Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment

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.