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Chapter 01 Honoring Your Past, Planning Your Future
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Chapter 02 Assessing Yourself and Designing Success
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Chapter 03 Study Habits and Test-Taking Skills
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Chapter 04 Distinguishing the RN Role from the LPN LVN Role
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Chapter 05 Using Nursing Theory to Guide Professional Practice
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Chapter 06 Providing Patient-Centered Care Through the Nursing Process
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Chapter 07 Critical and Diagnostic Thinking for Better Clinical Judgment
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Chapter 08 Practicing Evidence-Based Decision Making
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Chapter 09 Communicating With Patients and Co-Workers
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Chapter 10 Teaching Patients and Their Families
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Chapter 11 The Nurses, Ideas, and Forces That Define the Profession
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Chapter 12 Upholding Legal and Ethical Principles
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Chapter 13 Care and Safety Standards, Competence, and Nurse Accountability
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Chapter 14 Leading, Delegating, and Collaborating
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Chapter 15 Promoting Healthful Living in the Primary Care Setting
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Chapter 16 Managing Care in Secondary and Tertiary Health Care
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Chapter 17 Reflecting on Your Transition
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Chapter 18 Prepare Now to Pass NCLEX-RN®
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Chapter 01: Honoring Your Past, Planning Your Future
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Claywell: LPN to RN Transitions, 6th Edition
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MULTIPLE CHOICE f
1. A nursing advisor is meeting with a student who is interested in earning her RN degree. She
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knows that licensed practical nurse/license vocational nurse (LPN/LVNs) who enter nursing
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school to become RNs come into the learning environment with prior knowledge and
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understanding. Which statement by the nursing advisor best describes her understanding of
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the effect experience may have on learning?
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a. ―Experience may be a source of insight and motivation, or a barrier.‖ f f f f f f f f f f f
b. ―Experience is usually a stumbling block for LPN/LVNs.‖ f f f f f f f
c. ―Experience never makes learning more difficult.‖ f f f f f
d. ―Once something is learned, it can never be truly modified.‖ f f f f f f f f f
ANS: A f
Experience accentuates differences among learners and serves as a source of insight and
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motivation, but it can also be a barrier. Experience can serve as a foundation for defining the
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self.
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2. There is a test on the cardiovascular system on Friday morning, and it is now Wednesday
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night. The student has already taken a vacation day from work Thursday night so that she
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student‘s outcome priority?
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The outcome priority is the essential issue or need to be addressed at any given time within a
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set of conditions or circumstances.
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OBJ: Identify motivations and personal outcome priorities for returning to school. f f f f f f f f f
TOP: Motivation to Learn
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3. A nurse who has been an LPN/LVN for 10 years is meeting with an advisor to discuss the
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possibility of taking classes to become an RN. The advisor interprets which statement by the
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nurse as the driving force for returning to school?
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a. ―I‘ll need to schedule time to attend classes.‖ f f f f f f f
b. ―I‘ll have to budget for paying tuition.‖ f f f f f f
c. ―I‘ll have to rearranging my schedule.‖ f f f f f
d. ―There is a possibility of advancement into administration.‖ f f f f f f f
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