Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment

Prepare for success on the Next-Generation NCLEX-RN^® Exam and develop your clinical judgment skills with a focus on management of care!<b> Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX-RN^® Examination, Sixth Edition </b>provides a wide variety of realistic patient care scenarios to help you learn management-of-care concepts and skills and see how to apply them to clinical practice. Exercises progress from simple to complex, and updated questions for the Next-Generation NCLEX-RN^® Exam (NGN) are designed to match the latest NGN formats. All the book&rsquo;s questions are also provided in an interactive format on the Evolve website in tests that simulate the most current NCLEX-RN^® Exam. This thoroughly updated new edition now includes 2021 AACN <i>Essentials </i>item coding for faculty, three new Case Studies, a new <i>Community Health Problems</i> chapter, updated question formats to reflect the NGN, and updated content throughout. Written by a team of noted educators led by Linda A. LaCharity, this NGN review has become a student favorite!<ul><li><b>NEW! Three new</b> <b>Case Studies</b> include <i>Patient with New Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus</i>, <i>Blunt Abdominal Trauma, </i>and<i> Gunshot Wound with Septic Shock</i></li><li><b>NEW! A new <i>Community Health</i></b><i> <b>Problems</b></i><b> chapter</b> equips you for the unique challenges of community health</li><li><b>NEW! Updated question formats</b> prepare you to succeed on the Next-Generation NCLEX-RN^® Examination (NGN) by including the latest item types</li><li><b>NEW!</b> <b>Updated content throughout</b> matches the latest evidence-based guidelines and nursing care protocols</li><li><b>Integrated questions for the NGN and a separate <i>NGN-Style Questions</i> chapter </b>help you focus study time on these new question formats to optimize your readiness for success on the NGN and for clinical practice</li><li><b>Management-of-care focus </b>addresses the NGN&rsquo;s emphasis on prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment</li><li><b>Three-part organization </b>first establishes foundational knowledge and then provides exercises with scenarios of increasing difficulty to help build confidence in your prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills</li><li><b><i>Part One: Introduction</i></b> provides a concise foundation and practical guidelines for making prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment decisions</li><li><b><i>Part Two: Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment in Common Health Scenarios</i></b> provides practice in applying learned principles to relatively straightforward health scenarios involving single patients or simple patient assignments</li><li><b><i>Part 3: Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment in Complex Health Scenarios</i></b> includes unfolding cases involving patients with progressively more complicated health problems or challenging assignment issues, demonstrating the progression of typical health scenarios and helping you learn to <i>think like a nurse</i></li><li><b>Answer Keys</b> follow each chapter and provide the correct answer along with a detailed rationale, reinforcing correct responses and helping learn from incorrect responses</li><li><b>Practice exams on the Evolve website </b>include all the book&rsquo;s questions and allow you to create a virtually unlimited number of practice sessions in Study Mode or Exam Mode</li></ul>