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Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Success: A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking (Davis's Success)

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This book is great if you are having trouble with nursing questions. I was struggling in mental health and my teacher noticed that my test taking skills were lacking

so she suggested that I got this book. This book really is good because it gives you a lot of NCLEX style questions and breaks it down into section such as

Schizophrenia and Other Thought Disorders. It has wonderful rationales to tell you way you got the answer right or why you got an answer wrong. My test grade went up from C to an A by using this book as a study guide after I read my chapters(Did I mention that a lot of these test question were similar to the ones on my test).

Now this book will not help out in giving more in dept review of the content. If you need more explanation on a subject then I suggest the review and rationales for mental health. So again, this book is helpful for students who are having trouble with nursing question, test taking skills are not so great (such as narrowing down the answer to two and choosing the wrong one), and just like extra practice questions. This book is really good to use along with your mental health class as a study guide.

This book has a great bank of questions for reviewing material for Mental Health nursing exams. It is broken down by disorder with 40-50 critical thinking type questions. The sections for each disorder are broken down even further with questions related to each step of the nursing process. I would highly recommend using this book as a study guide, especially if your nursing program requires the HESI specialty exams.

This is a very helpful tool for psychiatric nursing. I think it helped get me into the minset for taking my nursing exams and great practice for before exams. It helps you study more if there is a topic you need more help with. I would definitely recommend this resource.

I didn't purchase this book until my last semester of nursing school, and could kick myself for not buying it earlier. The semester before, I failed our psych test whereas I was one of the highest in my class the next semester after purchasing and studying the questions and rationales in this book.

This book is sort of helpful but it's missing major depression!!!! This is a big chunk of my textbook and I had alot of questions on major depression on the exam. When I opened the review book to take a practice test, the major depression section was missing in the table of contents. I truly believe major depression is as important as other topics that were given whole chapters in the review book. I am pretty dissapointed since this is the only review book I use before taking my mental health exams. I will be using other practice test review books to practice for my NCLEX.

I used this to review for my second exam after getting a low grade on my first Mental Health Nursing exam and my grade improved by more than 10 points!! This is a great resource for anyone in a Mental Health Nursing class.

I have bought all of these books for each semester in nursing school. I love them. I find them very helpful. The rationales for the questions and answers really help me when I am approaching the tests in my classes. I recommend these to all my friends and most of them have bought them as well.

I used this book with great success for my psychiatric nursing class this past semester. The practice questions prepared me well for the actual tests. Definitely

recommend and worth purchasing.

man as a repeater i was scared i was going to fail again.... i started doing qustion and ... u know i was acing my exams with this they are so good these question and the rationals are the best i got a b outta my course :)

I really liked this book because the questions were of the same level of difficulty in critical thinking as the questions my instructor used.

Each section has several questions about the title subjects including a separate section for pharmacology. The pharm section is divided into types of drugs (ie sedative/hypnotics, anti-psychotics, antidepressants etc, each section is divided into theory,defense mechanisms, nursing process-assessments, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and then more pharmacology. I found this especially useful because my teacher didn't really test theory much, so I could easily skim or skip through those questions.

Each question has rationales with the correct answer AS WELL as each distractor. This was helpful for those very difficult questions when all the distractors are also correct, just less correct and the actual answer. These questions are notorious in nursing school, and instructors seem to love them. This book help me understand those better.

My only complaint (which isn't enough to take away a full star for the review) is that the section on Dissociative and sexual disorders was quite short, and didn't have as many questions as I would have like to see.

I can't speak to the NCLEX because I haven't taken it yet but this was great to test my class knowledge, and I'm sure I will pull this book out when it's time to study for the NCLEX.