Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN® Examination

<p>Get the best review for the NCLEX-PN<SUP>®</SUP> exam from the leading NCLEX<SUP>® </SUP>experts! Written by Linda Anne Silvestri and Angela E. Silvestri, <b>Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN<SUP>®</SUP> Examination, 9th Edition, </b>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<b> </b>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 <i>Pyramid to Success</i>, this complete review is a perennial favorite of students preparing for the NCLEX.</p><ul><b> <li>More than 4,600 practice questions </b>in the text and on the Evolve companion website offer ample testing practice.</li> <li><b>Detailed test-taking strategy </b>is included for each question, offering clues for analyzing and uncovering the correct answer option, with rationales provided for both correct and incorrect answers.</li> <li><b><i>Pyramid Points </i>icons</b> indicate important information, identifying content that is likely to appear on the NCLEX-PN examination.</li> <li><b><i>Pyramid Alerts </b></i>appear in red text, highlighting important nursing concepts and identifying content that typically appears on the NCLEX-PN examination.</li> <li><b><i>Priority Concepts</b></i> — two in each chapter — discuss important content and nursing interventions and reflect the latest edition of Giddens’ <i>Concepts for Nursing Practice</i> text.</li> <li><b><i>Priority Nursing Action</i> boxes</b> provide information about the steps nurses will take in clinical situations requiring clinical judgment and prioritization.</li> <li><b>New graduate’s perspective </b>is offered<b> </b>on how to prepare for the NCLEX-PN, in addition to nonacademic preparation, the CAT format, and test-taking strategies.</li> <li><b>Mnemonics </b>are included to help you remember important information.</li> <li><b>Alternate item format questions</b> cover multiple-response, prioritizing (ordered response), fill-in-the-blank, figure/illustration (hot spot), chart/exhibit, and audio questions.</li> <li><b>Practice questions on the Evolve companion website </b>are<b> </b>organized<b> </b>by content area, cognitive level, client needs area, integrated process, health problem, clinical judgment, and priority concepts, allowing completely customizable exams or study sessions.</li> <li><b>Audio review summaries</b> <b>on the Evolve companion website </b>cover pharmacology, acid-base balance, and fluids and electrolytes.</li></ul><ul><b> <li>NEW! Questions for the</b> <b>Next Generation NCLEX<SUP>®</SUP> (NGN) </b>prepare you for the biggest change to the NCLEX-PN<SUP>®</SUP> test plan to date.</li> <li><b>NEW! Thoroughly updated content</b> incorporates clinical updates and reflects the latest NCLEX-PN test plan.</li> <li><b>NEW! <i>Clinical Judgment</i> boxes</b> identify clinical judgment situations, each addressing one of the six cognitive skills of the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model.</li> <li><b>NEW! Additional questions </b>cover health problem areas and complex care.</li> <li><b>NEW! <i>Urinary and Bowel Elimination</i> and</b> <b><i>Hygiene, Mobility, and Skin Integrity</b></i> <b>chapters</b> are added to this edition.</li> <li><b>UPDATED! Reorganized <i>Foundation of Care</i> unit</b> makes this section more user-friendly for beginning nursing students.</li></ul>