| UNIT I: THE TRANSITION PROCESS: Lifelong learning: returning to school -- Role development and transition -- Adapting to change -- Transition throughout nursing's history -- Learning at the ADN level -- Individualizing a plan for role transition -- The success for the LPN: challenge of NCLEX-RN questions -- UNIT II: CORE COMPETENCIES FOR PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE: Practicing within regulatory frameworks -- Critical thinking and clinical judgment in nursing -- UNIT III: ROLE CONCEPTS ESSENTIAL FOR RN PRACTICE: PART A: PROVIDER OF CARE: The nursing process: assessment and caring interventions -- The nurse as communicator -- The nurse as teacher -- PART B: MANAGER OF CARE: Managing unique client care -- Managing time, conflict, and the nursing environment -- PART C: MEMBER OF THE DISCIPLINE OF NURSING: Professional responsibilities -- Legal accountability -- Ethical issues -- Appendix A: Answers to "NCLEX-RN might ask" questions -- Appendix B: NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses 2007-2008 |