NCLEX-RN: strategies, practice, and review

NCLEX-RN Exam Overview And Test-Taking Strategies. Overview of the NCLEX-RN exam

What is the NCLEX-RN exam?

Content of the NCLEX-RN exam

General and computer-adaptive test strategies:

Standardized exams

What behaviors does the NCLEX-RN exam test?

Strategies that don't work on the NCLEX-RN exam

Becoming a better test taker

NCLEX-RN exam question types

Alternate test questions

Multiple-choice test questions

Critical thinking strategies

Reword the question

Eliminate incorrect answer choices

Don't predict answers

Recognizing expected outcomes

Read answer choices to obtain clues

NCLEX-RN exam strategies:

NCLEX-RN exam versus real-world nursing

Strategies for priority questions

Strategies for management of care questions

Strategies for positioning questions

Strategies for communication questions

Your NCLEX-RN exam study plan.

NCLEX-RN Exam Content Review And Practice. Safe and effective care environment: management of care

Advance directives

Advocacy

Case management

Client rights

Collaboration with interdisciplinary teams

Concepts of management

Confidentiality/information security

Consultation

Continuity of care

Delegation

Establishing priorities

Ethical practice

Information technology

Informed consent

Legal rights and responsibilities

Performance improvement (quality improvement)

Referrals

Supervision

Chapter Quiz Answers and explanations

Safe and effective care environment: safety and infection control: Safety background

Infection control background

Accident/injury prevention

Emergency response plan

Ergonomic principles

Error prevention

Handling hazardous and infectious materials

Home safety

Reporting of incident/event/irregular occurrence/variance

Safe use of equipment

Security plan

Standard precautions/transmission-based precautions/surgical asepsis

Use of restraints/safety devices

Chapter quiz answers and explanations

Health promotion and maintenance:

Aging process

Ante/intra/postpartum and newborn care

Developmental stages and transitions

Health and wellness

Health promotion/disease prevention

Health screening

High-risk behaviors

Lifestyle choices

Principles of teaching/learning

Self-care

Techniques of physical assessment

Chapter quiz answers and explanations

Psychosocial integrity

Abuse/neglect

Behavioral interventions

Chemical and other dependencies

Coping mechanisms

Crisis intervention

Cultural diversity

End of life care

Family dynamics

Grief and loss

Mental health concepts

Religious and spiritual influences on health

Sensory/perceptual alterations

Stress management

Support systems

Therapeutic communications

Therapeutic environment

Nursing process and psychosocial integrity

Chapter quiz answers and explanations

Physiological integrity: basic care and comfort

Assistive devices

Elimination

Mobility/immobility

Non-pharmacological comfort interventions

Nutrition and oral hydration

Personal hygiene

Rest and sleep

Chapter quiz answers and explanations

Physiological integrity: pharmacological and parenteral therapies

Adverse effects/contraindications/side effects/interactions

Blood and blood products

Central venous access devices

Dosage calculation

Expected actions/outcomes

Medication administration

Parenteral/intravenous therapies

Pharmacological pain management

Total parenteral nutrition

Chapter quiz answers and explanations

Physiological integrity: reduction of risk potential:

Changes/abnormalities in vital signs

Diagnostic tests

Laboratory values

Potential for alterations in body systems

Potential for complications of diagnostic tests/treatments/procedures

Potential for complications from surgical procedures and health alterations

System-specific assessments

Therapeutic procedures

Chapter quiz answers and explanations

Physiological integrity: physiological adaption

Alterations in body systems

Fluid and electrolyte imbalances

Hemodynamics

Illness management

Medical emergencies

Pathophysiology

Unexpected response to therapies

Chapter quiz answers and explanations.

Practice Test. Practice test

Your practice test scores

Answer key

Practice test answers and explanations.

Licensure Process. Application, registration, and scheduling:

How to apply for the NCLEX-RN exam

Taking the exam

Taking the test more than once

You are not alone

How to interpret unsuccessful test results

Should you test again?

How should you begin?

Essentials for international nurses

NCLEX-RN exam administration abroad

CGFNS certificate

Work visas

Nursing practice in the United States

US-style nursing communication

Sample questions

Answers to sample questions

Language

Kaplan programs for international Nurses.

NCLEX-RN Exam Resources

Chart of critical thinking paths

Nursing terminology

Common medical abbreviations

State licensing requirements

Pearson professional centers offering the NCLEX-RN examinations.