

UPDATED 1,100-question test bank includes multiple-choice and alternate item questions at all difficulty levels.50 in-text case studies include clinical application questions and exercises, allowing you to practice using care plans and concept maps.UNIQUE! Critical Thinking Models in each clinical chapter show how to apply the nursing process and critical thinking to make clinical decisions.Over 30 procedural guidelines provide streamlined, step-by-step instructions for performing basic skills.Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions for each skill alert you to possible complications and appropriate nursing actions.Over 50 nursing skills include illustrated, step-by-step instructions in a two-column format - with rationales for each step.UPDATED Evidence-Based Practice boxes in every chapter include a PICO question - the Problem, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome - and summarize a research study along with its application to nursing practice.Evidence-Based Practice chapter shows how nursing research helps in determining best practices.Delegation Considerations clarify which nursing tasks can and cannot be delegated.UNIQUE! Building Competency boxes summarize QSEN competencies, each with a clinical situation followed by several open-ended questions designed to help you understand and apply these core competencies.

Review questions in every chapter test your retention of key concepts, with answers and rationales in the book and on the Evolve companion website at least four of these questions are alternate format.
