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Success in Practical/Vocational Nursing: From Student to Leader
by: Signe S. Hill, Helen Stephens Howlett
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Edition: 5
Media: Paperback
EAN: 9780721603490
ISBN: 0721603491
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2004-10-15
Publisher: Saunders

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Now part of the popular LPN Threads series, this market-leading text helps students develop the practical knowledge and problem-solving skills they need for a successful career as an LPN/LVN. It uses an engaging "1-2-3 approach" that describes what needs to be done in a situation as well as how to do it. Questions, quizzes, and self-assessments encourage active participation and critical thinking, while serving as practical and efficient aids to learning. Coverage of leadership and management has been substantially increased in this edition.

Plentiful Critical Thinking Exercises encourage problem-solving for both academic and interpersonal situations.
Learning Exercises related to chapter content challenge students to imagine, visualize, and think outside the box.
A separate chapter on learning strategies for the adult student includes research on right-brain/left-brain learning and suggestions for time management.
Leadership Activities and Management Tools provide practical instructions, resources, and opportunities to practice and apply leadership and management skills using a variety of methods.
Leadership Hints and Management Hints offer helpful tips to follow and remember when in a leadership or management situation.
Communication content explains three-way communication - verbal, nonverbal, and affective - and how all three ways of communicating can affect patient-nurse interactions.
Up-to-date information on distance learning and the Internet as a component of returning education covers online resources, study groups, and computer-aided instruction and simulations.
A chapter on the NCLEX-PN® Exam (Chapter 22) offers tips for taking the exam.
Provides basic information on Nursing Interventions Classifications (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classifications (NOC), promoting awareness and recognition of how these nursing languages are used.
Health care settings and costs of managed care are addressed, including current trends in employment opportunities for LPN/LVNs and career alternatives beyond the hospital setting.

Full-color LPN Threads design - with objectives, key terms, key points, review questions, references and suggested readings, and more - makes this accessible, reader-friendly book even easier to use.
NCLEX-PN Test Plan Comparison maps content from the text with the current test plan.
A new chapter on Critical Thinking for Clinical Competence (chapter 6) addresses critical thinking as it applies to the LPN/LVN.
A new chapter on Personal Health Promotion (chapter 10) discusses stress management and burnout, nutrition and exercise, the impaired nurse, and codependency.
Material on ethics and legal issues has been separated into two chapters: Ethics Applied to Nursing (chapter 19) and Nursing and the Law (chapter 20).
More cultural content discusses culturally diverse patients and the appropriate nursing responses, including added content on Islam.
New information on the newly passed Medicare bill describes the many changes that affect health care and the older adult population.

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Medical Billing & Coding Demystified
by: Marilyn Burgos, Donya Johnson, James Keogh
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Edition: 1
Media: Paperback
EAN: 9780071472203
ISBN: 0071472207
Number Of Pages: 239
Publication Date: 2006-11-21
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional

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Clueless? Feel Like a Dummy? Get Demystified!

This handy resource clearly explains the principles and practices used by medical offices, hospitals, and health facilities to encode medical services in order to receive payment from government agencies and insurance companies.

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The Foundations of Chinese Medicine: A Comprehensive Text for Acupuncturists and Herbalists. Second Edition
by: Giovanni Maciocia
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Edition: 2
Media: Hardcover
EAN: 9780443074899
ISBN: 0443074895
Number Of Pages: 1236
Publication Date: 2005-07-13
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone

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This successful Chinese medicine textbook covers the theory of traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture, and discusses in detail the use of acupuncture points and the principles of treatment. The material is based on rigorous reference to ancient and modern Chinese texts, and explains the application of theory in a Western practice context. The new edition features new and updated material, including discussion of 50 additional acupuncture points and more patterns. A redesigned layout complements the accessible writing style and makes the material even easier to follow. Plus, an accompanying CD-ROM contains over 750 self-testing questions in a variety of formats.

The actions and functions of acupuncture points are thoroughly discussed, both from the classics and from the author's own experience.
English style and terminology makes material easy to follow.
Comprehensive text contains everything students need for a complete introduction to the theory of acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
Theory is combined with an in-depth acupuncture section.
Concepts are clearly explained, including those that are complex and obscure material.
Logical, sequential organization builds from basic theoretical concepts, through functions of individual organs, to disease categories, and the appropriate use of points.
Authored by Giovanni Maciocia, one of the Western world's leading authorities on Chinese medicine.

New larger, two-color format and reader-friendly design emphasize essential facts and make it easier to navigate the text.
More photos added to a color-plate section provide valuable supplemental information for diagnosis.
Enlarged illustrations in the acupuncture sections clearly show point numbers and names.
Additional illustrations, tables and diagrams make the information easier for students to learn and memorize.
The size of Chinese characters has been increased so they are legible and easier to interpret.
Chapter opening summaries and summaries of key points at the end of each chapter point out must-know information.
Icons to make it easier to locate desired sections of information.
50 more acupuncture points are covered in this edition, reflecting the broad scope of current practice.
More patterns are included, and combined patterns have been added to the individual pattern chapters.
More information is provided on pathological processes, relative weighting of symptoms, and identification of patterns.
More cases studies and case histories apply theory to diagnosis and treatment, bringing theory to life in a realistic context.
Pinyin equivalents are included in the main text to make it immediately evident which original term is being translated.
An accompanying CD-ROM provides self-testing questions and answers to help students check their understanding of material.
The glossary has been expanded to include more terms and their origins from translation.

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NCLEX-RN® Questions & Answers Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series)
from: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Edition: 4
Media: Paperback
EAN: 9781582555614
ISBN: 1582555613
Number Of Pages: 928
Publication Date: 2007-09-01
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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NCLEX-RN Questions & Answers Made Incredibly Easy!, Fourth Edition, is an NCLEX review book that provides more than 3,500 questions and answers with rationales. The content is divided into six parts that cover all the major areas included on the NCLEX-RN examination. Part 1 explains the NCLEX examination itself. It offers studying and test-taking strategies and describes the test format in detail, including alternate-format questions. Parts 2 through 6 cover each of the five major areas in nursing practice: adult care, psychiatric care, maternal-neonatal care, care of the child, and professional issues. The book also includes six comprehensive examinations (75 questions each, for a total of 450 questions) with answers, rationales, and client-needs category information at the end of each test.

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Effective Leadership and Management in Nursing (6th Edition) (EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT IN NURSING (SULL)
by: Eleanor J. Sullivan
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Edition: 6
Media: Paperback
EAN: 9780131780941
ISBN: 0131780948
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2004-07-04
Publisher: Prentice Hall

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Used worldwide, this award-winning book is now offered in an updated, revised edition to reflect the many changes in health care and nursing. Targeted to both practicing nurses and those in management, this book helps all nurses acquire the skills they need to be successful in today's dynamic health care environment. In the ever-changing health care environment, never nurses have needed this information more. Tools for using the skills presented in each chapter, case studies with a manager's checklist, critical thinking questions, key terms, an easy-to-read format, and a link to online instruction for students and faculty are among the updates to this widely-used book. Also new are sections on the retention of nurses and workplace violence prevention. Section on technology, especially networking among information systems and linking clinical data (eg, monitoring device records) with information systems have been expanded. Useful to Nurse Managers or Administrators.

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12-Lead Ecg: The Art of Interpretation
by: Thomas B. Garcia, Neil Holtz
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Edition: 1st
Media: Paperback
EAN: 9780763712846
ISBN: 0763712841
Number Of Pages: 536
Publication Date: 2001-01-15
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Book Description:
Designed to bring you from your current level of knowledge to a fully advanced ECG interpreter, this book features 200+ full-size, real- life ECGs accompanied by thorough explanations and analyses. Presented in a clear and casual writing style, the book's leveled approach takes a complex subject and makes it simple. Whether you are an EMT, nurse, medical student, or physician wanting to learn or brush up on your knowledge of electrocardiography, this text will meet your needs. Containing more than 200 ECG strips, 12-Lead ECG is designed to be accessed by three different levels of readers--beginner, intermediate, and advanced--and is designed to grow with you as your knowledge of electrocardiography progresses. The text has been created to be continuously useful during your development and is intended to be read and reread as you advance in your knowledge and comfort level with the material. By rereading the material at increasingly advanced levels, you will get more out of the material and retain it with greater use.

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Structure & Function of the Body - Softcover (Structure & Function of the Body)
by: Gary A. Thibodeau, Kevin T. Patton
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Edition: 13
Media: Paperback
EAN: 9780323049665
ISBN: 0323049664
Number Of Pages: 640
Publication Date: 2007-10-02
Publisher: Mosby

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The 13th edition of this bestselling textbook continues to offer superior anatomy and physiology instruction with a focus on the normal structure and function of the body. It features an exceptional straightforward writing style that makes it easier to learn all the core A&P information you need to know. Building on the solid foundation of previous editions, this book adds a visual emphasis with realistic animations on a companion CD-ROM and A Clear View of the Human Body, a full-color, semi-transparent insert that shows the body in layers.

A clear, straightforward approach focuses each chapter on the two core themes the normal structure and function of the human body, and what the body does to maintain homeostasis.
An outstanding art program with over 350 full-color illustrations, micrographs, and dissection photos depict and reinforce information.
Chapter tests, review questions, and critical thinking questions let you evaluate your mastery of each chapter's content.
Boxes and tables make learning easier and show applications to real life, including Health and Well Being, Clinical Applications, and Research, Issues, and Trends.
Science Applications boxes highlight the contributions made by trailblazing scientists.
A Common Medical Abbreviations, Prefixes, and Suffixes appendix provides a quick reference and review of commonly used terms.
A comprehensive glossary provides full definitions of terms, and new words are bolded within the text and listed at the end of each chapter.
Objectives clearly detail what should be learned in each chapter.
An Outline Summary ends each chapter to recap important content.
Quick Check boxes let you assess your comprehension at the end of each passage.
Body Spectrum Electronic Coloring Book is included on the companion CD, with 80 detailed anatomy illustrations that may be colored electronically or printed out to color and study.

A richly detailed illustrated insert, A Clear View of the Human Body, allows you to peel back the layers of the body and perform a virtual dissection.
AnimationDirect helps you visualize difficult concepts and processes by referring to state-of-the-art animations in the companion CD-ROM.
Study Tips are thoroughly revised and now open each chapter, with specific tips and hints on how to most effectively study and synthesize concepts.
Evolve Learning Exchange offers you the opportunity to connect with an A&P mentor to help you utilize all the learning tools included with the textbook to maximize learning.
Anatomy & Physiology Online complements Structure & Function of the Body and brings the textbook to life with a series of online learning modules organized by body system. Available separately.

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Your First Year as a Nurse: Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional
by: Donna Rn Cardillo, Donna Cardillo
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Edition: 1
Media: Paperback
EAN: 9780761533337
ISBN: 0761533338
Number Of Pages: 267
Publication Date: 2001-07-15
Publisher: Three Rivers Press

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Survive and Thrive As a Nurse from Day One!
Welcome to the compassionate and caring world of nursing! You are entering a profession that offers great rewards and endless opportunities. But you must prepare for the challenges ahead and do everything you can to ensure that you experience the best that nursing has to offer. This invaluable book will get you started!
Written by an experienced R.N., Your First Year As a Nurse provides practical, real-world solutions to the profession's most common and difficult issues. Inside, you'll find out what you really need to know, who you need to know, how to avoid missteps, and where you can go for help when you need it. Gritty, witty, and full of invaluable tips and advice from first year nurses, this book is your personal mentor for your new career.
Ensure a healthy first year by knowing how to:
·Acquire the job that's perfect for you
·Create your own patient-centered style of nursing
·Develop positive relationships with doctors, patients, and other nurses
·Stay positive, deal with conflict and adversity, and avoid burnout
·Network, enhance your education and career, and become a leader
"Combines common sense with the wisdom of a seasoned professional. A valuable resource for new graduates as they begin practice."—Lucille A. Joel, R.N., Ed.D., FAAN, professor, Rutgers College of Nursing, and former president, American Nurses Association
"A must-read for all nurses, not just new graduates!"—Joan Orseck, R.N., president, National Association for Health Care Recruitment

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The Human Body in Health and Illness - Soft Cover Version
by: Barbara Herlihy
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Edition: 3
Media: Paperback
EAN: 9781416028857
ISBN: 1416028854
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: 2006-10-10
Publisher: Saunders

Product Description:
Through a visually appealing design, The Human Body in Health and Illness, 3rd Edition describes complex concepts in a more simplified way and applies them to patient care. Aimed at students whose background in science is limited, the text assumes the reader has no previous knowledge in biology, chemistry, or physics and makes the information easy to read and understand. The text includes unique cartoons that use humor to make learning the content more enjoyable. The book also employs a body-systems approach to discuss the basic concepts of anatomy and physiology, building up from simple to complex topics.

Original, full-color cartoons and illustrations complement the text and reinforce the content, making it accessible and user-friendly.
The book's logical, step-by-step presentation begins with a basic discussion of the human body and cellular structure and moves toward genetics and the greater complexity of the human organism.
Do You Know... boxes briefly cover many interesting issues appropriate to anatomy and physiology, including pathophysiology and historical background information.
Disorders of the _____ System tables include specific disorders related to individual body systems.
As You Age boxes describe how aging affects human anatomy and physiology.
Sum It Up! content provides reinforcement and summary of key topics.

New chapters on the autonomic nervous system, blood vessel anatomy, and blood vessel circulation take a deeper look into the areas of human anatomy and physiology.
The companion Panorama of Anatomy and Physiology/Body Spectrum CD-ROM simplifies the process of learning medical terminology with 80 detailed anatomy illustrations to study, plus quizzes, movie clips, fun facts, and information on careers in the field of A&P.

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