Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX Examination, 3e

<p>The only NCLEX review book on the market with a focus on prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment - just like the current NCLEX Examination itself! Using a unique simple-to-complex approach, <b>Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX® Examination, 3rd Edition</b> establishes your foundational knowledge in management of care, then provides exercises of increasing difficulty to help you build confidence in your prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills.</p><b>UNIQUE! Emphasis on the NCLEX Examination's management-of-care focus </b>addresses the heavy emphasis on prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment in the current NCLEX Examination (17-23% of the 2013 NCLEX-RN Exam) .<b>UNIQUE! Three-part organization </b>establishes foundational knowledge and then provides exercises of increasing difficulty to help you build confidence in your prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills.<b>Answer key </b>at the back of the book offers a detailed rationale and an indication of the focus of the question to encourage formative assessment.<b>Introduction chapter by delegation expert Ruth Hansten</b> provides guidelines for prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment decisions as well as a concise, practical foundation on which Parts 2 and 3 build.<b>Part 2: Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment in Common Health Scenarios </b>give you practice in applying the principles from Part 1 with straightforward NCLEX-style multiple-choice, multiple-select, ordering, and short-answer questions to help you develop and build confidence in prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills while working within the confines of relatively simple health scenarios.<b>Part 3: Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment in Complex Health Scenarios </b>utilizes unfolding cases that build on the skills learned in Part 2 to equip you to make sound decisions in realistic, complex health scenarios involving complicated health problems and/or challenging patient assignment decisions and help you learn to &quot;think like nurses&quot; by developing what Benner (2010) calls &quot;clinical imagination.&quot;<b>NEW! Fully interactive question functionality </b>features optional online answer submission with automated scoring.<b>NEW! The all-important QSEN initiative is addressed by: </b> Introducing the QSEN initiative and QSEN competencies in Part I Including a new chapter focused primarily on safety and other &quot;nursing fundamentals&quot; issues Identifying corresponding QSEN competencies and Concepts for each question in the Answer Key in the Evolve Instructor Resources<b>NEW! Faculty-only Unfolding Cases and <i>Suggested Uses</i> resource </b>on Evolve facilitate classroom discussion, development of clinical reasoning skills, and learner evaluation, as well as tips for teaching with the book throughout the nursing curriculum.<b>NEW! <i>Safety and Infection Control</i> chapter </b>features an increased number of questions specific to the QSEN safety competency.<b>NEW! Separate<i> Diabetes Mellitus</i> and <i>Other Endocrine Problems</i> chapters </b>give greater emphasis to diabetes as requested in feedback on the previous edition.<b>NEW! <i>Pediatric Problems </i>and<i> Psychiatric-Mental Health Problems </i>chapters </b>expand on content formerly integrated into body systems chapters to provide you with a more thorough understanding of these key clinical areas.<b>NEW! NCLEX chart-format questions </b>include six patient &quot;charts&quot; in Case Study 6 (Home Health) to reflect the NCLEX Exam's chart-format questions.<b>NEW! Design and navigation enhancements </b>include page cross-references at the bottom of each page, quick-reference tabs on the answer key, and a new two- color design. <b>NEW! Additional questions </b>address the newborn, immunization, catheter-related infection, and ventilator-related infection.