Duncan and Dolores by Barbara Samuels

Duncan and Dolores by Barbara Samuels

Illustrated Study Guide for the NCLEX-RN Exam, 6th edition, covers the key nursing concepts and content areas found on the latest NCLEX-RN licensure examination. A concise outline format summarizes essential nursing content, enhanced by multiple illustrations, including many of the authors' popular mnemonic cartoons. The easy, colorful design includes a special Alert feature that highlights frequently tested nursing concepts, and Nursing Priority boxes that identify priorities of care. The introductory chapter reviews the latest NCLEX test plan and new alternate item format questions, while separate chapters cover pharmacology and nursing management. The remaining chapters are organized by lifespan, basic nursing concepts, client populations, and body systems, for easy location of specific content. Chapter appendixes summarize related medications, diagnostic tests, and nursing procedures. NCLEX examination style review questions close every chapter, and a companion CD-ROM with over 1,500 questions (including alternate item formats) allows users to customize practice exams, and review answers and rationales.

• Identifies concepts frequently found on the NCLEX exam in a specially designed Alert feature.
• Highlights priorities of care in specially designed Nursing Priority boxes.
Includes separate chapters on pharmacology and nursing management to focus on areas emphasized on the NCLEX exam. Uses a concise outline format for easy access to essential nursing content.
• Summarizes medications, diagnostic tests, and nursing procedures in chapter appendixes.
• Includes answers and rationales for all review questions so users can understand why correct answers are right and incorrect options are wrong.
Includes a companion CD-ROM that gives students an electronic testing experience and allows them to customize practice exams for focused study needs.
• Over 100 illustrations enhance key nursing content, including mnemonic cartoons from the authors' popular Notebook series.
A full-color, fun design, enhances content with a student-friendly, manageable approach. Increases the number of test questions to over 1,500 for multiple study and practice test sessions.
• Allows students to choose practice questions by specific content areas on the CD-ROM, providing options for customized practice tests.
Includes electronic alternate item format questions on the CD-ROM, such as priority drag and drop and illustrated hot spots, consistent with the features of the NCLEX-RN exam.

Samuels, Barbara: -

Barbara Samuels

When I was little I loved to watch my two older sisters draw. I remember a playground scene my sister Susie drew -- two girls playing hopscotch, every detail perfectly rendered, down to the loser's tears. She also liked to draw ladies in stylish suits, complete with hats, gloves, and matching handbags (it was the 1950s after all). My other sister, Freya, specialized in queens and princesses. She could make the trimming on their gowns look like real lace. While their drawings seemed to appear magically on the page, for me it was a struggle. The hardest part was getting the right expressions on the faces. Sometimes I had to erase and redraw the mouth so many times it left a hole with a gray smudge around it.

It wasn't just my sisters' drawings that seemed better than mine. All their things -- silk scarves folded in neat squares, crayons lined up in rows, with their waxy tips still pointy, jewelry locked in leather cases -- had the allure of the forbidden. Susie kept her best doll in its original box high up in her closet, and I was under strict orders never to brush her hair. Not that I could blame her, since my own dolls were strewn about my room -- usually recovering from multiple surgeries, missing their socks and most of their hair. And if you looked under the bed, you could find a few stubby crayons.

It should be no surprise that Dolores, the younger sister in my books, always seems to triumph. I've been writing about her for so long that she now feels like a real person. Sometimes she even tells me what to write about -- she can be quite bossy. Duncan, her long-suffering cat, would certainly agree. In the house on Long Island where I grew up, we always had one or two cats. Trying to capture the many moods of my cats was probably how I finally learned to draw. I remember choosing the topic How to Draw a Cat for a seventh-grade speech class. By that time I could draw well enough to impress other kids, but I didn't think about becoming an illustrator until much later. I had already majored in history at the University of Wisconsin, received my M. A. at the Teacher's College of Columbia University, and taught for a few years, when I decided to go to the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan to study illustration.

After I finished art school, I painted watercolor backgrounds for an animated film version of the Raggedy Anne Stories and worked on commercials for the cartoonist R. O. Blechman at his studio, The Ink Tank. I also did freelance illustration jobs for The New York Times, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and other magazines.

Around that time, I became interested in doing picture books. A story about two sisters and their cat seemed a natural choice for me. I love the way the pictures in a children's book can tell you what the words don't. Some of my favorite illustrators are masters at this: Helen Oxenbury (Out-and-About books), Robert McCloskey (Blueberries for Sal) and Hilary Knight (the Eloise books). My editor, Melanie Kroupa, always makes sure that my characters' expressions show what they're really feeling, even when they're saying and doing the opposite. It's funnier and more true to life that way. Sometimes I have to revise the drawings many times, and it can get frustrating. But, thinking back to my earliest scribbles, I've always done it that way.

I live in Manhattan with my husband, Nicholas, a psychotherapist, and my teenage son, Noah. We have two cats, Harold, an outgoing Siamese, and Claude, a shy orange tabby. Harold is very happy I've included him in a Dolores book. Claude, like Duncan, prefers to be left alone.

SKU	Non disponible
ISBN 13	9780027782103
ISBN 10	0027782107
Titre	Duncan and Dolores
Auteur	Barbara Samuels
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Simon And Schuster Children's Publishing
Année de publication	1986-09-30
Nombre de pages	32
Note de couverture	La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
Note	Non disponible