This guide is filled with essential nursing content, tips, strategies, and other indispensable information to help you prepare for the NCLEX-PN examination. It includes all-new information on the latest test plan, plus many questions in the new alternate item formats. The text provides rationales for correct and incorrect answers, as well as strategies for approaching similar questions.
1. The NCLEX-PN Examination 2. Preparation for the NCLEX Exam: Transitional Issues for the Foreign Educated Nurse 3. Pathways to Success 4. The NCLEX-PN Examination: From a Students Perspective 5. Test Taking Strategies
UNIT 2 ISSUES IN NURSING
6. Cultural Diversity 7. Ethical and Legal Issues 8. Delegating, Managing, and Prioritizing Care
UNIT 3 NURSING SCIENCES
9. Fluids and Electrolytes 10. Acid Base Balance 11. Laboratory Values 12. Nutritional Components of Care 13. Intravenous Therapy and Blood Administration
UNIT 4 FUNDAMENTAL SKILLS
14. Hygiene and Safety 15. Medication and Intravenous Administration 16. Basic Life Support 17. Perioperative Nursing Care 18. Positioning Clients 19. Care of a Client with a Tube
UNIT 5 MATERNITY NURSING
20. Female Reproductive System 21. Obstetrical Assessment 22. Prenatal Period and Risk Conditions 23. Labor and Delivery and Associated Complications 24. The Postpartum Period and Associated Complications 25. Care of the Newborn 26. Maternity and Newborn Medications
UNIT 6 GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN
27. Theories of Growth and Development 28. Developmental Stages 29. Care of the Older Client
UNIT 7 PEDIATRIC NURSING
30. Neurological, Cognitive, and Psychosocial Disorders 31. Eye, Ear, Throat, and Respiratory Disorders 32. Cardiovascular Disorders 33. Metabolic, Endocrine, and Gastrointestinal Disorders 34. Renal and Urinary Disorders 35. Integumentary Disorders 36. Musculoskeletal Disorders 37. Hematological and Oncological Disorders 38. Communicable Diseases and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome 39. Pediatric Medication Administration
UNIT 8 THE ADULT CLIENT WITH AN INTEGUMENTARY DISORDER
40. Integumentary System 41. Integumentary Medications
UNIT 9 THE ADULT CLIENT WITH AN ONCOLOGICAL DISORDER
UNIT 19 THE ADULT CLIENT WITH A MENTAL HEALTH DISORDER
62. Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing 63. Mental Health Disorders 64. Addictions 65. Crisis Theory and Interventions 66. Psychiatric Medications