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NCLEX-RN For Dummies with Online Practice Tests
About This Book
Ace the NCLEX-RN exam with this comprehensive guide
The rigorous NCLEX-RN nursing exam can be painfulâand many don't pass on the initial attempt. So why not beat the odds and drastically improve your chances of acing your first time with NCLEX-RN For Dummies, 2nd Edition with Online Practice?
This fully updated and revised edition is tracked to the latest NCLEX-RN exam, and comes complete with deep content review, study tips, and top test-taking strategies. You also get access to online flashcards and two practice exams with answer explanations to flesh out your technique and study.
- Practice with hundreds of test questions
- Go online for vocabulary flashcards and practice exams
- Find full coverage of the medical, surgical, pediatric, psychiatric, and obstetric subjects schools require for the test
Written by an instructor with 38 years of hands-on nursing practice under her belt, this popular, plain-English exam prep is best-in-class and will deliver the results you wantâthe first time.
Frequently asked questions
Information
Demystifying the Complexity of the NCLEX-RN
Meet the NCLEX-RN: Your Ticket to Getting a License
The Big Deal behind the Big Exam
You Must Remember This: Nursing Basics to Know by Heart
- Caring: Caring puts people above equipment or paperwork. Look at your patient before you look at machines, lab results, or even nursing processes. See the person first.
- Communication: Therapeutic communication skills help you immeasurably in dealing with everyone from your patients to lab technicians. Never underestimate the power of effective communication while working as a nurse; failure to communicate well may not only harm your patient but also make your life miserable. (Check out Chapter 8 for more on therapeutic communication.)
- Documentation: Documenting care given and the patientâs response to it is both a legal requirement and one of the major communication methods between healthcare workers.
- Teaching: As a nurse, you teach patients, their caretakers, and other team members every day.
- Patient safety is always a top priority.
- Remembering the clientâs ABCs (airway, breathing, circulation) is essential.
- Physiological needs should be met before other needs.
- Doing what it takes to meet patient needs comes before other tasks.
- A thorough assessment is necessary before undertaking other steps of the nursing process.
- Part of the first step in the nursing process is assessing the patientâs emotional status.
- Assess the patientâs readiness to learn before des...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1: Demystifying the Complexity of the NCLEX-RN
- Part 2: Testing Your Knowledge of Client Needs
- Part 3: Just What You Were Looking For: A Full-Length Practice Test
- Part 4: The Part of Tens
- Part 5: Appendixes
- Index
- About the Authors
- Advertisement Page
- Connect with Dummies
- End User License Agreement