Essential for NCLEX, course and competencey review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of medical-surgical nursing. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post chapter tests with comprehensive rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts and new test-taking strategies. Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering nursing care for respiratory, cardiac, neurological, renal, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, and other health problems, emergency and critical care, and much more.
Mary Ann Hogan, MSN, RN has been a nurse educator for 25 years, currently as a Clinical
Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught in
diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate nursing programs.A former item writer for
the CAT NCLEX-RN® exam,Ms. Hogan has been teaching review courses throughout
New England for the last 15 years. She also has contributed to a number of publications
in the areas of adult health, pharmacology, and fundamentals of nursing. She is a member
of the American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor
Society for Nursing.