Synopses & Reviews
This must-have workbook helps students learn the prioritization and delegation skills needed to survive nursing school, pass the NCLEX-RN. examination, and make the transition to practice in today's healthcare environment. Consisting of three parts plus an answer key, this resource provides numerous opportunities for students to review cases and answer questions similar to those they will see on the NCLEX-RN examination - including questions in alternate-item formats . Part 1, written by delegation expert Ruth Hansten, is an introduction that provides a practical review of clinical delegation skills and serves as a framework for the exercises that follow. Part 2 consists cases of patients who have relatively straightforward health problems followed by NCLEX examination-style questions focusing on prioritization, delegation, and assignment. Part 3 consists of complex, unfolding cases involving patients who have multiple health conditions, as well as complex patient assignments.
- An introduction by prioritization and delegation expert Ruth Hansten explains the importance of developing sound clinical skills and judgment in the areas of prioritization, delegation, and assignment.
- NCLEX-style questions help students develop fundamental skills in prioritization, delegation, and assignment and become familiar with the NCLEX examination format.
- Questions in Parts 2 and 3 are organized by body system and by complexity, respectively, to allow for easy use with any medical-surgical nursing text.
- Both sections of exercises give students essential hands-on practice in prioritizing (deciding what to do first), delegating (giving specific tasks to assistive personneland supervising satisfactory completion of those tasks), and assignment (giving responsibility for the overall care of particular patients to appropriate personnel).
- The questions in Part 3 are more complex than those in Part 2, allowing students to master core concepts using unambiguous cases before applying this knowledge to patients with more complicated, multidimensional case presentations.
- Flexible organization allows the workbook to be used with any Elsevier medical-surgical nursing text.
- The answer key provides rationales for correct as well as incorrect answers, reinforcing the concepts presented in each unit.
- Questions follow NCLEX style, and about 10% represent the new alternate-item question format.
- The workbook is three-hole punched and perforated for convenience.
Synopsis
Rationale for internal company use only]: LaCharity et al: Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX(R) Examination is a remarkable success story, particularly in the current business climate. Originally conceived, written, developed, and published in just 6 months, this practical workbook has already far exceeded its LOE sales estimates. The 1st edition sold 51,307 units on an LOE estimate 14,500 copies. After 26 months, sales of the 2nd edition have already surpassed 52,000 units on an LOE estimate of 12,800 copies, and are well on track for LOE sales of 70,000 units or more. User feedback continues to be extremely positive. It is now not at all uncommon for graduating seniors who have taken the NCLEX(R) Exam to return to their schools to report how much this workbook helped them in passing the state boards. See User Testimonials from Amazon.com and BN.com below.
Description: This bestselling workbook uniquely prepares students for the prioritization, delegation, and assignment focus of the latest NCLEX-RN(R) Examination and equips graduating nurses to transition to practice in today's fast-paced healthcare environment. In just two editions, this book has grown so popular that nursing student discussion boards now refer to "LaCharity scores" as students evaluate their readiness for the NCLEX-RN(R) Exam.
Consisting of three parts plus an Answer Key, LaCharity provides rich opportunities for students to answer prioritization, delegation, and assignment questions similar to those they will see on the NCLEX-RN(R) Examination, including questions in alternate item formats. It then goes beyond simple NCLEX-style questions to challenge students with case studies of increasing complexity, to develop clinical reasoning skills (Benner, 2010) and help prepare them for practice.
Part 1, written by delegation expert Ruth Hansten, is an introduction that provides a practical review of clinical prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills and serves as a framework for the exercises that follow.
Part 2 helps students build confidence with NCLEX Examination-style multiple-choice and multiple-select questions involving patients who have relatively straightforward health problems.
Part 3 consists of increasingly complex unfolding cases involving patients with multiple health conditions, as well as complex patient assignments.
The proposed 3rd edition will include three new chapters that will draw primarily from questions currently in other chapters. The current "Diabetes and Other Endocrine Problems" chapter will be divided into two chapters to give greater emphasis to diabetes, as requested by reviewers. The 3rd edition will also address the QSEN initiative, including QSEN competency "tagging" of questions in the Answer Key, QSEN competency language in Answer Key rationales, and an introduction to QSEN in Part 1. Colorful quick-reference "tabs" and page cross-reference "footers" will be added to facilitate quick access to the end-of-book Answer Keys for each chapter. Ten illustrations will be included in this edition as the focus of NCLEX-style chart-format questions. To improve visual appeal, a second color will be added to this edition. Ten faculty-only unfolding cases will be added as PowerPoint files on Evolve for classroom discussion and grading. The Pageburst digital book version of this edition will be fully interactive, with answers feeding to an instructor gradebook. Pending development of full Pageburst interactivity and gradebook functionality, the proposed budget includes funds for development of a new, fully interactive Evolve site with all questions from the printed book delivered in study mode and exam mode, as currently provided for other Elsevier NCLEX review products.
- An introduction by prioritization and delegation expert Ruth Hansten explains the importance of developing sound clinical skills and judgment in the areas of prioritization, delegation, and assignment.
- NCLEX-style questions help students develop fundamental skills in prioritization, delegation, and assignment and become familiar with the NCLEX examination format.
- Questions in Parts 2 and 3 are organized by body system and by complexity, respectively, to allow for easy use with any medical-surgical nursing text.
- Both sections of exercises give students essential hands-on practice in prioritizing (deciding what to do first), delegating (giving specific tasks to assistive personnel and supervising satisfactory completion of those tasks), and assignment (giving responsibility for the overall care of particular patients to appropriate personnel).
- The questions in Part 3 are more complex than those in Part 2, allowing students to master core concepts using unambiguous cases before applying this knowledge to patients with more complicated, multidimensional case presentations.
- Flexible organization allows the workbook to be used with any Elsevier medical-surgical nursing text.
- The answer key provides rationales for correct as well as incorrect answers, reinforcing the concepts presented in each unit.
- Questions follow NCLEX style, and about 10% represent the new alternate-item question format.
- The workbook is three-hole punched and perforated for convenience.
1. New Chapters: The proposed 3rd edition will include three new chapters that draw from and expand on questions currently in other chapters. The three new chapters will be:
- Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Safe Practice (emphasizing safety and other "nursing fundamentals" issues)
- Chapter 20: Pediatric Problems (content currently integrated in body-systems chapters)
- Chapter 22: Psychiatric-Mental Health Problems (content currently integrated in body-systems chapters)
The current "Diabetes and Other Endocrine Problems" chapter will be divided into two chapters, to give greater emphasis to diabetes as requested by reviewers:
- Chapter 14: Diabetes Mellitus
- Chapter 15: Other Endocrine Problems
2. QSEN Focus: The proposed 3rd edition will address the QSEN initiative by:
- Introducing the QSEN initiative and QSEN competencies in Part 1
- Including a new chapter focused primarily on safety and other "nursing fundamentals" issues (Chapter 1: "Fundamentals of Safe Practice")
- Identifying corresponding QSEN competencies for each question in the Answer Key as appropriate
- Weaving QSEN competency language into the rationales in the Answer Key as appropriate
3. Fully Interactive Question Functionality, with Scoring, on Evolve: Pending development of full Pageburst interactivity and gradebook functionality, the proposed budget includes funds for development of a new, fully interactive Evolve site with all questions delivered in study mode and exam mode, as currently provided for other Elsevier NCLEX review products.
4. NCLEX Chart-Format Questions: Ten illustrations will be included in this edition as the focus of new NCLEX-style chart-format questions.
5. Design and Navigation Enhancements: On each two-page spread in Parts 2 and 3, page cross-reference footers will be added to direct readers to the page where the Answer Key begins for that chapter. (Answer Keys for each chapter are currently run-in, making navigation difficult.) Quick-reference bleed "tabs" will be added to the Answer Key to facilitate quick location. To improve visual appeal, second color will be added to this edition, and a two-color version of the RN Design will be implemented.
6. Selected Additional Questions: Questions addressing the newborn, immunization, catheter-related infection, and ventilator-related infection will be added to this edition.
7. UNIQUE Faculty-Only Unfolding Cases: Ten faculty-only unfolding cases will be added as PowerPoint files on Evolve for classroom discussion to facilitate development of clinical reasoning skills (Benner, 2010) and to facilitate learner evaluation. Providing this instructor ancillary will help to promote adoptions of this title, which is now primarily a discretionary purchase.
Synopsis
This must-have workbook helps students learn the prioritization and delegation skills needed to survive nursing school, pass the NCLEX-RN examination, and make the transition to practice in today's healthcare environment. Consisting of three parts plus an answer key, this resource provides numerous opportunities for students to review cases and answer questions similar to those they will see on the NCLEX-RN examination - including questions in alternate-item formats . Part 1, written by delegation expert Ruth Hansten, is an introduction that provides a practical review of clinical delegation skills and serves as a framework for the exercises that follow. Part 2 consists cases of patients who have relatively straightforward health problems followed by NCLEX examination-style questions focusing on prioritization, delegation, and assignment. Part 3 consists of complex, unfolding cases involving patients who have multiple health conditions, as well as complex patient assignments.