Think Like a Nurse: Practical Preparation for Professional Practice 2nd Edition

Most students struggle to put the clinical picture together and think like a nurse! This book will prepare nursing students for real-world practice by helping them understand what content is most important and provide practical strategies to develop clinical judgment. Includes Innovative tools to strengthen student learning by identifying what content is most important to nursing practice.

Key Components:
COMPREHENSIVE TEXTBOOK. Emphasizes a practice-based approach so students can apply learning immediately.
CASE STUDIES. Clinical case studies that engage students, allowing them to practice what they've learned to develop critical thinking skills.
REFERENCE GUIDES and WORKSHEETS. Make learning active, so students retain knowledge gained.

WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM READING THIS BOOK?
This text is suited for pre-licensure nursing students, including those in LPN, LVN, and RN programs and an excellent resource for new nurses looking to develop the critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills required for real-world practice.

Additional tools to develop clinical judgment are available on Keith Rischer's website: www.KeithRN.com.

Editorial Reviews
"This book would be helpful to newly graduated nurses as well as senior nursing students. Keith gives a great example of situated coaching on electrolytes, cardiac preload, and afterload. I commend Keith on his scholarship and heart in this work."- Patricia Benner, RN, PhD, FAAN, FRCN & Professor Emerita, University of California, San Francisco. Co-author, Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation

>Biography
Keith Rischer, MA, RN, CEN, CCRN is an author, nurse educator, and staff nurse with over 35 years' experience who currently works in critical care and ED. Defined by his passion for nursing and excellence in education, he is a recognized authority on clinical judgment and its relevance to nursing practice.