Main description:

Gain valuable experience applying your knowledge and critical thinking skills to real-world scenarios! Case Studies in LPN/LVN Nursing features 50 case studies that cover all clinical areas of practice: fundamental skills, medical-surgical adult health nursing, pediatric, maternity, mental health, geriatric nursing, and leadership management. Patient scenarios help you learn how to apply nursing knowledge to nursing practice by promoting the development of critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills. Cases integrate content on assessment findings, diagnostic/laboratory tests, pharmacology, and nutrition to encourage you to think critically about all aspects of patient care, including the physical and psychosocial needs of the patient, communication, collaboration with the health care team, teaching wellness and health promotion, and integration of cultural competence. Cases unfold as care is provided and a variety of multiple-choice, select-all-that-apply, prioritization, and short-answer questions challenge you to formulate and select relevant and/or potential decisions. The case studies are separated by clinical area, allowing you to use this worktext throughout your nursing program.

Contents:

Fundamentals

Asepsis and Infection Control

Data Collection (Vital Signs)

Nutrition and Fluids

Medication Administration

Mobility and Transferring

Patient Hygiene

Postop (wound care, respiratory, embolism)

Medical-Surgical

Breast Cancer

Bronchitis

Cerebral Vascular Accident

Chronic Kidney Disease

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Emphysema

Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Heart Failure

Hypertension

Low Back Pain

Multiple Sclerosis

Myocardial Infarction

Parkinson's Disease

Peptic Ulcer Disease

Pneumonia

Prostate Cancer

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Thyroid Disorder

Urinary Tract Infection

Maternity

Abruptio Placentae

Assessment of Newborn

Contraception

Gestational Diabetes

Incompetent Cervix

Normal Labor

Placenta Previa

Postpartum Mood Disorder

Preterm Infant

Pediatrics

Asthma

Autism

Cerebral Palsy

Cleft Lip/Palate

Communicable disease

Cystic Fibrosis

Diabetes Mellitus Type 1

Eating Disorder

Fracture

Meningitis

Obesity

Otitis Media

Physical Assessment of child

Tonsillitis

Sickle Cell Anemia

Scoliosis

Mental Health

Alcoholism

Anxiety Disorder

Bipolar Disorder

Depression

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Schizophrenia

Substance Abuse

Geriatrics

Abuse/Neglect

Alzheimer's Disease

Constipation

Death and Dying

Dehydration

End-of-Life

Falls

Incontinence

Mobility

Osteoporosis

Pneumonia

Pressure Injury