Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Child Health Nursing - Softcover

Hogan, Mary Ann; Brancato EdD MSN RN, Vera; White RNC MA MSN, Judy; Falkenstein PhD CPNP, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132437112 ISBN 13: 9780132437110

Publisher: Pearson, 2006

Synopsis

For course review on a specific topic, e.g., pediatric nursing, review for NCLEX-RN, and review for specialty training.

 

This resource provides a core content review of the subject in outline format. Each chapter opens with a brief outline, objectives, key terms with definitions, media box with summary of CD content, as well as a pre-test. The pre-test and post-test guide the student through a self-paced review. Other features unique to this resource help further enhance the review process.

About this title

About the Author

Mary Ann Hogan, RN, CS, MSN has been a nurse educator for 20 years, currently as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught in diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate nursing programs. A former item writer for the CAT NCLEX-RN, Ms. Hogan has been teaching NCLEX-RN review courses throughout New England for the last 14 years. She has also contributed to a number of publications in the areas of adult health and fundamentals of nursing. Ms. Hogan is an ANCC-certified clinical specialist in medical-surgical nursing and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau.

 

Judy E. White, RNC, MA, MSN has taught at all levels of nursing, including LPN, diploma, associate degree and baccalaureate programs at schools of nursing in Kentucky, New York, and Alabama. Ms. White has contributed NCLEXRN test questions to numerous publications, and she has taught the pediatric component of NCLEX-RN Review Courses in New York and Kentucky. Currently, she is the Director of Nursing and Nurse Educator at Vital Care, Inc., a home infusion pharmaceutical company that provides continuing education to nurses.

From the Back Cover

Essential for course review and NCLEX review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of mental health nursing. Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering therapeutic communication, developmental disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, dissociative disorders, personality disorders, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, cognitive mental disorders, substance abuse, crisis intervention and suicide, death and dying, and much more. Each chapter provides the following tools that will help lead you to success in your course and on the NCLEX-RN:

• Chapter Objectives
• Pre- and post-chapter tests with comprehensive rationales
• New test-taking strategies 
• Vocabulary review
• Practice-to-Pass exercises
• Critical thinking case studies
• NCLEX alerts
• Prentice Hall Nursing Notes reference card
• CD-ROM with 700 practice questions 

About the Series
Prentice Hall's Nursing Review & Rationales Series is the complete foundation for success within the classroom, in clinical settings and on the NCLEX-RN exam. Each topical volume offers a concentrated review of core content from across the nursing curriculum, while providing hundreds of practice questions and comprehensive rationales. The only review series offering a tear-out reference card and additional audio reviews, the complete series includes the following volumes:

• Nursing Fundamentals
• Anatomy & Physiology 
• Child Health Nursing
• Fluids, Electrolytes, & Acid-Base Balance
• Maternal-Newborn Nursing
• Medical-Surgical Nursing
• Mental Health Nursing
• Nutrition & Diet Therapy
• Pathophysiology
• Pharmacology
• Physical Assessment
• Community Health Nursing
• Leadership & Management
• Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-RN
• Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-PN

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0132437112
• ISBN 13: 9780132437110
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 432