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Calculating Dosages Safely: A Dimensional Analysis Approach
by Tracy HorntvedtDosage calculations can be intimidating, but they don't need to be. Using dimensional analysis, you'll learn how to calculate both simple and complex medication dosage problems with consistency and accuracy and reduce medication errors with simple safety mechanisms. This reliable and consistent method helps to ensure safe medication administration practices. Dimensional analysis, which can be used on virtually every dosage calculation problem, eliminates the need to use other methods or perform lengthy, multi-step calculations. It's a method of problem-solving that organizes data in a manner that is easy to understand and apply.
Understanding Medical Surgical Nursing (4th Edition)
by Linda S. Williams Paula D. HopperThe 4th Edition of this groundbreaking textbook continues to teach the "why" of medical-surgical nursing more effectively than any other resource in the field. It presents complex issues in a clear and easy-to-understand manner that encourages students to think critically while applying theory to clinical practice.
Medical Terminology Systems: A Body Systems Approach (6th edition)
by Barbara A. Gylys Mary Ellen WeddingThe book includes: A CLEAR, CONCISE PRESENTATION using the classic word-building and body systems approach to learning, CHAPTER OUTLINES to orient students to each chapter’s content, HOW DOES WORD BUILDING WORK? it begins with the basics, KEY TERMS highlighted in the beginning of each chapter, and ABBREVIATIONS for common terms.
Davis's PA Exam Review: Focused Review for the PANCE and PANRE
by Morton A. DiamondHere's a better way to prepare for your PANCE and PANRE exams! Rely on this carefully designed resource to learn more than just the facts! Turn to this unique, dual learning structure to strengthen your medical information base and enhance your clinical skills. Part I. Essentials: Your Medical Information Base Strategically designed didactic questions integrate clinical vignettes. Multiple correct answers with rationales allow you to compare and contrast medical data, while You Should Know teaching points give you rich, real-world perspectives. Part II. Performance: Gauging Your Test Success Questions in Part II mirror the actual PANCE and PANRE exams. Compare your answers to the correct answers in Section 2 to identify your strengths and weaknesses. References for each answer show you where to find corresponding rationales in Part I.
Clinical Hematology And Fundamentals Of Hemostasis
by Denise M. HarmeningComplete coverage of red blood cells, white blood cells, hemostasis, and thrombosis. <p><p> Chapters on flow cytometry and molecular diagnosis. <p> Thorough discussion of anemias. <p> Case histories demonstrate the link between the test and the patient to foster critical thinking. <p> Laboratory methods section includes chapters on routine hematology methods, automated differential analysis, cytochemistry, and more. <p> More than 900 illustrations, including 309 full-color microphotographs. <p> Chapter Outline and Educational Objectives at the beginning of each chapter <p> Study Questions and answers for each chapter. <p> Table of normal hematologic values on the inside covers <p> Glossary for easy access to definitions for medical terms unique to hematology and hemostasis. <p> Summary charts provide quick review, enhancing readability
Occupational Therapy In Mental Health: A Vision For Participation
by Catana Brown Virginia C. Stoffel Jaime Phillip MunozThis Client-centered, recovery-oriented text gives voice to the lived experience of mental illness across the life span. You will be guided through the assessment and interventions of individuals with mental health conditions and those whose life circumstances generate significant challenges to their participation in valued activities.
Urinalysis and Body Fluids (Fifth Edition)
by Susan King Strasinger Marjorie Schaub Di LorenzoThis thoroughly updated 5th Edition provides you with concise and carefully structured full-color instruction in the handling and analysis of non-blood body fluids. You will learn how to handle and preserve the integrity of body fluid specimens and how to keep yourself and your laboratory safe from infectious agents! Practical, focused, and reader friendly, this popular text teaches the theoretical and practical knowledge every clinical laboratory scientist needs to handle and analyze non-blood body fluids, and to keep you and your laboratory safe from infectious agents. The 5th Edition has been completely updated to include all of the new information and new testing procedures that are important in this rapidly changing field. Case studies and clinical situations show how work in the classroom translates to work in the lab.
Functional Performance in Older Adults (Third Edition)
by Bette R. Bonder Vanina Dal Bello-Haas Marilyn B. Wagner Bette Bonder Vanina Bello-Haas"The contributors represent diverse disciplines, however their messages create a coherent, integrated work of universal interest and application. I highly recommend the use of this text for allied health students who are studying geriatric rehabilitation and for clinicians who wish to renew their knowledge. "--Carole Knight, MEd, OTR/L, Occupational Therapy in Health Care Journal, Volume 16, Number 2/3 February 2003, review of the 2nd Edition. The ideal resource for rehabilitation professionals who are working with or preparing to work with older adults! It describes the normal aging process, illustrates how health and social factors can impede an aging person's abilities, and demonstrates how to develop mechanisms for maximizing the well-being of older adults.
Human Pathophysiology: Introductory Concepts And Clinical Perspectives
by Theresa Capriotti Joan Parker FrizzellBridge the gap between the science of disease and clinical patient care! Interpret clinical manifestations. Determine the correct inventions. Understand treatment options. . Connect drug actions and therapeutic goals. This easy-to-understand text introduces the pathophysiologic processes of the common conditions that you'll encounter in clinical settings. Chapters organized by organ systems help you understand the relationships between the pathologic event and the patient assessment data, laboratory findings, and diagnostic testing results. You'll develop the foundational knowledge you need to effectively select the appropriate nursing interventions to deliver the best patient care.
Mobility In Context: Principles Of Patient Care Skills
by Charity Johansson Susan A. ChinworthRely on this state-of-the-art, multimedia resource to help you meet the expectations for today and tomorrow's health care providers. Review essential patient care skills--from positioning and vital signs to transfers and ambulation with assistive devices. Then learn how to transition to the "out-of-the-box" thinking you need to quickly and effectively respond to the myriad of unusual and unplanned circumstances encountered daily among patients. Step-by-step guidance walks you through biomechanical and neurological principles, collaborative patient/client goals and therapeutic alliance, overall rehabilitation efforts, and the changing reality of health care that demands higher levels of critical thinking and problem solving in a wider variety of situations. A wealth of full-color illustrations, icons, and tips break down complex topics into "bite-sized," more manageable pieces.
Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy: From Art to Evidence
by Christopher H. WiseTake an eclectic, evidence-based approach to orthopaedic manual therapy. From theory through practical application of soft tissue and joint mobilization techniques--this comprehensive resource delivers the depth and breadth of coverage you need to optimize patient outcomes through informed clinical decision-making as part of a comprehensive intervention regimen.
Physical Rehabilitation (5th Edition)
by Susan B. O'Sullivan Thomas J. SchmitzThe text is designed to provide a comprehensive approach to the rehabilitation management of adult patients and is intended to serve as a primary textbook for professional-level physical therapy students, and as an important resource for practicing therapists as well as for other rehabilitation professionals.
Clinical Kinesiology and Anatomy (4th edition)
by Lynn S. LippertLynn Lippert adds a greater emphasis on clinical insights and functional connections to her easy-to-understand, well-organized 4th edition text. This accurate and thoughtfully updated edition is what should be at the heart of the clinical kinesiology course to help students analyze the mobility of specific joints in various activities of daily living. The first seven chapters describe the various body systems, terminology, and biomechanical principles that will be applied in the individual joint chapters that follow.
Occupational Therapy in the Promotion of Health and Wellness
by Marjorie E. Scaffa S. Maggie Reitz Michael A. PizziThis book teaches students about health promotion and prevention theory and practice from a wellness rather than an illness perspective. Using "cutting edge" examples, the authors explore how to incorporate this new paradigm into clinical practice and how to develop wellness interventions across the lifespan.
Occupation by Design: Building Therapeutic Power
by Doris PierceBecoming a Designer of Therapeutically Powerful Occupations, Designing for Appeal: Productivity, Pleasure, and Restoration in Occupations, Designing for Intactness: The Spatial, Temporal, and Sociocultural Dimensions, Designing for Accuracy: Elements of the Occupational Design Process, Conclusion.
Occupational Therapy Fieldwork Survival Guide: Strategies For Success
by Lee Haroun Bonnie Napier-TibereThis planner leads students step-by-step toward making a smooth transition from classroom to clinic. It serves as an organizational tool to shift their focus from themselves and their academic grades to the needs of clients/patients.
Pathology for the Physical Therapist Assistant
by Penelope J. LescherWith other texts written at either too high or too low a level, this book meets the needs of PTA students for usable, understandable pathology related to clinical application. Extensively illustrated, this book allows students to more easily comprehend and maintain interest in otherwise complicated pathological processes. The fourteen chapter format effectively fits within a chapter per week course structure, or each chapter may be used as a stand alone module within any course. And as your students prepare to graduate, encourage them to keep this book to use as a clinically relevant reference as practicing PTAs!
The Patient's Voice: Experiences of Illness
by Jeanine Young-MasonDo you need to add caring to your course? Do your students need to become more aware of the process patients and families go through as they adapt to an illness or death? Sixteen contemporary autobiographical case studies written by children and adults who have experienced psychiatric and physical illnesses are contained in this unique text. Each case study begins with a brief description of the patient's clinical situation. Chapters are followed by points for discussion and study questions to further direct the exploration of the accounts and enhance students' critical thinking skills.
Ethics and Basic Law for Medical Imaging Professionals
by Bettye G. WilsonComplies with ASRT curriculum guidelines requiring coverage of ethical theory, behavior, and dilemmas; legal responsibilities; and patient consent. Provides coverage of special issues, such as the impaired colleague and special patient populations, including the terminally ill patient and the patient with an infectious disease. Discussion questions facilitate classroom discussion and student analysis. Each chapter includes objectives and an end-of-chapter summary.
Work: Promoting Participation and Productivity Through Occupational Therapy
by Brent M. Braveman Jill J. PageHere's the first book of its kind to provide a comprehensive overview of the full range of occupational therapy interventions for work-related services. The authors build a foundation of knowledge based on the development of the worker role, the meaning and function of work in modern-day society, and cultural interpretations of work. They then focus on specialized areas of occupational therapy assessment and intervention, including psychosocial and physical assessment and preventative programming.
Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians
by Carla JoinsonBegun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in Canton, South Dakota, deprived many Native patients of their freedom without genuine cause, often requiring only the signature of a reservation agent. Only nine Native patients in the asylum’s history were committed by court order. Without interpreters, mental evaluations, or therapeutic programs, few patients recovered. But who cared about Indians and what went on in South Dakota? After three decades of complacency, both the superintendent and the city of Canton were surprised to discover that someone did care and that a bitter fight to shut the asylum down was about to begin. In this disturbing tale, Carla Joinson unravels the question of why this institution persisted for so many years. She also investigates the people who allowed Canton Asylum’s mismanagement to reach such staggering proportions and asks why its administrators and staff were so indifferent to the misery experienced by patients.Vanished in Hiawatha is the harrowing tale of the mistreatment of Native American patients at a notorious insane asylum whose history helps us to understand the broader mistreatment of Native peoples under forced federal assimilation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Pretty-shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows
by Frank B. LindermanPretty-shield, the legendary medicine woman of the Crows, remembered what life was like on the Plains when the buffalo were still plentiful. A powerful healer who was forceful, astute, and compassionate, Pretty-shield experienced many changes as her formerly mobile people were forced to come to terms with reservation life in the late nineteenth century. Pretty-shield told her story to Frank Linderman through an interpreter and using sign language. The lives, responsibilities, and aspirations of Crow women are vividly brought to life in these pages as Pretty-shield recounts her life on the Plains of long ago. She speaks of the simple games and dolls of an Indian childhood and the work of the girls and women―setting up the lodges, dressing the skins, picking berries, digging roots, and cooking. Through her eyes we come to understand courtship, marriage, childbirth and the care of babies, medicine-dreams, the care of the sick, and other facets of Crow womanhood. Alma Snell and Becky Matthews provide a new preface to this edition.
In Food We Trust: The Politics of Purity in American Food Regulation (At Table)
by Courtney I. ThomasOne of the great myths of contemporary American culture is that the United States’ food supply is the safest in the world because the government works to guarantee food safety and enforce certain standards on food producers, processors, and distributors. In reality U.S. food safety administration and oversight have remained essentially the same for more than a century, with the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 continuing to frame national policy despite dramatic changes in production, processing, and distribution throughout the twentieth century. In Food We Trust is the first comprehensive examination of the history of food safety policy in the United States, analyzing critical moments in food safety history from Upton Sinclair’s publication of The Jungle to Congress’s passage of the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act. With five case studies of significant food safety crises ranging from the 1959 chemical contamination of cranberries to the 2009 outbreak of salmonella in peanut butter, In Food We Trust contextualizes a changing food regulatory regime and explains how federal agencies are fundamentally limited in their power to safeguard the food supply.
Scientists and Scoundrels: A Book of Hoaxes
by Robert SilverbergAs if history and nature had not provided wonders enough, through the ages humans themselves have contrived more marvels to deceive one another. Sometimes they have concocted evidence when none was available to prove pet theories; sometimes their intention has been to impress or defraud; sometimes they have acted merely for sport. Robert Silverberg tells the stories of a baker's dozen of these scientific hoaxers in a lively, good-humored book that ranges through time and across continents. Here are perpetual-motion machines and space rockets, men on the moon and serpents in the sea. The rogues' gallery is a varied one: Dr. Mesmer, who cast his hypnotic spell on eighteenth-century Paris; Charles Dawson, whose Piltdown Man challenged evolution; Dr. Cook, with his tale of "discovering" the North Pole; and many others. These are fascinating stories and more than just entertainment. The author explains the scientific background against which the hoaxes appeared and the detective work that led to their exposure. The schemers teach us to be alert, to challenge the evidence, and to appreciate the healthy skepticism that characterizes the scientific method.
Dementia: Living in the Memories of God
by John SwintonIn this book John Swinton develops a practical theology of dementia for caregivers, people with dementia, ministers, hospital chaplains, and medical practitioners as he explores two primary questions: Who am I when I've forgotten who I am? What does it mean to love God and be loved by God when I have forgotten who God is? Offering compassionate and carefully considered theological and pastoral responses to dementia and forgetfulness, Swinton's Dementia: Living in the Memories of God redefines dementia in light of the transformative counter story that is the gospel.