Success in practical/vocational nursing : from student to leader / Signe S. Hill, Helen Stephens Howlett.
Publication details: St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders/Elsevier, c2005.Edition: 5th editionDescription: xx, 488 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780721603490
- 0721603491
- WY 18 H645s 2005
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Contents
UNIT ONE: LEARNING SKILLS FOR CRITICAL THINKING
1.The adult learner
2. Personal learning style preference
3. For the organizationally challenged
4. Learning and retaining information for critical thinking
5. Learning resources for student and graduate
6. Critical thinking for clinical competences
UNIT TWO: BUILIDING BLOCKS FOR YOUR CAREER
7. How practical/vocational nursing evolved
8. Nursing process: Your role
9. Straight forward communication
10. Personal health promotion
UNIT THREE: PATIENTS AND CO-WORKERS
11. Healthcare team
12. Cultural uniqueness, sensitivity and competence
13. Spiritual needs, spiritual caring and religious differences
UNIT FOUR: LEADING AND MANAGING OTHERS
14. Assertiveness: your responsibility
15. Leadership skills
16. LPN/LVN charge nurse skills: management, including assignment and delegation
UNIT FIVE: HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENT: BASIC ELEMENTS
17. Health care settings
18. Health care system: financing, issues, and trends
19. Ethics applied to nursing
20. Nursing and the law
UNIT SIX: END AND THE NEW BEGINNING
21. Finding a new job
22. NCLEX-PN examination
23. How to make your career grow
Includes references and index
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