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

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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.

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!

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.

This is the ONLY book I studied for the NCLEX--and I passed! I read every chapter and did questions on the disk to reinforce my learning. This book (although long) was easy to read. It also provides memory aids to help you retain what you've read. I wish I had gotten this book while I was still in nursing school. Overall, I am very satisfied with this book.

The reason I bought this book was because I could never finish the reading for my med surg class(due to the fact that the chapters are way too long and I have to study for my other classes). I read this book for the particular section we were covering for the test and I got a B(almost an A). What I really love about this book is how it is broken up into sections of each particular body system and breaks down the diseases on how you should learn it. The way you need to learn a diseases in order to be successful in any nursing class is the etiology, clinical manifestations, therapeutic management and client teaching. This books does that.

It also has NCLEX questions and a CD. They really help you think like a nurse and where it matters the most , the test you have to take in class and during NCLEX exams! So I highly recommend this book if you cannot get through your med surg book or need an extra resource of understanding the material because it really does help out.

I was a bit hesitant to buy this because of its cost (I'm a student!) and the fact that I already have other NCLEX-RN books to study with, but I have found this one to be the BEST overall! I am still in nursing school, but bought this for Medical-Surgical Nursing and have continued to use it for Maternity/Pediatrics, etc. It is particularly helpful to study for exams while in nursing school because it is broken down in sections of the body like you would have to study for in school. For example, Cardiac disorders, Renal disorders, etc. This is precisely why I DON'T like the other NCLEX review books, because they are not broken down by body systems, which may be helpful for an overall review when you're ready for the NCLEX, but is not helpful when you are studying for a test for a nursing school test. I have used this book in study groups A LOT, and other people in my group end up going and buying this book to study on their own with, because of it's usefulness. The review at the beginning of each chapter is a great way to make sure you know key concepts, and the questions are great for testing your basic knowledge and critical thinking skills. The only thing this book doesn't have is that it is more overview in the pharmacology Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Pharmacology (2nd Edition) and mental health nursing Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Mental Health Nursing (2nd Edition), so I bought the books like this one that are specifically for those topics! Overall, I would highly recommend using this book to use for studying during nursing school! And just a hint, if you go to Front Range Community College (Larimer) in Colorado, the teachers have been known to take questions from this book for tests!

I bought this book because I was struggling with my adult comprehensive nursing class and had not passed the first 2 tests. I read the neuro system chapter, because that's what we were focusing on in class, and I received a B on my next test! This is a great book if you have an instructor who gives NCLEX style questions!

This is one of 4 NCLEX review books I am utilizing... it is more comprehensive both in question content and rationale content than other texts thus, it requires a more intensive study approach. I used many of the Prentice Hall Reviews and Rationales texts during nursing school and really found them helpful at clarifying what my required texts either glossed over or explained poorly. I am a big fan and recommend this series.

I was excited to get this book because it came highly recommended by my nursing instructor. The book does have a TON of information in its 1450+ pages, but I have some problems with it.

* It doesn't contain many illustrations or charts
* I have found many errors both in the book and on the CD
* The CD repeats a lot of questions even though it has over 5000 on it
* I wish it would but the diseases together with the drug treatments to avoid flipping from chapter to chapter

Overall, it's a pretty good book and has every piece of info on everything imaginable. If you are a visual learner like me though, you probably won't like it.

I used this book primarily for studying for the NCLEX. I LOVED it!!! I would absolutely recommend it to anyone! It helped me pass the NCLEX with 75 questions..Just beware the CD-Rom does not work with Macs, which was kind of annoying, since they say it does....