Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX Examination / Edition 3

by Linda A. LaCharity PhD, RN, Candice K. Kumagai MSN, RN, Barbara Bartz MN, ARNP, CCRN

Overview

Prepare for success on the Next-Generation NCLEX-RN^® Exam and develop your clinical judgment skills with a focus on management of care! Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX-RN^® Examination, 6th Edition provides a wide variety of realistic patient care scenarios to help you learn management-of-care concepts and skills and see how to apply them to clinical practice. Exercises progress from simple to complex, and updated questions for the Next-Generation NCLEX-RN^® Exam (NGN) are designed to match the latest NGN formats. All the book’s questions are also provided in an interactive format on the Evolve website in tests that simulate the most current NCLEX-RN^® Exam. This thoroughly updated new edition now includes 2021 AACN Essentials item coding for faculty, three new Case Studies, a new Community Health Problems chapter, updated question formats to reflect the NGN, and updated content throughout. Written by a team of noted educators led by Linda A. LaCharity, this NGN review has become a student favorite!

• NEW! Three new Case Studies include Patient with New Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus, Blunt Abdominal Trauma, and Gunshot Wound with Septic Shock
• NEW! A new Community Health Problems chapter equips you for the unique challenges of community health
• NEW! Updated question formats prepare you to succeed on the Next-Generation NCLEX-RN^® Examination (NGN) by including the latest item types
• NEW! Updated content throughout matches the latest evidence-based guidelines and nursing care protocols
• Integrated questions for the NGN and a separate NGN-Style Questions chapter help you focus study time on these new question formats to optimize your readiness for success on the NGN and for clinical practice
• Management-of-care focus addresses the NGN’s emphasis on prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment
• Three-part organization first establishes foundational knowledge and then provides exercises with scenarios of increasing difficulty to help build confidence in your prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills
• Part One: Introduction provides a concise foundation and practical guidelines for making prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment decisions
• Part Two: Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment in Common Health Scenarios provides practice in applying learned principles to relatively straightforward health scenarios involving single patients or simple patient assignments
• Part 3: Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment in Complex Health Scenarios includes unfolding cases involving patients with progressively more complicated health problems or challenging assignment issues, demonstrating the progression of typical health scenarios and helping you learn to think like a nurse
• Answer Keys follow each chapter and provide the correct answer along with a detailed rationale, reinforcing correct responses and helping learn from incorrect responses
• Practice exams on the Evolve website include all the book’s questions and allow you to create a virtually unlimited number of practice sessions in Study Mode or Exam Mode

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323113434
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	12/02/2013
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.88(w) x 10.68(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Linda A. LaCharity formerly, Accelerated Program Director, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Candice K. Kumagai formerly, Clinical Instructor, School of Nursing, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.

Table of Contents

PART 1: INTRODUCTION
Guidelines for Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment Decisions

PART 2: PRIORITIZATION, DELEGATION, AND ASSIGNMENT IN COMMON HEALTH SCENARIOS
1. Pain
2. Cancer
3. Immunologic Problems
4. Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid–Base Balance Problems
5. Safety and Infection Control
6. Respiratory Problems
7. Cardiovascular Problems
8. Hematologic Problems
9. Neurologic Problems
10. Visual and Auditory Problems
11. Musculoskeletal Problems
12. Gastrointestinal and Nutritional Problems
13. Diabetes Mellitus
14. Other Endocrine Problems
15. Integumentary Problems
16. Renal and Urinary Problems
17. Reproductive Problems
18. Pregnancy and Childbearing Problems
19. Pediatric Problems
20. Pharmacology
21. Emergencies and Disasters
22. Psychiatric/Mental Health Problems
23. Community Health Problems
24. NGN-Style Questions

PART 3: PRIORITIZATION, DELEGATION, AND ASSIGNMENT IN COMPLEX HEALTH SCENARIOS
Case Studies
1. Chest Pressure, Indigestion, and Nausea
2. Dyspnea and Shortness of Breath
3. Multiple Patients on a Medical-Surgical Unit
4. Shortness of Breath, Edema, and Decreased Urine Output
5. Patient With New Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus
6. Multiple Patients Receiving Home Health Care
7. Spinal Cord Injury
8. Multiple Patients With Adrenal Gland Disorders
9. Multiple Patients With Gastrointestinal Problems
10. Multiple Patients With Pain
11. Multiple Patients With Cancer
12. Gastrointestinal Bleeding
13. Head and Leg Trauma and Shock
14. Septic Shock
15. Heart Failure
16. Multiple Patients With Peripheral Vascular Disease
17. Respiratory Difficulty After Surgery
18. Multiple Patients in a Long-Term Care Center
19. Pediatric Patients in Clinic and Acute Care Settings
20. Multiple Patients With Mental Health Disorders
21. Childbearing
22. Blunt Abdominal Trauma
23. Gunshot Wound With Septic Shock

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"This book should be considered for reading in any nursing environment, incorporating hospital and community homes where an individual is cared for by a range of health care staff. It should be read by learning and development departments where they support nursing staff with clinical decision making." Reviewed by Anne Duell on behalf of Nursing Times, September 2015

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