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Nursing Fundamentals and Medical-Surgical Nursing
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Fundamentals Success: A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking, 2nd Edition

By Patricia M. Nugent, RN, MA, MS, EdD, formerly of Nassau Community College, Garden City, New York.
Barbara A. Vitale, RN, MA, Nassau Community College, Garden City, New York.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-1921-0
ISBN-10: 0-8036-1921-9

470 pp. Soft cover.  ©2008  Available now. $36.95

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Here is the only question-and-answer review book for fundamentals. More than 1,475 classroom-tested, NCLEX-style questions that cover an entire nursing fundamentals course.
Whats New?
  • BONUS! New CD-ROM with two 75-question final exams.
  • 100-question final exam, with answers and comprehensive rationales.
    Completely revised and up-to-date to reflect the latest medical technology, practice guidelines, and standards of nursing practice.
  • 100 new format questions in a single chapter—multiple response, fill-in-the blank, hot spot drag and drop/ordered response items, and exhibit items that require a response to picture, chart, graph or table.
  • 100 additional new format questions spread across 24 content areas.

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Key Features
  • Offers rationales for correct and incorrect answers.
  • Focuses on the specific needs of the beginning nursing student taking their fundamentals course.
  • Uses the RACE model to help students think critically during testing.
  • Includes a glossary of more than 250 common English words often found on nursing tests, for the benefit of ESL and other students

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Table of Contents
 
  1. Fundamentals of Critical Thinking Related to Test-Taking: The RACE Model
  2. Nursing Within the Context of Contemporary Health Care
  3. Psychosociocultural Nursing Care
  4. Essential Components of Nursing Care
  5. Basic Human Needs and Related Nursing Care
  6. Alternate Question Formats
  7. Comprehensive Final Book Exam
  8. Glossary of English Words Commonly Encountered on Nursing Examinations

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