LPN & LVN

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (Thumb Index)

Because for more than 65 years, Taber's has provided students and practitioners with the definitions and information they need to provide superior care for their patients: 56,000 definitions with 2,400 brand new to the 20th edition.almost 50% more than our nearest competitor. More than 6,000 revised terms. 700 superior illustrations with more than 500 in full color 100 more Patient Care sections NEW! Cautions statements added to almost 350 terms bold and in a second color New and revised appendices, including Nutrition, Complementary Medicine, and Appendix 13, which explains the roles of the Health Professions health care team members NEW! Improved placement of multi-word entries (for example, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease and Irritable bowel syndrome are now listed in natural word order) NEW! Almost 30,000 pronunciations of new and current terms More colorful interior design NEW! Easier to understand definitions NEW!

Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN Examination, Edition 3

This guide is filled with essential nursing content, tips, strategies, and other indispensable information to help you prepare for the NCLEX-PN examination. It includes all-new information on the latest test plan, plus many questions in the new alternate item formats. The text provides rationales for correct and incorrect answers, as well as strategies for approaching similar questions.

Please check out these other great NCLEX-PN® review books from Linda Silvestri:

Saunders Q & A Review for the NCLEX-PN® Examination (9781416029120)
Saunders Strategies for Success for the NCLEX-PN® Examination (9781416000945)
Saunders Q & A Review Cards for the NCLEX-PN® Exam (9780721603926)

• Pyramid Terms, key terms defined at the beginning of each chapter, give students a quick review of each content area.
  
• Pyramid Points, bulleted items located throughout the content outlines, identify content that typically appears on the NCLEX-PN exam.
  
• Pyramid to Success sections at the beginning of each chapter or major unit of the book provide an overview of the chapter, guidance and direction regarding the focus of review in the content area, and its relative importance to the current NCLEX-PN test plan.
  
• The text and accompanying CD-ROM provide thousands of practice questions. Every question in the book provides a correct answer, rationales for all responses, test-taking strategy, level of cognitive ability, integrated concepts and processes, category of client needs, and reference to an Elsevier nursing textbook.
  
• Text includes a comprehensive exam consisting of 300 questions related to all content areas in the book and representative of the percentages identified in the 2005 NCLEX-PN test plan.
  
• Alternate item format questions provide practice with mastering prioritizing, decision-making, and critical thinking skills, and help prepare users for this additional component of the NCLEX-PN exam.
  
• Text presents introductory chapters on the NCLEX exam, test-taking skills, and the NCLEX-PN from a student's perspective.

• Features a new chapter addressing transitional needs of foreign-educated nurses.
  
• The unit on Growth and Development Across the Lifespan has been completely updated.
  
• Includes 3,500 questions, approximately 500 more than the 2nd edition. All of the questions in the book, plus additional questions, are included on the CD-ROM.
  
• New alternate item format questions include drag-n-drop, illustration questions, and multiple response questions, to prepare readers for the addition of these questions to the NCLEX-PN examination.
  
• The CD-ROM allows readers to practice randomly selected alternate item format questions in study and quiz modes.

Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines for Individualizing Client Care Across the Life Span

Help your students save valuable time -- make sure they use the best care planning book available! Extensively revised and updated throughout with the latest NANDA, NIC and NOC content, Nursing Care Plans Across the Life Span, 7th edition, also addresses the most recent advances in diagnostic testing and pharmacological therapies.

Introduction to Maternity & Pediatric Nursing

Part of the popular LPN Threads series, this leading text provides a solid foundation in obstetrics and pediatric nursing. Its concise, logical organization by developmental stages, discussion of disorders by body system from simple-to-complex and health-to-illness, and a focus on health promotion and on the family make it a complete guide to caring for maternity and pediatric patients.

• Focuses on family-centered care, health promotion and illness prevention, women's health issues, and growth and development of the child and parent.
• Covers a wide range of maternal and pediatric care with 35 skills and provides expected outcomes, interventions, and rationales for nursing care 30 nursing care plans.
• Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each Nursing Care Plan challenge students to evaluate and apply the plan of care to specific clinical situations.
• Nursing Tips throughout the text provide pertinent information applicable in the clinical setting.
• Pictorial story of a vaginal birth includes photos through delivery.
• Cultural considerations as they relate to pregnancy and delivery, maternal/infant, and pediatric care in detailed tables help nurses develop cultural sensitivity when caring for diverse patient populations.
• Cultural Assessment Data Collection Tool checklist assists the nurse in developing an individualized plan of care.

• Health Promotion Considerations boxes focus on prenatal wellness, health during pregnancy, postnatal health, and more.
• Companion CD-ROM, bound with the book, includes videos of both a normal delivery and a cesarian birth, 70 neonatal and pediatric assessment video clips, 3-D animations, audio glossary, and Patient Teaching Plans in Spanish and English.
• Discusses CPR specifically for the pregnant patient.
• MyPyramid illustrates the 2005 revised nutrition guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Provides discussions of changes in clinical care recommendations, including use of Ipecac® for poisoning, vaginal birth after caesarian, and pain relief in newborns.
• Includes the latest content on infectious diseases acquired during pregnancy, sexual abuse, assault, rape in the pediatric population, and the adolescent as a parent.
• Includes an appendix of JCAHO Lists of Dangerous Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols.

Study Guide for Introduction to Maternity & Pediatric Nursing

Master content from the textbook with this helpful study tool! Designed to accompany Leifer's Introduction to Maternity & Pediatric Nursing, 5th Edition, this workbook will assist students in understanding and applying material from each chapter in the text.

LPN Notes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide

Nutrition & Diet Therapy

Learn all the essentials about nutrition and good health in this updated text! In our health-conscious society, the link between good nutrition and good health is seen everywhere, from magazine and newspaper headlines to television shows and web sites. This presents a challenge to nurses when working to help clients improve their nutrition and overall health. Nutrition & Diet Therapy, 9th Edition, is your ideal choice for an introduction to nutrition concepts and client care.

Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing

Now part of the popular LPN Threads series, the second edition of this market-leading text provides all the essential information that the LPN/LVN nurse needs to practice in an expanded number of care settings, including the traditional hospital setting, the clinic, physician's office, long-term care facility, and the home. Heavily illustrated, the text's primary themes addressed include health promotion, communication and patient teaching, critical thinking, and cultural sensitivity in providing nursing care.

• Over 465 full-color photographs and illustrations.
  
• More than 75 skills that follow the nursing process are clearly presented in an action/rationale format.
  
• Steps a more concise versions of skills are all in action/rationale format.
  
• Overview of Structure and Function presents basic anatomy and physiology, including a section on aging.
  
• Application of the Nursing Process includes nursing care plans to reinforce application.
  
• Elder Care Points highlight changes that occur with aging and how they affect nursing care.
  
• Home Care boxes highlight the necessary adaptations of nursing skills and techniques for the patient in the home care setting.
  
• Patient Teaching boxes include guidelines to prevent illness, promote health, and develop self-care strategies.
  
• Critical Thinking Activities help students develop problem-solving skills.
  
• Theory Objectives and Clinical Practice Objectives in each chapter highlight the most important goals.
  
• Think Critically About boxes encourage students to synthesize information and apply concepts.
  
• Communication Cues present examples of nurse-patient dialogues and instructive therapeutic communication techniques.

• Full-color LPN Threads design and content with objectives, key terms, care plans with critical thinking activities, key points, study questions, and more.
  
• NCLEX-PN® Examination Test Plan Comparison matches up text content with the test plan.
  
• Complementary and Alternative Therapies chapter covers herbal and other nontraditional therapies used in patient care.
  
• Delegation, Leadership, and Management chapter discusses the role of the LPN/LVN in a changing health care environment.
  
• Health Promotion Points boxes highlight wellness and disease prevention.
  
• Concept Maps help students visualize abstract processes by depicting relationships among a disorder's multiple symptoms, treatments, and side effects.
  
• Critical Thinking Questions at the end of nursing care plans allow students to develop problem-solving skills based on the care plan scenario.
  
• Includes the latest CDC hand hygiene guidelines and alcohol hand rub information, NHLB blood pressure guidelines, CPR guidelines, and information on pathogens such as "prions."
  
• Includes patient safety goals in medication administration from Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
  
• Appendix on Spanish/English health care phrases.
  
• NIC/NOC language for outcomes and interventions added to nursing process unit.
  
• Accompanying student CD-ROM includes open-book quizzes, audio glossary, animations, audio clips, video clips, an English-Spanish glossary, and more.

Introductory Clinical Pharmacology (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins))

Introductory Medical-Surgical Nursing, Ninth Edition, Plus LiveAdvise Online Student Tutoring Service (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins))