LPN to RN Transitions: Career Mobility in Nursing is a text designed to fit a LPN to RN transition /articulation program. This text is written with a very practical approach. Unit One focuses on assessing the returning LPN/LVNs past professional and personal accomplishments as well as the goals that they would like to accomplish in nursing school. The text helps the student do this by providing several motivational exercises to complete. It also helps the students assess their academic skills and it provides several tools ...
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LPN to RN Transitions: Career Mobility in Nursing is a text designed to fit a LPN to RN transition /articulation program. This text is written with a very practical approach. Unit One focuses on assessing the returning LPN/LVNs past professional and personal accomplishments as well as the goals that they would like to accomplish in nursing school. The text helps the student do this by providing several motivational exercises to complete. It also helps the students assess their academic skills and it provides several tools and resources to use throughout nursing school. Unit Two presents the knowledge and skills needed for the role transition to a RN. The topics in this half of the text focus on the critical thinking, clinical and communication skills that the LPN/LVN needs to successfully transition to the RN role. Unit One addresses the needs of returning LPN students and provides practical learning techniques with motivational exercises, tools, and resources to help them succeed in nursing school. Unit Two focuses on the needs of the student to effectively transition into the role of RN - including critical thinking, communication, and many clinical nursing skills. For Your Information boxes are integrated throughout and provide important information and exercises to better understand the transition from LPN to the role of RN. A chapter on a Basic Math Review covers the basics of arithmetic and dosage calculation methods to help students understand this often difficult area. A chapter on Understanding the Nursing Process introduces LPNs to the nursing process in more detail and helps teach them how their scope of practice will be expanded as RNs. Critical Thinking Questions or Activities at the end of each chapter help stimulate thought and test content in the chapter. Exercise boxes integrated throughout test knowledge of content and reinforce key principles. Appendices include a medications/dosage calculation and conversion review exam, a list of the NANDA Nursing Diagnoses, and the Nurses Code of Ethics.
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