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"This guide by Stabler-Haas sets itself apart in its direct, kind, and professional tone...Notably, it concludes with chapters about success beyond graduation...Recommended."--Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
Written with candor and good humor, this Fast Facts guide for students in diploma, AD, BSN, and RN-BSN level programs features the information that nursing students really need to know in order to achieve excellence up to and beyond the NCLEX.
Incorporating many real-life examples (drawn from more than 1,000 students taught by the author), Fast Facts for the Student Nurse clarifies common issues such as choosing a major, work/study arrangements, and difficulties associated with living at home. It discusses the NCLEX, licensure, continuing education, and graduate education, and helps readers identify what type of learner they are and how to capitalize on their strengths. Checklists to facilitate important decision making and charts and tables with "hot topics" are also included.
Key Features:- Provides, in Fast Facts format, all of the information new and experienced nursing students need to know for classroom and clinical success
- Helps readers identify their learning style and capitalize on strengths
- Covers the NCLEX, licensure, continuing education routes, graduate education, and how to survive the first year of practice
Foreword
Preface ix
Acknowledgments
Part I: Your New Life as a Student Nurse
1. Now That Your Journey Has Begun
2. Common Myths Regarding Nursing
3. Facing the Challenge of Your Chosen Major
Part II: Success in the Classroom
4. Optimizing the Value of Classroom Time
5. Interacting With Your Instructor
6. What Kind of Learner Are You?
7. The Digital World of Nursing Education
Part III: Success at the Clinical Site
8. The Clinical Experience
9. Once On-Site
10. Patients as People
Part IV: Success at Home
11. Working, Family, and Crises That Won’t Wait
12. You Are Your Own Patient
Part V: Success Following Graduation
13. Licensure
14. NCLEX (The National Council License Examination)
15. The Basics of Job Hunting in Nursing
16. The Fine Points of Job Hunting in Nursing
17. Reaching for the Next Star
18. What? Me Publish?
19. Insuring Your Investment
20. A Nursing Fable
References
Index