Part of the LPN Threads series, Success in Practical/Vocational Nursing: From Student to Leader, 7th Edition helps you develop the practical knowledge and problem-solving skills you need for a successful career as an LPN/LVN. This edition features up-to-date content that is logically organized with concepts that build on each other as you progress through the material.1-2-3-approach walks you through the steps of what you need to do and how to do it. A separate chapter on critical thinking and plentiful critical thinking exercises encourage you to apply your knowledge to solve problems in both academic and personal situations.Coverage of Medicare helps you understand the costs of managed care, especially in long-term settings for older adults, and how it affects LPN/LVN practice and patients.Keep In Mind boxes prompt you to consider the underlying theme as you read the chapter.New Research and Evidence Based Practice chapter addresses topics commonly encountered in LPN/LVN practice.New technology content helps you understand the role of simulation in nursing education and the proper etiquette for using electronic devices.Content reflects the concepts contained in the most current NCLEX-PN test plan.Professional Pointers throughout the text offer valuable advice on expectations in the professional arena during and after nursing school.Revised chapter on Health Care Systems reflects the implementation of dramatic changes.Updated nutrition and dietary information includes new MyPlate information.The latest protocols from the NAPNES, including student confidentiality, keeps you updated on your national association's practice standards.Revised, updated, and expanded culture content allows you to provide culturally sensitive care.

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Howlett RN BSN MS, Helen Stephens

Hill RN BSN MA, Signe S.

Nursing

Saunders

Now part of the popular LPN Threads series, this market-leading text 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.
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<li>Plentiful Critical Thinking Exercises encourage problem-solving for both academic and interpersonal situations. </li>
<li>Learning Exercises related to chapter content challenge students to imagine, visualize, and think outside the box. </li>
<li>A separate chapter on learning strategies for the adult student includes research on right-brain/left-brain learning and suggestions for time management. </li>
<li>Leadership Activities and Management Tools provide practical instructions, resources, and opportunities to practice and apply leadership and management skills using a variety of methods. </li>
<li>Leadership Hints and Management Hints offer helpful tips to follow and remember when in a leadership or management situation. </li>
<li>Communication content explains three-way communication - verbal, nonverbal, and affective - and how all three ways of communicating can affect patient-nurse interactions. </li>
<li>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. </li>
<li>A chapter on the NCLEX-PN® Exam (Chapter 22) offers tips for taking the exam. </li>
<li>Provides basic information on Nursing Interventions Classifications (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classifications (NOC), promoting awareness and recognition of how these nursing languages are used. </li>
<li>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.</li>
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<li>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. </li>
<li>NCLEX-PN Test Plan Comparison maps content from the text with the current test plan. </li>
<li>A new chapter on Critical Thinking for Clinical Competence (chapter 6) addresses critical thinking as it applies to the LPN/LVN. </li>
<li>A new chapter on Personal Health Promotion (chapter 10) discusses stress management and burnout, nutrition and exercise, the impaired nurse, and codependency. </li>
<li>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). </li>
<li>More cultural content discusses culturally diverse patients and the appropriate nursing responses, including added content on Islam. </li>
<li>New information on the newly passed Medicare bill describes the many changes that affect health care and the older adult population.</li>
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Success in Practical/Vocational Nursing: From Student to Leader

This basic, introductory text emphasizes the identification of basic patterns of behavior and the development of nursing interventions in response to the behavior. Specific, concrete examples of patient behavior and the feelings of health care providers toward such behavior are discussed throughout. Coverage includes the concept of caring, principles of personality development, and an overview of major developmental theories. This well-illustrated volume also provides guidelines on how to care for the mentally disabled and how to handle specific disturbances.

Essentials of Mental Health Care: Planning and Interventions

Bauer RN MSN, Barbara B.

This concise, two-color text provides brief coverage of only the most common psychiatric disorders and the information needed to recognize significant client behavior problems and to understand the basis of those problems and related behavioral patterns. Its clear and practical approach helps readers learn how to tailor therapeutic responses to a client's individual illness and to understand their nursing responsibilities for a full range of modern treatments, including psychotherapeutic medications.
<li>Reality checks exist throughout the text, which aim to bring the material into the students world</li>Emphasises critical thinking through key questions at the end of each chapter.<li>Evaluation exercises aid student learning. </li>

Mental Health Nursing: An Introductory Text

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.

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Success in Practical/Vocational Nursing - Text and E-Book Package: From Student to Leader

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UNIQUE! 1-2-3 approach in a clear, simple, engaging writing style instructs you in what you need to do and how to do it. UNIQUE! Learning Exercises challenge you to imagine, visualize, and think outside the box. UNIQUE! Leadership Activities provide exercises to practice and develop leadership skills and Leadership Hints provide helpful pointers to follow and remember when in various leadership situations. UNIQUE! Management Tools and Management Hints provide practical instructions, resources, and tips to use when in a management situation. UNIQUE! Offers time-management tips to help prioritize. Integrates wellness and personal care throughout the text, including information and coping skills for stress management and burnout, nutrition and exercise, the impaired nurse, and co-dependency. Includes separate chapters on “Ethics Apply to Nursing and “Nursing and the Law that address pertinent legal and ethical issues that directly and indirectly affect LPN/LVNs. Features information on Medicare and the many changes that affect health care, including health care settings, medication coverage, and the costs of managed care. Includes a separate chapter on learning strategies for the adult student and updated approaches for traditional and returning students. A separate chapter on critical thinking and many critical thinking exercises promotes the development of critical thinking and problem solving skills in both academic and personal situations. Includes updated State Boards of Nursing and Internet Resources Appendixes with the most up-to-date addresses for nursing boards and website addresses for nursing, medical, and health-related information as an all-in-one ready resource for you as you prepare to enter the work world.UNIQUE! Keep In Mind boxes located in each chapter introduce readers to the underlying theme in the chapter. UNIQUE! Evolve Student Resources includes 230 NCLEX Exam-Style Interactive Questions per chapter, with correct response and rationales for both correct and incorrect responses, to encourage self-study and review. UNIQUE! The “Learning During School, for the NCLEX-PN, and Beyond chapter includes new content on the role of simulation in nursing education and etiquette for electronic device use, such as cell phones and iPods. UNIQUE! The “Personal Health Promotion chapter helps you provide a positive role model for patients with new content on MyPyramid, the benefits of exercise, personal steps to help prevent hospital-acquired infections, burnout versus stress, and tips for personal safety. UNIQUE! Culture content has been expanded content addressing the growing needs of patient care for special populations and to help students develop cultural sensitivity. Includes the latest protocols from NAPNES regarding standards of practice and educational competencies that LPN/LVN nursing students need to know.

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Success in Practical/Vocational Nursing: From Student to Leader

Essentials of Mental Health Care: Planning and Interventions

Mental Health Nursing: An Introductory Text

Success in Practical/Vocational Nursing: From Student to Leader

Success in Practical/Vocational Nursing - Text and E-Book Package

Success in Practical/Vocational Nursing - Text and E-Book Package: From Student to Leader

Success in Practical/Vocational Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card): From Student to Leader

Success in Practical/Vocational Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card): From Student to Leader