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Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN® Examination - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 9th Edition

by Linda Anne Silvestri, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN and Angela Silvestri, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, CNE

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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.

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    • 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
  • 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
  • Linda Anne Silvestri, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, Nursing Instructor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las, Nevada; President, Nursing Reviews, Inc. and Professional Nursing Seminars, Inc. Henderson, Nevada; Elsevier Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) Thought Leader, USA and Angela Silvestri, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, CNE, Assistant Professor, Touro University Nevada-School of Nursing, USA
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