• A 25-question pretest to help pinpoint areas in need of intensive study
• Detailed subject reviews, including Cardiovascular Concepts, Pulmonary Concepts, Professional Caring and Ethical Practice Concepts, and more, in an easy-to-digest outline format, along with corresponding practice questions and answer explanations
• Two full-length practice CCRN tests in the book, each with 150 multiple-choice questions and fully explained answers
• One full-length online practice exam with all questions answered and explained
• More than 500 practice questions overall, for review and study

• Step-by-step instructions
show how to use the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections to create a unique, individualized plan of care.
• UNIQUE! Care plans are provided for NANDA-I© approved nursing diagnoses.
• Evidence-based interventions and rationales include recent or classic research and references supporting the use of each intervention.
• Examples of and suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomes are presented in each care plan.
• 150 NCLEX® exam-style review questions are available on the Evolve website.
• Easy-to-follow Sections I and II guide you through the nursing process and selection of appropriate nursing diagnoses.
• Clear, concise interventions are usually only a sentence or two long and use no more than two references.
• Safety content emphasizes what must be considered to provide safe patient care.
• List of NANDA-I© Diagnoses on the inside front cover of the book provides quick reference to page numbers.
• Alphabetical thumb tabs allow quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses.
• Appendixes provide valuable information in an easy-to-access location.

There are four different types of sections that appear throughout the workbook: Foundational Knowledge questions, Conceptual Integration questions, and Clinical Application questions, and TRY IT! Activities. Each section is tailored to hone different skill sets and enhance comprehension of the topics as follows:

Foundational Knowledge questions assess students’ basic knowledge gained from the textbook and highlight areas they need to review

Conceptual Integration questions prompt students to delve deeper into the material and interrelate diverse information for understanding

Clinical Application questions explore the usefulness of the material provided in the textbook to answer the common student query “How does speech and voice science relate to the field of communication sciences and disorders?”

TRY IT! activities are designed to promote experiential learning and allow students to explore concepts and acquire new insights

Key Features:

* Over 1,000 questions are included on a wide variety of topics

* Informative answers are provided to over 45 questions on the 14 Clinical Cases presented in the textbook

* Numerous original figures and spectrograms are used to illustrate questions, reinforce key concepts, and assess students’ understanding

* A variety of question formats, including multiple choice, true/false, fill-in, matching, figure identification, drawing, and short answer

* A focus on integrating knowledge for deeper understanding

• More than 1,500 multiple-choice questions with by detailed rationales
help students understand the reasoning behind each answer.
• Division of clinical chapters into Physical Examination and Diagnostic Tests, Disorders, and Pharmacology makes it easy for students to locate specific information within each system.
• Chapters on Research and Theory and Professional Issues provide information on professional competencies important to the FNP role.
• Multiple-choice questions that mirror FNP certification exam formats give you realistic exam practice.

• NEW! Updated questions
throughout review the latest evidence-based clinical practice and national treatment guidelines and protocols to prepare students for the AANP and ANCC FNP certification exams and clinical practice.
• NEW! Questions emphasizing patient safety are highlighted to reinforce the graduate-level safety competency of the Quality & Safety Education for Nurses initiative.

• This one-of-a-kind workbook dedicated to developing clinical judgment skills
helps prepare you for the Next-Generation NCLEX® Exam (NGN) through practical thinking exercises in which you will apply the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) Clinical Judgment Model (CJM).
• A comprehensive collection of carefully developed clinical reasoning exercises range from basic to more complex and address all specialty areas.
• Answer key with robust rationales to remediate learning follows at the end of the book.
• Six-part organization guides you through the entire NGN test plan.
• Answer questions in the book itself or on a companion Evolve website for automated scoring and remediation.

The only book designed specifically to prepare students for the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP) exams, this unparalleled review details the step-by-step journey from classroom to patient room and beyond. This book begins with proven test-taking strategies for students and provides an overview of common pitfalls for exam takers. It features question styles and content material from both the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN®) and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) exams, providing an overview of the certification exams written specifically by the certification organizations themselves.

With more than 630 unique questions, this review contains completely up-to-date and evidence-based exam preparation. Practice questions are organized into body system review, special populations, and legal/ethical issues, and culminate in a 175-question practice test that represents the length, variety, and complexity of board exam questions. All questions’ answers have accompanying rationales based on clinical practice guidelines. Completely unique to this publication, the last section of Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Q&A Review guides one through the next steps after the exam—how to progress into practice with your new certification.

KEY FEATURES

• Over 630 practice questions with answers and rationales
• The only current book publication designed specifically to prepare students for the AG-ACNP exams
• Contains the most current information and practice using published guidelines
• Exam tips and perils/pitfalls to avoid in test-taking
• Includes free access to interactive ebook and Q&A app—track and sync your progress on up to three devices!

This textbook aligns with the Fifth Edition of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Model Curriculum for Pharmacy Technician Education and Training Programs and the 2020 content outline for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Examination (PTCE).

For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work in the field for caregivers of those with dementia. Written by experts with decades of experience caring for individuals with memory loss, Alzheimer's, and other dementias, the book is widely known for its authoritativeness and compassionate approach to care. Featuring everything from the causes of dementia to managing its early stages to advice on caring for those in the later stages of the disease, it is widely considered to be the most detailed and trusted book available.

Highlighting useful takeaway messages and informed by recent research into the causes of dementia, this new edition has been completely updated. It features

• brand-new content on everything from home care aides to useful apps to promising preventative techniques and therapies
• practical advice for avoiding caregiver burnout—plus tips for when and how to get additional help
• a completely new two-column design that allows readers to quickly access what they need

The central idea underlying this indispensable book—that much can be done to improve the lives of people with dementia and of those caring for them—remains the same. The 36-Hour Day is the definitive dementia care guide.

• Provides a revolutionary approach to the study of human anatomy which has been shown to improve the outcomes of physical therapies traditionally used to manage pain and other musculoskeletal disorders
• Describes a theory which is applicable to all common types of movement, posture analysis and physical treatment modalities
• Layout designed to allow the reader to gather the concept quickly or gain a more detailed understanding of any given area according to need
• Design icons direct readers to their own specialist areas of interest, e.g. manual therapy, movement therapy, visual assessment, kinaesthetic education or supplementary video material
• Appendices discuss the relevance of the Anatomy Trains concept to the work of Dr Louis Schultz (Meridians of Latitude), Ada Rolf (Structural Integration) and the practice of Oriental Medicine
• Accompanying website (www.myersmyofascialmeridians.com) presents multi-media exploration of the concepts described in the book - film clips from Kinesis DVDs, computer graphic representations of the Anatomy Trains, supplementary dissection photographs and video clips, webinars, and some extra client photos for visual assessment practice

• Text updated in relation to the most up-to-date research originally published at the International Fascia Research Congress, Vancouver, 2012
• Includes the latest evidence for the scientific basis of common clinical findings, including preliminary evidence from human fascial dissections
• Explores the role of fascia as our largest sensory organ
• Contains updates arising out of continual teaching and practice – for example, the role of the fascia and its interconnectivity in the generation of pain and/or force transmission
• New chapter discusses the role of Anatomy Trains theory in the analysis of gait
• Video clips on an associated website (www.myersmyofascialmeridians.com) present examples of the concepts explored in the book
• Podcasts on the website explore the therapeutic techniques involved
• Website addresses and references fully updated throughout

• Digital Option / Courseware
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    Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample video now.

• LMS Cartridge (formerly known as SAGE Coursepacks): Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

Share with your students: 3 Key Components that Enable Destructive Leadership

• Over 400 general and specialty surgical interventions
are covered, as well as many minimally invasive surgical procedures, whether performed in a hospital, outpatient clinic, or in a doctor's office.
• 900 full-color photos and illustrations show surgical anatomy, procedures, and methods.
• Comprehensive coverage includes basic perioperative nursing principles, such as patient and environmental safety, infection prevention and control, positioning, anesthesia and pain management, the unique needs of special populations such as pediatric and geriatric patients, and more.
• Comprehensive practice exams on the Evolve companion website include 300 exam-style questions with rationales.
• Perioperative nursing considerations include assessment, nursing diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, evaluation, discharge planning, and patient and family education.
• Sample plans of care include nursing diagnoses, outcomes, and interventions.
• Surgical Pharmacology tables summarize the drugs most commonly used for each surgical procedure, including generic and trade names, indications, and pharmacokinetics.
• Patient and Family Education boxes include specific guidelines for preprocedural and postprocedural care, side effects and complications, home care, discharge instructions, and psychosocial care.
• Patient Safety boxes highlight Joint Commission initiatives for patient and staff safety in the surgical setting.
• Best Practice and Research Highlight boxes apply the latest scientific research to patient care.
• Critical thinking questions at the end of each chapter let you assess your understanding of important material.

• NEW! Robotic-Assisted Surgery boxes highlight a rapidly expanding surgical modality.
• NEW! Enhanced Recovery After Surgery boxes promote review of protocols for early recovery for patients undergoing major surgery.
• NEW! Patient Engagement Exemplar boxes optimize surgical outcomes by addressing AORN guidelines on the issues of patient care and involvement of the patient’s family.
• NEW standards and AORN toolkits cover topics ranging from enhanced post-surgical recovery to prevention of pressure ulcers.

Fully updated and revised by editors T. Heather Herdman, Shigemi Kamitsuru, and Camila Takáo Lopes, NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions and Classification, 2021-2023, 12th Edition is the definitive guide to nursing diagnoses, as reviewed and approved by the NANDA International (NANDA-I) Diagnosis Development Committee (DDC). In this new edition of a seminal text, the editors have revised all introductory chapters, providing critical information needed for nurses to understand assessment, its link to diagnosis and clinical reasoning, and the purpose and use of taxonomic structure for nurses at the bedside. Researchers will also find new recommendations to improve the terminology.

Additional Key Updates

• 46 new nursing diagnoses and 67 revised diagnoses
• Changes to 17 nursing diagnosis labels, ensuring they are consistent with current literature and reflect a human response
• Refinement of the vast majority of the nursing diagnosis related/risk factors
• Standardization of diagnostic indicator terms (defining characteristics, related factors, risk factors) to further aid clarity for students and clinicians
• Coding of all terms for those using electronic versions of the terminology
• Web-based resources include reference lists for new and revised diagnoses
• New chapter on revised Level of Evidence Criteria for diagnosis submission

Rigorously updated and revised, the new edition of this acclaimed text is a must-have resource for all nursing students, professional nurses, nurse educators, nurse informaticists, nurse researchers, and nurse administrators.

• Consistent, meticulous coverage throughout the main text, IRM, SG, DVDs, Evolve, and more provide reliable content and unparalleled accuracy.
• Over 90 procedural videos on DVD and online provide a visual representation of important procedures.
• Expanded Student Evolve site contains all animations, games (such as Quiz Show and Road to Recovery), drag-and-drop exercises, Apply your Knowledge exercises, Prepare for Certification exercises, matching exercises, and other helpful activities such as blood pressure readings, determining height and weight, and drawing up medication.
• What Would You Do? What Would You Not Do? boxes and responses offer applications of real-life case studies.
• Clear and concise Anatomy and Physiology coverage covers the basics of A&P and eliminates the need for a separate A&P text.

• Content updates reflect the latest competencies for medical assistants and ensure you have the most current information on the newest trends and updates in the medical assisting world.
• 8th grade reading level makes material approachable and easy to understand.
• New chapter on Emergency Preparedness offers a well-rounded perspective on what to do in specific emergency situations.
• New OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens video improves your understanding of personal safety following the OSHA standards.
• Pronunciation section in the Terminology Review gives you confidence with pronunciation and medical knowledge.
• Application to EMR where appropriate prepares you for the real world by dealing with electronic medical records.

Epilepsy Board Review is designed as a primary study tool to help candidates prepare for the epilepsy board certification exam. Using structured question formats typically encountered on the boards, this book covers the base knowledge tested and allows users to assess their proficiency in a wide range of topics necessary to achieve subspecialty certification in the field of epilepsy.

This high-yield review contains over 360 questions with answers, detailed explanations, and references. The book consists of four parts that cover the phenomenology of seizures and epileptic disorders, basic EEG, diagnostic evaluation of seizures and epilepsy, and treatment of epilepsy. Liberal use of images illustrating specific EEG and neuroimaging findings enhances interpretive skills and facilitates translation of visual knowledge into the clinical practice of epilepsy. Questions are randomized and include both case-based and stand-alone items to familiarize candidates with the question types and formats typically encountered on an exam.

Key Features:

• The first dedicated self-assessment and review book for the epilepsy board certification exam
• Contains over 360 board-type questions with answers, detailed rationales, and references
• Facilitates recall of must-know information and helps identify knowledge gaps for further study
• Includes case-based and stand-alone questions, supplemented by 87 state-of-the-art illustrations, to ensure familiarity with the testing environment encountered in a board exam

• Full-color design
makes for a more visually engaging learning experience.
• 12 pharmacology chapters address the emphasis on pharmacology questions on the NCLEX-PN exam.
• Priority Nursing Actions boxes outline and explain clinical emergent situations requiring immediate action, including detailed rationales and textbook references to help you strengthen prioritizing skills in clinical and testing situations.
• Pyramid Alert boxes reinforce learning of essential content frequently tested on the NCLEX-PN exam.
• Reference to a Mosby or Saunders textbook gives you resources for further study and self-remediation.
• Question codes categorize each question by cognitive level, client needs area, integrated process, clinical content area, and priority concepts to allow you multiple study and exam selections on the companion Evolve site.
• Inclusion of all alternate item formats (multiple response, ordered response, fill-in-the-blank, figure, chart/exhibit, audio, and video questions) offers practice with mastering prioritizing, decision-making, and critical thinking skills, and help prepare you for this additional component of the new test plan for NCLEX-PN.
• Pyramid to Success sections supply an overview of the chapter, guidance and direction regarding the focus of review in the content area, and its relative importance to the most recent NCLEX-PN text plan.
• Pyramid Points identify content that typically appears on the NCLEX-PN exam.
• Pyramid Terms give you a quick review of each content area.
• Introductory chapters on preparation guidance for the NCLEX-PN, nonacademic preparation, test-taking strategies, the CAT format, and the NCLEX-PN are presented from a new graduate’s perspective.
• Companion Evolve site allows for automatic software updates to allow you to check for changes and updates to content or functionality throughout the life of the edition.

The Veterinary Dental Patient: A Multidisciplinary Approach helps veterinarians understand the dental aspects of every canine and feline patient and shows them how to effectively manage their oral health. It also provides guidance to the rest of the veterinary team so they can offer a coordinated approach when recommending and performing veterinary dentistry as a regular part of general practice.

Edited by two prominent veterinary dentists who are Board Certified in both Europe and the United States, the text includes the latest information on safe anesthetic and monitoring protocols, accurate diagnosis and management, and referring patients to specialists. Chapters cover: establishing a dental presence in general veterinary practice; nutrition, oral health, and feeding dental patients; local, regional, and systemic complications of dental diseases; pain management; ophthalmic considerations; common situations for malpractice and mistakes; oral and maxillofacial surgery; extraction techniques and equipment; drug dosages and more. The book also offers several helpful appendixes.

The Veterinary Dental Patient: A Multidisciplinary Approach is an essential book for all vets in general small animal practice as well as the wider veterinary team, including managers, veterinary nurses and technicians, and administrative staff.

It is no less difficult—and perhaps even more difficult in many ways—for physicians who have chosen to attend to the health and well-being of gravely ill or dying children. Margaret Mohrmann has devoted most of her professional life to them, and in Attending Children she shares the remarkable education those children and their families have given her. Her narratives are both painful and hopeful, tragic and funny, full of remarkable characters and sometimes bizarre families.

Mohrmann has sifted through her thirty years as a pediatrician, and with poignancy, humor, and uncompromising honesty, she shares her sometimes stumbling but always deeply caring journey through a land where, sometimes, small hands have to be let go too soon. She introduces us to not only the physical challenges she, her colleagues, and her patients encounter, but the spiritual ones as well.

Attending Children is a unique experience as Mohrmann takes the reader on a doctor's rounds over many years to meet the faces and the struggles, the heartaches and the joys of being a pediatrician. In the case of Margaret Mohrmann and her patients, no one could ask for better teachers.

Over 80 of the most common internal medicine problems. Thoroughly revised to reflect current practices and treatment options.

Ligand-binding assays (LBAs) stand as the cornerstone of support for definition of the pharmaco-kinetics and toxicokinetics of macromolecules, an area of burgeoning interest in the pharmaceutical industry. Yet, outside of the Crystal City Conference proceedings, little guidance has been available for LBA validation, particularly for assays used to support macromolecule drug development. Ligand-Binding Assays: Development, Validation, and Implementation in the Drug Development Arena answers that growing need, serving as a reference text discussing critical aspects of the development, validation, and implementation of ligand-binding assays in the drug development field.

Ligand-Binding Assays covers essential topics related to ligand-binding assays, from pharmacokinetic studies, the development of LBAs, assay validation, statistical LBA aspects, and regulatory aspects, to software for LBAs and robotics and other emerging methodologies for LBAs. Highlights include:

• A general discussion of challenges and proven approaches in the development of ligand-binding assays

• More detailed examination of characteristics of these assays when applied to support of pharmacokinetic and toxicokinetic studies of compounds at different stages in the discovery or development timeline

• A concise, but detailed, discussion of validation of ligand-binding assays for macromolecules

• A practical approach to "fit-for-purpose" validation of assays for biomarkers, those molecules receiving increased attention as potentially demonstrating that the target chosen in discovery is being modulated by the candidate therapeutic, both in nonclinical and clinical studies

Written by a team of world-recognized authorities in the field, Ligand-Binding Assays provides key information to a broad range of practitioners, both in the pharmaceutical and allied industries and in related contract research organizations and academic laboratories and, perhaps, even in the field of diagnostics and clinical chemistry.

The 8th edition of Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine provides the depth and breadth of coverage that reflects the complexity and expertise needed to practice emergency medicine successfully in today’s fast–paced environments. It is an important contemporary clinical emergency care resource for physicians, NPs, and PAs who practice emergency medicine and for emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine fellows. It remains the preferred study guide for in-training and board examinations and recertification.

NEW to this edition:
• Full-color design with more tables than ever to succinctly present key information
• Extensive updates to all sections, incorporating the latest guidelines, evidence-based protocols, and relevant research
• Expanded pediatric section, with complete clinical information for general and pediatric emergency physicians
• Expanded coverage of common emergency department procedures, with improved illustrations
• Online access to more than 30 videos, covering a wide range of procedural and diagnostic topics and focusing on the latest ultrasound-guided techniques

From the reviews of the seventh edition:
"Collectively, they have once again produced an excellent text that manages to cover the broad scope of emergency medicine while remaining an easily readable and practical resource....Last, for the inevitable comparison of this current edition of Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine with other available emergency medicine textbooks available: in my opinion, Tintinalli’s still comes out on top. It is more concise and easier to read than some, yet it covers the breadth of emergency medicine practice more comprehensively than others....Just as previous editions did, the seventh presents all of the most pertinent and up-to-date information in a well-organized format that is comprehensive yet easy to read. That and many of the attractive new features in this current edition will ensure its place on my bookshelf for years to come."—JAMA

Men’s Health explores social, cultural, physical and psychological approaches to men’s health with sections focusing on the psycho-social issues, the body, relationships, healthy living and aging, while taking into account cultural differences. Each chapter:

• provides a review of the current science and emerging research of the topic;
• outlines theoretical frameworks, best practices and recommendations for advancing men’s health through service delivery, research, education, policy and advocacy;
• features a personal assessment tool on the topic; and
• includes vignettes from men, their friends and families, and care providers.

Suitable for students taking undergraduate courses on men’s health and wellness, this broad-ranging textbook is the ideal introduction to the topic.

• Examines the practical side of deep learning and neural networks
• Provides a problem-based approach to building artificial neural networks using real data
• Describes PythonTM functions and features for neuroscientists
• Uses a careful tutorial approach to describe implementation of neural networks in PythonTM
• Features math and code examples (via companion website) with helpful instructions for easy implementation