NCLEX-PN Examination Review Guide

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

Get the best review for the NCLEX-PN exam from the leading NCLEX experts! Written by Linda Anne Silvestri and Angela E. Silvestri, Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN Examination, 9th Edition, provides everything you need to prepare for success on the NCLEX-PN. The book includes a review of all nursing content areas, more than 4,600 questions for the NCLEX, detailed rationales, test-taking tips and strategies, and questions for the Next-Generation NCLEX (NGN). The Evolve companion website simulates the exam-taking experience with customizable practice questions along with realistic practice tests. Based on Silvestri’s proven Pyramid to Success, this complete review is a perennial favorite of students preparing for the NCLEX.

Key Features:

• More than 4,600 practice questions in the text and on the Evolve companion website offer ample testing practice.
• Detailed test-taking strategy is included for each question, offering clues for analyzing and uncovering the correct answer option, with rationales provided for both correct and incorrect answers.
• Pyramid Points icons indicate important information, identifying content that is likely to appear on the NCLEX-PN examination.
• Pyramid Alerts appear in red text, highlighting important nursing concepts and identifying content that typically appears on the NCLEX-PN examination.
• Priority Concepts – two in each chapter – discuss important content and nursing interventions and reflect the latest edition of Giddens Concepts for Nursing Practice text.
• Priority Nursing Action boxes provide information about the steps nurses will take in clinical situations requiring clinical judgment and prioritization.
• New graduates perspective is offered on how to prepare for the NCLEX-PN, in addition to nonacademic preparation, the CAT format, and test-taking strategies.
• Mnemonics are included to help you remember important information.
• Alternate item format questions cover multiple-response, prioritizing (ordered response), fill-in-the-blank, figure/illustration (hot spot), chart/exhibit, and audio questions.
• Practice questions on the Evolve companion website are organized by content area, cognitive level, client needs area, integrated process, health problem, clinical judgment, and priority concepts, allowing completely customizable exams or study sessions.
• Audio review summaries on the Evolve companion website cover pharmacology, acid-base balance, and fluids and electrolytes.
• NEW! Questions for the Next Generation NCLEX (NGN) prepare you for the biggest change to the NCLEX-PN test plan to date.
• NEW! Thoroughly updated content incorporates clinical updates and reflects the latest NCLEX-PN test plan.
• NEW! Clinical Judgment boxes identify clinical judgment situations, each addressing one of the six cognitive skills of the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model.
• NEW! Additional questions cover health problem areas and complex care.
• NEW! Urinary and Bowel Elimination and Hygiene, Mobility, and Skin Integrity chapters are added to this edition.
• UPDATED! Reorganized Foundation of Care unit makes this section more user-friendly for beginning nursing students.

Product Details:

Language: English

Pages: 1112

ISBN-10: 0443112878

ISBN-13: 978-0443112874