Comprehensive nursing care (2nd ed )

Completely updated in a brand new second edition, this book looks at the practice of nursing from the LPN/LVN point of view. This streamlined but comprehensive resource covers the main content areas including fundamentals, medical-surgical, mental health, maternal-newborn, pediatrics, and leadership (professionalism and transition to practice) and explains to readers what they need to know and do in order to deliver safe and effective nursing care in a variety of settings. It focuses on the information and essential skills that will help ensure clinical and NCLEX-PN test-taking success, as well as addresses the LPN/LVN scope of practice and relationship to the registered nurse

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Part I Foundations of Nursing Care

Unit I The Nature of NURSING

1. Succeeding as a Nursing Student

2. History of Nursing

3 Promoting Culturally Proficient Care

4 Legal and Ethical Issues of Nursing

5 Critical Thinking and Nursing Theories/Models

6.The LPN/LVN and the Nursing Process