Saunders Q & A Review for the NCLEX-PN® Examination / Edition 4

by Linda Anne Silvestri PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN

Overview

Based on student feedback, Saunders Q&A Review for the NCLEX-PN® Examination is organized to address specific Client Needs and Integrated Processes to mirror the NCLEX-PN test plan. This review follows Silvestri Comprehensive Review as the natural next step for students in the Silvestri suite of products. The text and accompanying CD-ROM contain 3,200 practice questions—including Alternate Item Format—that include comprehensive rationales for both correct and incorrect options, test-taking strategies, and a textbook page reference for further explanation. The companion CD provides automatic content updates so you are sure to have the most up-to-date information available.

• Remediation tied directly back to your Elsevier textbooks provides resources for further study.
• Content is organized according to Client Needs, providing an organized review for exam preparation and end-of-course or exit standardized exams.
• Practice questions, answers, and detailed rationales all appear on the same page, giving you immediate feedback on your responses.
• Detailed test-taking strategies for each question give you clues for analyzing and uncovering the correct answer option. Rationales are provided for both correct and incorrect options.
• Provides computerized testing practice in study, quiz, or exam modes, to allow you to choose from 21 different content categories and focus your study sessions.
• Each question is categorized by level of cognitive ability, Client Needs area, integrated process, and clinical content area to allow you multiple study and exam selections on the companion CD.
• Contains chapters on academic and nonacademic NCLEX-PN preparation, advice from a recent nursing graduate, and test-taking strategies that help you understand complicated exam questions.
• Comprehensive exam consists of 85 questions related to all content areas in the book and representative of the percentages identified in the NCLEX-PN test plan.

• Fully updated to meet the 2008 iteration of the NCLEX-PN test plan, as well as all other current nursing practices.
• 200 additional questions bring the total to 3,200, with practice in both print and electronic formats.
• More Alternate Item Format questions give you valuable practice in this important and sometimes tricky area.
• Companion CD now allows for automatic software updates, so you can check for changes and updates to content throughout the life of the edition.
• New heart and lung audio questions prepare you for items that could appear on future iterations of the NCLEX-PN test plan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416062011
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	12/01/2009
Series:	Saunders Questions & Answers for NCLEX-PN
Pages:	736
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Angela Silvestri is a well-known nurse educator, researcher, and author. She has been teaching and working in university administrative roles for the past 10 years at all levels of nursing education. She has experience teaching across the program and in classroom and clinical settings in the areas of Nutrition and Human Development Across the Lifespan, Foundations of Care in Nursing, Gerontological Nursing, Complex Care in Nursing, and Leadership and Transition to Practice in pre-nursing and undergraduate nursing programs. She is currently serving as the Program Director for the undergraduate BSN program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is a sought-out speaker at national conferences on the topic of nursing school success. Her passion for college student success comes through in her work at the School of Nursing teaching Leadership and licensure exam preparation and in publishing research and best-selling licensure exam review resources on national and international levels.

Table of Contents

Unit I - NCLEX-PN PREPARATION

Chapter 1: NCLEX-PN

Chapter 2: Profiles to Success

Chapter 3: The NCLEX-PN Examination: From a Graduate’s Perspective

Chapter 4: Test-Taking Strategies

Unit II - CLIENT NEEDS

Chapter 5: Client Needs and the NCLEX-PN Test Plan

Chapter 6: Safe and Effective Care Environment

Chapter 7: Health Promotion and Maintenance

Chapter 8: Psychosocial Integrity

Chapter 9: Physiological Integrity

Unit III - INTEGRATED PROCESSES

Chapter 10: Integrated Processes and the NCLEX-PN Test Plan

Chapter 11: Integrated Processes

UNIT IV - COMPREHENSIVE TEST

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Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Kathleen Diane Pickrell, BSN, MSN (Indiana State University)
Description: This book provides 3,500 practice NCLEX-RN test questions that represent and are based on the 2001 NCLEX-RN test plan. The book includes information about the test and how to prepare, practice questions with answers, and an NCLEX-RN review on CD-ROM.
Purpose: The purpose is to introduce candidates to important points about the NCLEX-RN examination, the process of testing, and unique and special tips for test preparation. The book meets the objectives by providing a foundation prior to a computerized review.
Audience: According to the author, the book is written for students who have completed a basic nursing program and are now preparing for the registered nurse licensure examination. The book meets this purpose. The author has conducted nursing review courses for RN and PN licensure exams since 1991.
Features: The book covers test-taking strategies for successful completion of the NCLEX-RN. Chapters are organized by client needs categories and include practice test questions related to each category. Integrated concepts include caring, communication and documentation, cultural awareness, nursing process, self-care and teaching/learning. Review questions are organized in a two-column format. The first column lists questions and answers/distractors. The second column lists the answer with rationale and test-taking strategy for each item. All items have level of cognitive ability, client needs, integrated concept/process, content area, and references listed. The book also contains critical thinking questions. One unique feature of the book is a passage written by a candidate who recently passed the licensure examination.
Assessment: Although the book does not contain a content review as in other NCLEX-RN review books, it is an updated edition of a necessary resource for candidates preparing for licensure examination. Placing answers with rationale on the same page is helpful. In similar review books, questions are presented sequentially with answers in another location.

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