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Presents the experience of 37 U.S. military nurses sent to the Iraq and Afghanistan theatres of war to care for the injured and dying. The personal and professional challenges they faced, the difficulties they endured, the dangers they overcame, and the consequences they grappled with are vividly described from deployment to discharge.
This up-to-date pocket guide for use in obstetric triage and emergency settings provides speedy access to critical information needed by healthcare providers in obstetrics, midwifery, emergency medicine, and family care medicine. It includes practice protocols that offer point of service management guidelines, diagnostic parameters for robust ......
Describes the essential interpersonal skills that social workers need in community practice and helps students cultivate them. Drawing from empirical literature on community social work practice and the author's own experience working with community organisers, the book focuses on developing the macro-level skills that are especially useful for ......
Provides practical strategies for developing, integrating, and evaluating new and emerging technology, specifically game-based learning methods that are useful in nursing and clinical health sciences education. It is designed to bridge the gap between the real life experiences of seasoned professionals and the specific embodied experiences that ......
Integrating Theory and Practice for the Professional Nurse
This second edition graduate textbook and reference guide for nurses presents a practice-focused intervention from the notable Artinian Intersystem Model. While the first edition focused largely on theory, this second editions seeks to integrate both theory and practice to ultimately help enhance the nurse-patient relationship as well as nursing ......
This book serves as both a graduate textbook and clinical reference that helps in the understanding of relevant cultural values and their effect on the grieving process. Grief Therapy with Latinos also addresses the application of specific interventions in a culturally appropriate manner, including the importance of language in grief therapy, ......
Like any other research tool, observational methods can be misused. The authors introduces graduate students to the competent conduct of observational research methods and measurement. Their approach embraces both single-subject and group-design perspectives of observational methods, instructing students when and how to use both methodologies.
This is a quick-access guide for outlining psychopharmacologic drugs for major DSM-IV-R disorders, and is an ideal reference for primary care providers to prescribe and monitor in advanced practice settings. Special conditions are addressed for prescribing medications for sleep disorders, post natal depression, and age-specific disorders.
Addresses the key issues around mobility and transportation for the aging Baby Boomer generation - issues that will be significantly different than those of previous generations of older adults. This volume examines many of the issues faced by policymakers, transportation officials, vehicle manufacturers, health and human services professionals, ......
