Using an engaging, interactive, 1-2-3 approach, this text helps you develop problem-solving skills that will be useful throughout your nursing career. Active participation and application of critical thinking are utilized through questions, quizzes, and self-assessments to provide you with practical and efficient aids to learning. You will also discover learning strategies, tips on taking the NCLEX-PN®, guidance on the job search, and an in-depth discussion of supervision, delegation, assignment of tasks, and the distinctions among them. An LPN Threads Series title.

通过使用一个吸引人，互动式和1-2-3方案，本书能够帮助读者提高解决问题的能力，这将使得读者整个护理职业生涯都获益匪浅。通过问题，问答比赛，和自我评估等形式使得读者主动参与并进行批判性思维的锻炼，从而帮助读者进行实际而有效的学习。读者还将发现学习策略，采取NCLEX-PN的提示，找工作指导，以及关于监督，代表，派遣工作的深入讨论和它们之间的差别。一个LPN Threads系列标题。

* 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 dir

* 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