Saunders Clinical Judgment and test taking strategies

Welcome to Saunders Pyramid to Success! Saunders Clinical Judgment and Test-Taking Strategies: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX® Exam is one in a series of products designed to assist you in achieving your goal of passing your nursing courses and becoming a licensed nurse. This product provides you with test-taking strategies that will help you pass your nursing examinations and the NCLEX examination. Organization Saunders Clinical Judgment and Test-Taking Strategies: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX® Exam contains three parts and 20 chapters. The chapters in Part I include information on test preparation and the NCLEX exam. The chapters in Part II describe the test-taking strategies and include several sample questions that illustrate how to use each test-taking strategy. The sample questions represent all types of question formats, including multiple choice and alternate item formats. The Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) Item Types are described; samples of these item types can be located both in the book and on the accompanying Evolve site. In Part III of the book, there are practice questions, and the accompanying Evolve site contains the practice questions from the book along with additional practice questions for a total of 1200 practice questions. All of the practice questions reflect the framework and the content identified in the most current NCLEX test plans. The practice questions in this resource relate to each Client Needs category, each Integrated Process of the NCLEX exam, and the Cognitive Skills identified in the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) Clinical Judgment Measurement Model (NCJMM). The Client Needs categories include Safe and Effective Care Environment, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Psychosocial Integrity, and Physiological Integrity. The Integrated Processes include Caring, Communication and Documentation, Culture and Spirituality, Nursing Process (Clinical Problem-Solving Process), and Teaching and Learning. The Cognitive Skills include Recognize Cues, Analyze Cues, Prioritize Hypotheses, Generate Solutions, Take Action, and Evaluate Outcomes. Part I: Study and Test Preparation Chapter : Clinical Judgment and Nursing Examinations The information in this chapter describes Clinical Judgment, the NCJMM and the Cognitive Skills of the Model, case studies and the NGN Item Types. The chapter also focuses on the exams that you will take during your nursing program and provides you with information on how to prepare for these exams. Topics include the purpose of nursing exams, what you can expect on nursing exams, how nursing exams are different from other exams, and the types of questions on nursing exams. Additional