Frances H. Cornelius - Fundamentals of Nursing Test Success: An Unfolding Case Study Review

Fundamentals of Nursing Test SuccessRuth A. Wittmann-Price, PhD, CNS, RN, CNE, is Chairperson and Professor at Francis Marion University Department of Nursing in South Carolina. Dr. Wittmann-Price has been an obstetrical/womens health nurse for 32 years. She received her AAS and BSN degrees from Felician College in Lodi, New Jersey (1978 and 1981, respectively) and her MS as a perinatal CNS from Columbia University, New York City (1983). Ruth completed her PhD at Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania (2006) and was awarded the Deans Award for Excellence.

She developed a midrange nursing theory Emancipated Decision Making in Womens Health Care. Besides continuing her research about decisional science, she studies developmental outcomes of preterm infants. She has also been the Director of Nursing Research for Hahnemann University Hospital (20072010) to oversee all evidence-based practice projects for nursing. Hahnemann University Hospital was awarded initial Magnet status (AACN) in December 2009. Ruth has taught all levels of nursing students over the past 15 years (AAS, BSN, MSN, and DNP) and completed an international service-learning trip (2007) to rural Mexico with undergraduate nursing and physician assistant students. Dr. Dr.

Wittmann-Price is coeditor and chapter contributor of three books, Nursing Education: Foundations for Practice Excellence (with B. A. Moyer, ed.; AJN Book of the Year Award Winner, 2008), The Certified Nurse Examination (CNE) Review Manual, and NCLEX-RN EXCEL Test Success Through Unfolding Case Study Review (with B. R. Thompson, ed.). She has published The Newborn at Risk in Maternal-Child Nursing Care: Optimizing Outcomes for Mothers, Children, and Families, a section in Giving Through Teaching: How Nurse Educators Are Changing the World (with M.

Godshall and A. Pasco), and The Role of the Educator in Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice (with R. Waite and D. L. Woda). Frances H.

Cornelius, PhD, MSN, RN-BC, CNE, is Associate Clinical Professor, Chair of the MSN Advanced Practice Role Department and Coordinator of Informatics Projects at Drexel University, College of Nursing and Health Professions. Dr. Cornelius has taught nursing since 1991, at several schools of nursing. She taught community health at Madonna University (Livonia, MI), Oakland (MI) University, University of Pittsburgh, and Holy Family College (Philadelphia). Fran taught Adult Health and Gerontology at Widener University School of Nursing until 1997, when she began teaching at Drexel. In 2003, she was a Fellow at the Biomedical Library of Medicine.

She is a certified nurse informaticist and has been the recipient of several grants. She has collaborated on the development of mobile applications as Coordinator of Informatics Projects including Patient Assessment and Care Plan Development (PACPD) tool, which is a PDA tool with a web-based companion, and Gerontology Reasoning Informatics Programs (the GRIP project). She is the coeditor of Cornelius/Gallagher-Gordon, PDA Connections (LLW), an innovative textbook designed to teach health care professionals how to use mobile devices for point-of-care access of information. She has written six book chapters and has published 19 journal articles on her work. She has delivered 26 presentations and more than 50 peer-reviewed presentations mostly in the United States, but also in Spain, Canada, and Korea.

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Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 13: 978-0-8261-9393-3 ISBN 10: 0-8261-9393-5 I. Cornelius, Frances H. II. Title. [DNLM: 1.

Nursing CaremethodsProblems and Exercises. 2. Nursing ProcessProblems and Exercises. WY 18.2] 610.73dc23 2012029826 This effort, like all efforts of nurse educators, is dedicated to our students! This book is unique! Unlike the other review books published that require students to answer question after question, this book uses unfolding case studies to simulate real-life learning. This book has technological links that encourage learners to use the most up-to-date resources available and to apply them to achieve quality patient care. This is one of the rare review books for nursing fundamentals learners, and we know if the foundational concepts are not conquered well at the outset, it becomes more difficult, at best, to comprehend, internalize, and effectively apply more advanced concepts in nursing.

Through short, interesting, real-to-life case studies that you can work through at your own pace, we have devised an interesting method for you to understand and apply foundational nursing concepts. If you work through this book, you will be able to move onto the more advanced concepts presented in our other unfolding case study books, which include the following:

• NCLEX-RN EXCEL: Test Success Through Unfolding Case Study Review