Ask a Colleague: Expert Nurses Answer More Than 1,000 Complex Clinical Questions
Covering a wide range of topics—from fundamentals to assessment, monitoring, diagnostic tests, procedures, disorders and treatments associated with different body systems, psychiatric conditions, legal issues, and pain management—Ask a Colleague gives the right answer quickly, providing straightforward clinical guidance on more than 1,000 difficult nursing questions. These are not simply knowledge questions but questions that require critical thinking; questions that nurses often struggle to answer ...
Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China: Patterns of Literary Circulation
In this book, Alexander Beecroft explores how the earliest poetry in Greece (Homeric epic and lyric) and China (the Canon of Songs) evolved from being local, oral, and anonymous to being textualized, interpreted, and circulated over increasingly wider areas. Beecroft re-examines representations of authorship as found in poetic biographies such as Lives of Homer and the Zuozhuan, and in the works of other philosophical and historical authors like Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Confucius, and Sima Qian.
Learning Math With Calculators: Activities for Grades 3-8
Teachers interested in the whys and hows of incorporating calculators into math instruction will benefit enormously from this book. The first part addresses a broad range of questions and concerns raised by teachers. The second part consists of a collection of classroom-tested calculator activities that have been designed to develop children's number sense and problem-solving ability.
Imaginative lessons give students practice with mental computation, basic operations, navigating the number system, and estimation. Content is crafted to show that number sense is not a specific skill, but encompasses a student's ability to think and reason flexibly, make sound numerical judgments, and see numbers as useful. Both new and experienced teachers will find this book a valuable resource.
Basic Consumer Health Information about Acquired and Traumatic Brain Injuries, Brain Tumors, Cerebral Palsy and Other Genetic and Congenital Brain Disorders, Infections of the Brain, Epilepsy, and Degenerative Neurological Disorders Such as Dementia, Huntington Disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS); Along with Information on Brain Structure and Function, Treatment and Rehabilitation Options, a Glossary of Terms Related to Brain Disorders, and a Directory of Resources for More Information
