Learn proven strategies to prepare for nursing school tests and the NCLEXª exam! Written by leading NCLEXª experts Linda and Angela Silvestri, this concise resource provides tools to help you overcome test anxiety, develop strong study skills, and improve test scores. You'll gain insight into key nursing areas such as clinical judgment, prioritization, leading and managing, communication, and pharmacology. -- adapted from back cover. Learn proven strategies to prepare for nursing school tests and the NCLEXª exam! 2024-2025 Saunders Clinical Judgment and Test-Taking Strategies: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEXª Exam, 8th Edition provides tools to help you overcome test anxiety, develop strong study skills, and improve test scores. You'll gain insight into key nursing areas such as clinical judgment, prioritization, leading and managing, communication, and pharmacology. In the book and on the Evolve companion website, 1,200 practice questions represent all question types -- including alternate item formats and new test items for the Next Generation NCLEXª. Written by leading NCLEX experts Linda and Angela Silvestri, this essential resource offers the practical tips and realistic practice you need to succeed on any exam! -- Provided by publisher.

Part I: Study and test preparation. Clinical judgment and nursing examinations -- Developing study skills -- Reducing test anxiety -- NCLEXª preparation -- Part II: Strategies for success. Alternate item formats and next generation NCLEXª item types -- How to avoid "reading into the question" -- Positive and negative event queries -- Questions requiring prioritization -- Leading and managing, delegating, and assignment-making questions -- Communication questions -- Pharmacology, medication, and intravenous calculation questions -- Additional pyramid strategies -- Part III: Practice tests. Foundations of care questions -- Adult health questions -- Mental health questions -- Maternity questions -- Pediatric questions -- Pharmacology questions -- Delegating/prioritizing questions -- Leadership/management questions.