Linda Anne Silvestri Saunders 2014-2015 Strategies for Test Success

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By Linda Anne Silvestri, PhD, RN and Angela Silvestri, MSN, RN.Updated to reflect the most current NCLEX test plans, Saunders 2014-2015 Strategies for Test Success: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX Exam, 3rd Edition helps you learn the reasoning skills you need to pass any nursing test from routine quizzes to the NCLEX examination. It offers strategies for time management, critical thinking, and problem solving, and includes realistic, NCLEX exam-style practice questions and tests. This edition adds new study tips and hints, and expands its coverage of alternate item format questions. Written by Linda Anne and Angela Silvestri, this essential resource gives you the tools you need to overcome test anxiety and prepare for NCLEX success.PART I: Study and Test Preparation.1. Preparing for Nursing Examinations.2. Developing Study Skills.3. Reducing Test Anxiety.4. NCLEX Preparation.PART II: Strategies for Success.5. Alternate Item Formats NEW!6. How to Avoid ‘Reading Into The Question’.7. Positive and Negative Event Queries.8. Questions Requiring Prioritization.9. Leading and Managing, Delegating, and Assignment-Making Questions.10. Communication Questions.11. Pharmacology Questions.12. Additional Pyramid Strategies.PART III: Practice Tests.13. Fundamental Skills Questions.14. Adult Health Questions.15. Mental Health Questions.16. Maternity Questions.17. Child Health Questions.18. Pharmacology Questions.19. Delegating/Prioritizing Questions.20. Leadership/Management Questions.