Emphasizing leadership and clinical judgment skills, Success in Practical / Vocational Nursing: From Student to Leader, 10th Edition helps you navigate your way through nursing school, examinations, the job search, and success in professional practice. It describes the building blocks essential to a successful career, such as critical thinking, ethics, effective communication, and an understanding of your role in the nursing process. Also useful are review questions to help you get ready for the NCLEX-PNª examination. Written by educators Lisa Falgiatore Carroll and Janyce Collier, this edition adds new insight into the ways self-empowerment can help you achieve positive outcomes in class and on the job.--Amazon.com.

Previous edition: published as by Patricia Knecht. St. Louis: Elsevier, 2021.

Unit I: Resources. Personal resources of an adult learner ; Academic resources (study skills and test strategies) ; Community resources. -- Unit II: Building blocks for your career. How practical/vocational nursing evolved: 1836 to the present ; Critical thinking: a lifelong journey ; Ethics applied to nursing: personal versus professional ethics ; Nursing and the law. -- Unit III: Relationship-centered care. Effective communication: health care team, clients, faculty, and peers ; Assertiveness: your responsibility ; Cultural uniqueness, sensitivity, and competence ; Spiritual needs, spiritual caring, and religious differences. -- Unit IV: Health system-based care. The nursing process: your role ; Nursing theory, research, and evidence-based practice ; The interdisciplinary health care team: the role of the practical/vocational nurse ; Health care settings: continuum of care ; The health care system: financing, issues, and trends. -- Unit V: The LPN/LVN: your role today and in the future. Collaboration: leading and managing ; Workforce trends: how to find a first job you will love ; Licensure and regulation: becoming licensed and understanding your state nurse practice act.