Unit One: Essential Skills to Begin Your Transition --- Chapter 1. Honoring Your Past, Planning Your Future --- Understanding Transition --- Learning as an Adult --- Where It All Begins --- Reviewing the Past --- Examining Where you are Now --- Setting Your Goals --- Lifelong Learning --- Clinical Judgment Questions --- Chapter 2. Assessing Yourself and Designing Success --- Gifts and Barriers --- Learning Style --- Self-Directedness --- Assuming an Internal Locus of Control --- Positive Self-Talk --- Elimination of Self-Defeating Behaviors --- Managing the Work of Success --- Managing Your Health --- Chapter 3. Study Habits and Test-Taking Skills --- General Face-to-Face Classroom Behavior --- Effective Listening --- Effective Note-Taking --- Success in an Asynchronous Online Class --- Success in Synchronous Online Class --- Effective Reading --- Improving Your Study Skills --- Finding the Balance --- Maintaining Your Health Promotes Success --- Unit Two: The Profession and Discipline of Registered Nursing --- Chapter 4. Distinguishing the RN Role from the LPN/LVN Role --- Professional Role Socialization --- Role Elements --- Differences Between LPN/LVN and RN Roles --- Educational Preparation --- Scope of Practice --- Chapter 5. Using Nursing Theory to Guide Professional Practice --- Theories in Support of Nursing --- Nursing Philosophies --- Nursing Theories --- Nursing Models --- Clinical Judgment Questions --- Providing Patient-Centered Care Through the Nursing Process --- Historical Perspective --- Nursing Process --- Outcome Identification/Planning --- Planning --- Implementation --- Evaluation --- Clinical Judgment and Action Model --- Concept Mapping --- Chapter 7. Critical and Diagnostic Thinking for Better Clinical Judgment --- Definition of Critical Thinking --- Purpose of Critical Thinking --- Types of Reasoning Embedded in Critical Thinking --- Related Thinking Skills --- Elements of Reasoning and Critical Thought --- Structure of Critical Thought --- Attributes of the Critical Thinker --- Fostering Critical Thought --- Unit Three: The RN as a Provider of Care --- Practicing Evidence-Based Decision Making --- Role of Nurses in EBP --- Defining Evidence-Based Practice --- Defining Attributes of Evidence-Based Practice --- Putting Evidence-Based Practice to Work --- Limitations of Evidence-Based Practice --- Apparent Gaps In Research Utilization --- Components and Process in a Research Study --- Research Process --- Research Utilization --- Communicating with Patients and Co-Workers --- Communication Basics --- The Nurse–Patient Relationship --- Health Literacy and Cultural Competence --- Teaching Patients and Their Families --- The Patient as a Learner --- Principles of Teaching and Learning --- Basic Principles of Learning --- Assessment of Readiness to Learn --- Evaluation of Effectiveness of Learning --- Basic Principles of Teaching --- Characteristics of a Teacher --- Processes of Teaching Patients and Families --- The Nurses, Ideas, and Forces That Define the Profession --- Historical Foundations --- Nursing Today: Factors Influencing Practice --- Nursing’s Social Covenant --- Upholding Legal and Ethical Principles --- Issues in Law --- Sources of Law --- Legal Principles --- Negligence and Malpractice --- Failure to Rescue --- Documentation --- Mandatory Reporting --- Legal Nurse Consultant --- Nursing Ethics --- Ethics and Culture --- Ethical Dilemmas --- Bioethics --- Ethics Committees --- Ethical Theories --- Your Professional Commitment --- Ethical Decision Making --- Care and Safety Standards, Competence, and Nurse Accountability --- Classification of Nursing Skill Level --- Educational and Professional Standards --- Managing Care Aberrances --- Patient and Family Complaints --- Unit Four: The RN as Manager of Care --- Leading, Delegating, and Collaborating --- Leaders, Managers, and Followers --- Leadership Characteristics --- Leading and Emotional Intelligence --- Ethics and Culture: Central to Leadership --- Delegation --- Principles of Delegation --- Collaborating in Providing Care --- Decision Making and Problem Solving --- Conflict Management --- Promoting Healthful Living in the Primary Care Setting --- Health Promotion Principles --- Environmental Influences on Health Promotion --- Developmental --- Trauma-Informed Care --- Primary Health Care Systems --- Global Health Promotion --- Community Health Promotion --- Self-Health Promotion --- Managing Care in Secondary and Tertiary Health Care --- Theoretical Framework --- Manager of Care --- Resource Manager --- Tertiary Care Referrals --- Unit Five: Putting It All Together --- Reflecting on Your Transition --- Assessment --- Critical Reflection --- Making the Diagnosis --- Planning --- Implementation --- Evaluation --- Clinical Judgment Questions --- Passing the NCLEX-RN --- Evolution of the NCLEX-RN Exam --- Computer Adaptive Testing --- NCLEX Test Plan --- NCLEX-RN–Style Test Items --- Evidence-Based Strategies for Testing Success --- Katts Framework --- The Five C’S --- Clinical Judgment Questions --- Appendix 1. Basic Math Review: Preparing for Medication Calculations --- Preparing for Calculations: Basic Math Review --- Ratio and Proportion --- Methods of Dosage Calculations --- Dimensional Analysis (Factor Labeling) Method --- Basic Dosage Calculations Using Dimensional Analysis --- Format to set up the IV rate problem using DA --- Example of Calculations --- Advanced Steps to Calculate Dosages Using Dimensional Analysis --- Example of Complex IV Rate Calculations --- II Verifying and Calculating Pediatric Dosages --- Example of Verifying a Pediatric Medication Order --- Critical Thinking Questions

LPN to RN Transitions, 5th Edition makes it easy for you to advance in your nursing career with all of the essential information you need to pursue your RN degree and practice as a registered nurse. This new edition includes practical information on role transition, cultural competency, delegation, interprofessional collaboration, professional writing, and more. Plus, newly revised and updated chapters provide the latest information for one complete, indispensable resource to help you succeed in everything from the classroom to clinical practice!