Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN® Examination / Edition 7

by Linda Anne Silvestri PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, Angela Silvestri PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, CNE

Overview

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Get everything you need to review for the NCLEX-PN exam from one trusted source! This unique, bestselling review and preparation guide offers the perfect combination of core content review, practice questions, comprehensive rationales, and detailed test-taking strategies from the NCLEX expert herself: Linda Silvestri. Updated to reflect the latest NCLEX-PN test plan, this new edition features over 4,200 high-quality review questions in the book and on the companion Evolve website to help you hone your understanding of all the important NCLEX-PN content areas.

• More than 4,200 practice questions in the text and companion Evolve site provide ample testing practice in both print and electronic format – 500 more than the last edition!
• 15 pharmacology chapters address the emphasis on pharmacology questions on the NCLEX-PN exam.
• Hundreds of alternate item formats — including multiple response, ordered response, fill-in-the-blank, figure, chart/exhibit, audio, graphic option, and video questions — prepare you for this additional component of the new NCLEX-PN test plan.
• Pyramid points identify content that typically appears on the NCLEX-PN test plan.
• Pyramid to Success sections provide an overview of the chapter, guidance on what content to focus on, and its relative importance to the most recent NCLEX-PN test plan.
• Comprehensive exam consisting of 85 questions related to all content areas in the book and representative of the percentages identified in the NCLEX-PN test plan.

• Updated content and questions reflect the latest NCLEX-PN test plan.
• New full-color design makes for a more visually engaging learning experience.
• Priority Nursing Actions boxes outline and explain clinical emergent situations requiring immediate action, including detailed rationales and textbook references to help strengthen your prioritizing skills in clinical and testing situations.
• Pyramid Alert boxes reinforce learning of essential content frequently tested on the NCLEX-PN exam.
• New video and graphic option questions familiarize you with all the alternate item format question types.
• New chapter on Physical Assessment of the Adult Client highlights the key components of physical examination and health history often encountered on the NCLEX-PN® exam.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323484886
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	03/01/2018
Edition description:	Comprehens
Pages:	1040
Sales rank:	213,163
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Linda Anne Silvestri has provided decades of nursing education and leadership that has directly impacted the growing and needed nursing workforce. Her research focused on a holistic investigation of predictors leading to success on the licensure examination. Her findings, published in the Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, led to significant contributions, filling a critical need in NCLEX® preparation. Linda’s vision was to provide a holistic educational approach to ensure overall well-being in test anxiety and self-efficacy, and success on the NCLEX®. As a leader in providing global NCLEX® preparation resources published by Elsevier, she strives for excellence in publication quality, based on the discovery of new knowledge in nursing, standards of care, and research-based studies. Her published resources ensure nursing graduates’ ability to make sound clinical judgments as they serve the public and the nursing profession. Linda is also a Next Generation NCLEX® Subject Matter Expert and Consultant for Elsevier.

Angela Silvestri is a well-known nurse educator, researcher, and author. She has been teaching and working in university administrative roles for the past 10 years at all levels of nursing education. She has experience teaching across the program and in classroom and clinical settings in the areas of Nutrition and Human Development Across the Lifespan, Foundations of Care in Nursing, Gerontological Nursing, Complex Care in Nursing, and Leadership and Transition to Practice in pre-nursing and undergraduate nursing programs. She is currently serving as the Program Director for the undergraduate BSN program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is a sought-out speaker at national conferences on the topic of nursing school success. Her passion for college student success comes through in her work at the School of Nursing teaching Leadership and licensure exam preparation and in publishing research and best-selling licensure exam review resources on national and international levels.

Table of Contents

UNIT 1: NCLEX-PN® PREPARATION

1. The NCLEX-PN® Examination

2. Preparation for the NCLEX® Exam: Transitional Issues for the Foreign Educated Nurse

3. Pathways to Success

4. The NCLEX-PN® Examination: From a Student’s Perspective

5. Test Taking Strategies


UNIT 2: ISSUES IN NURSING

6. Cultural Diversity

7. Ethical and Legal Issues

8. Delegating, Managing, and Prioritizing Care


UNIT 3: NURSING SCIENCES

9. Fluids and Electrolytes

10. Acid Base Balance

11. Laboratory Values

12. Nutritional Components of Care

13. Intravenous Therapy and Blood Administration


UNIT 4: FUNDAMENTAL SKILLS

14. Hygiene and Safety

15. Medication and Intravenous Administration

16. Basic Life Support

17. Perioperative Nursing Care

18. Positioning Clients

19. Care of a Client with a Tube


UNIT 5: MATERNITY NURSING

20. Female Reproductive System

21. Obstetrical Assessment

22. Prenatal Period and Risk Conditions

23. Labor and Delivery and Associated Complications

24. The Postpartum Period and Associated Complications

25. Care of the Newborn

26. Maternity and Newborn Medications


UNIT 6: GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN

27. Theories of Growth and Development

28. Developmental Stages

29. Care to the Older Client


UNIT 7: PEDIATRIC NURSING

30. Neurological, Cognitive, and Psychosocial Disorders

31. Eye, Ear, Throat, and Respiratory Disorders

32. Cardiovascular Disorders

33. Metabolic, Endocrine, and Gastrointestinal Disorders

34. Renal and Urinary Disorders

35. Integumentary Disorders

36. Musculoskeletal Disorders

37. Hematological and Oncological Disorders

38. Communicable Diseases and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

39. Pediatric Medication Administration


UNIT 8: THE ADULT CLIENT WITH AN INTEGUMENTARY DISORDER

40. Integumentary System

41. Integumentary Medications


UNIT 9: THE ADULT CLIENT WITH AN ONCOLOGICAL DISORDER

42. Oncological Disorders

43. Antineoplastic Medications


UNIT 10: THE ADULT CLIENT WITH AN ENDOCRINE DISORDER

44. Endocrine System

45. Endocrine Medications


UNIT 11: THE ADULT CLIENT WITH A GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDER

46. Gastrointestinal System

47. Gastrointestinal Medications


UNIT 12: THE ADULT CLIENT WITH A RESPIRATORY DISORDER

48. Respiratory System

49. Respiratory Medications


UNIT 13: THE ADULT CLIENT WITH A CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDER

50. Cardiovascular System

51. Cardiovascular Medications


UNIT 14: THE ADULT CLIENT WITH A RENAL DISORDER

52. Renal System

53. Renal Medications


UNIT 15: THE ADULT CLIENT WITH AN EYE or EAR DISORDER

54. The Eye and The Ear

55. Ophthalmic and Otic Medications


UNIT 16: THE ADULT CLIENT WITH A NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER

56. Neurological System

57. Neurological Medications


UNIT 17: THE ADULT CLIENT WITH A MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDER

58. Musculoskeletal System

59. Musculoskeletal Medications


UNIT 18: THE ADULT CLIENT WITH AN IMMUNE DISORDER

60. Immune Disorders

61. Immunological Medications


UNIT 19: THE ADULT CLIENT WITH A MENTAL HEALTH DISORDER

62. Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

63. Mental Health Disorders

64. Addictions

65. Crisis Theory and Interventions

66. Psychiatric Medications


UNIT 20: COMPREHENSIVE TEST