2024-2025 Saunders Clinical Judgment and Test-Taking Strategies: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX® Exam (Saunders Strategies for Success for the NCLEX Examination) - Softcover

Silvestri PhD RN ANEF FAAN, Linda Anne; Silvestri PhD APRN FNP-BC CNE, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323874258 ISBN 13: 9780323874250

Publisher: Saunders, 2023

Synopsis

Learn proven strategies to prepare for nursing school tests and the NCLEX® exam! 2024-2025 Saunders Clinical Judgment and Test-Taking Strategies: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX® Exam, 8th Edition provides tools to help you overcome test anxiety, develop strong 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 companion website, 1,200 practice questions represent all question types ― including alternate item formats and new test items for the Next Generation NCLEX®. Written by leading NCLEX experts Linda and Angela Silvestri, this essential resource offers the practical tips and realistic practice you need to succeed on any exam!

• Helpful Tips for the Nursing Student are provided with every practice question to highlight the most important concepts needed for exam success
• UNIQUE! Student-to-Student Tips highlight real-life strategies that have helped other students successfully complete nursing school and pass the NCLEX® exam
• Focus on test-taking strategies helps you develop essential clinical judgment skills and prepares you to find the correct answer to all types of test questions
• Categorization of questions by beginning, intermediate, or advanced level makes this book a useful tool throughout your nursing program
• 1,200 practice questions in the book and on the companion Evolve website include detailed rationales and test-taking strategies
• Practice question categories on the companion Evolve website include the level of cognitive ability, client needs, integrated process, clinical judgment/cognitive skill, content area, priority concepts, alternate item formats, and strategy

• NEW! Additional Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) unfolding case studies and single-episode item types are included on the Evolve companion website, preparing you for the changes to the NCLEX® exam
• NEW! NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model (NCJMM) updates and new item types are included throughout the book

About this title

About the Authors

Linda Anne Silvestri has provided decades of nursing education and leadership that has directly impacted the growing and needed nursing workforce. Her research focused on a holistic investigation of predictors leading to success on the licensure examination. Her findings, published in the Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, led to significant contributions, filling a critical need in NCLEX® preparation. Linda’s vision was to provide a holistic educational approach to ensure overall well-being in test anxiety and self-efficacy, and success on the NCLEX®. As a leader in providing global NCLEX® preparation resources published by Elsevier, she strives for excellence in publication quality, based on the discovery of new knowledge in nursing, standards of care, and research-based studies. Her published resources ensure nursing graduates’ ability to make sound clinical judgments as they serve the public and the nursing profession. Linda is also a Next Generation NCLEX® Subject Matter Expert and Consultant for Elsevier.

Assistant Professor Angela Silvestri at Touro University Nevada-School of Nursing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Saunders
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323874258
• ISBN 13: 9780323874250
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280