Key Features

• Unique presentation of content allows students to survive and thrive.
• Material is presented using adult learning principles and various active-learning strategies to engage nursing students of all ages, backgrounds, and learning styles.
• Consistent chapter format breaks down information into small units and reinforces an effective thinking process.
• Special icons for Lifespan Considerations, Cultural Implications, Web Links, and Cautions help the student quickly identify special content in the chapter.
• Memory-reinforcing interactive activities (including fill-in the blank, matching, word jumbles, true/false, and crossword puzzles) promote student learning.
• Clinical terms and shorthand expressions are highlighted in parentheses to expose students to terminology that they will hear in the hospital setting.
• Boxed Take Home Points provide the benefit of years of nursing experience that students can use to prepare for their clinical rotation.
• Original cartoon-character illustrations walk the student through difficult subjects with a lighthearted approach.

New Features

• Cover design and series title better identifies the series as a fun and simple review.
  
• What You Will Learn section provides chapter objectives for the reader to aid their navigation through the chapters.
  
• Over 100 NCLEX® examination-style review questions have been moved to the ends of chapters to immediately test student knowledge.
  
• 2-3 rhythm strips at the end of most chapters for students to practice interpretating.
  
• Two completely new chapters on Normal Sinus Rhythm and Idioventricular Rhythms.
  
• Rhythm Strip Test, containing 30 ECG strips, included at the end of the book to test students' knowledge.