Advanced Practice in Healthcare outlines the key components of advanced practice in which healthcare professionals are engaged. With a clear skills focus, it explores issues critical to providing effective enhanced care to patients whilst managing and negotiating the complexities of the healthcare delivery system. Perspectives on advanced practice are illuminated throughout the text and are designed to promote the formation of new thinking in relation to practice, education and research. The text is comprised of three sections that address different aspects of advanced practice and these in turn: Provide guidance on the development of clinical skills, including consultation, clinical decision making, holistic care, and the role of care planning in advanced practice. Explain management skills and how to manage, negotiate and monitor the complexities of the healthcare system in order to ensure the delivery of quality patient care. Clarify the professional role of the advanced practice clinician and how implementation of the role can improve the delivery of patient care. In each chapter activities are presented that assist in the development, implementation and extension of advanced level practice. This text is especially relevant to nurses, midwives and allied health professionals practising within primary and secondary care who wish to advance their practice or clarify their roles within the context of advanced practice, particularly those undertaking masters level study.

Shakespeare in the Light convenes an accomplished group of scholars, actors, and teachers to celebrate the legacy of renowned Shakespearean and founder of the American Shakespeare Center, Ralph Alan Cohen. Each contributor pivots off a production at the ASC’s Blackfriars Playhouse to explore Cohen’s abiding passion, the performance of the plays of William Shakespeare under their original theatrical conditions. Whether interested in early modern theatre history, the teaching of Shakespeare to high school students, or the performance of Shakespeare in twenty-first century America, each essay sheds light on the professing of Shakespeare today, whether on the page, on the stage, or in the classroom. Guided by the spirit of “universal lighting” – so central to the aesthetic of the American Shakespeare Center – Shakespeare in the Light illuminates the impact that the ASC and its founder have made upon the teaching, editing, scholarship, and performance of Shakespeare today.

Advanced Practice in Healthcare outlines the key components of advanced practice in which healthcare professionals are engaged. With a clear skills focus, it explores issues critical to providing effective enhanced care to patients whilst managing and negotiating the complexities of the healthcare delivery system. Perspectives on advanced practice are illuminated throughout the text and are designed to promote the formation of new thinking in relation to practice, education and research. The text is comprised of three sections that address different aspects of advanced practice and these in turn: Provide guidance on the development of clinical skills, including consultation, clinical decision making, holistic care, and the role of care planning in advanced practice. Explain management skills and how to manage, negotiate and monitor the complexities of the healthcare system in order to ensure the delivery of quality patient care. Clarify the professional role of the advanced practice clinician and how implementation of the role can improve the delivery of patient care. In each chapter activities are presented that assist in the development, implementation and extension of advanced level practice. This text is especially relevant to nurses, midwives and allied health professionals practising within primary and secondary care who wish to advance their practice or clarify their roles within the context of advanced practice, particularly those undertaking masters level study.

In "Mamas Write: 29 Tales of Truth, Wit, and Grit," twenty-four moms (and one dad) share stories from their lives as writers and parents.

Essays range from finding one's calling as a writer through adopting a toddler; a tribute to a dying wife; an account of a premature birth; raising a transgender child; the joys of sharing a favorite childhood book. In a concluding interview, authors share funny and heartfelt responses to questions such as: "How does a busy parent make time for writing?" "Why do you write, and where?" "What writing books inspire you?" and "What holds you back from writing?"

With a foreword by Kate Hopper, author of "Ready For Air: A Journey through Premature Motherhood" and "Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers."

Presents various methods of extracting gold, including hunting underwater.

Mary's book consists of her weekly columns that she has written over a twenty year period. Which have been published in The Toledo Democrat and in Naples, Florida where she lived as a Snowbird for twenty years. In Naples she used the byline Under The Sun. Her columns there were first published in the Golden Gate Gazette and when it closed they were published in "The Collier Citizen" as long as she was residing in Florida. Mary has written about a variety of subjects including growing up on a bright leaf tobacco farm in Eastern North Carolina, during The Great Depression and living in a segregated society; although her parents were not segregationists. She also has columns being the first woman elected to serve on her local community college board and later as chairman of the Illinois Community College Trustees Association in Springfield. She also has written about the pain of losing her oldest son and her teaching experiences. She was first introduced to column writing as her parents had jointly written a human interest's column for The Raleigh News And Observer entitled "Down Onslow Way" Mary had fallen in love at 16 and dropped out of school to marry her loving husband of 63 years. She later secured a GED diploma and attended college as an adult

Additional Contributor Is Geraldine Von Hanssen. Pages Of History.