Today's health professions students are increasingly diverse and more and more often nontraditional. Many are the first children in their families to ever attend college. Many already have children of their own to support. Many have served in the armed services for extended periods of time. Many already have significant work experience behind them and are seeking career changes. Most of them work as many as twenty-five hours per week while going to school full time. Their lives are complex, complicated and filled with responsibilities, and yet they are entering upon a demanding course of study. They have lectures and labs to attend, clinical rotations or internships to complete, and long days and nights of studying.

These students find their health professions educations just as rewarding as they are challenging. Student Success for Healthcare Professionals Simplified helps students meet the demands and challenges of their studies by providing strategies for success in the classroom, the lab, the library, and the internship site, as well as sound advice and guidance for maintaining emotional and physical well-being. Along the way, the text provides hundreds of helpful tips and examples for everything from effective notetaking to healthier eating habits, from reading and research skills to exercise and sleep routines. In addition to a major reworking of the previous edition's text, the third edition of Student Success for Healthcare Profeassionals Simplified includes four brand new chapters: Chapter 8, "Medical Math," a valuable illustration of the importance of math skills in health care, Chapter 11, "Fundamental Writing Skills," a compact yet comprehensive guide to grammar, style, and APA formatting, Chapter 14, "Succeeding in Your Future as a Healthcare Professional," a set of specific, practical guidelines and illustrations for applying, interviewing, and acquiring that first job as a healthcare professional, Chapter 15, "The Professionalism of the Healthcare Professional," a guide and self-assessment tool for mastering the professional behaviors necessary for success in healthcare Student Success for Healthcare Professionals Simplified is organized into three main sections outlining the principles underlying student success, the skills and habits students develop to achieve success, and the strategies students use to step into productive careers as members of a healthcare team. The text is a rich source of wise counsel that students can return to again and again throughout their programs of study, long after the conclusion of the course in which they first encounter it. Book jacket.