Pearson Reviews & Rationales (3^rd Ed.) Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-RN Hogan, Pearson Reviews & Rationales Series

The Ultimate NCLEX-RN® Exam Preparation Guide!

New and updated, the Third Edition of the best-sellingPearson Reviews & Rationales: Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-RN® offers a comprehensive outline review of the essential content areas tested on the NCLEX­-RN® exam, including critical areas such as management, delegation, leadership, decision­-making, pharmacology, and emergency care. These topics are incorporated throughout, with ample practice questions that simulate actual difficulty levels on the NCLEX­-RN® exam. Organized by the Categories of Client Needs, each unit represents one of the Categories of Client Needs and contains chapters that integrate concepts from across the nursing curriculum, providing a uniquely synthesized approach to preparing for the real exam.

The Third Edition provides students with access to Pearson Test Prep?a new web-based application that enables students to practice for the NCLEX anytime and anywhere using their smartphone, tablet, or computer. Pearson Test Prep includes all 1,600 questions from the book, plus an additional 4,000 questions, and features all NCLEX-style question formats. Students can customize their practice experience to focus on specific topics, question types, and areas of difficulty, or simulate a realistic NCLEX-RN® exam. Detailed reporting features help students identify and focus on improving the areas where they need the most attention so they arrive prepared and confident on test day.

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• Section 1: Preparing for the NCLEX-RN® Exam
• 1. The NCLEX-RN Licensing Examination
• 2. Test Preparation and Test-Taking Strategies
• 3. Test Preparation for Internationally Educated Nurses
• Section 2: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
• 4. Legal and Ethical Nursing Practice
• 5. Nursing Leadership and Management
• Section 3: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
• 6. Injury Prevention, Disaster Planning, and Protecting Client Safety
• 7. Preventing and Controlling Infection
• Section 4: Health Promotion and Maintenance
• 8. Reproduction, Family Planning, and Infertility
• 9. Uncomplicated Antenatal Assessment and Care
• 10. Uncomplicated Labor and Delivery Care
• 11. Uncomplicated Postpartum Assessment and Care
• 12. Uncomplicated Newborn Care
• 13. Lifespan Growth and Development
• 14. Providing Immunizations
• 15. Health and Physical Assessment
• 16. Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Choices
• 17. Age-Related Care of Older Adults
• Section 5: Psychosocial Integrity
• 18. Therapeutic Communication and Environment
• 19. Culturally Relevant Care
• 20. Coping with Stressors
• 21. Mental Health Disorders
• 22. Substance Use and Addictive Disorders
• 23. Crisis Intervention and Suicide
• 24. End-of-Life Care
• Section 6: Psysiological Integrity: Basic Care and Comfort
• 25. Meeting Nutritional Needs
• 26. Meeting Basic Human Needs
• 27. Maintaining the Function of Tubes and Drains
• 28. Integrative Therapies
• Section 7: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies 
• 29. Dosage Calculation and Medication Administration
• 30. Pediatric Dosage Calculation and Medication Administration
• 31. Intravenous Therapy
• 32. Blood and Blood Component Therapy

MaryAnn Hogan, PhD(c), MSN, RN, CNE, has been a nurse educator for more than 30 years, and is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught in diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate nursing programs. A former item writer for the CAT NCLEX-RN® exam, Ms. Hogan has been teaching review courses throughout New England for the past 25 years. She also has contributed to a number of publications in the areas of adult health, pharmacology, and fundamentals of nursing. She is a member of the American Nurses Association, ANA Massachusetts, Sigma Theta Tau International, Eastern Nursing Research Society, National League for Nursing, and International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing (INDEN).

Pedagogical features highlight critical concepts on the NCLEX-RN Exam.

• Memory Aid boxes tie specific content from the review outline to the Test Plan. The boxes provide hints or suggestions to help students remember these important concepts easily during testing.

• NCLEX Alerts identify concepts that are likely to be tested on the NCLEX­-RN exam and prompt students to learn the important information next to the icon for more favourable results.

• Check Your NCLEX-­RN Exam I.Q. sections, at the end of each chapter, provide an opportunity for students to assess their NCLEX-RN readiness on the topics covered in the chapter.

• Practice Test sections provide a quiz at the end of each chapter to test student mastery of the concepts in that chapter.

• A Comprehensive Exam at the end of the book contains 265 questions to help students build endurance, in case they have to answer questions for an extended time on the real exam.

• UPDATED! The completely updated practice exam reflects the 2016 NCLEX-RN Test Plan. Content and practice questions echo the newest changes and are distributed among the categories of Client Needs.

• NEW! New NCLEX-­style alternate-item format questions, including hot spots, exhibits, graphic option, audio, and media-­enhanced items enable students to approach their review in a variety of ways.
  

Students learn test-taking skills and strategies that prepare them for success on test day.

• MaryAnn Hogan, a trusted expert in what nursing students ne