Mosby’s Comprehensive Review of Practical Nursing for the NCLEX PNu00ae Exam E Book (MOSBY’S COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF PRACTICAL NURSING FOR NCLEX PN) (Ebook PDF)
Welcome to HESI Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN ® Examination with online study exams by HESI.
Congratulations! This outstanding review manual with online study exams is designed to prepare nursing students for what is very likely the most important examination they will ever take the NCLEX-RN Licensing Examination. HESI Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN ® Examination allows the nursing student to prepare for the NCLEX-RN licensure examination in a structured way.
• Organize previously learned basic nursing knowledge
• Review content learned during basic nursing curriculum.
• Identify deficits in content knowledge so that study effort can be focused appropriately
• Develop test-taking skills to demonstrate application of safe nursing practice.
• Reduce anxiety level by increasing predictability of ability to correctly answer NCLEX-type questions.
• Boost test-taking confidence by being well prepared and knowing what to expect
Organization AND PREPARING TO TAKE TESTS
Chapter 1 , Introduction to Test-Taking Strategies and the NCLEX-RN ® , gives an overview of the NCLEX-RN Licensing Examination history and test plan for the examination. Reviews of the nursing process, client needs, and strategies for employing clinical judgement to prioritize nursing care are also presented.
Chapter 2 , Leadership and Management, reviews the legal aspects of nursing, leadership and management, and disaster nursing.
Chapter 3 , Advanced Clinical Concepts, presents nursing assessment, analysis, and planning and intervention, using clinical judgment at the highest level of practice. Topics reviewed include respiratory failure, shock, disseminated intravascular coagulation, resuscitation, fluid and electrolyte balance, intravenous therapy, acid–base balance, electrocardiogram, perioperative care, HIV, pain, and death and grief
Chapters 4 through 8 , Medical-Surgical Nursing, Pediatric Nursing, Maternity Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing, and Gerontologic Nursing, are presented in traditional clinical areas Each clinical area is divided into physiologic components, with essential knowledge about basic anatomy, growth and development, pharmacology and medication calculation, nutrition, communication, client and family education, acute and chronic care, leadership and management, complementary and alternative interventions, cultural and spiritual diversity, and clinical decision making threaded throughout the different components.
Open-ended questions with the answers appear at the end of each chapter, which encourage the student to think in depth about the content that is presented throughout the particular chapter. When a variety of learning mechanisms are used, students have the opportunity to comprehensively prepare for the NCLEX exam; these strategies include:
• Reading the manual
• Discussing content with others
• Answering open-ended questions
• Practicing with study exams that simulate the licensure examination
These learning experiences are all different ways that students should use to prepare for the NCLEX-RN exam. The purpose of the open-ended questions appearing at the end of the chapter is not a focused practice session on managing NCLEX-style questions, but rather a learning approach that allows for more in-depth thinking about specific topics in the chapter. Practice with multiple-choice questions alone cannot provide the depth of critical thinking and analysis that is made possible by the short-answer questions at the end of the chapter In addition, the open-ended questions presented at the end of the chapter provide a summary experience that helps students focus on the main topics that were covered in the chapter. Teachers use open-ended questions to stimulate the critical-thinking process, and HESI Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN ® Examination facilitates the critical-thinking process by posing the same type of questions the teacher might ask
When students need to practice multiple-choice questions, the online study exams on
Evolve offer extensive opportunities for practice and skill building to improve their testtaking abilities The online study exams include six content-specific exams (MedicalSurgical Nursing, Pharmacology, Pediatrics, Fundamentals, Maternity, and PsychiatricMental Health Nursing) and two comprehensive exams patterned after categories on the NCLEX-RN exam The online study exams on Evolve can be accessed as many times as necessary, and the questions from one study exam are not contained on another study exam. For instance, the Medical-Surgical study exam does not contain questions that are on the Pediatrics study exam. The purpose of the study exams is to provide practice and exposure to the critical thinking–style questions that students will encounter on the NCLEX-RN exam. However, the study exams should not be used to predict performance on the actual NCLEX-RN exam. Only the HESI Exit Exam, a secure, computerized exam that simulates the NCLEX-RN test plan and has evidence-based results from numerous research studies indicating a high level of accuracy in predicting NCLEX success, is offered as a true predictor exam. Students are allowed unlimited practice on each online study exam so that they can be sure to have the opportunity to review all of the rationales for the questions
Here is a plan for a student to use with the online study exams:
• Step 1: Take the RN study exam without studying for it to see where your strengths and weaknesses are
• Step 2: After going over the content that relates to the study questions in a particular clinical area (e.g., Pediatrics, Medical-Surgical, or Maternity), review that section of the manual and take the test again to determine whether you have been able to improve your scores.
• Step 3: Purposely miss every question on the exam so that you can view the rationales for every question.
• Step 4: Take the exam again under timed conditions at the pace that you would have to progress in order to complete the NCLEX-RN exam in the time allowed (approximately 1 minute per question). See if being placed under time constraints affects your performance.
• Step 5: Put the exam away for a while and continue review and remediation with other textbooks, resources, and results of any HESI secure exams that you have taken at your school. Then, take the study exams again to see if your performance improves after in-depth study and following a few weeks’ break from these questions.
Step 5 represents a good activity in preparation for the HESI Exit Exam presented in your final semester of the nursing program, especially if you have not used the online study exams for several weeks. Repeated exposure to the questions, however, will make them less useful over time because students tend to memorize the answers. For this reason, these tests are useful only for practice and not for prediction of NCLEX-RN success. The tendency to memorize the questions after viewing them multiple times falsely elevates a student’s score on the study exams.
Additional assistance for students studying for the NCLEX-RN Licensing Examination can be obtained from a variety of online products in the Elsevier family Many nursing schools have also adopted the following:
• HESI Examinations A comprehensive set of examinations designed to prepare nursing students for the NCLEX exam They include customized electronic remediation from current Elsevier textbooks and multimedia, as well as additional practice questions. Each student is given an individualized report detailing exam results and is allowed to view questions and rationales for items that were answered incorrectly. The electronic remediation, a complementary feature of the specialty and exit exams, can be filed by the student for later study.
• HESI Practice Test This is the ideal way to practice for the NCLEX exam. With more than 1200 practice questions included in this online test bank, nursing students can access practice exams 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. HESI Practice Test questions are written at the critical-thinking level so that students are tested not for memorization but for their skills in clinical application. Students select a test option (either a clinical specialty or a comprehensive exam), and HESI Practice Test automatically supplies a series of critical-thinking practice questions. NCLEX exam–style questions include multiple-choice and alternate-item formats and are accompanied by correct answers and rationales
• HESI RN Case Studies These prepare students to manage complex patient conditions and make sound clinical judgments. These online case studies cover a broad range of physiologic and psychosocial alterations, plus related management, pharmacology, and therapeutic concepts
• HESI Patient Reviews These are designed to teach and assess students’ retention of core nursing content. These online interactive reviews provide a firsthand look at safe and effective nursing care.
• HESI Live Review A live review course is presented by an expert faculty member who has additional instruction in working with students who are preparing to take the NCLEX exam. Students are presented with a workbook and practice NCLEX-style questions that are used during the course
• Evolve eBooks Online versions of all of the Mosby, Saunders, and Elsevier textbooks used in the student’s nursing curriculum are presented. Search across titles, highlight, make notes, and more all on your computer.
• Elsevier Simulations Virtual versions simulate the clinical environment These multilayered, complex, supplemental simulations enable students to experience clinical assignments without the need for actual clinical space.
• Elsevier Courses These are created by experts using instructional design principles This interactive content engages students with reading, animation, video, audio, interactive exercises, and assessments.
Next Generation NCLEX and Clinical Judgment
Starting in July of 2017, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) began including a special research section to select candidates after they complete the exam. The data collected from this section is used to help determine new item types that may be included in a future version of the NCLEX, known as Next Generation NCLEX (NGN). (More information can be found at ( http://www ncsbn org/next-generationnclex.htm. ) An important piece of the NGN is the clinical judgment model. Clinical judgment is important for all nurses, and this book helps nursing students by reviewing information and skills that nurses must master to practice clinical judgment. Additionally, NCLEX practice questions on the Evolve website written at higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy help students practice applying their clinical judgment knowledge. Finally, a Clinical Judgment Scenario with practice NGN questions is included in Chapter 4 to familiarize students with these types of questions
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