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Numeracy Tests For Dummies
by Colin BeveridgeThe easy way to get practice and excel at numeracy testsWhether you're looking for a new job, applying to certain university courses, or attempting to join the military, you're increasingly likely to face a numeracy test as part of the screening process. And the only way to prepare for a numeracy test is practise. Numeracy Tests For Dummies is an accessible one-stop guide to pass these test. Featuring expert advice, instruction, review, and plenty of practise, Numeracy Tests For Dummies will help you succeed.Numeracy Tests For Dummies contains instruction and revision on:Basic mathematical knowledge and skillsData interpretationQuantitative reasoningNumerical sequencing
The Numerate Manager (Routledge Library Editions: Management #39)
by Fred KeayThis book, first published in 1969, was written for the manager or potential manager concerned with strategic decision-making. Its theme of the concept of numeracy and the role it should play. The book discusses its origins and its tools, the nature of problems, the characteristics and handling of information and the implications for the future. The text is a valuable resource for students of economics, management, and business studies.
Numeric Investors L.P.
by Brian Tierney Andre F. PeroldNumeric Investors manages equity portfolios with the use of a momentum model and a value model. The momentum model is based on earnings surprise and analysts' revisions of their earnings estimates. The firm offers long-short as well as long-only strategies, and its approach involves high portfolio turnover. Numeric has experienced rapid growth in assets under management, which has resulted in higher transaction costs. The firm has already closed many of its products to further investment, and needs to decide where to go next. The case provides a rich setting within which to discuss value investing, momentum investing, the efficiency of analysts' earnings estimates, stock market efficiency, long-short investing, transaction costs, the relationship between assets under management and performance, performance fees, and the business strategies of investment management firms.
Numerical Methods and Optimization: An Introduction (Chapman & Hall/CRC Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Series)
by Sergiy Butenko Panos M. PardalosFor students in industrial and systems engineering (ISE) and operations research (OR) to understand optimization at an advanced level, they must first grasp the analysis of algorithms, computational complexity, and other concepts and modern developments in numerical methods. Satisfying this prerequisite, Numerical Methods and Optimization: An Intro
Numerical Methods and Optimization
by Éric WalterInitial training in pure and applied sciences tends to present problem-solving as the process of elaborating explicit closed-form solutions from basic principles, and then using these solutions in numerical applications. This approach is only applicable to very limited classes of problems that are simple enough for such closed-form solutions to exist. Unfortunately, most real-life problems are too complex to be amenable to this type of treatment. Numerical Methods - a Consumer Guide presents methods for dealing with them. Shifting the paradigm from formal calculus to numerical computation, the text makes it possible for the reader to · discover how to escape the dictatorship of those particular cases that are simple enough to receive a closed-form solution, and thus gain the ability to solve complex, real-life problems; · understand the principles behind recognized algorithms used in state-of-the-art numerical software; · learn the advantages and limitations of these algorithms, to facilitate the choice of which pre-existing bricks to assemble for solving a given problem; and · acquire methods that allow a critical assessment of numerical results. Numerical Methods - a Consumer Guide will be of interest to engineers and researchers who solve problems numerically with computers or supervise people doing so, and to students of both engineering and applied mathematics.
Numerical Methods for Finance
by John A. D. Appleby David C. Edelman John J. H. MillerFeaturing international contributors from both industry and academia, Numerical Methods for Finance explores new and relevant numerical methods for the solution of practical problems in finance. It is one of the few books entirely devoted to numerical methods as applied to the financial field.Presenting state-of-the-art methods in this area
Numerical Methods in: Finance with C++
by Maciej J. Capi Ski Tomasz ZastawniakDriven by concrete computational problems in quantitative finance, this book provides aspiring quant developers with the numerical techniques and programming skills they need. The authors start from scratch, so the reader does not need any previous experience of C++. Beginning with straightforward option pricing on binomial trees, the book gradually progresses towards more advanced topics, including nonlinear solvers, Monte Carlo techniques for path-dependent derivative securities, finite difference methods for partial differential equations, and American option pricing by solving a linear complementarity problem. Further material, including solutions to all exercises and C++ code, is available online. The book is ideal preparation for work as an entry-level quant programmer and it gives readers the confidence to progress to more advanced skill sets involving C++ design patterns as applied in finance.
Numerical Methods in Computational Finance: A Partial Differential Equation (PDE/FDM) Approach (Wiley Finance)
by Daniel J. DuffyThis book is a detailed and step-by-step introduction to the mathematical foundations of ordinary and partial differential equations, their approximation by the finite difference method and applications to computational finance. The book is structured so that it can be read by beginners, novices and expert users. Part A Mathematical Foundation for One-Factor Problems Chapters 1 to 7 introduce the mathematical and numerical analysis concepts that are needed to understand the finite difference method and its application to computational finance. Part B Mathematical Foundation for Two-Factor Problems Chapters 8 to 13 discuss a number of rigorous mathematical techniques relating to elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations in two space variables. In particular, we develop strategies to preprocess and modify a PDE before we approximate it by the finite difference method, thus avoiding ad-hoc and heuristic tricks. Part C The Foundations of the Finite Difference Method (FDM) Chapters 14 to 17 introduce the mathematical background to the finite difference method for initial boundary value problems for parabolic PDEs. It encapsulates all the background information to construct stable and accurate finite difference schemes. Part D Advanced Finite Difference Schemes for Two-Factor Problems Chapters 18 to 22 introduce a number of modern finite difference methods to approximate the solution of two factor partial differential equations. This is the only book we know of that discusses these methods in any detail. Part E Test Cases in Computational Finance Chapters 23 to 26 are concerned with applications based on previous chapters. We discuss finite difference schemes for a wide range of one-factor and two-factor problems. This book is suitable as an entry-level introduction as well as a detailed treatment of modern methods as used by industry quants and MSc/MFE students in finance. The topics have applications to numerical analysis, science and engineering. More on computational finance and the author’s online courses, see www.datasim.nl.
Numerical Nonsmooth Optimization: State of the Art Algorithms
by Napsu Karmitsa Marko M. Mäkelä Manlio Gaudioso Adil M. Bagirov Sona TaheriSolving nonsmooth optimization (NSO) problems is critical in many practical applications and real-world modeling systems. The aim of this book is to survey various numerical methods for solving NSO problems and to provide an overview of the latest developments in the field. Experts from around the world share their perspectives on specific aspects of numerical NSO. The book is divided into four parts, the first of which considers general methods including subgradient, bundle and gradient sampling methods. In turn, the second focuses on methods that exploit the problem’s special structure, e.g. algorithms for nonsmooth DC programming, VU decomposition techniques, and algorithms for minimax and piecewise differentiable problems. The third part considers methods for special problems like multiobjective and mixed integer NSO, and problems involving inexact data, while the last part highlights the latest advancements in derivative-free NSO. Given its scope, the book is ideal for students attending courses on numerical nonsmooth optimization, for lecturers who teach optimization courses, and for practitioners who apply nonsmooth optimization methods in engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and business. Furthermore, it can serve as a reference text for experts dealing with nonsmooth optimization.
Numerical Probability: An Introduction with Applications to Finance (Universitext)
by Gilles PagèsThis textbook provides a self-contained introduction to numerical methods in probability with a focus on applications to finance. Topics covered include the Monte Carlo simulation (including simulation of random variables, variance reduction, quasi-Monte Carlo simulation, and more recent developments such as the multilevel paradigm), stochastic optimization and approximation, discretization schemes of stochastic differential equations, as well as optimal quantization methods. The author further presents detailed applications to numerical aspects of pricing and hedging of financial derivatives, risk measures (such as value-at-risk and conditional value-at-risk), implicitation of parameters, and calibration. Aimed at graduate students and advanced undergraduate students, this book contains useful examples and over 150 exercises, making it suitable for self-study.
Nunca pares: Autobiografía del fundador de Nike
by Phil KnightPhil Knight nos habla por primera vez de la auténtica historia que hay detrás de Nike, la empresa que fundó en 1962, que hoy en día factura más de 30 000 millones de dólares al año, y cuyo logo ha llegado a ser un símbolo global, el icono más ubicuo y reconocido en todo el mundo. Todo comenzó con 50 dólares y una idea sencilla: importar calzado deportivo económico y de gran calidad desde Japón. Vendiendo esos tenis en la cajuela de su coche, Phil Knight consiguió facturar 8 000 dólares durante el primer año. Progresivamente, este pequeño negocio se convirtió en una start-up exitosa que revolucionó el mercado, creó una marca universal e innovadora y evolucionó hasta convertirse en el gigante actual. En estas memorias sinceras y viscerales, Phil Knight relata los numerosos riesgos asumidos, los reveses sufridos y los incipientes éxitos, pero sobre todo la relación con sus primeros colaboradores y empleados, un grupo de inconformistas y luchadores que acabaron sintiéndose como hermanos. Juntos, animados por la fuerza de un objetivo común y una fe profunda en el espíritu del deporte, construyeron una marca que transformó todos los cánones establecidos. Otros autores y personalidades han opinado:«Estas memorias, por el co-fundador de Nike, es un recordatorio refrescante y honesto de lo que realmente es el camino hacia el éxito empresarial: desordenado, precario y lleno de errores. He coincidido con Knight varias veces en los últimos años. Él es muy agradable, pero también es tranquilo y difícil de conocer. Aquí Knight se abre de una manera que pocos CEOs están dispuestos a hacer. No creo que Knight se proponga enseñar nada al lector. En su lugar, logra algo mejor. Él cuenta su historia con la mayor honestidad posible. Es un historia increíble.»Bill Gates «Conozco a Phil Knight desde que era niño, pero en realidad no lo descubrí hasta que abrí este magnífico libro tan personal. Lo mismo me ha ocurrido con Nike. Había usado su material con orgullo, pero no era consciente del conjunto de logros extraordinarios, innovación, supervivencia y triunfo que hay detrás del logo de esta marca. Sincero, entretenido y elegante, éste es un relato para todos aquellos a quienes les guste el deporte, pero sobre todo para quienes adoran las memorias.»Andre Agassi, autor del bestseller Open «Nunca pares es una magnífica historia sobre la suerte, el coraje, el aprendizaje y la alquimia mágica de un puñado de personajes excéntricos que se reunieron para crear Nike. Las lecciones que encontramos en este libro acerca de la emprendeduría y los obstáculos que vamos encontrando cuando queremos crear algo nuevo no tienen precio.»Abraham Verghese, autor de Hijos del ancho mundo «Una conmovedora y entretenida aventura, una auténtica odisea con mucho que enseñar sobre innovación y creatividad. Phil Knight nos lleva hasta los inicios de la marca Nike y recuerda cómo tuvo que suplicar para conseguir dinero de unos bancos muy reacios y cómo tuvieron que trabajar juntos para construir algo único y revolucionario. Una inspiración para quienes tengan sueños poco convencionales.»Michael Spence, Premio Nobel de Economía Reseñas:«Estas memorias, por el co-fundador de Nike, es un recordatorio refrescante y honesto de lo que realmente es el camino hacia el éxito empresarial: desordenado, precario y lleno de errores. He coincidido con Knight varias veces en los últimos años. Él es muy agradable, pero también es tranquilo y difícil de conocer. Aquí Knight se abre de una manera que pocos CEOs están dispuestos a hacer. No creo que Knight se proponga enseñar nada al lector. En su lugar, logra algo mejor. Él cuenta su historia con la mayor honestidad posible. Es una historia increíble.»Bill Gates «Conozco a Phil Knight desde que
Nunca te pares: Autobiografía del fundador de Nike
by Phil KnightLa historia jamás contada detrás de Nike, la marca deportiva más icónica del mundo, narrada por su creador. Uno de los libros favoritos de Bill Gates de 2016. Phil Knight, director general de Nike, nos cuenta por primera vez la auténtica historia detrás de la empresa que fundó en 1962, que hoy en día factura más de 30.000 millones de dólares al año, y cuyo logo ha llegado a ser un símbolo global, el icono más ubicuo y reconocido en todo el mundo. Todo comenzó con 50 dólares y una idea sencilla: importar calzado deportivo económico y de gran calidad desde Japón. Vendiendo esas zapatillas de deporte en el maletero de su coche consiguió facturar 8.000 dólares durante el primer año. Progresivamente, este pequeño negocio se convirtió en una start-up rompedora que revolucionó el mercado, creó una marca universal e innovadora y evolucionó hasta convertirse en el gigante actual. En estas memorias sinceras y viscerales, Phil Knight relata los numerosos riesgos asumidos, los reveses sufridos y los incipientes éxitos, pero sobre todo la relación con sus primeros colaboradores y empleados, un grupo de inconformistas y luchadores que acabaron sintiéndose como hermanos. Juntos, animados por la fuerza de un objetivo común y una fe profunda en el espíritu del deporte, construyeron una marca que transformó todos los cánones establecidos. Reseñas:«Estas memorias, por el co-fundador de Nike, es un recordatorio refrescante y honesto de lo que realmente es el camino hacia el éxito empresarial: desordenado, precario y lleno de errores. He coincidido con Knight varias veces en los últimos años. Él es muy agradable, pero también es tranquilo y difícil de conocer. Aquí Knight se abre de una manera que pocos CEOs están dispuestos a hacer. No creo que Knight se proponga enseñar nada al lector. En su lugar, logra algo mejor. Él cuenta su historia con la mayor honestidad posible. Es una historia increíble.»Bill Gates «Conozco a Phil Knight desde que era niño, pero en realidad no lo descubrí hasta que abrí este magnífico libro íntimo. Lo mismo me ha ocurrido con Nike. Había usado su material con orgullo, pero desconocía la admirable historia de innovación, superación y éxito que se escondía detrás del símbolo de esta marca. Sincera, entretenida y elegante, esta es una memoria para todos aquellos a quienes les guste el deporte, pero sobre todo para quienes adoran las memorias.»Andre Agassi, autor del bestseller Open «Nunca te pares es una magnífica historia sobre la suerte, el coraje, el aprendizaje y la alquimia mágica de un puñado de personajes excéntricos que se reunieron para crear Nike. Las lecciones que encontramos en este libro acerca de la emprendeduría y los obstáculos que vamos encontrando cuando queremos crear algo nuevo no tienen precio.»Abraham Verghese, autor de Hijos del ancho mundo «Una conmovedora y entretenida aventura, una auténtica odisea con mucho que enseñar sobre innovación y creatividad. Phil Knight nos lleva hasta los inicios de la marca Nike y recuerda cómo tuvo que suplicar para conseguir dinero de unos bancos muy reacios y cómo tuvieron que trabajar juntos para construir algo único y revolucionario. Una inspiración para quienes tengan sueños poco convencionales.»Michael Spence, Premio Nobel de Economía
Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence
by Sharon T. StrocchiaAn analysis of Renaissance Florentine convents and their influence on the city’s social, economic, and political history.The 15th century was a time of dramatic and decisive change for nuns and nunneries in Florence. That century saw the city’s convents evolve from small, semiautonomous communities to large civic institutions. By 1552, roughly one in eight Florentine women lived in a religious community. Historian Sharon T. Strocchia analyzes this stunning growth of female monasticism, revealing the important roles these women and institutions played in the social, economic, and political history of Renaissance Florence.It became common practice during this time for unmarried women in elite society to enter convents. This unprecedented concentration of highly educated and well-connected women transformed convents into sites of great patronage and social and political influence. As their economic influence also grew, convents found new ways of supporting themselves; they established schools, produced manuscripts, and manufactured textiles.Using previously untapped archival materials, Strocchia shows how convents shaped one of the principal cities of Renaissance Europe. She demonstrates the importance of nuns and nunneries to the booming Florentine textile industry and shows the contributions that ordinary nuns made to Florentine life in their roles as scribes, stewards, artisans, teachers, and community leaders. In doing so, Strocchia argues that the ideals and institutions that defined Florence were influenced in great part by the city’s powerful female monastics.Winner, Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Catholic Historical Association“Strocchia examines the complex interrelationships between Florentine nuns and the laity, the secular government, and the religious hierarchy. The author skillfully analyzes extensive archival and printed sources.” —Choice
Nurses Contributions to Quality Health Outcomes
by Marianne Baernholdt Diane K. BoyleThis comprehensive book organizes the components of quality and safety outcomes, within a framework developed by expert nurses. Such a framework is missing in existing books on quality and safety in health care, and the concepts of nursing and organizational outcomes are often overlooked. This book fills this gap by exploring and expanding the various features of the Quality Health Outcomes Model (QHOM) and its four main concepts of System, Client, Interventions, and Outcomes. Using a broad and comprehensive approach, the authors identify the most current empirical evidence and concepts in the nursing field to provide an up-to-date understanding of the QHOM’s four concepts and their interrelations. New concepts include (a) systems concepts of turbulence and complexity of workflow and use of the electronic health record to support clinical workflow; (b) client concepts of social determinants of health, health literacy, and chronicity; (c) intervention concepts of interprofessional practice, nursing care processes including unfinished care, and care coordination; (d) outcome concepts related to nursing and the organization in addition to patient outcomes that includes the patients’ experience.The ideas, approaches, and evidence are provided by a team of experienced researchers, practitioners, and leaders. The author team presents an updated, state-of-art view of how system, client, and interventions affect client, nurse, and organizational outcomes.This book will appeal to researchers, clinicians, and researchers interested in healthcare quality and in particular nurses and nursing students in administration, research, and practice.
Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition - Book 2: Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies (HIMSS Book Series)
by Connie White DelaneyNursing Education and Digital Health Strategies explores the current state of health and healthcare education, as well as that of nursing informatics education. These topics include technologies-enabled education for all nurses and interprofessional collaborations from a worldwide perspective. The "New" learning for applied critical thinking will include technology, content, skills versus tools, and the use of "smart" systems for care delivery, the role of critical thinking, and uniqueness of nursing care delivery. Further, how these changes are understood as a paradigm shift that needs to be incorporated along with nursing and healthcare education is emphasized. The effects of technology on human behavior are also explored, addressing human–factors interaction, interdependence of human–computer interaction, and other effects of technology on wellbeing. As part of nursing education, learning from clients/patients to better shape and advance nursing education and scholarship are discussed. Academic–clinical practice partnerships for a digital future, how teams are working together (clinician/teacher) for better healthcare delivery and applied knowledge—including joint appointments (exchange of academia and applied expertise), academic–applied human resources, and interprofessional learning/development—are discussed. This book closes by discussing and using case studies to showcase nursing competencies for the next decade, implications for preparing the healthcare workforce for a digital world, faculty readiness, and the interaction with gaming and simulations. Nursing informatics education, including continuing education beyond academia, i.e., informal education, worldwide, as well as global challenges to support digital world capabilities are described. Hands-on Experiential Delivery and learning-based case studies are also included. Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition is comprised of four books which can be purchased individually: Book 1: Realizing Digital Health – Bold Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing Book 2: Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies Book 3: Innovation, Technology, and Applied Informatics for Nurses Book 4: Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People, Systems, and the Planet
Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition, Book 3: Innovation, Technology, and Applied Informatics for Nurses (HIMSS Book Series)
by Connie White DelaneyInnovation, Technology, and Applied Informatics for Nurses explores informatics trends emerging over the next decade including personalized healthcare, telehealth, artificial intelligence, voice recognition, and predictive analytics. Emphasis is placed on their importance, benefits, and key challenges for nurses. Digital health and patient-generated data in the context of remote monitoring are highlighted with a focus on digital health tools, issues, challenges, and implications for the future. A featured case study includes the use of patient-generated data during the COVID-19 pandemic including critical lessons learned. A discussion of the technological building blocks of sensors and the Internet of Things highlights examples of how healthcare delivery system models of care are being transformed. Applied data science as an emerging healthcare discipline explores natural language processing, data science frameworks, implications for data bias, and ethical considerations. The conceptual building blocks of artificial intelligence and machine learning are outlined resulting in a call for all nurses to develop an improved understanding of implications for our practice and our patients. Telehealth is described as including modalities, services, virtual care, human factors, and financial, legal, and regulatory considerations. Key drivers and stakeholders advancing simulation-based care delivery are discussed including recommendations for how healthcare organizations can perform event simulation as they prepare to meet the risk management needs of the future. This book concludes by highlighting documentation best practices implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition is comprised of four books which can be purchased individually: Book 1: Realizing Digital Health – Bold Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing Book 2: Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies Book 3: Innovation, Technology, and Applied Informatics for Nurses Book 4: Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People, Systems, and the Planet
Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition, Book 4: Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People, Systems, and the Planet (HIMSS Book Series)
by Connie White DelaneyIn Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People, Systems, and the Planet, the leading-edge innovators in digital health applications, global thought leaders, and multinational, cooperative research initiatives are woven together against the backdrop of health equity and policy-setting bodies, such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization. As the authors prepared this book, the world is struggling with the core issues of access to care, access to needed medical equipment and supplies, and access to vaccines. This access theme is reflected throughout the policy and world health chapters with an emphasis on how this COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the fissures, divides, unfairness, and unpreparedness that are in play across our globe. Sustainability and global health policy are linked to the new digital technologies in the chapters that illustrate healthcare delivery modalities that nurse innovators are developing, leading, and using to deliver care to hard-to-reach populations for better population health. A trio of chapters focus on the underlying need for standards to underlie nursing care in order to capture the data needed to enable new science and knowledge discoveries. The authors give particular attention to the cautions, potential for harm, and biases that the artificial intelligence technologies of algorithms and machine learning pose in healthcare. Additionally, they have tapped legal experts to review the legal statues, government regulations, and civil rights law in place for patients’ rights, privacy, and confidentiality, and consents for the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union. The book closes with a chapter written by the editors that envisions the near future—the impact that the new digital technologies will have on how care is delivered, expanding care settings into community and home, virtual monitoring, and patient generated data, as well as the numerous ways that nurses’ roles and technology skill sets must increase to support the global goals of equal access to healthcare. Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition is comprised of four books which can be purchased individually: Book 1: Realizing Digital Health – Bold Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing Book 2: Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies Book 3: Innovation, Technology, and Applied Informatics for Nurses Book 4: Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People, Systems, and the Planet
Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World, Book 1: Realizing Digital Health - Bold Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing (HIMSS Book Series)
by Connie White DelaneyIn just the past decade, the emergence of digital health has finally become palpable. Enhanced by the pandemic, social justice events, and planetary health urgency, Realizing Digital Health – Bold Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing explores that evolution with a focus on capturing the current state of digital health. Anchored in an introduction to digital health, new technologies, opportunities, and challenges are described. Consideration of the opportunities and challenges of digital health calls for specific attention to ethical considerations. This book includes a current state synopsis of healthcare in the USA, with the inclusion of specific implications for nursing leaders and executives. Engagement of the people (patients, families, communities) working in partnership to enhance health is described. Information management and the necessary definition and access to data are discussed with a particular explication of the function of information management and operational decision-making. The challenges and learnings related to informatics drawn from the experiences of leaders in large health systems shed insight into the current state of informatics-enabled digital health and healthcare. The global example of the integration of technology, nursing, and health systems expands our knowledge of the current state as well as explores possibilities. This book concludes with a commitment to and description of the current state of teamwork and the integral role/functions within informatics, nursing, and healthcare. This book provides the reader with a succinct overview of digital technologies, a reality-anchored description of the current state in the USA and globally and highlights the core foundation and integration of informatics and information management. This book stimulates thought and actions to advance digital health within a full partnership among the people, organizations, systems, and global imperatives including planetary survival. This book lifts up the next era calling for full teamwork, collaboration, and partnership as we emerge into a true global community. Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition is comprised of four books which can be purchased individually: Book 1: Realizing Digital Health – Bold Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing Book 2: Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies Book 3: Innovation, Technology, and Applied Informatics for Nurses Book 4: Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People, Systems, and the Planet
Nursing Informatics: Truths, Talent, and Transforming the Future (HIMSS Book Series)
by Whende M. CarrollExpert nurse technology pioneers, emerging leaders, and award-winning informatics nurses provide practicing and aspiring nurse informaticists with an acute understanding of current and evolving healthcare trends and roles and how healthcare organizations and industry leaders benefit from nurses' informatics talent – essential skills, knowledge, wisdom, and contributions – to add immense value in the current and future healthcare technology landscape.This book moves beyond the current informatics literature. It is a platform to inspire nursing informaticists to confidently create, advocate for, and manage their presence in the healthcare technology industry. It furthers the understanding of nursing's value, knowledge, and abilities, the nursing informatics specialty, and how nurses, as end users of technology and the patient's voice in clinical practice, are essential workers, technical developers, and implementors, leading the cultivation of innovative healthcare technology solutions. The content deep dives into: Why nurses in technology and innovation are indispensable to solving today's key healthcare issues Debunking nursing profession and practice falsities and how the truths prove nurses' genuine value in today's healthcare information technology industry A comprehensive look at the past, current, and future state of the nursing informatics specialty Pitch language for why organizational leaders should begin and better utilize nurses' exceptional clinical and technology talent essential to transforming healthcare The ways nurses intelligently use technology, knowledge, wisdom, and innovation and can harness strategies to thrive in current roles and succeed in career transitions How emerging nursing and informatics roles catalyzed by modern technology will profoundly change the healthcare landscape The chapters include invaluable testimonials, recommendations, resources, and influential nurse names to help readers thoughtfully evolve their nurse technology processes and roles and promote a way forward for nurse innovation, career growth, and revolutionary care delivery shifts that will take the unique informatics specialty to the next level and create a path for an equitable, fully digitized future of healthcare.
Nursing, Policy and Politics in Twentieth-century Chile: Reforming Health, 1920s-1990s
by Markus Thulin Ricardo A. AyalaThis book offers the first in-depth account of healthcare policy in Chile across the twentieth century. It charts how nursing and nurses intersected with the political context of healthcare, with a focus on the country’s transition across welfare systems. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with nurses and governmental representatives, this book explores how the nursing profession implemented and challenged reform, while policies had an impact on nurses. It analyses nurses’ employment and mobility, and their lobbying through the press and through unions. The authors demonstrate that while Chilean health policy was influenced by US cultural politics, reform depended on the flexibility and willingness of nurses to carry through reforms. By examining the participation of the largest female professional group, the book offers new insights into the privatization of society on the pinnacle of industrial development and seeks to contribute to contemporary debates on Chile’s welfare system. It is a vital read for scholars researching the history of public health.
Nursing Practice during COVID-19: Preparation, Education and Support
by Kainat Alam Shipra Daniel Abdulaziz Alzahrani Waleed Hassan AlmalkiThis book highlights the progresses achieved in the role of nurses in the hospital, critical care unit, community field, hospital, and at home for patient care management in SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), especially in the South Asia and the Middle East. Nurses and allied health care professionals play a significant role in preventing and treating the infectious disease pandemic and epidemic that is COVID-19 and, on the front lines of treatment, they suffer an inescapable health risk due to the fact that they must live with, encounter, and accept the hazard of dealing with developing respiratory illnesses. Nurses also endure significant stress, burden, and mental health concerns as a result of worldwide respiratory epidemics. Because of this, nurses require ongoing assistance and training in order to increase their crisis preparation and efficacy while also coping with psychological issues and ensuring their own well-being. This book reflects the experience of Indianand Saudian nurses, develops on COVID-19 stress and challenges and informs on the technologies employed. Nurses' experiences caring for patients with COVID-19 around the world are scarcely documented. The research that has been done so far have mostly focused on the physical and psychological effects of stress. This expands on the role of nurse managers and hospital administration with key stakeholders emphasizing the need of providing support for nurses in their role, especially considering that the positive leadership responsibilities of nurse managers are highly regarded by nurses.
Nursing the Nation: Building the Nurse Labor Force (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
by Jean C. WhelanModern health care cannot exist without professional nurses. Throughout the twentieth century, there was seldom a sustained period when the supply of nurses was equal to demand. Nursing the Nation offers a historical analysis of the relationship between the development of nurse employment arrangements with patients and institutions and the appearance of nurse shortages from 1890 to 1950. The response to nursing supply and demand problems by health care institutions and policy-making organizations failed to address nurse workforce issues adequately, and this failure resulted in, at times, profound and lengthy nurse shortages. Nurses also lost the ability to control their own destiny within health care institutions while nevertheless establishing themselves as the most critical part of health care provision today.
Nurturing Leadership
by Randall L. O'DonnellYOU CAN BECOME A NURTURING LEADER How can I: 1 Get extraordinary performance from ordinary people? 2 Discipline without destroying self-esteem? 3 Show workers I really care about them as individuals? 4 Keep from losing my composure when frustrations become too intense; These are just a few of the questions answered in this wise-and often funny-little book. Refined over a quarter-century, the philosophy expressed here counts every person important, every conversation critical, and every job-at every level of the organization-essential to your goals. If you're a leader who often feels pulled in too many directions, you will be renewed by Dr. O'DonnelPs insight, compassion, and his tried-and-true plan for nurturing yourself and your associates. RANDALL L. O'DONNELL, Ph.D., was Chief Executive Officer of Arkansas Children's Hospital, the nation's seventh largest children's hospital, from 1983 to 1992. A popular speaker on the subject of leadership, Dr. O'Donnell developed this book at the request of his audiences.
Nurturing Mobilities: Family Travel in the 21st Century (Networked Urban Mobilities)
by Claire Maxwell Miri Yemini Katrine Mygind BachNurturing Mobilities employs new empirical material and an innovative theoretical framing to bring new clarity to why families travel today – and what happens when they do. The authors argue that an imperative to ‘think with mobility’ and to ‘aspire to be mobile’ shapes identities, futures, and family practices. Drawing on data that examines family travel practices – typically short-term trips – across the working-, middle-, and globally mobile middle-classes, Nurturing Mobilities describes how families travel, why they travel, and the role young family members play in curating family travel. Vitally, it examines the two biggest contemporary issues in global mobility: COVID-19, and climate change. How has COVID-19 changed travel motivations in a world beset by lockdowns and diminished finances? How are concerns around climate change, and engagements with global citizenship education, changing family travel practices? Nurturing Mobilities illuminates new ways in which social class divergence is forged through movements across borders. The authors’ theoretically inter-disciplinary approach delivers a full analysis of the apparently divergent processes that differentiate family travel along social class lines, yet also allow travel to play a core role in social mobility. This book is a vital resource for scholars and students studying mobility, globalisation, social class, and climate change engagement.
Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination And Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, And Future
by Riane Eisler Douglas P. FryNurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It brings together findings--largely overlooked--from the natural and social sciences debunking the popular idea that we are hard-wired for selfishness, war, rape, and greed. Its groundbreaking new approach reveals connections between disturbing trends like climate change denial and regressions to strongman rule. <p><p> Moving past right vs. left, religious vs. secular, Eastern vs. Western, and other familiar categories that do not include our formative parent-child and gender relations, it looks at where societies fall on the partnership-domination scale. On one end is the domination system that ranks man over man, man over woman, race over race, and man over nature. On the other end is the more peaceful, egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable partnership system. <p> Nurturing Our Humanity explores how behaviors, values, and socio-economic institutions develop differently in these two environments, documents how this impacts nothing less than how our brains develop, examines cultures from this new perspective (including societies that for millennia oriented toward partnership), and proposes actions supporting the contemporary movement in this more life-sustaining and enhancing direction. It shows how through today's ever more fearful, frenzied, and greed-driven technologies of destruction and exploitation, the domination system may lead us to an evolutionary dead end. A more equitable and sustainable way of life is biologically possible and culturally attainable: we can change our course.