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For undergraduate courses in Mental Health Nursing. Written in a student-friendly style, this comprehensive text, and leading resource in the field of mental health nursing, emphasizes effective communication skills, details cultural considerations, and presents mental health disorders within a systematic organizational framework using the nursing process. It reflects the diversity of its student readers, and the belief that the practice of mental health nursing is in direct response to the social, cultural, environmental, and biological components of mental illness.

The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) introduced a criterion starting with their 1992-1993 site visits that "Students must demonstrate a knowledge of the application of statistics to engineering problems." Since most engineering curricula are filled with requirements in their own discipline, they generally do not have time for a traditional two semesters of probability and statistics. Attempts to condense that material into a single semester often results in so much time being spent on probability that the statistics useful for designing and analyzing engineering/scientific experiments is never covered. In developing a one-semester course whose purpose was to introduce engineering/scientific students to the most useful statistical methods, this book was created to satisfy those needs. - Provides the statistical design and analysis of engineering experiments & problems - Presents a student-friendly approach through providing statistical models for advanced learning techniques - Covers essential and useful statistical methods used by engineers and scientists

Revised and updated, this new 6th edition is the all-in-one source for practical, reliable information on nursing care during the childbearing years. Designed to meet the needs of today's students, it addresses the fundamentals of maternity nursing with a clear, more readable writing style and a concise, more focused content presentation. Integrating the importance of understanding family, culture, and health promotion into the continuum of care, it also includes a strategic integration of community-based care to emphasize that care can take place wherever the woman may be. - Care management emphasized throughout. - Women's health content is up front to provide a thorough understanding of health promotion and prevention, common health concerns and care of women throughout childbearing years. - Home Care content is integrated in all normal and high risk nursing care chapters. - Family content is first introduced in Chapter 2 and then incorporated in the pregnancy, labor & birth, postpartum, and newborn chapters to emphasize the importance of including the family in the continuum of care. - Culture content introduced in Chapter 2 and then integrated throughout. - Health promotion and prevention integrated to maintain a focus on wellness as an integral part of today's maternity nursing care. - Patient Instructions for Self-Care boxes integrated throughout provides special instructions for follow-up care. - Care of the childbearing adolescent integrated throughout providing important age related considerations. - Nurse Alert boxes highlight - English/Spanish Guidelines boxes provide the student with a handy reference for communicating with and teaching patients & families. - Emergency Boxes alert the student to signs & symptoms of important situations. - Free Companion CD with interactive case studies, matching and fill-in-the-blank questions, review questions, and a vocabulary review with sound pronunciations. Complementary & Alternative Therapies are integrated throughout to provide useful information on alternatives to traditional care techniques. Medication Guides provide information about the most common drugs. A new chapter on Loss and Grief focuses attention on the sensitive issues that nurses face when caring for the family. Evidence-Based Practice is incorporated into the text with a summary of the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Database, a collection of research findings that confirms effective practices and identifies practices that have unknown, ineffective, or harmful effects.

Northwest Women features concise descriptions of more than 700 books and articles that examine the contributions of Washington and Oregon women -- bringing to light generations of scholarship about celebrated and anonymous women, from Native American basket makers to Japanese-Americans interned during World War II.Northwest Women was named one of the Best Bibliographies in History by the American Library Association.

Manipulation of the American Voter provides the reader with the means necessary to analyze political commercials, by presenting the motives behind advertising strategies and tactics used in contemporary politics.

This revised and streamlined guide to modern anesthesia practice is fully updated with hot topics such as non-operating room anesthesia, office-based anesthesia, and anesthesia for laparoscopic procedures. The second edition includes the specifics of pharmacokinetics, drug delivery systems, opiate antagonists, and several key induction drugs.@:

In this fresh, more structural, alternative to other texts for the marriage and family course, Seccombe and Warner provide a comprehensive look at close relationships and the family in just 15 chapters. Examining close relationships and families by placing them in social context, the authors offer a unique emphasis on the structural and relational aspects of the family with a focus on family resilience. The text weaves together a macro view - social structural analysis of close relationships- with the macro - an individualist view. The authors demonstrate the interaction of theory and methodology in family studies in Chapter 2 and blend cutting-edge research and practical applications throughout. Among the highlights of this first edition are the exceptionally thorough exploration of the topics of singlehood and cohabitation in Chapter 7 and the unique six-chapter core (8-13) that focuses on all aspects of parenthood and the challenges and crises that families face today. The authors' emphasis on family resilience and how families can be strengthened is reflected in the "Constructing Strong Families" boxes that appear throughout the text. These features encourage students to apply groundbreaking research on what makes a family strong to their own families and in the concluding chapter, "Looking Ahead: Helping Families Flourish," which examines the factors that successful families -regardless of ethnicity, culture, or social class-consistently exhibit.