Success in Practical/Vocational Nursing: From Student to Leader
Language: English
Published by Saunders, 2004
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- Title
- Success in Practical/Vocational Nursing: From Student to Leader
- Author
- Signe S. Hill RN BSN MA
- Publisher
- Saunders
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0721603491
- ISBN 13
- 9780721603490
- Edition
- 5th or later Edition
- Item weight
- 1.01 pounds
- Plentiful Critical Thinking Exercises encourage problem-solving for both academic and interpersonal situations.
- Learning Exercises related to chapter content challenge students to imagine, visualize, and think outside the box.
- A separate chapter on learning strategies for the adult student includes research on right-brain/left-brain learning and suggestions for time management.
- Leadership Activities and Management Tools provide practical instructions, resources, and opportunities to practice and apply leadership and management skills using a variety of methods.
- Leadership Hints and Management Hints offer helpful tips to follow and remember when in a leadership or management situation.
- Communication content explains three-way communication - verbal, nonverbal, and affective - and how all three ways of communicating can affect patient-nurse interactions.
- Up-to-date information on distance learning and the Internet as a component of returning education covers online resources, study groups, and computer-aided instruction and simulations.
- A chapter on the NCLEX-PN® Exam (Chapter 22) offers tips for taking the exam.
- Provides basic information on Nursing Interventions Classifications (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classifications (NOC), promoting awareness and recognition of how these nursing languages are used.
- Health care settings and costs of managed care are addressed, including current trends in employment opportunities for LPN/LVNs and career alternatives beyond the hospital setting.
- Full-color LPN Threads design - with objectives, key terms, key points, review questions, references and suggested readings, and more - makes this accessible, reader-friendly book even easier to use.
- NCLEX-PN Test Plan Comparison maps content from the text with the current test plan.
- A new chapter on Critical Thinking for Clinical Competence (chapter 6) addresses critical thinking as it applies to the LPN/LVN.
- A new chapter on Personal Health Promotion (chapter 10) discusses stress management and burnout, nutrition and exercise, the impaired nurse, and codependency.
- Material on ethics and legal issues has been separated into two chapters: Ethics Applied to Nursing (chapter 19) and Nursing and the Law (chapter 20).
- More cultural content discusses culturally diverse patients and the appropriate nursing responses, including added content on Islam.
- New information on the newly passed Medicare bill describes the many changes that affect health care and the older adult population.
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