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Happy Endings
Uplifting End of Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Happy Endings is a collection of forty stories about people who said good-bye in unique and uplifting ways. This is not to say their narratives—generously shared with the author by families and caregivers—are without pain and sorrow. Yet, the final stage of life holds remarkable possibilities...
Back on the Farm
Inspirational Short Stories and Songs
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Call Him by name. He’s there beside you. That’s His promise. God has always been beside Madlyn. His Word is her guiding voice. From early spiritual formation as a youth and her time as a nurse, to running a dairy farm and becoming an Ordained Minister and Pastor, His call has held her through life’s...
Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span 2e, Volume 1
Investigation, Diagnosis, and the Multidisciplinary Team
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
462 pages, 192 images, 38 contributors This first volume serves as a complete guide for multidisciplinary team members involved in the investigation of sexual assault. It includes comprehensive medical guides for the diagnosis and treatment of assaultive trauma; legal guides to investigation and prosecution;...
How God Shows Up
A Compelling Story Following the Sudden Death of a Child and a Mother’S Determination to Find and Know Her Daughter’S Eternal Expression of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This deeply revealing and clutching true story portrays a single-parent woman who seeks her own death after experiencing the piercing pain of the sudden loss of her eleven-year-old daughter. She struggles a dual reality of consciousness as she bears the rivalry with her mind and emotions and wavers...
From Hospital to Hospice
One Nurse’S Journey Towards Grace at the Bedside
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
If you or a loved one is considering entering hospice care, please know that you are not alone. If you have cared for a loved one through their dying process, many of these stories will ring familiar. Contained within these pages is a collection of stories and experiences for terminally ill patients...
Sacred Passage
How to Provide Fearless, Compassionate Care for the Dying
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Working as an emergency room nurse, Margaret Coberly came in contact with death on a daily basis. However, it wasn't until her own brother was diagnosed with terminal cancer that she realized she understood very little about the emotional and spiritual aspects of caring for the terminally ill. To...
Interpersonal Relationships - E-Book
Professional Communication Skills for Nurses
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Acclaimed for its strong theoretical framework and consistent organization, Arnold and Boggs' Interpersonal Relationships: Professional Communication Skills for Nurses, 6thEdition, remains the definitive resource in developing effective communication with clients, families, and colleagues in order...
by Carole Lium Edelman, APRN, MS
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
With the advent of health care reform and an emphasis on reducing health care costs, health promotion and disease prevention is a priority in nursing care. Be prepared with Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 8th Edition, your comprehensive guide to major health promotion concepts. Featuring...
by Carole Lium Edelman, APRN, MS
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Promote health and wellness for all ages and population groups! Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 9th Edition provides a comprehensive guide to leading health promotion concepts, from assessment to interventions to application**.** Its lifespan approach addresses patients’ unique needs...
by Valerie D. Thompson, RN, PHC
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
No health care professional in Canada should be without a clear understanding of the Canadian health care system! Health and Health Care Delivery in Canada, 2nd Edition explores the nation’s basic approach to health, wellness, and illness. Set entirely within a Canadian context, this text includes...
The Business of Medical Practice
Transformational Health 2.0 Skills for Doctors, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Praise for the previous edition:
"This comprehensive multi-authored text contains over 450 pages of highly specific and well-documented information that will be interest to physicians in private practice, academics, and in medical management. . . [Chapters are] readable, concise yet complete,...
by Hope Rachel Hetico, RN, MHA
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2006
Designated a Doody's Core Title!
To keep up with the ever-changing field of health care, we must learn new and re-learn old terminology in order to correctly apply it to practice. By bringing together the most up-to-date abbreviations, acronyms, definitions, and terms in the health care industry,...
The Innovation Illusion
How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial—a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn...
by Jennifer S. Mensik, PhD, RN
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Nurse staffing is the foundation for excellent patient care and outcomes. Decades of research on hospital staffing and patient outcomes has given a clear message: Safe Staffing Saves Lives. However, there is no magic bullet for solving staffing issues. Nurse managers and leaders have struggled to find...