Saunders Strategies For Test Success 2016 2017

Author : Linda Anne Silvestri,Angela Silvestri
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323582155

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Saunders 2020-2021 Strategies for Test Success - E-Book by Linda Anne Silvestri,Angela Silvestri Pdf

Help alleviate your pre-test jitters with this essential nursing resource! Written by the most trusted experts in NCLEX® prep, Saunders 2020-2021 Strategies for Test Success, 6th Edition introduces tools for overcoming text anxiety and tactics for developing effective study habits. Essentially, it teaches you how to master the things that matter most on your nursing school exams: critical thinking, problem solving, and time management. This essential guide features over 1,200 practice questions and rationales to help you tackle anything from a routine quiz to the NCLEX. It also includes a wealth of proven tips and real-world hints to help you confidently evaluate and identify the correct answer for a variety of test question types, including alternate item formats. Plus, additional questions on the Evolve website gives you even more preparation material! 1,200 review questions are included in the book and online, providing a 2-in-1 approach to learning strategies and test-taking skills Increased focus on critical thinking uses different strategies to help you develop clinical judgment skills, and the ability to question data, and client abnormalities. Helpful Tips for the Nursing Student highlight the most important concepts needed for exam success. UNIQUE! Student-to-Student Hints highlight real life strategies that have helped other students graduate from nursing school and pass the NCLEX® exam. Practice questions coded for the beginning, intermediate, or experienced student, making this book a useful tool throughout your nursing school career. Clearly defined cognitive levels help if you are unfamiliar with this terminology and its significance. Coverage of Interprofessionalism discussed where appropriate throughout text. Priority concepts for each question help you to link your concept-based classes and NCLEX® prep. A fun, 4-color design features cartoons and bold designs to help engage visual learners. NEW! Clinical Judgment Situations and Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) practice questions included on Evolve site let you apply strategies from the text in a realistic electronic testing environment.

Author : Linda Anne Silvestri,Angela E. Silvestri
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323296625

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Saunders 2016-2017 Strategies for Test Success - E-Book by Linda Anne Silvestri,Angela E. Silvestri Pdf

Take the anxiety out of taking any nursing test with Saunders 2016-2017 Strategies for Test Success: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX Exam, 4th Edition. Written by the most trusted expert in NCLEX prep, Linda Silvestri, and updated to reflect the most current NCLEX test plans, this invaluable guide covers key topics like time management, critical thinking, and problem solving, with tips to help you overcome test anxiety and develop effective study habits. Learn how to confidently evaluate and identify the correct answer for a variety of test question types, including alternate item formats, with chapters on preparing for nursing exams, prioritization methods, and pharmacology questions, and practice your skills and gain realistic test-taking experience with the book and Evolve site’s 1,200 practice questions. A Reducing Test Anxiety chapter offers simple strategies to control test-induced stress and gain the confidence needed to pass exams. A Developing Study Skills chapter provides helpful tips on improving time management for more efficient exam preparation. An emphasis on comprehensive test preparation helps you develop, refine, and apply the reasoning skills you need to succeed throughout nursing school and on the NCLEX examination. Coverage of detailed critical thinking methods offers valuable clues to help you analyze and uncover the correct answer option for all question types, including multiple-choice and alternate item-format questions. Helpful Tips for the Beginning Nursing Student highlight the most important concepts needed for exam success. Chapters on specific question content — such as prioritization, pharmacology, triage/disaster management, and delegation — provide numerous examples to prepare you for higher-level questions. UNIQUE! Student-to-Student Hints highlight real life strategies that have helped other students graduate from nursing school and pass the NCLEX exam. Online practice questions let you apply the strategies learned from the text in a realistic electronic testing environment. A fun, 4-color design features cartoons and bold designs to help engage visual learners. NEW! Thoroughly updated content reflects the most current NCLEX test plans. Summary information on the latest test plans is highlighted in chapter 4. NEW! Addition of SI units and removal of trade drug names reflect the upcoming changes to the NCLEX-RN test plan. NEW! 200 new practice questions bring the overall total to 1,200 questions on the Evolve site. NEW! Two-year revision cycle ensures that the content is current and covers all of the question types found on the NCLEX exam. NEW! Priority Concepts added to each question help readers link their concept-based classes and NCLEX prep.

Author : Linda Anne Silvestri, PhD RN,Angela Silvestri, Msn RN
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Nursing
ISBN : 9780323296618

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Saunders Strategies for Test Success 2016-2017 by Linda Anne Silvestri, PhD RN,Angela Silvestri, Msn RN Pdf

Preceded by: Saunders 2014-2015 strategies for test success / Linda Anne Silvestri, Angela Silvestri. 3rd ed. c2014.

Author : Linda Anne Silvestri,Angela E. Silvestri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Nursing
ISBN : OCLC:1311139704

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Saunders 2016-2017 Strategies for Test Success by Linda Anne Silvestri,Angela E. Silvestri Pdf

Take the anxiety out of taking any nursing test with Saunders 2016-2017 Strategies for Test Success: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX Exam, 4th Edition. Written by the most trusted expert in NCLEX prep, Linda Silvestri, and updated to reflect the most current NCLEX test plans, this invaluable guide covers key topics like time management, critical thinking, and problem solving, with tips to help you overcome test anxiety and develop effective study habits. Learn how to confidently evaluate and identify the correct answer for a variety of test question types, including alternate item formats, with chapters on preparing for nursing exams, prioritization methods, and pharmacology questions, and practice your skills and gain realistic test-taking experience with the book and Evolve site 1,200 practice questions.--Description from amazon.com.

Author : Linda Anne Silvestri,Angela Silvestri
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323763899

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2022-2023 Clinical Judgment and Test-Taking Strategies - E-Book by Linda Anne Silvestri,Angela Silvestri Pdf

Use proven strategies to prepare for nursing school tests and the NCLEX® exam! Saunders 2022-2023 Clinical Judgment and Test-Taking Strategies: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX® Exam, 7th Edition provides tools to help you overcome test anxiety, develop study skills, and improve test scores. You’ll gain insight into key nursing areas such as clinical judgment, prioritization, leading and managing, communication, and pharmacology. In the book and on the Evolve website, 1,200 practice questions represent all question types — including alternate item formats and new Next Generation NCLEX®-style test items. Written by leading NCLEX experts Linda Anne and Angela Silvestri, this essential resource offers the practical tips and realistic practice you need to succeed on any exam! Test-taking strategies help students find the correct answer to all types of test questions. Pyramid Points identify content that is important to know in preparing for the NCLEX® examination. Fun, full-color design features lots of sample questions, cartoons, and bold designs to help engage visual learners. 1,200 practice questions are included in the book and on the Evolve website, with each illustrating a test-taking strategy and including the correct answer, rationales for correct and incorrect options, a tip for the nursing student, and question codes. Categorization of questions by beginning, intermediate, or advanced level makes this book a useful tool throughout the nursing program. UNIQUE! Tip for the Nursing Student is provided with every practice question to help students learn content, develop clinical judgment, and master test-taking skills. UNIQUE! Student-to-Student Tips highlight real-life strategies that have helped other students successfully complete nursing school and pass the NCLEX® exam. Practice question categories on Evolve include the level of cognitive ability, client needs, integrated process, clinical judgment/cognitive skill, content area, priority concepts, alternate item formats, and strategy. NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) case studies and practice questions are included on the Evolve website, preparing students for the changes to the NCLEX® exam.

Author : Linda Anne Silvestri
Publisher : W.B. Saunders Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nursing
ISBN : 0721677959

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Saunders Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-RN by Linda Anne Silvestri Pdf

An easy-to-read text focusing on all areas of nursing to aid in successful preparation for the NCLEX-RN. A unique feature of this book is the test-taking strategies included in each chapter. Additionally, students will find content review, practice tests at the end of each chapter with answers and rationales for right and wrong answers and a free CD-ROM that includes the 2,700 practice questions from the text plus 600 additional practice questions.

Author : Linda Silvestri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974801918

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Saunders 2016-2017 Strategies for Test Success by Linda Silvestri Pdf

Author : Linda Anne Silvestri
Publisher : Saunders
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nursing
ISBN : 141600095X

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Saunders Strategies for Success for the NCLEX-RN Examination by Linda Anne Silvestri Pdf

A part of Linda Silvestri's Pyramid to Success, this study and review tool is filled with general test-taking tips, strategies, and other indispensable information to help you prepare for BOTH the NCLEX-RN(R) examination and your nursing exams. Whether this is the first or last review product purchased, this book will help you feel well-prepared and confident as they get ready for the Boards or any exam throughout the nursing curriculum. It incorporates all-new information on the latest NCLEX-RN examination test plan, plus the new alternate item format questions. The text breaks down questions to illustrate not only a rationale for the answer, but also a strategy for tackling similar questions. A companion CD-ROM offers 500 questions, in addition to video clips from Linda Silvestri's seminar on test-taking strategies. It is designed for use alongside any Linda's NCLEX-RN review books. Please check out these other great NCLEX-RN(R) review books from Linda Silvestri: . Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN(R) Examination (9781416037088) . Saunders Q & A Review for the NCLEX-RN(R) Exam (9780721603520) . Saunders Q & A Review for the NCLEX-RN(R) Exam PDA Software Powered by Skyscape (9781416048510) . Strategies for Alternate Item Formats for the NCLEX-RN(R) Exam (9781416038412) . Saunders Q & A Review Cards for the NCLEX-RN(R) Exam (9781416047261) Short chapters and a casual writing style help students understand key concepts involved in preparing for the NCLEX-RN examination. Two-color design with fun illustrations and cartoons help to lighten the reader's mood as they prepare. Each chapter contains examples and analysis of questions to help illustrate particular strategies. Pyramid Point notes emphasize important content related to the NCLEX-RN examination. Alternate item formats are included throughout the text and CD-ROM to help students become accustomed to the new question styles. Information about the new 2004 NCLEX-RN test plan is included in the book for reference. A companion CD-ROM offers 500 questions, allowing students to customize quizzes and exams.

Author : Patricia Mary Nugent,Barbara Ann Vitale
Publisher : F. A. Davis Company
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nursing
ISBN : UOM:39015037814418

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Test Success by Patricia Mary Nugent,Barbara Ann Vitale Pdf

This reference will change the way nursing students think about an prepare for exams. "Text Success" integrates study and test-taking strategies with basic nursing theory and fundamental skills. Students develop techniques that work by helping them manage time, study more effectively, and problem solve by analyzing components of questions.

Author : Linda Anne Silvestri
Publisher : Saunders
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses
ISBN : 0721603521

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Saunders Q & A Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination by Linda Anne Silvestri Pdf

This unique review book organizes questions according to Client Needs, the areas covered in the latest NCLEX examination test plan. Rationales are provided for all answer choices, plus test-taking strategies, and references to Elsevier nursing textbooks. This review includes many critical thinking and alternate item formats, plus a comprehensive exam consisting of 300 questions.

Author : Linda Anne Silvestri,Yazmin Mojica
Publisher : Saunders
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses
ISBN : 1416038418

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Strategies for Alternate Item Formats on the NCLEX-RN Exam by Linda Anne Silvestri,Yazmin Mojica Pdf

This book provides you with the preparation you will need to correctly answer alternate item questions on the NCLEX-RN examination. Organized by client needs to mirror the actual examination a 75-queston comprehensive test. A companion CD-Rom includes all of the questions from the book plus questions with audio components.

Author : Linda Anne Silvestri,Angela Silvestri
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323479714

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Saunders 2018-2019 Strategies for Test Success - E-Book by Linda Anne Silvestri,Angela Silvestri Pdf

Get more than just practice questions; get comprehensive test and nursing school preparation that’s proven to help you succeed! Written by the most trusted expert in NCLEX exam prep, Saunders 2018-2019 Strategies for Test Success: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX Exam, 5th Edition is an invaluable guide that teaches you how to master the things that matter most on the NCLEX exam and your nursing school exams: critical thinking, problem solving, and time management. In this guide you’ll find not only 1,200 practice questions and rationales that reflect the latest NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN test plans, but you’ll also get a wealth of proven tips and real-world hints to help you overcome text anxiety, develop effective study habits, and confidently evaluate and identify the correct answer for a variety of test question types, including alternate item formats. It’s a must-have resource for any nursing student who needs not just practice, but well-rounded preparation! A Reducing Test Anxiety chapter offers simple strategies to control test-induced stress and gain the confidence needed to pass exams. A Developing Study Skills chapter provides helpful tips on improving time management for more efficient exam preparation. 1,200 review questions are included in the book and online, providing a 2-in-1 approach to learning strategies and test-taking skills UNIQUE! Student-to-Student Hints highlight real life strategies that have helped other students graduate from nursing school and pass the NCLEX exam. Helpful Tips for the Nursing Student highlight the most important concepts needed for exam success. Online practice questions let you apply the strategies learned from the text in a realistic electronic testing environment. Emphasis on comprehensive test preparation helps you develop, refine, and apply the reasoning skills you need to succeed throughout nursing school and on the NCLEX examination. Priority concepts for each question help you link your concept-based classes and NCLEX prep. Chapters on specific question content — such as prioritization, pharmacology, triage/disaster management, and delegation — offer numerous examples to prepare you for higher-level questions. A fun, 4-color design features cartoons and bold designs to help engage visual learners. NEW! Thoroughly updated content reflects the most current NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN test plans. NEW! Experience level coding for questions designates each question as beginning, intermediate, or experienced to help focus your learning throughout all points of your nursing school career. NEW! Increased focus on clinical judgement incorporates strategies for clinical judgement, question data, and question abnormalities into the NCLEX-style questions. NEW! Expanded client-centered options address the increasing import of the patient-centered care QSEN competency on the NCLEX Exam. NEW! Additional coverage of interprofessionalism is incorporated.

Author : Diane McGovern Billings
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1582553602

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Lippincott's Review for NCLEX-RN by Diane McGovern Billings Pdf

The thoroughly updated edition reflects the current NCLEX test plan and contains more than 5,000 test questions to help students practice taking the exam. The book contains more questions than any other NCLEX-RN review and includes more pharmacology-related questions.

Author : Linda Anne Silvestri,Angela Silvestri
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 1170 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323709439

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Elsevier’s Canadian Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination - E-Book by Linda Anne Silvestri,Angela Silvestri Pdf

Prepare for success on the NCLEX-RN® exam with the review book written for Canadian nursing students! Elsevier’s Canadian Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination, 2nd Edition provides everything you need to prepare for the NCLEX® exam — complete content review and more than 5,000 NCLEX examination-style questions in the book and online. Proving that not all NCLEX exam review books are the same, only this book includes the kinds of questions that consistently test the critical thinking skills needed to pass today's NCLEX exam. In addition, all answers include detailed rationales and test-taking strategies with tips on how to best approach each question. From Canadian editors Patricia Bradley and Karin Page-Cutrara, and NCLEX review experts Linda Anne Silvestri and Angela Silvestri, this edition integrates Canadian approaches to nursing, making this the only comprehensive review text written from a fully Canadian perspective. It’s THE book of choice for NCLEX preparation! More than 5,000 practice questions in the text and online offer ample testing practice. UNIQUE! Detailed test-taking strategy and rationale is included for each question, offering clues for analyzing and uncovering the correct answer option. UNIQUE! Priority Nursing Action boxes provide information about the steps you will take in clinical situations requiring clinical judgement and prioritization. UNIQUE! Pyramid Points icons indicate important information, identifying content that typically appears on the NCLEX-RN® examination. UNIQUE! Pyramid Alerts appear in red text and highlight important nursing concepts. UNIQUE! Priority Concepts — two in each chapter — discuss important content and nursing interventions. New graduate’s perspective is offered on how to prepare for the NCLEX-RN, in addition to nonacademic preparation, the CAT format, and test-taking strategies. Mnemonics are included to help you remember important information. 75-question comprehensive exam covers all content areas in the book in the same percentages that they are covered on the actual NCLEX-RN test plan. Practice questions on delegation, prioritization, and triage/disaster management emphasize these areas on the NCLEX exam. Companion Evolve website provides 25 new Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN)-style questions plus all alternate item format questions including multiple response, prioritizing (ordered response), fill-in-the-blank, figure/illustration (hot spot), chart/exhibit, video, and audio questions. Question categories on Evolve are organized by cognitive level, client needs area, integrated process, and content area, allowing completely customizable exams or study sessions. UNIQUE! Audio review summaries on Evolve cover pharmacology, acid-base balance, and fluids and electrolytes.

Author : Patricia M. Nugent,Judith S. Green,Mary Ann Hellmer Saul,Phyllis K. Pelikan
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323293891

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Mosby's Comprehensive Review of Nursing for the NCLEX-RN® Examination by Patricia M. Nugent,Judith S. Green,Mary Ann Hellmer Saul,Phyllis K. Pelikan Pdf

A classic resource that has helped nurses pass the NCLEX exam for over 60 years, Mosby's Comprehensive Review of Nursing for the NCLEX-RN® Examination, 20th Edition is fully updated to reflect the newest NCLEX-RN test plan. Content review is presented in a concise and full-color outline format organized by the core areas of medical-surgical, pediatric, maternity/women's health, and mental health nursing, with a practice test following each unit. More than 4,200 practice questions and rationales -- including more than 600 questions in the newest alternate item formats -- are written by a team of trusted NCLEX experts led by author Patricia M. Nugent. This title includes additional digital media when purchased in print format. For this digital book edition, media content may not be included.