Saunders Q & A Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination / Edition 7

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

Overview

Practice makes perfect with Saunders Q&A Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination, 7th Edition. This popular review offers more than 6,000 test questions, giving you all the Q&A practice you need to pass the NCLEX-RN® examination! Each question enhances review by including a test-taking strategy, rationales for correct and incorrect answers, and page references to major nursing textbooks. Questions are organized to match the Client Needs and Integrated Processes found in the most recent NCLEX-RN test plan. Q&A practice is also provided on an Evolve companion website, with many study and testing options. From the most trusted name in NCLEX review, Linda Anne Silvestri, this resource is part of the popular Saunders Pyramid to Success.

• A detailed test-taking strategy is included for each question, providing clues for analyzing and selecting the correct answer.
• Chapters organized by Client Needs simplify review and reflect the question mix in the NCLEX-RN test plan blueprint.
• Rationales are provided for both correct and incorrect answer options.
• All alternate item question types are represented, including multiple response, prioritizing/ordered response, fill-in-the-blank, illustration/hot spot, chart/exhibit questions, graphic option, and questions incorporating audio and video.
• An 85-question comprehensive exam represents the content and percentages of question types identified in the NCLEX-RN test plan.
• A Priority Nursing Tip is included with each question, highlighting need-to-know patient care information.
• Introductory chapters feature preparation guidance for the NCLEX-RN including chapters on academic and nonacademic preparation, advice from a recent nursing graduate, and transitional issues for the foreign-educated nurse.

• NEW! Reflects the latest NCLEX-RN® test plan to familiarize you with newly added content they may encounter on the exam.
• NEW! Additions to the Evolve companion website include a 75-question post-test, case studies with follow-up questions, and links to animations for selected rationales, offering unique remediation opportunities.
• NEW! Trade drug names replaced with generic drug names reflecting latest test plan changes.
• NEW! Health Problem label included to help you study selected health topics. This will also allow you to focus your study when reviewing questions on Evolve.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323428729
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	12/01/2017
Pages:	688
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.

Table of Contents

Unit I: NCLEX-RN Preparation 1. The NCLEX-RN Examination 2. Profiles to Success 3. The NCLEX-RN Examination: A Graduate's Perspective 4. Test-Taking Strategies

Unit II: Client Needs 5. Client Needs and the NCLEX-RN Test Plan Test 1: Physiological Integrity Test 2: Safe and Effective Care Environment Test 3: Health Promotion and Maintenance Test 4: Psychosocial Integrity

Unit III: Integrated Processes 6. Integrated Processes and the NCLEX-RN Test Plan Test 5: Integrated Processes

Unit IV: Comprehensive Test Test 6: Comprehensive Test

References Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Practice makes perfect with Saunders Q&A Review for the NCLEX-RN^® Examination

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.

Doody's Review Service