Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care

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that can be used in class activities or group assignments. ●● Assignments and Discussion Topics help you enhance your lessons and assignments by structuring student learning and evalu ating understanding. Resources for Students An exciting set of resources is available on to help students review material and become even more familiar with vital concepts. Students can access all these resources at https://thePoint.lww.com/ Andrews9e using the codes printed in the front of their text. ●● Online Student Review Questions help students master important concepts and practice for exams. ●● Journal Articles corresponding to book chapters offer access to current research available in Wolters Kluwer journals. Lippincott® CoursePoint The same trusted solution, innovation, and unmatched support that you have come to expect from Lippincott CoursePoint is now enhanced with more engaging learning tools and deeper analytics to help prepare students for practice. This power fully integrated, digital learning solution combines learning tools, real-time data, and the most trusted nursing education content on the market to make curriculum-wide learning more efficient and to meet students where they’re at in their learning. And now, it’s easier than ever for instructors and students to use, giving them everything they need for course and curriculum success! Lippincott CoursePoint includes the following: ●● Engaging course content provides a variety of learning tools to engage students of all learning styles. ●● Interactive learning activities help students learn the critical thinking and clinical judg ment skills needed to help them become practice-ready nurses.

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