Prepare for success on respiratory therapy credentialing exams! Updated to reflect the 2009 National Board of Respiratory Care (NBRC) content outlines, Sills' The Comprehensive Respiratory Therapist's Exam Review, 5th Edition helps you review for both entry and advanced level credentialing exams. It covers every testable subject, providing content review, self-assessment questions, and study hints. The new Evolve website contains electronic testing offering realistic practice for the entry-level credentialing exam and the advanced-level credentialing Written Registry Exam (WRE) and Clinical Simulation Exam (CSE). Updated content to reflect 2015 NBRC Detailed Content Outline and examination matrix so that students know exactly what to expect on the exams and can review each of the areas covered on the matrix. Self-study questions at the end of each chapter include an answer key with rationales to help the student analyse areas of strengths and weaknesses in content learned. Rationales for each question provide feedback for correct and incorrect answers to help students understand why an answer is correct or incorrect for better retention of information. Difficulty level codes of each question on Evolve (recall, application, analysis) included with each topic to enable the student to spend time preparing for questions in a way that is most appropriate for that type of question (e.g.

, memorization for recall or synthesis for analysis). Exam Hints point out commonly tested items to help students determine what to study, how to plan their time, and improve test-taking skills. Special NBRC coding of topics correspond to every topic covered on the NBRC Detailed Content Outline (DCO) so that students know exactly what to expect on the exams and can easily review each of the areas covered on the DCO. UNIQUE! Clinical Simulations on Evolve will reflect a new quantity of simulations (22-2 more than required) and the newly revised length of these sims on the actual 2015 Clinical Simulation Exam (CSE), giving the students an opportunity to practice this difficult portion of the Registry Exam and to become familiar and more comfortable with this portion of the exam. For students, this is a secured site accessed by a pin code (access code in book). The software mimics that used on the actual NBRC CSE. Practice Exams on Evolve are available in both study (untimed) and exam (timed) modes to provide an additional opportunity to practice and experience the actual NBRC testing environment in a computerized format . Featured on a secured Evolve site with the same scoring breakdown proposed by the NBRC, the Practice Exam allows students to test themselves after they have reviewed content and gives them an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the computerized exam format.

There is one TM-CE of 140 questions with automatic scoring to delineate the two credentialing levels - entry and advanced. One text now covers both the entry and advanced levels of Respiratory Therapists credentialing exams, so you need only one book to prepare for CRT and RRT credentials. Updated content reflects the NBRC's new examination content outlines, so you get an accurate, current review. New coverage includes subject areas such as CPAP/BiPAP titration during sleep, hemodynamic monitoring, hyperinflation therapy, laryngeal mask airway, high frequency ventilation, oxygen titration, thoracentesis, ultrasound, and ventilator-associated pneumonia protocols. An Evolve website includes both CRT and RRT practice exams.