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.<br /> <br /> <ul> <li>Plentiful Critical Thinking Exercises encourage problem-solving for both academic and interpersonal situations.<br /></li> <li>Learning Exercises related to chapter content challenge students to imagine, visualize, and think outside the box.<br /></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.<br /></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.<br /></li> <li>Leadership Hints and Management Hints offer helpful tips to follow and remember when in a leadership or management situation.<br /></li> <li>Communication content explains three-way communication - verbal, nonverbal, and affective - and how all three ways of communicating can affect patient-nurse interactions.<br /></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.<br /></li> <li>A chapter on the NCLEX-PN Exam (Chapter 22) offers tips for taking the exam.<br /></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.<br /></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> </ul> <br /> <br /> <ul> <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.<br /></li> <li>NCLEX-PN Test Plan Comparison maps content from the text with the current test plan.<br /></li> <li>A new chapter on Critical Thinking for Clinical Competence (chapter 6) addresses critical thinking as it applies to the LPN/LVN.<br /></li> <li>A new chapter on Personal Health Promotion (chapter 10) discusses stress management and burnout, nutrition and exercise, the impaired nurse, and codependency.<br /></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).<br /></li> <li>More cultural content discusses culturally diverse patients and the appropriate nursing responses, including added content on Islam.<br /></li> <li>New information on the newly passed Medicare bill describes the many changes that affect health care and the older adult population.</li> </ul>