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Presents a forum for knowledgeable debate on the important issues that nurses face. This title provides the opportunity to analyze conflicting viewpoints and develop your own thoughts on demands being made for the nursing profession and the difficult issues affecting health care delivery.

Covering the scope, theory, and approaches to the practice of occupational therapy, this title prepares you to care for adults who have physical disabilities. It takes a client-centered approach, following the advanced OT Practice framework as it defines your role as an OTA in physical dysfunction practice.

Outlines and defines the process for selecting, integrating, and utilizing assistive technology in the work environment. This book offers insights into the client's experience by drawing on research that explores the experiences of people using assistive technology in the workplace.

Covers the advances in implants, products, and techniques of implant dentistry. This book discusses the broader issues of working with the edentulous patient, and describes 1-stage and 2-stage protocols, immediate loading, and the graftless approach. It includes coverage of software that helps to improve outcomes in treatment planning and surgery.

Helps you plan and acquire MRI images. This handbook includes the step-by-step scanning protocols you need to produce optimal images. It demonstrates appropriate slice placements, typical midline images of planes, and line drawings of the pertinent anatomy corresponding to the midline images.

A guide to chiropractic adjustive techniques. It describes the basic principles needed to evaluate, select, and apply specific adjustive procedures. It features a review of chiropractic history, and includes descriptions of joint examination and adjustive techniques for the spine, pelvis and extremities. It is suitable for students and clinicians.

Helps you effectively diagnose and manage musculoskeletal pain. This title discusses diagnostic categories and their associated muscle and movement imbalances, and makes recommendations for treatment. It also covers the examination itself, as well as exercise principles, specific corrective exercises, and the modification of functional activities.

Detailing various tests included in "Illustrated Orthopedic Physical Assessment, 3rd Edition", this illustrated pocket guide presents information you need to know. It includes: name of the test, alternate names for the test, suspected syndrome, concise description of the testing procedure, clinical pearl, and photo(s) of the procedure.

In years, an unprecedented interest in novel and revolutionary space missions has risen out of the advanced NASA and ESA programs. Astrophysicists, astronomers, space systems engineers, mathematicians and scientists have been cooperating to implement novel space missions. This title presents the main constituents of the astrodynamical science.

Combining assessment guidance with evidence-based intervention strategies, this reference helps you locate the information you need to evaluate and manage pediatric disorders. It enables you to access diagnosis-specific information on epidemiology, precautions, and more, as well as suggested interventions supported by contemporary research.

Presents the basics for instituting a corporate anti-fraud program that helps prepare corporate security professionals and other corporate managers for fighting corporate fraud from inside the company. This book shows professionals how to save their companies money. It provides a roadmap for developing an anti-fraud program.

Provides comprehensive information on herbal remedies for both large and small animal species. The coverage includes: clinical uses of medicinal plants, specific information on how to formulate herbal remedies, a systems-based review of plant-based medicine, and information on the different animal species, such as dogs, cats, avian and poultry.

Provides practice questions for graduates for both pediatric and family nurse practitioner programs to use in their respective certification exams offered by the PNCB and ANCC. This title covers review questions which include the Role of the PNP, Wellness Issues, Growth and Development, Genetics, Chronic Conditions, and, more.

Contains over 150 definitions of loss prevention terms. This book discusses topics ranging from accident investigations, counterfeit currency, emergency planning, and workplace violence to vendor frauds.

A foundational text of pediatric critical care nursing. It details the care required for critically ill children with discussions of physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, collaborative management, and nursing management.

Provides clinicians with the guidelines and tools necessary to provide quality, evidenced-based care to patients with life-limiting illness. This text describes the care and management of patients with advanced disease throughout the disease trajectory, extending from diagnosis of advanced disease until death.

Provides the mathematical background and step-by-step procedures for employing dimensional analyses. This work covers 4 essential aspects and applications which include: principal characteristics of dimensional systems; applications of dimensional techniques in engineering, mathematics and geometry; and applications in astronomy and physics.

Provides you with guidance on every aspect of orthopaedic disorders in children. From growth and development to integrating a child with a disability into society to physeal injuries to child abuse to youth sports and related injuries, this book presents all the key elements of orthopedics for clinical use, rounds, and board preparation.

With patients leaving the hospital sicker and more care being done in outpatient settings or at home, patients need to become informed participants on their health care team. This book gives advice to help nurses apply their knowledge and skills to teaching patients in the clinical setting with specific diseases, including special populations.

Integrating text discussions with learning activities, this text includes fill-in-the-blank, puzzle, and matching exercises. It features numerous pedagogical features that make it a resource both in the classroom and for self-study. It includes appendices, anatomical drawings, and an index.

Using a clinically oriented framework, this title describes the basic aspects of eye movement control as well as clinical implications and practical use. It covers basic eye movement systems and eye movement recording systems along with listings of the various types, costs and characteristics of each.

Explains how pathophysiology concepts are used in clinical situations. This guide covers the most commonly encountered health problems. It outlines the connections between pathophysiology, assessment, diagnosis, and management. The application of pathophysiology principles to the clinical setting is illustrated with case studies.

Useful for medical students, residents, and practitioners for interpreting electrocardiograms in children, this book teaches the vectorial approach to paediatric ECG interpretation in a practical way. Written by paediatric cardiologists, it contains over 200 actual size ECG tracings, review questions, and case studies for board review.

A reference to clinical information needed in Pediatric Intensive Care Units. It makes extensive use of illustrations tables and boxes and provides information on nursing interventions for the critically ill child. It includes content on psychosocial issues, family needs and PICU instrumentation.

Covering the anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology of the lymphatic system, this guide provides the information necessary for effective treatment. Chapters are structured according to anatomic regions, focusing on the lymphatic knots and their tributary regions. It also contains photographs to illustrate the lymphatic knots and their courses.

Covers both the general principles of mathematics and specific equations, formulas, and calculations used for laboratory testing. This title provides explanations of calculations commonly used in clinical and biological laboratories. It contains more than 1000 practice problems.

Covers research strategies useful for massage therapists to give them the tools they need to be knowledgeable readers of research literature. This book focuses on the quantitative aspect of research that encompasses the principal types of studies most extensively used in the various health care professions, specifically massage therapy.