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9780721603490

Success in Practical, Vocational Nursing : From Student to Leader

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  • ISBN13:

    9780721603490

  • ISBN10:

    0721603491

  • Edition: 5th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-10-20
  • Publisher: ELSEVIER ACADEMIC PRESS
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Summary

Now part of the popular LPN Threads series, this popular textbook helps students develop the practical knowledge and problem-solving skills they need for a successful career as an LPN/LVN. It uses an engaging "1-2-3 approach" that describes what needs to be done in a situation as well as how to do it. Questions, quizzes, and self-assessments encourage active participation and critical thinking, while serving as practical and efficient aids to learning. Coverage of leadership and management has been substantially increased in this edition.

Author Biography

Helen Stephens Howlett was formerly Instructor, Practical Nurse Program, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Learning Skills for Critical Thinking
The Adult Learner
Personal Learning Style Preference
For the Organizationally Challenged
Learning and Retaining Information for Critical Thinking
Learning Resources for Student and Graduate
Critical Thinking for Clinical Competence
Building Blocks for Your Career
How Practical/Vocational Nursing Evolved
Nursing Process: Your Role
Straightforward Communication
Personal Health Promotion
Patients and Coworkers
Health Care Team
Cultural Uniqueness, Sensitivity, and Competence
Spiritual Needs, Spiritual Caring, and Religious Differences
Leading and Managing Others
Assertiveness: Your Responsibility
Leadership Skills
LPN/LVN Charge Nurse Skills: Management, Including Assignment and Delegation
Health Care Environment: Basic Elements
Health Care Settings
Health Care System: Financing, Issues, and Trends
Ethics Applied to Nursing
Nursing and the Law
End and a New Beginning
Finding a Job
NCLEX-PN(r) Examination
How to Make Your Career Grow
State Boards of Nursing
NAPNES Standards of Practice for LP/VNs
Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse
Learning Exercises for the Organizationally Challenged (Chapter 3)
Internet Resources
The Howlett Style of Nursing Leadership
Delegation Concepts and Decision-Making Process (NCSBN)
Glossary
References and Suggested Readings
Answers to Chapter Review Questions (inside back cover)
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