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
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PART 1: INTRODUCTION Guidelines for Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment Decisions PART 2: PRIORITIZATION, DELEGATION, AND ASSIGNMENT IN COMMON HEALTH SCENARIOS 1. Pain 2. Cancer 3. Immunologic Problems 4. Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance Problems 5. Safety and Infection Control 6. Respiratory Problems 7. Cardiovascular Problems 8. Hematologic Problems 9. Neurologic Problems 10. Visual and Auditory Problems 11. Musculoskeletal Problems 12. Gastrointestinal and Nutritional Problems 13. Diabetes Mellitus 14. Other Endocrine Problems 15. Integumentary Problems 16. Renal and Urinary Problems 17. Reproductive Problems 18. Pregnancy and Childbearing Problems 19. Pediatric Problems 20. Pharmacology 21. Emergencies and Disasters 22. Psychiatric/Mental Health Problems 23. Community Health Problems 24. NGN-Style Questions PART 3: PRIORITIZATION, DELEGATION, AND ASSIGNMENT IN COMPLEX HEALTH SCENARIOS Case Studies 1. Chest Pressure, Indigestion, and Nausea 2. Dyspnea and Shortness of Breath 3. Multiple Patients on a Medical-Surgical Unit 4. Shortness of Breath, Edema, and Decreased Urine Output 5. Patient With New Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus 6. Multiple Patients Receiving Home Health Care 7. Spinal Cord Injury 8. Multiple Patients With Adrenal Gland Disorders 9. Multiple Patients With Gastrointestinal Problems 10. Multiple Patients With Pain 11. Multiple Patients With Cancer 12. Gastrointestinal Bleeding 13. Head and Leg Trauma and Shock 14. Septic Shock 15. Heart Failure 16. Multiple Patients With Peripheral Vascular Disease 17. Respiratory Difficulty After Surgery 18. Multiple Patients in a Long-Term Care Center 19. Pediatric Patients in Clinic and Acute Care Settings 20. Multiple Patients With Mental Health Disorders 21. Childbearing 22. Blunt Abdominal Trauma 23. Gunshot Wound With Septic Shock
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Prepare for success on the Next-Generation NCLEX-RN® Exam and develop clinical judgment skills with a focus on management-of-care questions

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780443112638
Publisert
2025-02-18
Utgave
6. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Churchill Livingstone
Vekt
920 gr
Høyde
276 mm
Bredde
216 mm
Aldersnivå
U, XX, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
448

Biografisk notat

Linda A. LaCharity formerly, Accelerated Program Director, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Candice K. Kumagai formerly, Clinical Instructor, School of Nursing, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA. Shirley M. Hosler formerly, Nursing Instructor, School of Nursing, National American University, USA.