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This guide provides a 'framework' for people who lead training programs in a plain language approach to communications. Based on a two-day course, this reference is divided into nine modules that can be customized in order to help participants to develop the skills necessary to use a plain languag…
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The placenta is an important endocrine organ producing large amounts of steroid and protein hormones which are released into the maternal and fetal circulations. Moreover, it has a very high metabolic rate and consumes a significant proportion of the oxygen and glucose delivered to the uterus and i…
Although Outcome Measurement has become an important tool in the evaluation of health promotion, patient education and other health services interventions, there remain problems in locating reliable measurements and scales. This book provides a compilation of more than 50 self-administered scales f…
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In this book, the author explores the inner landscape of the teaching self, and to understand that landscape more fully, the author discusses three important paths that must be taken: intellectual, emotional, and spiritual.
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This guide will help teachers, individually and in groups, reflect on their teaching and renew their sense of vocation by exploring the inner landscape of their lives along Palmer's three dimensions--intellectual, emotional, and spiritual.
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Teaching is one of the most valuable services nurses provide to patients and families. But whether in the hospital, clinic, home, or long-term care facility, other tasks and responsibilities often compete for nurses' time. This book offers nurses useful, everyday information to apply to real-life …
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This book examines how expert critical care nurses use scientific knowledge, professional experience, and a careful attention to each patient's changing condition to provide excellent nursing care. Based on descriptive interviews and observational studies of 205 nurses, it helps readers at all leve…
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A communication guidebook designed for nurses to help them educate the public about their important work and gain greater respect and public support for it.
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Generations of nursing students have discovered the scope, the importance, and the fundamental processes of their chosen profession with this one-of-a-kind, reader-friendly text. Using a helpful building-block approach, and filled with many thought-provoking historical and cultural vignettes, Under…
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Created for youth and their families to help them prepare for adult care and adulthood. Divided into four sections, the Family Care Book asks the questions; What are our daily needs? Why do we have those needs? When do we start planning for adulthood? And, where can we find the answers and resource…
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This comprehensive guide provides educators with the resources needed to implement a Preceptor Development Program in your organization. A series of six workshops, each four hours or less, addresses the learning needs of both beginning and experienced nurse preceptors, learners and hospital staff s…
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Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) consists of two parts. In the first part, Prensky argues that the prevalence of video games has actually rewired our brains and made traditional learning methods less effective. In the second part, Prensky makes the case that DGBL can be used successfully by corpo…
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This text includes 15 practices for improving nurse manager performance. Areas include: Customized manager training; Manager peer mentoring; Desktop dashboards; Strategic planning protocols; Leadership triads; Manager assistants; Dedicated administrative support; Unit staffing associate, Nurse mana…
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Designed to describe the process of writing for publication, the book contains four sections: writing various types of articles for publication in journals; structure of different types of articles; the writing process; steps used to submit materials; and strategies for dealing with editorial issue…
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This book is a comprehensive guide to developing and managing educational simulations.; Contents; Why Simulations Further Educational Goals; What is an Educational Simulation? Designing an Educational Simulation; Managing an Educational Simulation: Debriefing an Educational Simulation; Responsible …
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This book presents the work of clinical health care teams and natural work groups, quality improvement teams, committees, and task forces comprising employees in health care settings. It discusses the importance of collaboration and interactive problem-solving among professionals from diverse disci…
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Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-specific condition, and it still remains one of the most common causes of maternal mortality in the developed world. Although the exact cause of preeclampsia has not been identified, it is most widely accepted that preeclampsia results from incomplete placentation. Inter…
Remodeling of the endometrial extracellular matrix, which occurs during the early stages of pregnancy in the human, is mediated by the temporal expression of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) and matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) in both the maternal and fetal compartments and counterbalance…
Encyclopedic entries are included for significant topics, such as diseases, disorders, or conditions. These encyclopedic entries include the definition along with an overview of the most important information related to Symptoms, Treatment, Patient Care, Prevention, etc.
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This instructional CD-rom demonstrates how 'the COMFORT behaviour scale' for postoperative pain assessment in neonates and infants works in practice.