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What are the personality, motivational, and intellectual traits of good (and bad) leaders? How do effective leaders behave and what kinds of people follow them? How is leadership influenced by gender, cultural differences, and social networks? This title provides answers to these questions.
Offers conceptual frameworks and clinical strategies for integrating resilience-oriented and strengths-based treatment with survivors of family violence. This book discusses resilience in survivors of childhood incest, children of battered women, and individuals formerly in violent domestic relationships.
Concepts, Role and Practice for the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
A comprehensive guidebook that clearly delineates the role of the nurse practitioner in the intensive care environment. It describes the complex pathophysiology and appropriate management of common problems that are encountered in the critical care environment, including trauma, infections, and disease.
This 2nd revised edition covers management and treatment of bladder and bowel dysfunctions in men and women, pelvic organ prolapse, issues concerning the elderly, neurologically impaired patients and those with pelvic pain.
Explores the need for new theories in gerontology and sets the stage for the development of the author's theory of gerotranscendence. This book illustrates the practical implications of the theory of gerotranscendence for professionals working with older adults in care settings.
The handbook is an impressive collection of research studies and theories provided by knowledgeable contributors on life-span development from conception to old age.--Anthropology and Aging Quarterly The doubling of our average life span since the turn of the 20th century is considered by many scholars to be one of the most important changes in ......
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Pocket Companion is designed to meet the day-to-day needs of PM&R residents, practising physiatrists, and physicians in other specialties seeing rehabilitation patients. Focused solely on clinical care delivery, this handy reference provides the tools necessary to navigate everything from PM&R team coordination ......
Providing evidence-based assessment tools, as well as a review of analgesics, effective dosing, and safe administration practices, this resource is for APNs, pediatric RNs, and primary care providers who assess and treat infants, children, and adolescents experiencing pain.
A concise, reader-friendly introduction to an important but often underappreciated topic in modern psychology, this explains the role of comedy, jokes, and wit in the sciences and discusses why they are so important to understand.
