Study Guide for Fundamentals of Nursing The Art and Science of Nursing Care

PrefacePreface

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Marilee LeBon, in close consultation with the

authors of the seventh edition of Fundamentals

of Nursing: The Art and Science of Nursing Care,

has carefully developed this Study Guide. We

recognize that beginning students in nursing

must learn an enormous amount of information

and skills in a short period of time. The Study

Guide is structured to help you integrate the

knowledge you have gained and begin to apply it

to the practice of nursing. To help you accomplish

this goal, the following types of exercises are

provided in each chapter of the Study Guide.

PRACTICING FOR NCLEX

Multiple Choice Questions:Each chapter contains a

section of multiple choice questions presented in

the NCLEX-RN exam format.

Alternate-Format Questions:The alternate-

format-style questions for the NCLEX-RN exam

include the types of questions described below.

Several of these types are provided in each

chapter to help you become familiar with this

NCLEX format. They are:

■Multiple Response Questions: questions with a

detailed stem that require you to select more

than 1 correct answer

■Prioritization Questions: questions with a

detailed stem that require you to place the

options provided in the correct order

■Hot Spot Questions: questions that require you

to identify a specific area on an illustration or

a graph

■Fill-in-the-Blank Questions: questions that

require you to perform a calculation that

results in a very specific number answer

■Chart/Exhibit Questions: multiple choice

questions with a detailed stem that require

you to review information in a chart or an

exhibit in order to select the correct answer

DEVELOPING YOUR

KNOWLEDGE BASE

These exercises group similar types of questions

together to help you learn the information in a

variety of formats. The types of questions

included follow the same format in each Study

Guide chapter, but not every type of question is

used in each chapter. The format includes:

■Fill-in-the-Blanks

■Identification Questions

■Matching Exercises

■Correct the False Statements

■Short Answer

APPLYING YOUR KNOWLEDGE

These questions challenge you to reflect on the

critical thinking and blended skills developed in

the classroom and apply them to your own

practice of the art and science of nursing care.

■Critical Thinking Questions: these questions

offer an exciting and practical means to

challenge the assumptions you bring to

nursing and to “stretch” your application of

new theoretical concepts.

■Reflective Practice Using Critical Thinking

Skills: these exercises offer opportunities to

use your critical thinking ability and

knowledge of blended skills to respond to real-

life scenarios, similar to those that may occur

in your practice.

■Patient Care Studies: These studies in the

clinical nursing care chapters provide a

unique opportunity for you to “encounter” an

actual patient, and to use the nursing process

to assess and diagnose the patient’s nursing

needs and brainstorm ways to best meet these

needs.

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