Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Success: A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking To Test Taking (Davis's Success) Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
AJN Book of the Year 2009 Assure your mastery of psychiatric mental health nursing knowledge while honing your critical thinking and test-taking skills. Over 900 multiple-choice and alternate format questions, organized by specific mental health disorders, make a difficult subject more manageable. Rationales for both correct and incorrect answers as well as test-taking tips explain how to apply critical thinking to the question types—great preparation for classroom exams and the NCLEX®. “The Success books have been an absolute lifeline for me. My “Success” proves it! It doesn’t matter if you get the question right or wrong because you get so much out of the rationale- and then you can apply that information to your next exam, clinical rotation, or the NCLEX” - Corrie Cyre, Hillsborough Community College Southshore Student Nurses Association President Click Here for a Special Mail-In Rebate Offer
Series: Davis's Success
Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: F.A. Davis Company; 1 edition (November 19, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0803618794
ISBN-13: 978-0803618794
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 1 x 11 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (59 customer reviews)
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This book is great if you are having trouble with nursing questions. I was struggling in mental health and my teacher noticed that my test taking skills were lackingso she suggested that I got this book. This book really is good because it gives you a lot of NCLEX style questions and breaks it down into section such asSchizophrenia and Other Thought Disorders. It has wonderful rationales to tell you way you got the answer right or why you got an answer wrong. My test grade went up from C to an A by using this book as a study guide after I read my chapters(Did I mention that a lot of these test question were similar to the ones on my test).Now this book will not help out in giving more in dept review of the content. If you need more explanation on a subject then I suggest the review and rationales for mental health. So again, this book is helpful for students who are having trouble with nursing question, test taking skills are not so great (such as narrowing down the answer to two and choosing the wrong one), and just like extra practice questions. This book is really good to use along with your mental health class as a study guide.
Great book for the price! Exact same questions as the newer edition, except a few new ones were added. This one has a separate section on NCLEX meds, which the new book does not. This is actually a better choice than the new book, and a lot cheaper!!
This book has a great bank of questions for reviewing material for Mental Health nursing exams. It is broken down by disorder with 40-50 critical thinking type questions. The sections for each disorder are broken down even further with questions related to each step of the nursing process. I would highly recommend using this book as a study guide, especially if your nursing program requires the HESI specialty exams.
This book contains 16 practice tests and a final comprehensive examination containing 100 questions covering all of the content addressed in the practice tests. Answers and rationales for these examination questions and test-taking hints are given throughout the book. I especially liked how the answers to these questions, the explanations for the correct answers, and the reasons why other possible answer options were wrong or not the best choice helped me to refine my ability to 'think like a nurse' testing my ability to apply knowledge to a specific scenario. Practicing test-taking along with studying the material enabled me to earn an exit grade of 89% for the semester in psychiatric/mental health nursing. Each chapter in this book (there are 16 in all) covers a specific disorder or aspect of psychiatric nursing. The chapters are broken down into practice questions for that topic, theories, defense mechanisms (if applicable), and the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation), and concludes with the practice questions' answers and rationales. There is also a CD included with the book so that you can take tests on the computer, this will help calm test anxiety by taking tests on the computer since most exit HESIs and NCLEX tests are online. I continue to review the material within this book in order to pinpoint knowledge deficits and weaknesses, this has really boosted my confidence and enabled me to confidently prepare for exams and semester exit HESIs, achieving above average grades in nursing and an 'A' in phychiatric pharmacology.
I really liked this book because the questions were of the same level of difficulty in critical thinking as the questions my instructor used.Each section has several questions about the title subjects including a separate section for pharmacology. The pharm section is divided into types of drugs (ie sedative/hypnotics, anti-psychotics, antidepressants etc, each section is divided into theory,defense mechanisms, nursing process-assessments, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and then more pharmacology. I found this especially useful because my teacher didn't really test theory much, so I could easily skim or skip through those questions.Each question has rationales with the correct answer AS WELL as each distractor. This was helpful for those very difficult questions when all the distractors are also correct, just less correct and the actual answer. These questions are notorious in nursing school, and instructors seem to love them. This book help me understand those better.My only complaint (which isn't enough to take away a full star for the review) is that the section on Dissociative and sexual disorders was quite short, and didn't have as many questions as I would have like to see.I can't speak to the NCLEX because I haven't taken it yet but this was great to test my class knowledge, and I'm sure I will pull this book out when it's time to study for the NCLEX.
Psychiatric nursing, will make you mental! I needed an 85 on my final to pass my psych class, I spend weeks with this book, wining and dining with it, taking it to bed with me. In the end all the hard work paid off I scored, an 86! If you have problems with this is the right answer, but not the best right answer, with your psych tests get this book, it has hundreds of questions, laid out by chapter, and very descriptive rationales, this book literally saved me from going insane!
This book helped in my last semester Block 4 where we study psych nursing. I recommend all the Davis series to nursing students cause you get so many questions geared towards the subject you are studying. Each chapter is broke down so you can practice section by section. These books helped me to get straight A in nursing school.
These books are amazing. I have bought one for every subject in nursing school and have aced every class. I credit my success to these books entirely. It's all NCLEX styled questions and helped tremendously.
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