Few careers offer the advantages that nursing offers: flexibility, room for growth, satisfaction from helping others. And there is a desperate need for nurses ó demand will exceed supply for some time to come. This concise volume provides an overview of what's possible in a nursing career. It profiles 101 different types of nursing careers, including a basic description, education requirements, skills needed, compensation, and related web sites and professional organizations. Personal stories from the practicing nurses highlight the content. Students, career changers, and RNs looking for new opportunities will find a wealth of information in this volume.

Product Description: As one of the first books examining the core issues of accelerated nursing education, this one offers valuable information on the challenges and successes of this educational model."--Doody's Medical Reviews Accelerated degree programs provide evidence that creativity in nursing program design can facilitate learning experiences that assure competence in the profession while also taking advantage of the knowledge, skills, and experiences the learner brings to our profession...read more

Product Description: Achieving Excellence in Nursing Education is based on the National League of Nursing’s Excellence in Nursing Education Model that describes the eight core elements required to achieve and sustain excellence in educational programs: clear program standards, well-prepared faculty, qualified students, well-prepared administrators, evidence-based programs and teaching/evaluation methods, quality and adequate resources, recognition of expertise, and student-centered, interactive and innovative programs and curricula...read more

Product Description: This BookWare Companion book integrates analytical and computer solutions of problems that lead to understanding of advanced mathematical techniques with applications in engineering, physics and mathematics. Each chapter begins with a preview, and in addition to the text, contains numerous examples, exercises and problems, a bibliography, and answers to exercises...read more

Product Description: "Advanced Practice in Critical Care" provides experienced critical care nurses with a clear and distinct evidence base for contemporary critical care practice. Central to the book is the application of research and evidence to practice and therefore, case studies and key critical care clinical situations are used throughout to guide the reader through the patient care trajectory...read more

Product Description: Advanced Practice in Nursing and the Allied Health Professions enables nurses and members of allied health professions to effectively diagnose and treat patients, in a wide variety of settings. It is especially relevant in regions where access to other health providers is limited...read more

The brilliantly irreverent newspaperman and dedicated debunker sketches his own life in a work drawn from three previously released autobiographical tomes

The brilliantly irreverent newspaperman and dedicated debunker sketches his own life in a work drawn from three previously released autobiographical tomes

The brilliantly irreverent newspaperman and dedicated debunker sketches his own life in a work drawn from three previously released autobiographical tomes

Product Description: This book inaugurates a series dedicated to the health issues that aff ect distinct communities. Here, prominent health educators explore the pressing cultural and health needs of African Americans. Discussions on child abuse, teenage pregnancy, mental illness, access to health ca re, racism, lifestyles, community values, and more depict the complexi ty of problems affecting African Americans from a cross-section of dif ferent communities...read more

Product Description: African American Voices: Reflecting, Reforming, Reframing is the second work in a series devoted to promoting diversity in nursing and nursing education. This text was written to ensure that all nurse educators and for those who want to be nurse educators are prepared as culturally competent and culturally sensitive health care providers who serve patients who do not look like them, or speak like them, or believe in the same ideas that they do...read more

Product Description: Delivers all information required for the Theoretical Foundations of Nursing courseBy embracing the major conceptual and theoretical contributions to nursing research that are outside of traditional nursing theory, this book serves as a vital resource for nurse researchers, and one that is indispensable for doctoral nursing students embarking on their dissertations...read more

An expose+a7 of the multibillion-dollar industry that imprisons America's children for profit describes what goes on at the psychiatric hospitals, treatment centers, and schools of the emotionally disturbed.

Product Description: An interactive GMAT study programme, with sample exams modelled on the Computer-Adaptive tests, and a question pool that generates a different sample test every time.

Product Description: This book is an exploration on the nature of caring for the professional nurse. In it, the author shares her experiences as a clinician, a teacher and a patient, and tackles issues such as burn-out and professional fulfillment with a practical wisdom that is sure to enhance professional practice as well as touch the life of the reader with sensible advice on communication and interpersonal relations...read more

Product Description: This CD-ROM makes available all the artwork in the "Principles of Development" book for easy downloading to create presentations and lecture hand-outs. The book is intended for lecturers teaching a developmental biology course. System requirements: PC Version: 486 multimedia PC with 66MHz DX processor; 8MB RAM (16MB recommended); double-speed CD-ROM drive (4-speed preferable); 256 colour display set to 640 x 480; Microsoft Windows 3...read more