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A Guide for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals
This innovative text helps nursing students and working nurses to master the essential skill of synthesizing diverse forms of literature to inform research, practice, and policy in Nursing and the Health Science disciplines. Focusing on the significance of synthesis as a critical component of the literature review process, this book walks readers ......
This empowering and encouraging resource, written for dystonia patients and their families and caregivers, provides an overview of a variety of dystonias, including cervical dystonia, spasmodic dysphonia, blepharospasm, and writer's cramp, and the breadth of treatment options available. The authors also offer practical advice for improving quality ......
Effective Practices and Quality Programs in Eldercare
This is a comprehensive reference for long-term care administrators, practitioners and students who want to understand the options, issues, and trends related to the effective administration and management of long-term care communities. The book is unique in its in-depth focus on what needs to be accomplished and the evidence-based information ......
Focuses on the full spectrum of long-term care settings, ranging from family and community based care through supportive housing options to a variety of institutional long-term care alternatives. Integrating theory and practice, the book features the perspectives of diverse fields regarding current long-term care options and new directions for the ......
Lung cancer treatment has undergone major changes over the course of the past few years and the pace of new research and development is expected to continue at a high level for the immediate future. This title provides a comprehensive review for practitioners on the status of lung cancer treatment.
This issue of Emerging Cancer Therapeutics provides a comprehensive review for practitioners on the current status of lymphoma subtypes. It includes details the most current management across the spectrum of lymphoma subtypes; expert contributors from across the US and Canada; and multidisciplinary coverage and emphasis on emerging therapeutic ......
Social psychologists have studied beliefs and such related constructs as ""attitudes,"" ""biases,"" ""prejudices,"" ""schemas"" ""values,"" and ""worldview"" for decades. But recently, the study of beliefs and values has moved beyond the boundaries of social psychology and is now of interest to cross-cultural psychology, cognitive psychology, ......
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic and progressive disease that affects as many as one million people in the United States alone. Behavior problems in PD are not always catastrophic, but they are common. This book focuses entirely on this area that many doctors overlook, an area that often causes the most problems and can be the most treatable.
Time-tested leadership and management strategies based on experiential learning activities are at the foundation of this text for undergraduate and graduate students in nursing and health care leadership or management courses. It is grounded in theories and concepts applied to the health care environment from business, organisational psychology, ......
