Davis's NCLEX-RN® Success / Edition 3

by Sally L. Lagerquist RN, MS

Overview

Please note: The CD packaged with this product is no longer compatible with most current operating systems.

All of the ingredients for NCLEX-RN® success are here! Just follow Sally Lambert Lagerquist’s study plan and you’ll join the thousands who have passed their exams with her guidance.

The 3rd Edition of this popular resource has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the newest Test Plan. You’ll find more questions than ever before, including 1,000 brand-new questions—over 3,500 in all in the book and on the Mac/PC compatible CD-ROM.

There’s even a money-back guarantee and free phone consultation with the author for any student who uses the book and does not pass the exam.

“I currently use the F.A. Davis NCLEX review book and love it. I have students that have come to me after failing the NCLEX and when I have them do questions from FA Davis, they comment that the questions are closer to the actual NCLEX."
– Barbara Douglas, Academic Counselor at WVU Tech

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803621640
Publisher:	F.A. Davis Company
Publication date:	04/25/2012
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	1008
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.70(d)

Table of Contents

1. Orientation and Pretests
2. Guidelines and Tips for International Nurses and Repeat Test-Takers
3. Safe, Effective Care Environment: Management of Care, Cultural Diversity, Ethical and Legal Aspects of Nursing, Nursing Trends, and Safety and Infection Control
4. Health Promotion and Maintenance: Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family
5. Health Promotion and Maintenance: Nursing Care of the Pediatric Client
6. Physiological Integrity: Nursing Care of the Adult Client
7. Physiological Integrity: Nursing Care of the Geriatric Client
8. Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
9. Physiological Integrity: Basic Care and Comfort— Nutrition
10. Physiological Integrity: Behavioral/Mental Health Care Throughout the Life Span
11. Reduction of Risk Potential: Common Procedures: Diagnostic Tests, Oxygen Therapy, and Hands-on Nursing Care
12. Final Tests 1 and 2

 Appendices 
1. Laboratory Values
2. Memory Aids
3. Acronyms and Abbreviations
4. Common Clinical Signs
5. Complementary and Alternative Therapies
6. Index: Content Related to the NCLEX-RN® Test Plan: Four General Client Needs and Six Client Subneeds (With Detailed Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)
7. Index: Questions Related to Client Needs/Subneeds
8. Index to Diagnostic Tests and Procedures
9. Index to Alternate Format Test Items

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Mary Allen Carey, PhD (University of Oklahoma College of Nursing)
Description: NCLEX-RN Success, edited by Lagerquist, et al, poses to students, aspiring to be registered nurses, thousands of text-based questions and a CD-ROM with no questions duplicated. The book includes the latest NCLEX-RN Test Plan content with new question formats. Rationales and test-taking tips are given for every question. This is the 2nd edition of this text. (pp. 942)
Purpose: The purpose of this book is to assist RN students to review essential nursing content and pass the NCLEX-RN examination. These are worthy objectives and the authors have met them well.
Audience: The book is written for the student aspiring to be a registered nurse who must take the NCLEX-RN examination. According to the authors, whether the student is a first time or repeat test taker, the text will help them to pass. The authors are credible authorities on the subject of the matter of the book.
Features: For each major section, relevant content is reviewed and thousands of practice questions are presented based on the latest official NCLEX-RN test plan. According to the authors, this is the only NCLEX-RN review book with clinical pathways for management of care. All questions are coded for client needs/sub needs, clinical area, cognitive level of difficulty, nursing process step and category of human function congruent with available information about the NCLEX-RN Test Plan. Detailed rationales for all correct and incorrect answers are given. Test taking tips are offered for all questions. A new 500 question pre-test is available for students' to take. Updated unit review questions with an integrated practice test, a final test and a computerized test are also available for students.
Assessment: The review text is of excellent quality. Study tips and strategies and relaxation exercises are a plus. Numerous appendices including indexes to enable students to quickly find questions and content based on the official NCLEX-RN Test Plan are also available to students. This 2nd edition does justify replacing the previous edition.

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