Fundamentals success : NCLEX-style Q & A review

Nugent, Patricia Mary 1944- (Author). Vitale, Barbara Ann, 1944- (author.).

Summary: Master the fundamentals of nursing while developing your critical thinking and test-taking skills.

Record details

ISBN: 9780803677456
ISBN: 0803677456
Physical Description: print
xvii, 589 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Edition: Fifth edition.
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : F.A. Davis, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Fundamentals of critical thinking related to test taking. Introduction -- Maximize your critical-thinking abilities -- Critical thinking applied to test taking -- Critical-thinking strategy to answer nursing questions: the race model -- Summary -- Nursing within the context of contemporary health care. Theory-based nursing care -- Legal and ethical issues -- Leadership and management -- Health-care delivery -- Community-based nursing -- Psychosociocultural nursing care -- Nursing care across the life span -- Communication -- Psychological support -- Teaching and learning -- Diversity and spirituality -- Essential components of nursing care -- Nursing process -- Physical assessment -- Infection control -- Safety -- Medication administration -- Pharmacology -- Basic human needs and related nursing care -- Hygiene -- Mobility -- Nutrition -- Oxygenation -- Urinary elimination -- Fluids and electrolytes -- Gastrointestinal system -- Pain, comfort, rest, and sleep -- Perioperative nursing -- Alternate item formats -- Alternate item formats: questions -- Alternate items formats: answers and rationales -- Comprehensive final book exam -- Comprehensive final book exam: answers and rationales -- Glossary of English words commonly encountered on nursing examinations.