Saunders Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-RN
W B Saunders Co Ltd
978-0-7216-7795-8 (ISBN)
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This outstanding resource focuses specifically on material featured in the National Council of State Boards of Nursing's new 1998 CAT-NCLEX-RN test plan. Content is organized exactly according to the NCLEX test plan. Presented in an outline format, it comprehensively reviews all areas of nursing, including maternity, pediatric, medical-surgical, psychiatric, and gerontologic. Features: * A Practice Test follows each chapter, providing questions in NCLEX format, along with question categories, answers and rationales for both correct and incorrect answers, test taking strategies, and reference sources. * Introductory chapter provides students with an overview of the NCLEX-RN and test-taking strategies. * Unique to our book are pharmacology and medication administration chapters covering newly incorporated pharmacology information in the 1998 NCLEX-RN test plan, along with practice dosage calculation questions. * Other unique chapters include the NCLEX-RN Exam: A Student's Perspective, Acid-Base Balance, Fluids and Electrolytes, and Pediatric Medications and Calculations.
* A computer disk includes the 2700 practice questions from the book, plus 600 additional practice questions and answers, providing significantly more questions than competing books. * Pyramids to Success provide an overview of the unit content and relate the material's importance to the 1998 NCLEX-RN examination; Pyramid Terms define important terms at the beginning of each unit and appear in bold in the outline; Nursing Process, a significant component of the new exam, outlines a general nursing care plan for specific symptoms; Client Needs identify related areas of content as identified in the new NCLEX-RN test plan. * Pyramid Points identify content that typically appears on NCLEX-RN.
Unit 1: NCLEX-RN PREPARATION. NCLEX-RN. Pathways to Success. The NCLEX-RN Exam: From a Student's Perspective. Test-Taking Strategies. Unit 2: ISSUES in NURSING. Cultural Diversity. Ethical and Legal Issues. Leadership and Management Issues. Unit 3: NURSING SCIENCES. Fluids and Electrolytes. Acid-Base Balance. Laboratory Values. Nutrition. Total Parenteral Nutrition. Intravenous Therapy. The Administration of Blood. Unit 4: FUNDAMENTAL SKILLS. Providing a Safe Environment. Administering Medications and Intravenous Solutions. Basic Life Support. Perioperative Nursing Care. Positioning Clients. Care to a Client with a Tube. Unit 5: GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT ACROSS the LIFE SPAN. Theories of Growth and Development. Unit 6: MATERNITY NURSING. Female Reproductive System. Obstetrical Assessment. Prenatal Period. Risk Conditions Related to Pregnancy. Labor and Delivery. Problems with Labor and Delivery. The Postpartum Period. Postpartum Complications. Care of the Newborn. Maternity and Newborn Medications. Unit 7: PEDIATRIC NURSING. Growth and Development. Neurological, Cognitive and Psychosocial Disorders. Eye, Ear and Throat Disorders. Respiratory Disorders. Cardiovascular Disorders. Gastrointestinal Disorders. Metabolic and Endocrine Disorders. Renal and Urinary Disorders. Integumentary Disorders. Musculoskeletal Disorders. The Child with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Haematological Disorders. Oncological Disorders. Infectious and Communicable Diseases. Unit 8: PEDIATRIC MEDICATIONS and CALCULATIONS. Pediatric Medications and Calculations. Unit 9: The ADULT CLIENT with an INTEGUMENTARY DISORDER. Integumentary System. Integumentary Medications. Unit 10: The ADULT CLIENT with an ONCOLOGICAL DISORDER. Oncological Disorders. Antineoplastic Medications. Unit 11: The ADULT CLIENT with an ENDOCRINE DISORDER. Endocrine System. Endocrine Medications. Unit 12: The ADULT CLIENT with an INTEGUMENTARY DISORDER. Integumentary System. Integumentary Medications. Unit 10: The ADULT CLIENT with an ONCOLOGICAL DISORDER. Oncological Disorders. Antineoplastic Medications. Unit 11: The ADULT CLIENT with an ENDOCRINE DISORDER. Endocrine System. Endocrine Medications. Unit 12: The ADULT CLIENT with a GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDER. Gastrointestinal System. Gastrointestinal Medications. The Client with Hepatitis. Unit 13: The ADULT CLIENT with a RESPIRATORY DISORDER. Respiratory System. The Client with Tuberculosis. Respiratory Medications. Unit 14: The ADULT CLIENT with a CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDER. Cardiovascular System. Cardiovascular Medications. Unit 15: The ADULT CLIENT with a RENAL DISORDER. Renal System. Renal Medications. Unit 16: The ADULT CLIENT with an EYE/EAR DISORDER. The Eye and the Ear. Ophthalmic and Otic Medications. Unit 17: The ADULT CLIENT with a NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER. Neurological System. Neurological Medications. Unit 18: The ADULT CLIENT with a MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDER. Musculoskeletal System. Musculoskeletal Medications. Unit 19: The CLIENT with a MENTAL HEALTH DISORDER. Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. Models of Care. Mental Health Disorders. Addictions. Crisis Theory and Interventions. Psychiatric Medications. Unit 20: The GERONTOLOGICAL CLIENT. Care to the Gerontological Client. Unit 21: COMPREHENSIVE TEST.
| Zusatzinfo | 50 illustrations |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 279 mm |
| Gewicht | 2949 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7216-7795-9 / 0721677959 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7216-7795-8 / 9780721677958 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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