Prentice Hall's Reviews & Rationales: Comprehensive NCLEX-RN® Review [Paperback]

Mary Ann Hogan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0131195999 | ISBN-13: 978-0131195998 | Publication Date: June 21, 2007

From the author of Prentice Hall's Nursing Reviews use and Rationales Series comes a comprehensive review for the NCLEX-RN(R). Completely current reflecting the April 2007 NCLEX-RN(R) test plan, this review book features a comprehensive outline review, over 1600 practice questions and 265-question practice tests. A FREE CD-ROM provides an additional 4,000 questions for review. Throughout answers are complete with rationales and testing strategies to help students determine how to answer questions, even when they aren't sure of the correct answer.

In this competitive market, this new NCLEX-RN(R) review book will stand out because of these features:
-The quantity and quality of our review questions, over 5,600 total
-Organization according to the April 2007 NCLEX-RN(R) Test Plan
-The multi-media support that accompanies this review book.
-Inclusion of alternate test items such as prioritization, dosage calculation, enhanced image questions, and more in the book and on the CD
-FREE Prentice Hall NursingNotes Cards

Additional features include:
-Over 1600 NCLEX-RN(R)-style questions in the book
-Rationales and testing strategies for a for all answers
-Nearly all questions are a high level of difficulty, i.e. analysis and application
-FREE CD-ROM offering an additional 4,000 practice questions
-Memory Test Aid boxes
-Test Your NCLEX(R) I.Q. assessment boxes
-Review tips for ESL students
-Section for foreign nurses to help prepare them for the NCLEX-RN(R)

 

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From the Back Cover

This comprehensive review book is designed to serve as the ultimate study guide to prepare you for the NCLEX-RN^® by:

ü Highlighting critical concepts on the NCLEX-RN^®
ü Providing practice opportunities with over 5,600 questions in the book and on the CD-ROM

ü  Honing your test-taking skills with strategies for every question

 

Prentice Hall’s NCLEX-RN^® Test Prep CD-ROM helps you assess your NCLEX^® readiness, featuring:

ü      Over 5,600 questions including alternate-item format questions

ü      Study, Quiz, and Exam modes to customize your practice sessions

ü      Detailed reports showing your strengths and weaknesses

ü      Comprehensive rationales for correct and incorrect answers

 

UNIQUE Prentice Hall NursingNotes cards tear-out of the book providing you with a quick review and testing-strategies.

 

ABOUT THE SERIES

This popular series is the complete foundation for success within the classroom, in clinical settings, and on the NCLEX-RN^® examination.  Each topical volume offers a concentrated review of core content from across the nursing curriculum, while providing hundreds of practice questions and comprehensive rationales.  The complete series includes the following volumes:

 

·          Anatomy & Physiology

·          Nursing Fundamentals and Skills

·          Nutrition and Diet Therapy

·          Fluids, Electrolytes, & Acid-Base Balance

·          Medical-Surgical Nursing

·          Pathophysiology

·          Pharmacology

·          Maternal-Newborn Nursing

·          Child Health Nursing

·          Mental Health Nursing

·          Physical Assessment

·          Community Health Nursing

·          Leadership & Management

·          Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-RN^®

·          Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-PN^®

 

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·        Key Terms: Audio “flashcards” to help you review key concepts and terms

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About the Author

Mary Ann Hogan,RN,MSN has been a nurse educator for more than 20 years, currently as a Clinical Assistant 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(R), she has been teaching NCLEX(R) review programs for the past 14 years, with a particular interest in working with students who have English-as-a-second-language to prepare for exams. She has contributed to a number of publications in the area of NCLEX(R) review, adult health and fundamentals of nursing. Ms. Hogan is a member of the American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau International.

 

Product Details

• Paperback: 1536 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (June 21, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131195999
• ISBN-13: 978-0131195998
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,374 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NCLEX Review, December 30, 2008

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This review is from: Prentice Hall's Reviews & Rationales: Comprehensive NCLEX-RN® Review (Paperback)

I have 8 NCLEX-RN review books and this is my favorite. This is a very comprehensive review of what they taught in Nursing school, so it seems overwhelming at first. But, it has a great feature--the content that shows up in NCLEX tests most often is highlighted with an exclamation point in the margin. So, you can review the content with the exclamation points and feel fairly confident that you're studying what usually shows up on the test. This is also a great book to have while in school. For example, after you study Cardiovascular disorders in theory, you can review the Cardio disorder chapter and the Cardio pharmacology chapter. Each chapter has a section of NCLEX-style questions with rationales, so you get good experience answering NCLEX-style questions while you're in school. There is a separate section of pharmacological and parenteral therapies that is wonderful. If you just need to brush-up on meds, you can go to this section. Some of the pharmacology chapters are: Dosage Calculations, Peds Dosage calculations, IV therapy, Blood Therapy, TPN, Maternal and newborn meds., psychiatric meds., respiratory meds., Cardio meds., etc. I've read that NCLEX tests ask more pharmacology questions now, so I appreciate these medication-specific chapters. The tables and charts are also very concise and complete. All-in-all, this book was easy to read and has everything (content-wise) that you need. I haven't taken the NCLEX-RN test yet, but did well on the HESI predictor test that they made us take right before graduation. I know that as a nurse, I will also use this Reviews and Rationales book to review content that I'm starting to forget. Definitely worth the money--probably the best Nursing book I've bought.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book to have for HESI!, November 13, 2008

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This review is from: Prentice Hall's Reviews & Rationales: Comprehensive NCLEX-RN® Review (Paperback)

Hi. I wrote the previous post about passing the HESI using this book. I actually just found out today that I passed NCLEX for the first time.
This is an excellent book! After I did not pass HESI the first time, I used this book heavily for questions, and I actually increased my score by 200 points using questions from this book, and using the Saunders Comp NCLEX RN review for content review. Finally passed it the 3rd time though (HESI).

In the two months that I reviewed for NCLEX, I predominantly did the Q trainers/Q bank from the Kaplan online course, but still made time to answer some of Hogan's quiz questions. I have to tell you though, my Diagnostic Test (first test you take for Kaplan to determine where you were) was in the passing range, which meant you're ready to take the NCLEX and was actually higher when I took the Readiness test.

I really credit this book in helping me not only via the CDROM, but also the content in this book. There's a really good section in Infection Control that I really highly recommend people read before they take NCLEX. It really helped!

Thank you so much Ms. Hogan for helping me pass!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent nursing school resource, May 6, 2009

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E. Hanneman "SonoranReader" (Sonoran Desert, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Prentice Hall's Reviews & Rationales: Comprehensive NCLEX-RN® Review (Paperback)

This is my favorite NCLEX book (I also have Saunders and Kaplan) as it is so well-organized, replete with necessary info, and offers rationales for the NCLEX-style question and answer sets.

It offers more background than Saunders which I need at this stage. --I just finished my first semester of nursing school. If I could only buy one NCLEX book, this would be it. The included CD is excellent (allows immediate review after answering questions).

I just scored a 98.4% on the HESI. I think this book helped. I also have Mary Ann Hogan's Pathophysiology: Reviews & Rationales. Another book that helped me was a pharmacology book by Richard Lehne.

My only criticism of the Hogan NCLEX book: this book contains some material that is beyond me right now. It is heavy to carry around. --But I know it will serve me well as the semesters pass.