Success in Practical/Vocational Nursing

KNOWING YOURSELF * How Practical/Vocational Nursing Evolved * The Health Care Team * The Adult Learner * DEVELOPING YOUR LEARNING SKILLS * For the Organizationally Challenged * Discovering Your Learning Style * Learning How to Learn and to Retain Information * Hints for Using Learning Resources * KNOWING OTHERS * Straightforward Communication Skills * Cultural Uniqueness, Sensitivity, and Competence * Spiritual Caring, Spiritual Needs, and Religious Differences * LEADING AND MANAGING OTHERS * Assertiveness as a Nursing Responsibility * The Practical/Vocational Nurse's Role in the Nursing Process * Developing Leadership Skills * Management, Supervision, and Charge Nurse Skills for Practical/Vocational Nurses * WHERE YOU ARE GOING * Health Care Settings * Health Care System Financing and Trends * Career Mobility * HOW TO GET THERE * Nursing Ethics and the Law * The FINAL is NCLEX-PN * Finding a Job * Appendices * Glossary * Index