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The road to nursing success begins here!

• A complete review of core concepts.
• More than 800 questions (Alternate format, too!)
• Test-taking hints and rationales for correct and incorrect answers.

Over 800 practice questions in the text and on the BONUS CD-ROM introduce beginning nursing students to a variety of testing formats they’ll encounter throughout their nursing education and on the NCLEX® exam.

An easy-to-follow format organizes information into 14 content areas. Invaluable coverage enhances critical thinking, time management, and effective study habits through proven techniques, improving classroom performance and test-taking.

Thoroughly updated and revised, the 6th Edition provides more alternate-item-format questions reflecting the latest NCLEX-RN® test plan as well as a wealth of test-taking tips to reduce anxiety and build confidence for Test Success!

"The Success books are absolutely essential to my study regime. I literally need one like I need coffee in the morning to pass an exam!"—Taryn Van Rensburg, Student Nurse at Naugatuck Valley Community College, CT

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• Over 800 total questions in the text and on the CD-ROM with all forms of test taking.
• Coverage on empowerment, critical thinking, the nursing process, and computer applications in education and evaluation.
• Time management strategies with tips and suggestions that specifically address the challenges of working full or part-time and juggling multiple responsibilities throughout nursing school.
• Study and test-taking strategies with basic nursing theory and skills.
• Information processing analysis tool presenting topics relating to the process of test taking, including processing errors and personal performance trends.
• Knowledge analysis tool focusing on how to identify clusters of errors in specific knowledge categories on a test.
• Corrective Action Guide describing what to do to correct test-taking errors.

1. Empowerment
2. Critical Thinking
3. Time Management
4. Study Techniques
5. The Multiple Choice Question
6. The Nursing Process
7. Test-Taking Techniques
8. Testing Formats Other Than Multiple-Choice Questions
9. Computer Applications in Education and Evaluation
10. Analyze Your Test Performance
11. Practice Questions with Answers and Rationales
12. Comprehensive Final Exam

• MORE! Approximately 200 alternate-item format questions reflecting the latest NCLEX-RN® test plan.
• NEW! Test-taking tips throughout the text and on the CD-ROM.
• UPDATED! The most current medical technology and standards of nursing practice, as well content reflecting the CDC and the AHA guidelines.
• NEW! Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Triangle featured in Chapter 6, The Nursing Process.
• REVISED! Chapter 11, Practice Questions with Answers and Rationales, offering more alternate-item-format questions for each of the 14 content areas.
• ENHANCED! Alternate-item-format questions and test-taking tips added to the 100-question final exam in the text, featuring questions from all 14 content areas—with answers and rationales.
• UPDATED! BONUS CD-ROM offering two, 75 question final exams, including…
  • MORE! Alternate-item format questions
  • NCLEX descriptors
  • Rationales for correct and incorrect answers
  • NEW! Test-taking tips with the rationales