NCLEX

• Evolve Student Resources for Silvestri: Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination, Seventh Edition, include the following:

  
• How to Use the Online Practice Questions

  1. Customize your study session for your time and your own unique needs

  2. Pre-test of 75 questions evaluates your current knowledge. These results feed into a personalized Study Calendar to help guide you in your preparation for the NCLEX-RN examination

  3. Study Mode: Receive immediate feedback after each question. Select questions by Client Needs, Integrated Process, Alternate Item Format Type, Priority Concept, or specific Content Area. The answer, rationale, test-taking strategy, question codes, priority concepts, and reference sources for further remediation appear immediately after you answer each question

  4. Exam Mode: Take a practice exam, and receive your results and feedback at the end. Select questions by Client Needs, Integrated Process, Alternate Item Format Type, Priority Concept, or specific Content Area. Then select the number of questions you'd like to take in your exam—10, 25, 50, or 100. When you've finished the exam, the percentage of questions you answered correctly will be shown in a table, and you can go back to review the correct answers—as well as rationales, test-taking strategies, question codes, priority concepts, and reference(s)—for each question

  5. Post-test of 75 questions simulating the NCLEX Client Needs percentages helps you evaluate your progress
• Activate the complete learning experience that comes with each NEW textbook purchase by registering with your scratch-off access code at http://evolve.elsevier.com/Silvestri/comprehensiveRN/
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• Evolve Student Resources are provided free with each NEW book purchase only.
• Instructor of Nursing


  Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island
• President


  Nursing Reviews, Inc., Henderson, Nevada<|>Nursing Reviews, Inc., Charlestown, Rhode Island<|>Professional Nursing Seminars, Inc., Charlestown, Rhode Island
• Elsevier Consultant


  HESI NCLEX-RN® and NCLEX-PN® Live Review Courses
• Assistant Professor


  Touro University Nevada—School of Nursing, Henderson, Nevada
• Degree


  From Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Massachusetts
• BSN


  From American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts
• MSN


  From Anna Maria College in Paxton, Massachusetts, with a dual major in Nursing Management and Patient Education
• PhD in Nursing


  From the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, conducted research on self-efficacy and the predictors of NCLEX® success
• Memberships


  • Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International
  • Phi Kappa Phi
  • American Nurses Association
  • National League for Nursing
  • Western Institute of Nursing
  • Eastern Nursing Research Society
  • Golden Key International Honour Society
• 2012 Alumna of the Year/Nurse of the Year Award


  From the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Nursing
• Teaching career


  1. Instructor of medical-surgical nursing and leadership-management nursing at Baystate Medical Center School of Nursing (1981)

  2. Taught advanced medical-surgical nursing and psychiatric nursing to RN and LPN students at the Community College of Rhode Island (1989)

  3. Taught medical-surgical nursing at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island (1994 - present)
• Assisting students with NCLEX preparation


  A group of students approached me for assistance in preparing for the NCLEX examination
• Personal experiences with testing

  Taking tests was never easy for me, and as a student I needed to find methods and strategies that would bring success
• Developing review products


  Inspired me to develop and write the many products that would foster success with testing
• Established companies


  Professional Nursing Seminars, Inc. (1991)<|>NursingReviews, Inc. (2000, 2012)
• Elsevier consultant for HESI Live Reviews


  Review courses for the NCLEX examinations conducted throughout the country
• Pyramid Points


  Placed next to specific content to highlight important aspects and identify content likely to appear on the NCLEX-RN examination
• Pyramid Alerts


  Red text that alerts you to important information about nursing concepts that typically appears on the NCLEX-RN examination

  
• Priority Nursing Actions


  Boxes that present a clinical nursing situation and the priority actions to take, with a rationale explaining the correct order of action
• Critical Thinking: What Should You Do? Questions

  Brief clinical scenarios related to the chapter content that ask what you should do about the client situation, with a narrative answer and reference
• Pretest and Study Calendar

  • 75-question pretest that provides feedback on strengths and weaknesses, generating an individualized study calendar
• Heart, Lung, and Bowel Sound Questions

  • Audio questions representative of content in the NCLEX-RN test plan
• Video Questions


  • Video questions representative of content in the NCLEX-RN test plan
• Testlet Questions


  • Question types that include a client scenario and several accompanying practice questions
• Audio Review Summaries and Animations

  • Audio review summaries covering challenging subject areas, and animations presenting various content areas
• Practice Questions


  • 996 NCLEX-style multiple-choice and alternate item format questions, with over 5200 questions total including the Evolve site
• Test-taking strategies


  Highlighted in bold blue type to assist in answering questions correctly
• Specific content areas for review

  Highlighted in bold magenta type to provide direction for locating content in the book
• Question categories


  • Level of Cognitive Ability, Client Needs, Integrated Process, Priority Concepts, and nursing Content Area
• Pharmacology and Medication Calculations Review

  • 13 pharmacology chapters, a medication and intravenous calculation chapter, and a pediatric medication calculation chapter
• The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive review of the nursing content you will be tested on during the NCLEX-RN examination

  
• This book is intended to serve as a valuable study tool that you can refer to throughout your nursing program, with customizable Evolve site selections

  
• After using this book for comprehensive content review, the next step is to get additional practice with a Q&A review product like Saunders Q&A Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination
• The final step is to master the online review with Saunders Online Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination
• At the base of the Pyramid to Success are test-taking strategies, which provide a foundation for understanding and unpacking the complexities of NCLEX-RN examination questions