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The "NCLEX Exam Prep" provides in-depth coverage of all the topics you need to study for the registered nurse licensing exam. The "NCLEX Exam Prep "blends the ideal level of discussion, drawings, tables and exercises into a focused format for study. The "NCLEX" Exam Prep ""offers special features such as fast facts, notes, tips, and exam alerts and highlight judgment skills throughout the text. Critical thinking exercises provide you with the opportunity to coordinate facts with critical thinking skills. The Prep includes a set of questions with answer rationales in each chapter plus two complete exams, totaling 530 questions. The web-delivered exam includes an interactive Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) engine for a meaningful exam experience with approximately 2,000 questions. Information about the exam: The NCLEX exam is not a comprehensive recall of clinical nursing facts, but rather a test of critical judgment and management skills. Depending on your skill level of the exam, the number of questions varies between 75 and 265 questions. It is a Computer Adaptive Test (CAT), in which each test is assembled interactively based on the your response to previous questions.

Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
About the Authors	p. xiv
Preface xv
Plan for the Book xvii
Making HR Measurement Strategic	p. 1
Analytical Foundations of HR Measurement	p. 21
The Hidden Costs of Absenteeism	p. 43
The High Cost of Employee Separations	p. 67
Employee Health, Wellness, and Welfare	p. 99
Employee Attitudes and Engagement	p. 125
Financial Effects of Work-Life Programs	p. 151
Staffing Utility: The Concept and Its Measurement	p. 171
The Economic Value of Job Performance	p. 195
The Payoff from Enhanced Selection	p. 223
Costs and Benefits of HR Development Programs	p. 245
Talent-Investment Analysis: Catalyst for Change	p. 271
The Taylor-Russell Tables	p. 285
The Naylor-Shine Table for Determining the Increase in Mean Criterion Score Obtained by Using a Selection Device	p. 297
Index	p. 309
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Investing in People

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