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2024-2025 Saunders Clinical Judgment and Test-Taking Strategies. Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX? Exam. Edition No. 8

  • Book

  • August 2023
  • Elsevier Health Science
  • ID: 5755358
Learn proven strategies to prepare for nursing school tests and the NCLEX? exam! 2024-2025 Saunders Clinical Judgment and Test-Taking Strategies: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX? Exam, 8th Edition provides tools to help you overcome test anxiety, develop strong study skills, and improve test scores. You'll gain insight into key nursing areas such as clinical judgment, prioritization, leading and managing, communication, and pharmacology. In the book and on the Evolve companion website, 1,200 practice questions represent all question types - including alternate item formats and new test items for the Next Generation NCLEX?. Written by leading NCLEX experts Linda and Angela Silvestri, this essential resource offers the practical tips and realistic practice you need to succeed on any exam!

- Helpful Tips for the Nursing Student are provided with every practice question to highlight the most important concepts needed for exam success. - UNIQUE! Student-to-Student Tips highlight real-life strategies that have helped other students successfully complete nursing school and pass the NCLEX? exam. - Focus on test-taking strategies helps you develop essential clinical judgment skills and prepares you to find the correct answer to all types of test questions. - Categorization of questions by beginning, intermediate, or advanced level makes this book a useful tool throughout your nursing program. - 1,200 practice questions in the book and on the companion Evolve website include detailed rationales and test-taking strategies. - Practice question categories on the companion Evolve website include the level of cognitive ability, client needs, integrated process, clinical judgment/cognitive skill, content area, priority concepts, alternate item formats, and strategy. - NEW! Additional Next Generation NCLEX? (NGN) unfolding case studies and single-episode item types are included on the Evolve companion website, preparing you for the changes to the NCLEX? exam. - NEW! NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model (NCJMM) updates and new item types are included throughout the book.

Table of Contents

PART I Study and Test Preparation
1 Clinical Judgment and Nursing Examinations
2 Developing Study Skills
3 Reducing Test Anxiety
4 NCLEX� Preparation
PART II Strategies for Success
5 Alternate Item Formats and Next Generation NCLEX� Item Types
6 How to Avoid "Reading into the Question,�
7 Positive and Negative Event Queries
8 Questions Requiring Prioritization
9 Leading and Managing, Delegating, and Assignment-Making Questions
10 Communication Questions
11 Pharmacology, Medication, and Intravenous Calculation Questions
12 Additional Pyramid Strategies
PART III Practice Tests
13 Foundations of Care Questions
14 Adult Health Questions
15 Mental Health Questions
16 Maternity Questions
17 Pediatric Questions
18 Pharmacology Questions
19 Delegating/Prioritizing Questions
20 Leadership/Management Questions
References and Bibliography
Index

Authors

Linda Anne Silvestri Nursing Instructor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las, Nevada; President, Nursing Reviews, Inc. and Professional Nursing Seminars, Inc. Henderson, Nevada; Elsevier Next Generation NCLEX� (NGN) Thought Leader. 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 Assistant Professor Touro University Nevada-School of Nursing. 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.