Get the best review for the NCLEX-PN® exam from the leading NCLEX® experts! Written by Linda Anne Silvestri and Angela E. Silvestri, Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN® Examination, 9th Edition, provides everything you need to prepare for success on the NCLEX-PN. The book includes a review of all nursing content areas, more than 4,600 questions for the NCLEX, detailed rationales, test-taking tips and strategies, and questions for the Next-Generation NCLEX (NGN). The Evolve companion website simulates the exam-taking experience with customizable practice questions along with realistic practice tests. Based on Silvestri's proven Pyramid to Success, this complete review is a perennial favorite of students preparing for the NCLEX. More than 4,600 practice questions in the text and on the Evolve companion website offer ample testing practice. Detailed test-taking strategy is included for each question, offering clues for analyzing and uncovering the correct answer option, with rationales provided for both correct and incorrect answers. Pyramid Points icons indicate important information, identifying content that is likely to appear on the NCLEX-PN examination. Pyramid Alerts appear in red text, highlighting important nursing concepts and identifying content that typically appears on the NCLEX-PN examination. Priority Concepts - two in each chapter - discuss important content and nursing interventions and reflect the latest edition of Giddens' Concepts for Nursing Practice text. Priority Nursing Action boxes provide information about the steps nurses will take in clinical situations requiring clinical judgment and prioritization. New graduate's perspective is offered on how to prepare for the NCLEX-PN, in addition to nonacademic preparation, the CAT format, and test-taking strategies. Mnemonics are included to help you remember important information. Alternate item format questions cover multiple-response, prioritizing (ordered response), fill-in-the-blank, figure/illustration (hot spot), chart/exhibit, and audio questions. Practice questions on the Evolve companion website are organized by content area, cognitive level, client needs area, integrated process, health problem, clinical judgment, and priority concepts, allowing completely customizable exams or study sessions. Audio review summaries on the Evolve companion website cover pharmacology, acid-base balance, and fluids and electrolytes. NEW! Questions for the Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) prepare you for the biggest change to the NCLEX-PN® test plan to date. NEW! Thoroughly updated content incorporates clinical updates and reflects the latest NCLEX-PN test plan. NEW! Clinical Judgment boxes identify clinical judgment situations, each addressing one of the six cognitive skills of the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model. NEW! Additional questions cover health problem areas and complex care. NEW! Urinary and Bowel Elimination and Hygiene, Mobility, and Skin Integrity chapters are added to this edition. UPDATED! Reorganized Foundation of Care unit makes this section more user-friendly for beginning nursing students.
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Unit I: NCLEX-PN® Exam Preparation 1. The NCLEX-PN Examination 2. Self-Efficacy and Pathways to Success 3. The NCLEX-PN Examination from a Graduate's Perspective 4. Clinical Judgment and Test-Taking Strategies Unit II: Professional Standards in Nursing 5. Population Health Nursing 6. Ethical and Legal Issues 7. Prioritizing Client Care: Leadership, Delegating, and Emergency Response Planning Unit III:  Foundations of Care 8. Fluids and Electrolytes 9. Acid-Base Balance 10. Vital Signs and Laboratory Reference Intervals 11. Nutrition 12. Health and Physical Assessment of the Adult Client 13. Safety and Infection Control 14. Medication Administration and Intravenous Therapies 15. Perioperative Nursing Care 16. Hygiene, Mobility, and Skin Integrity 17. Urinary and Bowel Elimination Unit IV: Growth and Development Across the Life Span 18. Theories of Growth and Development 19. Growth, Development, and Stages of Life 20. Care of the Older Client Unit V: Maternity Nursing 21. Reproductive System 22. Prenatal Period 23. Risk Conditions Related to Pregnancy 24. Labor and Birth 25. Problems with Labor and Birth 26. Postpartum Period 27. Postpartum Complications 28. Care of the Newborn 29. Maternity and Newborn Medications Unit VI: Pediatric Nursing 30. Integumentary Problems 31. Hematological Problems 32. Oncological Problems 33. Metabolic and Endocrine Problems 34. Gastrointestinal Problems 35. Eye, Ear, and Throat Problems 36. Respiratory Problems 37. Cardiovascular Problems 38. Renal and Genitourinary Problems 39. Neurological and Cognitive Problems 40. Musculoskeletal Problems 41. Immune Disorders and Infectious Diseases 42. Pediatric Medication Administration and Calculations Unit VII: Integumentary Problems of the Adult Client 43. Integumentary Problems 44. Integumentary Medications Unit VIII: Oncological and Hematological Problems of the Adult Client 45. Oncological and Hematological Problems 46. Oncological and Hematological Medications Unit IX: Endocrine Problems of the Adult Client 47. Endocrine Problems 48. Endocrine Medications Unit X: Gastrointestinal Problems of the Adult Client 49. Gastrointestinal Problems 50. Gastrointestinal Medications Unit XI: Respiratory Problems of the Adult Client 51. Respiratory Problems 52. Respiratory Medications Unit XII: Cardiovascular Problems of the Adult Client 53. Cardiovascular Problems 54. Cardiovascular Medications Unit XIII:  Renal and Urinary Problems of the Adult Client 55. Renal and Urinary Problems 56. Renal and Urinary Medications Unit XIV:  Eye and Ear Problems of the Adult Client 57. Eye and Ear Problems 58. Eye and Ear Medications Unit XV: Neurological Problems of the Adult Client 59. Neurological Problems 60. Neurological Medications Unit XVI: Musculoskeletal Problems of the Adult Client 61. Musculoskeletal Problems 62. Musculoskeletal Medications Unit XVII: Immune Problems of the Adult Client 63. Immune Problems 64. Immunological Medications Unit XVIII: Mental Health Problems of the Adult Client 65. Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing 66. Mental Health Problems 67. Addictions 68. Crisis Theory and Intervention 69. Psychiatric Medications Unit XIX: Complex Care 70. Complex Care
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Prepare for success on the NCLEX-PN® exam with this complete review and more than 4,600 practice questions

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ISBN
9780443112874
Publisert
2024-04-16
Utgave
9. utgave
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Churchill Livingstone
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2130 gr
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276 mm
Bredde
216 mm
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P, XR, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet
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1112

Biographical note

Linda Anne Silvestri has provided decades of nursing education and leadership that has directly impacted the growing and needed nursing workforce. Her research focused on a holistic investigation of predictors leading to success on the licensure examination. Her findings, published in the Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, led to significant contributions, filling a critical need in NCLEX® preparation. Linda's vision was to provide a holistic educational approach to ensure overall well-being in test anxiety and self-efficacy, and success on the NCLEX®. As a leader in providing global NCLEX® preparation resources published by Elsevier, she strives for excellence in publication quality, based on the discovery of new knowledge in nursing, standards of care, and research-based studies. Her published resources ensure nursing graduates' ability to make sound clinical judgments as they serve the public and the nursing profession. Linda is also a Next Generation NCLEX® Subject Matter Expert and Consultant for Elsevier. Assistant Professor Angela Silvestri at Touro University Nevada-School of Nursing.