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A primary study tool to help candidates prepare for the epilepsy board certification exam. Using structured question formats typically encountered on the boards, this book covers the base knowledge tested and allows users to assess their proficiency in a wide range of topics necessary to achieve subspecialty certification in the field of epilepsy.
Offering a comprehensive discussion of epilepsy, this guide incorporates comments and suggestions from real patients and their families. It answers commonly asked questions about epilepsy, dispels uncertainties and fears, and encourages those diagnosed with epilepsy to become strong advocates in their medical care.
Written by nurses for nurses, this graduate-level text disseminates the core principles of epidemiology within a population health framework and provides practical knowledge nurses can use to analyze and improve healthcare in the community. Informed by the evolution of epidemiological science resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, this book ......
Environmental Health: Foundations for Public Health is a foundational textbook that brings together diverse voices and perspectives to examine our most pressing public health issues today. The textbook introduces readers to a wide range of the knowledge, skills, data, and resources needed to ensure environmental health at local and global levels. ......
The environments in which people live out their later lives have a strong impact on their identity and opportunities for nourishing social interactions. This volume synthesizes contemporary research on residential environments and public spaces that enhance well being, and provides practical recommendations for the design of such beneficial ......
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.
Written by noted nurse historians and educators, this book presents nursing history in the context of problems and issues that persist in modern times. It traces issues, such as professional autonomy, working conditions, relationships with other health professionals, appropriate knowledge for education and licensure, gender, class, and race.
Presents a variety of end-of life experiences and each case is analyzed from many disciplinary perspectives. The analyses illustrate how specific end-of-life narratives can be viewed from different dimensions. This book helps students, researchers and practitioners see the meanings that end-of-life experiences have at the level of the family.
With a growing population comes an increased need to recognize the medical and psychological needs of older adults and their families, particularly towards the end of life. This guide describes the challenges such persons and families present to those providing end of life care.
