Section 1: Preparing For The NCLEX-RN -- 1: NCLEX-RN licensure examination -- Information about licensing examination -- Computer adaptive testing -- NCLEX-RN examination structure -- 2010 NCLEX-RN test plan -- Content dimensions -- Changes in the NCLEX-RN test plan -- Changes in the NCLEX-RN passing standard -- NCLEX-RN structure implementation within this study package -- 2: NCLEX-RN items -- Cognitive level of items -- Types of item formats: multiple-choice and alternate items -- Content of items: the client needs framework -- 3: Test-taking tips and strategies -- Carefully read the NCLEX-RN items and focus on the subject -- Nursing process -- ABCs -- Maslow's hierarchy of needs -- Safety -- Therapeutic communication -- Key words -- Absolute word options -- Similar options -- Options that are opposites -- Global options -- Duplicate information among option items -- Delegation and assignment items -- Laboratory values -- Mnemonics to remember key information -- Medical terminology -- Pharmacology questions -- Visualization and association -- Things to avoid -- Difficult questions are a good sign -- NCLEX-RN preparation: general tips -- 4: Tips for international and repeat test-takers -- Licensing requirements for foreign educated nurses -- NCLEX-RN preparation: Tips for foreign-educated nurses -- NCLEX-RN preparation: Tips for repeat test-takers -- Section 2: Practice Tests -- 5: Safe and effective care environment: management of care -- Test 1: Management of care: Ethical, legal, and safety issues in nursing -- Test 2: Management of care: Leadership and management -- Test 3: Management of care: Prioritization and delegation -- Test 4: Management of Care: Teaching and learning, communication, and cultural diversity --6: Safety and infection control: fundamental concepts of nursing -- Test 5: Fundamentals: Basic care and comfort -- Test 6: Fundamentals: Medication administration -- Test 7: Fundamentals: Safety, disaster preparedness, and infection control -- 7: Health promotion and maintenance: care of childbearing families -- Test 8: Childbearing families: Prenatal and antepartal management -- Test 9: Childbearing families: Intrapartal management -- Test 10: Childbearing families: Postpartal management -- Test 11: Childbearing families: Neonatal and high-risk neonatal management -- Test 12: Childbearing families: Pharmacological and parenteral therapies -- 8: Physiological integrity: Care of adults and older adults -- Test 13: Adult Health: Developmental needs -- Test 14: Adult Health: Older client needs -- Test 15: Adult health: Cardiac management -- Test 16: Adult health: Endocrine management -- Test 17: Adult health: Gastrointestinal management -- Test 18: Adult health: Hematological and oncological management -- Test 19: Adult health: Integumentary management and other health alterations -- Test 20: Adult health: Musculoskeletal management -- Test 21: Adult health: Neurological management -- Test 22: Adult health: Perioperative management -- Test 23: Adult health: Renal and urinary management -- Test 24: Adult health: Reproductive management -- Test 25: Adult health: Respiratory management -- Test 26: Adult health: Vascular management -- Test 27: Adult health: Pharmacological and parenteral therapies -- 9: Physiological integrity: Care of children and families -- Test 28: Child health: Growth and development -- Test 29: Child health: Cardiovascular management -- Test 30: Child health: Endocrine management -- Test 31: Child health: Gastrointestinal -- Test 32: Child health: Hematological and oncological management -- Test 33: Child health: Integumentary management and other health alterations -- Test 34: Child health: Neurological and musculoskeletal management -- Test 35: Child health: Renal and urinary management -- Test 36: Child health: Respiratory management -- Test 37: Child health: Pharmacological and parenteral therapies -- 10: Psychosocial integrity: care of adults and children with mental health disorders -- Test 38: Mental health: anxiety and mood disorders -- Test 39: Mental health: cognitive, schizophrenic, and psychotic disorders -- Test 40: Mental health: crisis, violence, eating and sleep disorders -- Test 41: Mental health: End-of-life care -- Test 42: Mental health: Personality disorders -- Test 43: Mental health: Substance abuse -- Test 44: Mental health: Pharmacological and parenteral therapies -- 11: Reduction of risk and physiological adaptation -- Test 45: Altered fluid and electrolytes -- Test 46: Infectious disease -- Test 47: Medical emergencies -- Test 48: Nutrition -- 12: Comprehensive tests -- Comprehensive exam one -- Comprehensive exam two -- Illustration credits -- Index
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From the Publisher: The only review book with the new, 2010 NCLEX-RN® Test Plan! A complete roadmap to NCLEX-RN® success! Three distinct sections in the book plus a bonus CD-ROM show you the way. Step 1 is an orientation and review of test-taking strategies with guidance for international and repeat test-takers. Step 2 consists of 60 practice tests over six chapters, all with NCLEX descriptors. Each chapter corresponds to one the exam's major subject areas, fundamentals, medical-surgical, ob/newborn, pediatric, mental health, and gerontological nursing. Each chapter also features specialized, stand-alone tests for pharmacology, management of care, and cultural diversity. Step 3 is two comprehensive exams that test mastery of all subject areas covered in the book and on the NCLEX-RN. BONUS CD-ROM with 3,005 questions (unique to the CD-ROM) that can be selected according to specific content areas, client need categories and subcategories, integrated processes, or phases of the nursing process, or by a 275-question comprehensive exam. 5,012 test questions in all-2,038 in the book and 3,005 on the CD. 1,340 alternative item format questions, 571 in the book, plus 769 on the CD-ROM, more than any other NCLEX-RN review product, with each format included in every test. Audio and graphic format questions online at DavisPlus. More than 900 pharmacology questions distributed across the major subject areas and in stand-alone tests. 1,189 questions supported by evidence-based practice citations. Two, 75-question comprehensive exams in the book. 88 chart/exhibit and 32-hot-spot items in the book alone-one of the best-illustrated Q & A books on the market. Application and Analysis Level Questions for all phases of the nursing process to reflect the exams emphasis on higher order cognitive processes. Consistent answer statements with the number(s) of the correct answer choice; client need category; integrated processes category; content area and sub area; cognitive domain level; rationales for correct answer choice (highlighted in color) and all incorrect choices; a test-taking tip; reference citation to the source from which the question is drawn. Questions in each subject area reflecting their weight on the actual exam-pharmacology; general client needs; safety, management of care, including leadership, management, and delegation; and cultural diversity. Questions from evidence-based practice research studies with source citations specific to nursing research studies. Appendices offering a glossary of terms and an index to all of the questions based on the NCLEX-RN Test Plan. Key test-taking strategies to reference while reviewing the tests