Success in Practical and Vocational Nursing : From Student to Leader

by Hill, Signe S.; Howlett, Helen Stephens

• ISBN13: 9780721690599
• ISBN10: 0721690599
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science div

Summary

The new edition of this exciting text has been revised and updated to equip today's students for a career as an LPN/LVN. SUCCESS IN PRACTICAL/VOCATIONAL NURSING offers an interactive approach, teaching students not only what to do, but how to do it. This 1-2-3 approach, combined with an increased emphasis on leadership and management, ensures that this text will continue to be an essential tool that teaches students skills they'll need throughout their careers! SUCCESS IN PRACTICAL/VOCATIONAL NURSING encourages critical thinking and active problem solving. It presents learning strategies for adult students, as well as approaches for traditional and returning students and offers tips on taking the NCLEX-PN and searching for a job.

Table of Contents

PART ONE Knowing Yourself
How Practical/Vocational Nursing Evolved	1	(22)
The Health Care Team	23	(17)
The Adult Learner	40	(13)
PART TWO Developing Your Learning Skills
For the Organizationally Challenged	53	(14)
Discovering Your Learning Style	67	(11)
Learning How to Learn and Retain Information	78	(19)
Hints for Using Learning Resources	97	(17)
PART THREE Knowing Others
Straightforward Communication Skills	114	(14)
Cultural Uniqueness, Sensitivity, and Competence	128	(24)
Spiritual Caring, Spiritual Needs, and Religious Differences	152	(16)
PART FOUR Leading and Managing Others
Assertiveness as a Nursing Responsibility	168	(21)
The Practical/Vocational Nurse's Role in the Nursing Process	189	(17)
Developing Leadership Skills	206	(30)
Management, Supervision, and Charge Nurse Skills for Practical/Vocational Nurses	236	(23)
PART FIVE Where You Are Going
Health Care Settings	259	(9)
Health Care System Financing and Trends	268	(15)
Career Mobility	283	(12)
PART SIX How to Get There
Nursing Ethics and the Law	295	(27)
The FINAL Is NCLEX-PN	322	(9)
Finding a Job	331	(54)
Michael S. Hill
APPENDICES
Appendix A State Boards of Nursing	361	(6)
Appendix B NAPNES Standards of Practice for Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurses	367	(1)
Appendix C NFLPN Nursing Practice Standards for the Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse	368	(3)
Appendix D NLN Entry-Level Competencies of Graduates of Educational Programs in Practical Nursing	371	(2)
Appendix E Learning Exercises for Chapter 4	373	(6)
Appendix F Internet Resources	379	(2)
Appendix G The Howlett Style of Nursing Leadership	381	(1)
Appendix H Delegation: Concepts and Decision-Making Process (NCSBN)	382	(3)
Glossary	385	(6)
Index	391