Kaplan NCLEX-RN 2000-2001 with CD-ROM: National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurse with CDROM,9780684870137

Kaplan NCLEX-RN 2000-2001 with CD-ROM: National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurse with CDROM

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Edition: CD
ISBN13: 9780684870137
ISBN10: 0684870134
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-03-01
Publisher(s): Kaplan Interactive
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Summary

This focused, strategic guide is for the more than 200,000 nursing students preparing to take the NCLEX-RN, the national exam which licenses RNs. The CD-ROM contains a full-length computer adaptive test for practice.

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book ix
PART ONE: Preparing for the NCLEX
Overview of the NCLEX
3(20)
What is the NCLEX?
4(3)
Content of the NCLEX
7(16)
Testing, NCLEX-Style
23(12)
Standardized Exams
23(1)
What Behaviors Does NCLEX Test?
24(6)
Are You a Successful or Unsuccessful Test Taker?
30(5)
There's Only One Way to Skin the CAT
35(24)
Critical Thinking Strategies
38(2)
Reword-the-Question
40(2)
Eliminate Wrong Answers
42(5)
Don't Predict Answers
47(2)
Recognizing Expected Outcomes
49(3)
Read Answer Choices to Obtain Clues
52(7)
Maslow is a Verb
59(20)
Maslow
61(6)
Assessment versus Implementation Strategy
67(4)
Safety
71(8)
The NCLEX Isn't the Real World
79(14)
First Take Care of the Patient, Then the Equipment
83(1)
Laboratory Values
84(2)
Medication Administration
86(2)
Notify the Physician
88(5)
Therapeutic Communication
93(8)
How to Select the Correct Therapeutic Communication Answer
94(7)
Questions on Positioning
101(10)
Strategies for Positioning Questions
102(1)
Things to Remember
103(4)
Essential Positions to Know for the NCLEX
107(4)
Management of Care
111(10)
The Rules of Management
112(9)
``It Sounds Great, But...''
121(4)
How to Study for the NCLEX
125(8)
Ineffective Ways to Prepare
125(2)
Effective Methods of Study
127(2)
Mental Preparation
129(4)
The Licensure Process
133(10)
How to Apply for the NCLEX
133(10)
Taking the Test More than Once
143(6)
Notes For International Nurses
149(204)
The CGFNS Certificate
149(1)
Work Visas
150(1)
Nursing Practice in the United States
150(4)
Sample Questions
154(5)
Answers
159(5)
Language
164(1)
Kaplan's International Programs
164(5)
PART TWO: The NCLEX Practice Test
Test Questions
169(67)
Answer Key
236(3)
Practice Test Answers and Explanations
239(76)
PART THREE: Appendices
Appendix A: Chart of Critical Thinking Strategies
315(2)
Appendix B: NCLEX Terminology
317(8)
Appendix C: Common Medical Abbreviations
325(14)
Appendix D: State Licensing Requirements
339(14)
Appendix E: User's Guide to the CD-ROM
353

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