Study Guide for Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing

Study Guide for Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing

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<p>Student-friendly and easy to use, the <b>Study Guide for Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, 5th Edition</b>, is designed to help you master content and evaluate your progress through practical, useful exercises and activities, including a wealth of multiple-choice and alternate-format questions. This edition places an increased emphasis on higher-level application questions, including exercises to encourage practice in setting priorities, to prepare you to transfer your knowledge of medical-surgical concepts to patient care in the clinical setting.</p><ul><li><b>Helps you hone critical thinking skills</b> essential for success on licensure exams and in clinical practice.</li><li><b>Reinforces textbook content and provides ample opportunity for self-assessment</b> with a wide variety of learning activities, including matching (key term and vocabulary review), completion, listing, labeling (illustrations), ranking/ordering, and application questions for textbook nursing care plans.</li><li><b>Includes textbook page references</b>, making self-assessment easier and faster. </li> </ul><ul><li>Emphasizes application of nursing concepts with <b>new knowledge and comprehension exercises and activities</b> that ask you to apply your knowledge to patient care situations.</li><li>Features a new section at the end of each chapter: <i><b>Challenge Yourself! Getting Ready for the NCLEX</b></i> includes both standard multiple-choice and alternate-format questions (over 1,800) that test your knowledge of chapter content while providing practice for the Boards.</li><li>Provides <b>valuable practice in prioritizing</b> (deciding what to do first) <b>and assignment</b> (giving specific tasks to health care providers who may be supervised by LPNs) -- skills that are essential for providing effective nursing care and are covered on the NCLEX-PN Examination.</li><li>Links you to <b>online Evolve resources</b>, where you'll find an additional set of review questions, encouraging utilization of and familiarity with an electronic format. </li> </ul>