Product Description: Book by Culver, Vivian M.

Product Description: Discusses the major personal and professional issues that the practical nursing student must address before graduation. It is designed to help bridge the gap between student life and the working world.

This second edition provides coverage of the practical/vocational nursing curriculum and reflects the expanding roles of LPNs and LVNs in the modern health care field. Updated content includes: critical thinking; home care; case study-based care plans; and patient teaching.

The updated and expanded second edition helps the reader adjust to nursing school and the nursing profession. It provides tools for academic success including learn objectives for each chapter, learning exercises that involve students, and chapters in the "How to Begin" section which provide guidelines to help students learn how to learn. Practical nursing development is specifically addressed by history of nursing, the nursing process, the health care and nursing team, legal and ethical aspects, career mobility, nursing organization, finding a job, NCLEX-PN, AIDS, hepatitis, burnout, leadership and cultural and religious differences.

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It’s never too late to make amends.They’ve been the best of friends for decades. They’ve seen everything—marriage, divorce, success, and bankruptcy.They think that there are no more surprises, that they’ve learned all of life’s lessons.But they’re wrong. They’ve only just begun. Recently divorced and seeking to find herself, Penny moves to a picturesque town in France, happy to live alone—that is until she meets an irresistible American philosophy professor. Meanwhile, handsome bachelor Peter falls head over heels for the first time in his life with curvaceous, sexy, and fiercely independent Frieda; Tim and Angie face challenges in their childless, co-dependent marriage; and Jeremy, twice divorced and the most successful of them all, struggles with a destructive addiction. At the heart of the story is Sandy, Penny’s ex-husband and once an acclaimed songwriter. He realizes too late that he’s taken his wife and two children for granted. His life is in disarray until a close call prompts him to attempt a reconciliation with his son and daughter. This quest takes him from London to the noisy swarming streets of an Indian hill town, where his children are living. But before he can make amends with them, Sandy has to confront a secret tragedy that has haunted him, and his relationships, for decades.Wonderfully wise and deeply engaging, After Everything is about the frailties and joys of friendship and family and the struggle of learning how to live in a changing world. In this heartwarming novel about midlife coming-of-age, some relationships blossom, others fade, but all reveal the ambivalent nature of the ties that bind us to each other.

Concerned the practical/vocational nursing curriculum, this text covers basic sciences, nursing process, growth and development over the lifespan, basic anatomy and physiology, skills, pharmacology, step-by-step nursing procedures and the changing healthcare delivery system. It includes units on obstetrics, paediatrics, medical-surgical, geriatric, and mental health nursing. Additional chapters in this edition cover community health and home care focus; transcultural considerations; long-term care; ambulatory and home care; and nursing assessment and physical examination.