Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN(r) Examination

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Summary: A very helpful review tool
Review: Failing my first NCLEX attempt at 264 questions (one short of the max -I scored A and B averages in school), results said "near passing" on all categories. I was pretty upset. I had used books (including Kaplan passing strategies) that friends gave or lent to me, for my first attempt. For the second, I purchased this (Saunders) book, and immediately wished I'd had it when I was in classes. Unlike the other books -which tended to be concept reviews and suggestion-based strategies, this book is essentially an RN program review. The disk-based test and review program it comes with is similar to that of others, but allows you to pick up where you left off, if you don't finish your review when you shut down the computer -this was unique among my other programs.
I've been recommending this book to other test candidates and students. After reading this book, I passed my NCLEX with the minimum questions required (75)-this was after the pass-level was raised in April 2004!
I cannot say enough about this book. If you get no other, get this one.

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Summary: Head of the Class
Review: I bought this book the second week of my first semester as a nursing student and have been using it religiously as a study guide for tests, information and quiz preparation. I am now in my second semester and I carry it with the rest of my textbooks to class and work. Each section of the text is devoted to a different system/disorder and the rationales, and tables of lab values are great. The CD contains questions with rationales for correct and incorrect answers and they seem to repeat themselves, when you have given an incorrect answer ten questions back, as a type of review. With this book and CD in my grubby little hand I am confident I will pass the NCLEX with flying colors.

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Summary: money well spent
Review: This book helped me understand things that were unclear in lecture and on my unit exams. The review is very easy to understand and very comprehensive. The thing that helped me most is the rationales for answers to the practice test questions because when I came to questions on exams that I had no clue about, knowing the rationales for certain subjects helped me pick out the better answers to the questions. I think it covers all spects of nursing school wonderfully. I guarantee you will too!!!