Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination 9th Edition

Book Preface

An Essential Resource for Test Success Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination is one in a series of products designed to assist you  in achieving your goal of becoming a registered nurse.
This text will provide you with a comprehensive review  of all nursing content areas specically related to the current test plan for the Next Generation NCLEX-RN examination, which is implemented by the National Council  of State Boards of Nursing. This resource will help you  achieve success on your nursing examinations during  nursing school and on the NCLEX-RN examination.

Organization

This book contains 19 units and 70 chapters. The chapters are designed to identify specic components of  nursing content. They contain practice questions, both  multiple-choice and alternate item formats, that reect  the chapter content and the current test plan for the  NCLEX-RN examination. All questions in the book and  on the Evolve site are presented in NCLEX-style format.

The NCLEX test plan identies a framework based  on Client Needs. These Client Needs categories include  Safe and Effective Care Environment, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Psychosocial Integrity, and Physiological Integrity. Integrated Processes are also identied  as a component of the test plan. These include Caring,
Communication and Documentation, Culture and  Spirituality, Nursing Process, and Teaching and Learning. All chapters address the components of the test plan framework.

Special Features of the Book Pyramid Terms Pyramid Terms are important to the discussion of the  content in the chapters in each unit. Therefore, they are  in bold green type throughout the content section of  each chapter. Denitions can be reviewed in the Audio Glossary on the Evolve site.

Pyramid to Success
The Pyramid to Success, a featured part of each unit introduction, provides you with an overview, guidance, and  direction regarding the focus of review in the particular  content area, as well as the content area’s relative importance to the test plan for the NCLEX-RN examination.  The Pyramid to Success reviews the Client Needs and provides learning outcomes as they pertain to the content  in that unit. These learning outcomes identify the specic components and cognitive skills to keep in mind as you review each chapter.

Priority Concepts
Each chapter identies two Priority Concepts reective  of its content. These Priority Concepts will assist you to  focus on the important aspects of the content and associated nursing interventions. These Priority Concepts  are also helpful for those students who are learning in a  concept-based curriculum.

Pyramid Points
Pyramid Points ( ) are placed next to specic content  throughout the chapters. The Pyramid Points highlight  content that is important for preparing for the NCLEXRN examination and identify content that is likely to appear on the NCLEX-RN examination.

Pyramid Alerts
Pyramid Alerts are the red text found throughout the  chapters that alert you to important information about  nursing concepts. These alerts identify concepts that are  important to remember and relate to content that typically appears on the NCLEX-RN examination.
Clinical Judgment Boxes Clinical Judgment (CJ) Boxes are located in every chapter in the book. These boxes present a clinical scenario  that relates to one of the six cognitive skills (recognize  cues, analyze cues, prioritize hypotheses, generate solutions,  take action, evaluate outcomes) that will be measured in  the Next Generation NCLEX (NGN) exam. These CJ  boxes provide the thinking process needed and necessary information to make a clinical decision.

Special Features Found on Evolve

Pretest and Study Calendar
The accompanying Evolve site contains a 75-question  pretest and a 75-question posttest that provide you  with feedback on your strengths and areas in need of  improvement. The results of your pretest will generate  an individualized study calendar to guide you in your  preparation for the NCLEX examination. Once you  have completed your review of the practice questions  in this resource, you can take the posttest to evaluate  your improvement and need for any additional review  in preparation for the NCLEX. After completion of each  test you are provided with the opportunity to review  the answers, rationales, and strategies, and we highly encourage you to do this.

Audio Questions
The accompanying Evolve site contains Audio Questions representative of content addressed in the current test  plan for the NCLEX-RN examination. These questions  are in NCLEX-style format, and each question presents  an audio sound, such as lung sounds, as a component  of the question. Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) Case Studies and  NGN Test Questions
The accompanying Evolve site contains stand-alone  items and unfolding case studies. The clinical judgment  stand-alone items provide a clinical scenario and are  accompanied by one NGN test question in either a Bowtie or a Trend item format. These stand-alone items can  measure up to all of the cognitive skills of the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model (NCJMM).  These cognitive skills include Recognize Cues, Analyze  Cues, Prioritize Hypotheses, Generate Solutions, Take  Action, and Evaluate Outcomes. Each unfolding case  study is accompanied by six NGN test items, each measuring one of the cognitive skills in sequential order

Audio Review Summaries
The companion Evolve site includes three Audio Review  Summaries that cover challenging subject areas addressed  in the test plan for the NCLEX-RN examination, including  Pharmacology, Acid-Base Balance, and Fluids and Electrolytes.