Welcome to HESI Comprehensive Review for the NCLEXRN®
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online study exams is designed to prepare nursing students
for what is very likely the most important examination
they will ever take—the NCLEX-RN® Licensing Examination.
As a graduate of an RN nursing program, the student
has the basic knowledge required to pass tests and perform
safely and successfully in the clinical area. HESI Comprehensive
Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination allows
the nursing student to prepare for the NCLEX-RN® licensure
examination in a structured way.
• Organizenursingbasicknowledgepreviouslylearned.
• Reviewcontentlearnedduringbasicnursingcurriculum.
• Identify weaknesses in content knowledge so study
effort can be focused appropriately.
• Develop test-taking skills so application of safe nursing
practice from knowledge previously learned can be
demonstrated.
• Reduceanxietylevelbyincreasingpredictabilityofability
to correctly answer NCLEX-type questions.
• Boosttest-takingconfidencebybeingwellpreparedand
knowing what to expect.
Organization
Chapter 1, Introduction to Testing and the NCLEX-RN®
Exam, gives an overview of the NCLEX-RN licensing
exam history and test plan for the examination. A review
ofthenursingprocess,updatedwiththelatestNANDAapproved
nursingdiagnoses,clientneeds,andprioritizing
nursing care, is also presented.
Chapter 2, Leadership and Management, reviews the
legal aspects of nursing, leadership and management, and
disaster nursing.
Chapter 3, Advanced Clinical Concepts, presents
nursing assessment, analysis (nursing diagnoses), and
planning and intervention at the highest level of practice.
Topics reviewed include respiratory failure, shock,
disseminatedintravascularcoagulation (DIC), resuscitation,
fluid and electrolyte balance, IV therapy, acid-base
balance, ECG, perioperative care, HIV, pain, and death
and grief.
Chapters 4 through 8, Medical-Surgical Nursing, Pediatric
Nursing, Maternity Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing,
and Gerontologic Nursing, are presented in traditional
clinical areas.
Each clinical area is divided into physiologic components,
with essential knowledge about basic anatomy,
growth and development, pharmacology and medication
calculation, nutrition, communication, client and family
education, acute and chronic care, leadership and management,
and clinical decision making threaded throughout
the different components.
Open-ended style questions with the answers appear
at the end of each chapter, which encourage the student
to think in depth about the content that is presented
throughout the particular chapter. When a variety of learning
mechanisms are used, students have the opportunity
to comprehensively prepare for the NCLEX exam; these
strategies include:
• Readingthemanual.
• Discussingcontentwithothers.
• Answeringopen-endedquestions.
• Practicingwithstudyexamsthatsimulatethelicensure
examination.
These learning experiences are all different ways that
students should use to prepare for the NCLEX exam. The
purpose of the open-ended questions appearing at the end
of the chapter is not a focused practice session on managing
NCLEX-style, multiple-choice questions, but rather a
learning approach that allows for more in-depth thinking
aboutspecifictopicsinthechapter.Practicewithmultiplechoice
questions alone cannot provide the depth of critical
thinking and analysis possible with the short-answer questions
at the end of the chapter. In addition, the open-ended
questions presented at the end of the chapter provide a
summary experience that helps students focus on the main
topics that were covered in the chapter. Teachers use openended
style questions to stimulate the critical thinking process,
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