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With an understanding of healthcare issues, you can improve patient
care and advance the nursing profession! Contemporary Nursing:
Issues, Trends, & Management, 9th Edition ensures that you are
prepared for the complex and rapidly changing world of today's
nursing. Coverage of key topics includes nursing theories and
evidence-based practice, social and ethical issues, the rising cost
of health care, quality improvement and patient safety, palliative
care, effective decision-making, collective bargaining and unions,
managing time, and career opportunities. Written by noted nursing
educators Barbara Cherry and Susan R. Jacob, this text not only
prepares you for the NCLEX-RN (R) examination, but for effective
leadership and management in the workplace. Vignettes at the
beginning of each chapter personalize nursing practice and history,
and help you understand your place in the profession. Full-color
illustrations and design demonstrate concepts and make the text
visually appealing. Case studies help you apply theory to clinical
practice. Colorful, humorous cartoons depict the themes in each
chapter. Key terms, learning outcomes, and chapter overviews begin
each chapter, helping you organize and focus your study, and a
summary at the end of each chapter reinforces the key points to
remember. Professional/Ethical Issue in every chapter tests your
ability to think critically and apply concepts to a real-life
dilemma. Unit 3: Leadership and Management in Nursing guides you
through skills such as budgeting, communication and conflict
resolution, staffing, health policy and politics, and more. Unit 4:
Career Management describes how to make the transition from student
to professional, including time management, career opportunities,
and tips on how to pass the NCLEX-RN (R) examination. NEW!
Information on COVID-19 covers preparedness for a pandemic
response, legal issues and ethical dilemmas of COVID-19, the
nursing shortage, access to personal protective equipment, and the
growth of telehealth/telemedicine care. NEW! Clinical Judgment
chapter emphasizes the development of clinical reasoning skills.
NEW! Additional coverage in Theories of Nursing Practice chapter
includes the application of theories in nursing practice, Watson's
theory of caring, and Swanson's middle range theory. NEW! Updated
coverage of delegation and supervision includes the most current
guidelines from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.
NEW! Updates to contemporary trends and issues include AACN
essentials, associate degree-BSN, nursing education in other
countries, online programs, distance education, and more. NEW!
Updates in Paying for Health Care in America chapter cover current
payment models, the social determinants of health, and healthcare
access. NEW! Additional information on CBD oil and the legalization
of marijuana is included.
Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Linguistic
Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred covers approximately
1,200 years of literature. This is a book on "medieval literature"
that foregrounds language as the agent for cultivating medieval
friendship (from the first century BC to c. 1160 AD) in oratorical,
ecclesiastical, monastic, and erotic contexts. Taking a different
approach than many works in this area, which search for the lived
experience of friends behind language, this book stands apart in
looking at friendship's enactment through rhetorical language among
classical and medieval authors.
Contemporary accounts of urban Native identity in two pan-Indian
communities In the last half century, changing racial and cultural
dynamics in the United States have caused an explosion in the
number of people claiming to be American Indian, from just over
half a million in 1960 to over three million in 2013. Additionally,
seven out of ten American Indians live in or near cities, rather
than in tribal communities, and that number is growing. In
Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality, Michelle Jacobs examines the new
reality of the American Indian urban experience. Drawing on
ethnographic research conducted over two and a half years, Jacobs
focuses on how some individuals are invested in reclaiming
Indigenous identities whereas others are more invested in
relocating their sense of self to the urban environment. These
groups not only apply different meanings to indigeneity, but they
also develop different strategies for asserting and maintaining
Native identities in an urban space inundated with false memories
and fake icons of "Indian-ness." Jacobs shows that "Indianness" is
a highly contested phenomenon among these two groups: some are
accused of being "wannabes" who merely "play Indian," while others
are accused of being exclusionary and "policing the boundaries of
Indianness." Taken together, the interconnected stories of
relocators and reclaimers expose the struggles of Indigenous and
Indigenous-identified participants in urban pan-Indian communities.
Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality offers a complicated portrait of
who can rightfully claim and enact American Indian identities and
what that tells us about how race is "made" today.
Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Linguistic
Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred covers approximately
1,200 years of literature. This is a book on "medieval literature"
that foregrounds language as the agent for cultivating medieval
friendship (from the first century BC to c. 1160 AD) in oratorical,
ecclesiastical, monastic, and erotic contexts. Taking a different
approach than many works in this area, which search for the lived
experience of friends behind language, this book stands apart in
looking at friendship's enactment through rhetorical language among
classical and medieval authors.
An introduction to a large and complicated subject, which has come
to be called the Scientific Revolution, this book refers to the
fundamental changes in our understanding of the natural world that
occurred in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These changes
led to a rejection of ancient and medieval thinking about the
universe in favour of the new thinking that gave birth to modern
science. Professor Jacob does not pretend to tell the whole story
of this momentous transformation, which is perhaps more important
than any other in modern history. But he does highlight and survey
what are often considered to be the six principal developments
associated with this shift from old to new science. The six changes
are: first, the abandonment of an ancient Greek picture of an
earth-centred universe and its replacement by the modern picture of
a solar system surrounded by an enormous universe; second, the
gradual rejection of the Aristotelian binary physics in favour of
the modern physics of universal forces; third, a medical revolution
that culminated in the discovery of the circulation of the blood,
and put animal (and human) physiology on a new foundation; fourth,
the shift from an Aristotelian theory of knowledge to a modern
scepticism; fifth, the development of new methods for establishing
scientific certainty; and, finally, the founding of the world's
first national, government-sponsored scientific societies for
promoting research, spreading scientific knowledge, and stimulating
inquiry.
Organic dusts are particles of vegetable, animal, and microbial
origin and are found in a wide range of occupational and general
environments. This comprehensive handbook discusses organic dusts
and their effects on man. Organic Dusts describes the different
environments in which organic dusts are present; it also explains
the major components of dusts and which diseases they can induce
after inhalation. The first book to completely cover this important
environmental exposure, this valuable reference presents a
systematic approach to disease pathology and offers revised
terminology for diagnosis based on the latest information on cell
reactions and the functioning of the immune system.
Introduction to Cell Mechanics and Mechanobiology is designed
for a one-semester course in the mechanics of the cell offered to
advanced undergraduate and graduate students in biomedical
engineering, bioengineering, and mechanical engineering. It teaches
a quantitative understanding of the way cells detect, modify, and
respond to the physical properties within the cell environment.
Coverage includes the mechanics of single molecules, polymers,
polymer networks, two-dimensional membranes, whole-cell mechanics,
and mechanobiology, as well as primer chapters on solid, fluid, and
statistical mechanics, and cell biology.
Introduction to Cell Mechanics and Mechanobiology is the first
cell mechanics textbook to be geared specifically toward students
with diverse backgrounds in engineering and biology.
Assessment of cardiac energetics at the level of ATP-synthesis,
chemomechanical energy transformation and whole organ dynamics as a
function of haemodynamic load, ventricular configuration and
oxygen- and substrates supply is basic to understanding cardiac
function under physiological and pathophysiological (hypertrophy,
hypoxia, ischaemia and heart failure) conditions. Moreover, cardiac
energetics should be an important consideration in the choice and
application of drugs especially in the case of vasodilators,
inotropic agents and in cardioprotective measures. Only by
considering energetics at the subcellular, cellular, and
whole-heart level we can arrive at a better understanding of
cardiac performance and ultimately better clinical judgement and
drug therapy. Quantification of myocardial energetics will also
help to determine the optimal time for surgical interventions such
as valvular replacement or aneurysm resection. The present volume
is the outcome of an international symposium on cardiac energetics
held in Gargellen/Montafon (Austria), June 1986. The contributions
will certainly help bridge the existing gap between basic research
involving isolated structures and that involving the whole organ,
on the one hand, and render the results derived from basic research
applicable to clinical problems, on the other hand.
The past years have witnessed considerable progress in the field of
fundamental research in cardiology. Nevertheless, numerous problems
and controversial concepts remain. Some of these controversies
concern relatively simple issues, e. g. the question of the extent
to which a common length-tension or pressure-volume relationship
exists independent of type of contraction and preload. The present
volume is a compendium of an Erwin Riesch sympo- sium held July
12-13,1985, with the aim of critically analysing generally accepted
concepts and theories as well as current trends in cardiology. In
common with previous Erwin Riesch symposia, priority was given to
issues concerning chronic reactions of the heart, although basic
principles of normal myocardial contraction and ventricular
dynamics as well as clinical aspects were also discussed. We are
greatly indebted to the Erwin Riesch-Stiftung for the invaluable
generosity which enabled us to hold the symposium. R.Jacob VII
Contents Foreword ...V I. Contractile elementary processes:
Cross-bridge theory and excitation-contraction coupling The
cross-bridge cycle in muscle. Mechanical, biochemical, and
structural studies on single skinned rabbit psoas fibers to
characterize cross-bridge kinetics in muscle for correlation with
the actomyosin-ATPase in solution Brenner, B ...Calcium sensitivity
of myofilaments in cardiac muscle - effect of myosin
phosphorylation Morano, I. and J. C. Ruegg...17 Ca-pools involved
in the regulation of cardiac contraction under positive inotropy.
X-ray microanalysis on rapidly-frozen ventricular muscles of
guinea-pig Wendt -Gallitelli, Maria F...25 The contribution of Na
channel block to the negative inotropic effect of antiarrhythmic
drugs Honerjiiger, P...
Cardiac hypertrophy and accompanying phenomena have received
increasing attention in recent years - particularly in the basic
sciences. The present volume contains the proceedings of the Erwin
RIESCH SYMPOSIUM on "CARDIAC ADAPTATION TO HEMODYNAMIC OVERLOAD,
TRAINING AND STRESS" held in Tiibingen on Sep tember 19-22, 1982.
In addition to the topics of the previous symposia (1976 and 1979)
concerned with problems of cardiac hypertrophy, the scope of this
sequel meeting has been expanded to include related fields. The
intention was to consider numerous related features and problems of
chronic reactions of the heart (and vascular system) to abnormal
hemodynamic loading, as well as alterations due to maturation,
aging, training, neuroendocrine status and stress. Special
attention has been paid to cardiac reactions at the level of
contractile proteins. The results are considered primarily in light
of long-term adaptation of the heart. Of course, research at the
forefront of current knowledge need not always lead to congruent
conclusions. Neither can the individual contributions always agree
with the viewpoint of the editors. However, the broad array of
individual approaches employed by biochemists, biolo gists,
pathologists, physiologists, pharmacologists and clinical cardio
logists will certainly help to provide a more balanced
interpretation of the results in individual fields, stimulate
reexamination of established con cepts and provide direction for
future research."
Can today's innovative practices and molecular tools tame this
ancient disease? One third of the world's population is infected
with tuberculosis (TB), with about 10 million new cases annually.
To combat TB and its agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the World
Health Organization launched The End TB Strategy, which aims to
slash the suffering and cost of TB by 2035. This makes the second
edition of Tuberculosis and the Tubercle Bacillus, edited by
Jacobs, McShane, Mizrahi, and Orme, an extremely valuable resource
for scientists and clinicians. The editors have gathered their
colleagues from around the world to present the latest on the
molecular biology of M. tuberculosis and related species, the
host-pathogen interactions that enable invasion, and the host's
immune response to M. tuberculosis infection. The basic, clinical,
and translational research presented in this book supports the
goals of WHO's End TB Strategy by driving toward the development of
effective vaccines, rapid molecular diagnostics, and anti-TB drugs.
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Contemporary accounts of urban Native identity in two pan-Indian
communities In the last half century, changing racial and cultural
dynamics in the United States have caused an explosion in the
number of people claiming to be American Indian, from just over
half a million in 1960 to over three million in 2013. Additionally,
seven out of ten American Indians live in or near cities, rather
than in tribal communities, and that number is growing. In
Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality, Michelle Jacobs examines the new
reality of the American Indian urban experience. Drawing on
ethnographic research conducted over two and a half years, Jacobs
focuses on how some individuals are invested in reclaiming
Indigenous identities whereas others are more invested in
relocating their sense of self to the urban environment. These
groups not only apply different meanings to indigeneity, but they
also develop different strategies for asserting and maintaining
Native identities in an urban space inundated with false memories
and fake icons of "Indian-ness." Jacobs shows that "Indianness" is
a highly contested phenomenon among these two groups: some are
accused of being "wannabes" who merely "play Indian," while others
are accused of being exclusionary and "policing the boundaries of
Indianness." Taken together, the interconnected stories of
relocators and reclaimers expose the struggles of Indigenous and
Indigenous-identified participants in urban pan-Indian communities.
Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality offers a complicated portrait of
who can rightfully claim and enact American Indian identities and
what that tells us about how race is "made" today.
Now going into its third much-expanded edition, the highly praised
Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention has been
brought fully up to date to include all the new thinking and
discoveries that have the greatest capacity to improve human health
and nutritional advancement. About half the new edition will be
revised and updated from the second edition while the other half
will consist of major revisions of previous chapters or new
subjects. Like the two previous editions the book will consist of
general reviews on various topics in nutrition, especially those of
much current interest. The authors provide extensive, in-depth
chapters covering the most important aspects of the complex
interactions between diet, its nutrient components, and their
impacts on disease states, and on those health conditions that
increase the risk of chronic dieases. Up to date and comprehensive,
Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention, Third
Edition offers physicians, dietitians, and nutritionists a
practical, data-driven, integrated resource to help evaluate the
critical role of nutrition.
Richard Neustadt's seminal work "Presidential Power: The
Politics of Leadership" has endured for nearly four decades as the
core of academic study of the American presidency. Now, building on
and challenging many of the arguments in Neustadt's work,
"Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the Twenty-first
Century" offers reflections and implications from what we have
learned about presidential power as the new century dawns.
These essays -- including a new contribution by Neustadt himself
-- forge a solid reexamination of Neustadt's "Presidential Power"
that address questions raised but not resolved by his work. A
notable aspect of this volume's analysis is the transformed
institution of the presidency in the wake of the impeachment
hearings of the country's last twentieth-century president, Bill
Clinton. From the portrayal of presidents as persuaders to the
politics of presidential transitions, each of the constituent
essays in this volume provides an engaging look at the state of the
American presidency.
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