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The preferred nursing fundamentals resources for generations of
nursing students and educators, Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art
and Science of Person-Centered Nursing Care, 10th Edition, equips
beginning nursing students with a holistic, case-based perspective
on nursing practice and emphasizes the clinical reasoning and
decision-making essential to their success in today's competitive
healthcare environment. Promoting nursing as an evolving art and
science directed to human health and well-being, this bestselling
text is designed to instill in students the highest level of
scientific knowledge and technical skill while cultivating the
blended competencies crucial to responsible patient-centered care
in a wide variety of care settings. Updates throughout this 10th
Edition reflect a growing emphasis on clinical judgment and NCLEX
(R) readiness, training students to think like nurses and respond
confidently and effectively to clinical challenges. Ample clinical
examples, pedagogy, illustrations, and online learning tools and
assessments engage students and distill need-to-know information,
complemented by a suite of integrated teaching and learning
resources that create a seamless, superior learning experience for
every student. New to this Edition NEW! Clinical Judgment chapter
conditions students think like nurses, incorporating the nursing
process and the latest evidence-based practices to prioritize
responsibilities and make confident clinical decisions. NEW!
Integrated NCSBN concepts and terms keep students on the front
lines of today's evolving nursing practice and ready them for
success on the NextGen NCLEX (R). NEW! Evolving Case Studies
familiarize students with the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Evaluation
Model and reflect the Next Generation NCLEX (NGN). NEW! Diversity,
inclusion, and equity content equips students with a diverse
perspective on patient care essential to today's nursing practice.
NEW! Timely coverage throughout the text reflects the impact of
climate change and COVID-19 on patient care. NEW! 2021 AACN
Essentials and ANA Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice
incorporated throughout the text help you meet the latest
curriculum standards in competency-based nursing education. NEW!
Thoughtful Person-Centered Practice: Challenging Topics leverage
Unfolding Patient Stories to reinforce clinical reasoning and
judgment competencies in a real-world context. UPDATED! NCLEX
(R)-style Chapter Review Questions in every chapter strengthen
students' exam readiness.
This remarkable text by John R. Taylor has been a non-stop
best-selling international hit since it was first published forty
years ago. However, the two-plus decades since the second edition
was released have seen two dramatic developments; the huge rise in
popularity of Bayesian statistics, and the continued increase in
the power and availability of computers and calculators. In
response to the former, Taylor has added a full chapter dedicated
to Bayesian thinking, introducing conditional probabilities and
Bayes’ theorem. The several examples presented in the new third
edition are intentionally very simple, designed to give readers a
clear understanding of what Bayesian statistics is all about as
their first step on a journey to become practicing Bayesians. In
response to the second development, Taylor has added a number of
chapter-ending problems that will encourage readers to learn how to
solve problems using computers. While many of these can be solved
using programs such as Matlab or Mathematica, almost all of them
are stated to apply to commonly available spreadsheet programs like
Microsoft Excel. These programs provide a convenient way to record
and process data and to calculate quantities like standard
deviations, correlation coefficients, and normal distributions;
they also have the wonderful ability – if students construct
their own spreadsheets and avoid the temptation to use built-in
functions – to teach the meaning of these concepts.
This best-selling text by John Taylor, now released in its second
edition, introduces the study of uncertainties to lower division
science students. Assuming no prior knowledge, the author
introduces error analysis through the use of familiar examples
ranging from carpentry to well-known historic experiments.
Pertinent worked examples, simple exercises throughout the text,
and numerous chapter-ending problems combine to make the book ideal
for use in physics, chemistry and engineering lab courses. This
book has been translated into nine languages and has more adoptions
than we can count.
Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Research
systematically outlines specific strategies to guide the student in
designing and conducting empirical research. As with any
undertaking that is based on skill development, the more you use
the skill the more adept you become with the skill. The quality and
usefulness of all research is only as good as the skills of the
researcher and the clarity of the research study. This book is
written primarily for graduate level producers of education and
social science research. It is also appropriate for students who
are proposing and conducting a research project as a culminating
undergraduate requirement, and individuals and groups conducting
research on topics independent of an informed means of assuming the
role of researcher and embarking on a research study. It is written
with the encouragement of learners who participated or will
participate in research.
"Communication as Organizing "unites multiple reflections on the
role of language under a single rubric: the organizing role of
communication. Stemming from Jim Taylor's earlier work, "The
Emergent Organization: Communication as Its Site and Surface "(LEA,
2000), the volume editors present a communicational answer to the
question, "what is an organization?" through contributions from an
international set of scholars and researchers. The chapter authors
synthesize various lines of research on constituting organizations
through communication, describing their explorations of the
relation between language, human practice, and the constitution of
organizational forms. Each chapter develops a dimension of the
central theme, showing how such concepts as agency, identity,
sensemaking, narrative and account may be put to work in discursive
analysis to develop effective research into organizing processes.
The contributions employ concrete examples to show how the
theoretical concepts can be employed to develop effective research.
This distinctive volume encourages readers to discover and develop
a truly communicational means of addressing the question of
organization, addressing how organization itself emerges in the
course of communicational transactions. In presenting a single and
entirely communicational perspective for exploring organizational
phenomena, grounded in the discourse of communicational
transactions and the establishment of relationships through
language, it is required reading for scholars, researchers, and
graduate students working in organizational communication,
management, social psychology, pragmatics of language, and
organizational studies.
This comprehensive book features recent works on leveraged
marketing communications (LMC)—an intentional pairing of a brand
to benefit from the associations the target audience has with the
object. LMC conceptually binds a wide range of marketing
communication strategies previously studied in isolation: celebrity
endorsements, sponsorship, product placements, cause-related
marketing, and cobranding. LMC strategies assume that an entity
(e.g., Michael Jordan) can be paired with a brand (e.g., Nike) to
evoke associations that ultimately enhance brand awareness and
evaluations. The collection of chapters in this book examines the
association between brands and entities, ideas, and contexts and
combines theory and practice to offer new perspectives to help
academics, practitioners, and policymakers better understand and
apply LMC research. The chapters collectively provide a theoretical
framework for building brand equity via linking brands to people,
places, and things; examine how marketers can best leverage brand
alliances; explore ways to maximize the effectiveness of
sponsorship, product placement, corporate social responsibility
(CSR), and cause-related marketing; and summarize our knowledge of
the various forms of LMC. The chapters in this book were originally
published in the International Journal of Advertising.
Humor has long been one of the most common approaches used in
advertising. Whether in a big televised event like the Super Bowl
or in new forms of digital advertising, everyone is exposed to
funny ads, some of which both entertain the audience and help sell
a product. Yet, the use of humor in advertising is complex; clearly
not all humorous ads are successful. This comprehensive volume both
summarizes the cumulative state of knowledge on humor in
advertising and provides new cutting-edge research on key topics
such as humor’s use in conjunction with emotional and sexual
appeals, its use in digital advertising, and issues related to
gender and cross-cultural applicability. Special emphasis is placed
on defining humorous advertising and types of humor used, as well
as outlining what conditions work for advertisers. The chapters
examine humor in advertising and add insights on several
cutting-edge issues in this stream of research. An overview article
summarizing the overall body of literature accumulated over 50
years of research on humorous advertising defines types of humorous
appeals. The degree to which humor is effective and the boundary
conditions associated with when and how it works best in
advertising is discussed. New research articles further contribute
to cumulative knowledge by exploring the interaction of humor with
other issues and techniques such as whether it travels
internationally, gender issues, its use in conjunction with
emotional and sexual appeals, and its presence in the digital
contexts. The book concludes with an in-depth look at the evolution
of humorous appeals over the oldest traditional advertising
medium—outdoor advertising. The chapters in this book were
originally published in International Journal of Advertising.
This book provides an overview of the origins, development, and
eventual encounters of secular nationalism and the various
manifestations of the Islamic reform movement. The scope of the
book is restricted to the Middle East (Turkey, Iran, and the Arab
states).
Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomy explores the exciting hunt
for low frequency gravitational waves by using the extraordinary
timing precision of pulsars. The book takes the reader on a tour
across the expansive gravitational-wave landscape, from LIGO
detections to the search for polarization patterns in the Cosmic
Microwave Background, then hones in on the band of nanohertz
frequencies that Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are sensitive to.
Within this band may lie many pairs of the most massive black holes
in the entire Universe, all radiating in chorus to produce a
background of gravitational waves. The book shows how such
extra-Galactic gravitational waves can alter the arrival times of
radio pulses emanating from monitored Galactic pulsars, and how we
can use the pattern of correlated timing deviations from many
pulsars to tease out the elusive signal. The book takes a pragmatic
approach to data analysis, explaining how it is performed in
practice within classical and Bayesian statistics, as well as the
numerous strategies one can use to optimize numerical Bayesian
searches in PTA analyses. It closes with a complete discussion of
the data model for nanohertz gravitational wave searches, and an
overview of the past achievements, present efforts, and future
prospects for PTAs. The book is accessible to upper division
undergraduate students and graduate students of astronomy, and also
serves as a useful desk reference for experts in the field. Key
features: Contains a complete derivation of the pulsar timing
response to gravitational waves, and the overlap reduction function
for PTAs. Presents a comprehensive overview of source astrophysics,
and the dynamical influences that shape the gravitational wave
signals that PTAs are sensitive to. Serves as a detailed primer on
gravitational-wave data analysis and numerical Bayesian techniques
for PTAs.
Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomy explores the exciting hunt
for low frequency gravitational waves by using the extraordinary
timing precision of pulsars. The book takes the reader on a tour
across the expansive gravitational-wave landscape, from LIGO
detections to the search for polarization patterns in the Cosmic
Microwave Background, then hones in on the band of nanohertz
frequencies that Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are sensitive to.
Within this band may lie many pairs of the most massive black holes
in the entire Universe, all radiating in chorus to produce a
background of gravitational waves. The book shows how such
extra-Galactic gravitational waves can alter the arrival times of
radio pulses emanating from monitored Galactic pulsars, and how we
can use the pattern of correlated timing deviations from many
pulsars to tease out the elusive signal. The book takes a pragmatic
approach to data analysis, explaining how it is performed in
practice within classical and Bayesian statistics, as well as the
numerous strategies one can use to optimize numerical Bayesian
searches in PTA analyses. It closes with a complete discussion of
the data model for nanohertz gravitational wave searches, and an
overview of the past achievements, present efforts, and future
prospects for PTAs. The book is accessible to upper division
undergraduate students and graduate students of astronomy, and also
serves as a useful desk reference for experts in the field. Key
features: Contains a complete derivation of the pulsar timing
response to gravitational waves, and the overlap reduction function
for PTAs. Presents a comprehensive overview of source astrophysics,
and the dynamical influences that shape the gravitational wave
signals that PTAs are sensitive to. Serves as a detailed primer on
gravitational-wave data analysis and numerical Bayesian techniques
for PTAs.
This powerful, prayerful, and practical guide teaches groups a
whole new way of conducting meetings and reaching consensus.
Whether your group, committee or board is secular or religious, its
members can now move beyond parliamentary procedure to a higher
level using the model described here. Rooted in scripture, Grounded
in God energizes and inspires.
Learn how to incorporate creative silence, imagination,
intuition, attentive listening, scripture, and prayer into routine
meetings, decision making, or working retreats. By opening up to
new perspectives, discover that the first order of business is to
become attuned to God s presence within those assembled.
As members of the group become receptive to alternative
viewpoints, they are opened to tap into the flow of divine wisdom
and align with the will and mind of God. The results can be both
spiritual and practical as they are put into action."
The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides a
comprehensive introduction and essential reference work to
cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of perspectives
and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics
and drawing on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in
pragmatics, discourse analysis, biolinguistics, ecolinguistics,
evolutionary linguistics, neuroscience, language pedagogy, and
translation studies. The forty-three chapters, written by
international specialists in the field, cover four major areas: *
Basic theories and hypotheses, including cognitive semantics,
cognitive grammar, construction grammar, frame semantics, natural
semantic metalanguage, and word grammar; * Central topics,
including embodiment, image schemas, categorization, metaphor and
metonymy, construal, iconicity, motivation, constructionalization,
intersubjectivity, grounding, multimodality, cognitive pragmatics,
cognitive poetics, humor, and linguistic synaesthesia, among
others; * Interfaces between cognitive linguistics and other areas
of linguistic study, including cultural linguistics, linguistic
typology, figurative language, signed languages, gesture, language
acquisition and pedagogy, translation studies, and digital
lexicography; * New directions in cognitive linguistics,
demonstrating the relevance of the approach to social, diachronic,
neuroscientific, biological, ecological, multimodal, and
quantitative studies. The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive
Linguistics is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and
postgraduate students, and for all researchers working in this
area.
Recent years have seen digital advertising grow to the point where
it will soon overtake television as the no. 1 advertising medium.
In the online environment, consumers interact and share their
thoughts on brands and their experiences using them. These
electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) communications have become a very
important to the success of products. In today's cluttered
environment, it is especially important to study how the practice
of eWOM advertising operates, and how marketers can influence eWOM
in social media and other online sites. This volume starts with a
chapter on the current state of knowledge on eWOM and then turns
its attention to current research articles on a variety of eWOM
formats. These include the posting of selfies on social media, the
influence of review types on consumer perception and purchase
intention, the effects of preannouncement messages, and how
user-generated content can be used to induce effectiveness of eWOM
on social media. The relationship of eWOM to brand building is
emphasized in several of the chapters. This book was originally
published as a special issue of the International Journal of
Advertising.
Using a geometric perspective, Protein Geometry, Classification,
Topology, and Symmetry reviews and analyzes the structural
principals of proteins with the goal of revealing the underlying
regularities in their construction. It also reviews computer
methods for structure analysis and the automatic comparison and
classification of these structures with an analysis of the
statistical significance of comparing different shapes. Following
an analysis of the current state of protein classification, the
authors explore more abstract geometric and topological
representations, including the occurrence of knotted topologies.
The book concludes with a consideration of the origin of
higher-level symmetries in protein structure. The authors focus on
simple geometric methods that are deterministic rather than
probabilistic and on the more abstract simplifications of protein
structure that allow a better understanding of the overall fold of
the structure. Most of the methods described in this book have
corresponding computer programs. These can be found (as C source
code) at the ftp site of the Division of Mathematical Biology at
the National Institute for Medical Research. This collection of
ideas contains pedagogical material that make it ideal for
post-graduate courses as well as new ideas and results essential
for researchers investigating protein structures.
Improving Human Learning in the Classroom provides a functional and
realistic approach to facilitate learning through a demonstration
of commonalities between the various theories of learning. Designed
to assist educators in eliciting students' prior knowledge,
providing feedback, transfer of knowledge, and promoting
self-assessment, Taylor and MacKenney provide proven strategies for
infusing various learning theories into a curriculum, guiding
educators to find their own strategies for promoting learning in
the classroom. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods
investigate learning theories and reforms in education.
Quantitative data sources build the theoretical framework for
educating the student, as well as developing strategies for closing
the achievement gap. Taylor and MacKenney fuse personal experiences
with solid strategies for human learning.
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