Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment

The only NCLEX review book on the market with a focus on prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment � just like the current NCLEX Examination itself! Using a unique simple-to-complex approach, Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX� Examination, 3rd Editionestablishes your foundational knowledge in management of care, then provides exercises of increasing difficulty to help you build confidence in your prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills.

�"..certainly a great resource for use in any healthcare setting." Anne Duell on behalf of Nursing Times, September 2015

• addresses the heavy emphasis on prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment in the current NCLEX Examination (17-23% of the 2013 NCLEX-RN Exam).
• establishes foundational knowledge and then provides exercises of increasing difficulty to help you build confidence in your prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills.
• at the back of the book offers a detailed rationale and an indication of the focus of the question to encourage formative assessment.
• provides guidelines for prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment decisions as well as a concise, practical foundation on which Parts 2 and 3 build.
• give you practice in applying the principles from Part 1 with straightforward NCLEX-style multiple-choice, multiple-select, ordering, and short-answer questions to help you develop and build confidence in prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills while working within the confines of relatively simple health scenarios.
• utilizes unfolding cases that build on the skills learned in Part 2 to equip you to make sound decisions in realistic, complex health scenarios involving complicated health problems and/or challenging patient assignment decisions and help you learn to "think like nurses" by developing what Benner (2010) calls "clinical imagination."

• features optional online answer submission with automated scoring.
• on Evolve facilitate classroom discussion, development of clinical reasoning skills, and learner evaluation, as well as tips for teaching with the book throughout the nursing curriculum.
• features an increased number of questions specific to the QSEN safety competency.
• give greater emphasis to diabetes as requested in feedback on the previous edition.
• expand on content formerly integrated into body systems chapters to provide you with a more thorough understanding of these key clinical areas.
• include six patient "charts" in Case Study 6 (Home Health) to reflect the NCLEX Exam's chart-format questions.
• include page cross-references at the bottom of each page, quick-reference tabs on the answer key, and a new two- color design.
• address the newborn, immunization, catheter-related infection, and ventilator-related infection.