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Career Strategies

ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-1216-7
ISBN-10: 0-8036-1216-8

547 pp. Soft cover. ©2005
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Advancing Your Career: Concepts of Professional Nursing, 3rd Edition

By Rose Kearney-Nunnery, RN, PhD, Technical College of the Lowcountry, Beaufort, South Carolina

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Clinical Scenarios

Clinical scenarios provide thought-provoking questions and discussion topics that further enhance the learning experience.

For interactive exercises, click here.

Chapter 3
- > Chapter 3, Clinical Scenario 1
  Jimmy describes himself as "mad at the world..."
- > Chapter 3, Clinical Scenario 2
  Marcy is a 48-year-old woman who has come to her health-care provider today with severe abdominal pain...
- > Chapter 3, Clinical Scenario 3
  Adam and Chuck are 8 and 10 years, old respectively...
Chapter 4
- > Chapter 4, Clinical Scenario 1
  Gerry Smith is a 64-year-old, well-nourished man with long-standing non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus...
- > Chapter 4, Clinical Scenario 2
  Sue Jones is a 28-year-old thin, single mother of three young children who has recently been hospitalized and diagnosed with hepatitis C...
Chapter 7
- > Chapter 7, Clinical Scenario 1
  A 16-year-old boy has been admitted to the nursing unit after breaking his leg in a car accident...
- > Chapter 7, Clinical Scenario 2
  You are making a home visit to an 85-year-old woman who lives by herself...
Chapter 10
- > Chapter 10, Clinical Scenario 1
  You are a working with a couple in a fertility clinic...
- > Chapter 10, Clinical Scenario 2
  James is a 68-year-old home health client with brittle diabetes who lives alone...
- > Chapter 10, Clinical Scenario 3
  Manuel is a 29-year-old construction worker who has recently been diagnosed with a seizure disorder...
- > Chapter 10, Clinical Scenario 4
  Monica is a 48-year-old woman who was rushed to the center by her significant other after awakening this morning with left-sided facial paralysis...
- > Chapter 10, Clinical Scenario 5
  Teresa is a single mother whose 3-year-old son Jeremy was just diagnosed with mild persistent asthma...
Chapter 14
- > Chapter 14, Clinical Scenario 1
  Relate the case to the principles of distributive justice. Clara, 108 years old, is admitted through the hospital emergency room (ER) for nonspecific complaints of chest pain and dizziness...
- > Chapter 14, Clinical Scenario 2
  Andrew, an 8-year-old boy, was diagnosed with leukemia 3 years ago. Initially treated with chemotherapy, his disease went into remission for several months but now has relapsed...
- > Chapter 14, Clinical Scenario 3
  When 13-year-old Keri comes into the outpatient clinic for a sports physical, the clinic RN finds indications of possible abuse...
Chapter 18
- > Chapter 18, Clinical Scenario 1
  In order to remember her computer password, the new staff nurse taped the password to the back of her name badge. She recently lost the name badge...
- > Chapter 18, Clinical Scenario 2
  A staff member has been exposed to blood through a workplace accident and was tested for HIV through the Employee Health Department...
Chapter 20
- > Chapter 20, Clinical Scenario 1
  A 22-year-old college student arrives at the college health center with complaints of high fever, vomiting, headache, and backache...

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