Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination: First South Asia Edition

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-81-312-3782-3
Verlag: Elsevier India

Buch, Englisch, 1252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 279 mm

Widely popular as "the best NCLEX® exam review book ever,"Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination provides everything you need to prepare for the NCLEX® exam. This South Asian Edition of the book provides the essential content one needs to master not only the NCLEX®, but all nursing examinations. In addition, it also takes care of the anticipated needs of immigrating nurses in the foreign country, like awareness on electronic nursing documentation, stress management and nursing errors prevention, and patient safety related issues.

Outstanding Features of the South Asian Adaptation: What's New

- Predeparture Orientation Tips: Addresses all the queries and concerns of nurses when they are boarding an international flight for the first time. Emphasis has been given on dos and don'ts.

- NCLEX Examination Tips: Focuses on test preparation guidelines (intellectual, emotional and physical preparation).

- Assertiveness and Accountability in Nursing: Emphasizes on importance of assertiveness for nurses, components of assertiveness, need for accountability and identify the benefits of accountability for your actions.

- Body Mechanics for Nurses: Describes the principles of body mechanics, advantage of practicing the body mechanics principles and techniques of patient shifting.

- Electronic Nursing Documentation: Discusses the importance of the electronic nursing documentation for nurses and need of IT for documentation; identifies the benefits of nursing information system.

- Infection Control and Prevention: Analyses the various hospital-associated infections, analysis and interpretation of the infection control indicators, and nurse's role in infection prevention and control.

- Common Nursing Errors: Discusses the types of nursing errors, impact of nursing errors, and ways to prevent the errors.

- Patient Safety: Analyses the incidence and prevalence of medical errors; identifies the situations, circumstance, and actions that contribute to medical errors; and identifies methods to decrease medical errors and to manage the risks.

- Stress Management: Identifies the causes, signs, and symptoms of stress, as well as the ways to

reduce and manage stress at workplace.

- Comprehensive Test: Thoroughly revised, enriched review test. To be used for self-evaluation of the baseline content and to pinpoint where further study, review, and practice are needed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaushik, Annu

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Ausbildung in der Pflege
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Unit I. NCLEX-RN® Exam Preparation, 1

Unit II. Issues in Nursing, 35

Unit III. Nursing Sciences, 81

Unit IV. Fundamental Skills, 174

Unit V. Growth and Development across the Life Span, 246

Unit VI. Maternity Nursing, 297

Unit VII. Pediatric Nursing, 413

Unit VIII. Integumentary Disorders of the Adult Client, 556

Unit IX. Hematological and Oncological Disorders of the Adult Client, 591

Unit X. Endocrine Disorders of the Adult Client, 637

Unit XI. Gastrointestinal Disorders of the Adult Client, 682

Unit XII. Respiratory Disorders of the Adult Client, 722

Unit XIII. Cardiovascular Disorders of the Adult Client, 773

Unit XIV. Renal and Urinary Disorders of the Adult Client, 838

UNIT XV. Eye and Ear Disorders of the Adult Client, 885

UNIT XVI. Neurological Disorders of the Adult Client, 919

UNIT XVII. Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Adult Client, 964

UNIT XVIII. Immune Disorders of the Adult Client, 995

UNIT XIX. Mental Health Disorders of the Adult Client, 1019

UNIT XX. Comprehensive Test, 1096

References, 1119

Index, 1121