different aspects of a procedure, including rationales, and then they actually perform the procedure on a real person, just not simulated on a sim man. This series would especially be good for students who might have a hard time role playing for check offs or may be uncomfortable with communicating with patients. If you are looking for a product that goes even deeper into the technical side of procedures and offers additional learning resources I would suggest Mosby's DVDs. After learning of these resources I purchased just about all of the different ones available out there and these would be the best of the ones I purchased. If you can afford only one, then choose Mosby's if you want the most detailed information and Taylor's is you need more help with the social aspects of being a nursing student and the role playing side of check offs. Either way, they are both good products. If you want even more learning aids and can afford it then add Wilkinson's and ATI's PLAN. Each of them have something unique to offer. One final piece of advice, be careful to know your schools exact steps for each procedure; each of these resources present some variations in the steps they show, and if you follow theirs and not your schools, then you will fail your schools check off. Like I said at the beginning, I wish I had known these resources were available day one.

This DVD set was required for one of my courses in nursing school. I found them to be extremely helpful. The actor portrayals were corny at best, but still pretty accurate in their practices. There will always be a variance per hospital policy with some of the processes. It was useful to reiterate some of the key components that may otherwise be overlooked or forgotten. I think most of the concepts could easily be found on the internet or YouTube, but it was helpful to have them all in one place. I wasn't fond of the price. It seemed a little pricy. But for number of discs it came with, I guess it was ok.

I use these to teach my students. They are very helpful and are a good companion to the textbook. The videos are a quick source for introducing a skill to the students.

I wish I'd bought this at the beginning of the semester. Important skills are covered from start to finish in well-produced videos. My lab profs weren't great about demoing skills. Watching these videos before lab gave me a huge leg up. I also used them to review skills before mastery check-offs. If you're going to buy any supplement to the Taylor text this is it!

I purchased this new as I learned long ago to not buy used as the code can only be used once. The guide has a lot of information and was easy to set up. I am using this as part of my studies in nursing school.

Very dry acting, but I guess if you REALLY need help with skills, you might be able to glean something from this.

Probably the way to go if you are a visual or kinesthetic learner, like me. Just another perspective on how to properly execute nursing skills.

This is a very nice set of DVDs. You can watch them as you go; they include a variety of modules that can easily be adjusted and added to your course books. These videos are comprehensive and explain nursing tasks in detail.