Published December, 2008
By Marie A Bernard and Harvey L. Sterns
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Addresses the need to educate personnel at various levels in gerontology and geriatric medicine and in the design and delivery of health and social services. This title considers the historical development of gerontology and geriatric medicine and education issues with recommendations for curriculum design.

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Published December, 2008
By Ingrid Kollak
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Mental stress and chronic pain are leading causes for failure and breakdown in nursing and other health professions. This book contains a series of Yoga exercises for the fatigue-stricken health professional. It details a Yoga practice for managing stress and relieving pain.

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Published December, 2008
By Suzanne Hetzel Campbell, Karen Daley, Dr. Suzanne Hetzel Campbell and Dr. Karen Daley
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Computerized patient simulation is an exciting and innovative pedagogical method that allows nurse educators to prepare student nurses for the challenges of clinical practice. This book serves as a step-by-step guide to designing and developing simulated scenarios, and integrating them into nursing curriculums.

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Published December, 2008
By Carolyn Chambers Clark and Carolyn Chambers
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Presents nurses and health professionals with a foundation for using group concepts, theory, and research with a wide-variety of groups and group settings. This book teaches group process skills, including theories, differentiating content from process, working with tension and anxiety, conflict, apathy, and enhancing cohensiveness.

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Published December, 2008
By Daniel P. Greenfield and Jack A. Gottschalk
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Assists mental health professionals at various levels of career development in their effective production of forensic reports. This title features full-length report samples with step-by-step guides explaining how each section of the report is done, and extensive reference lists and appendices for further information and research.

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Published October, 2008
By Joanne L. Davis
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Suitable for trauma therapists, this guidebook discusses the mental, physical, social, interpersonal, and occupational impact of trauma and sleep disorder literature. It offers a practical, empirically-based approach to guide clinicians dealing with trauma victims. It also offers case examples to illustrate various aspects of the treatment.

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Published October, 2008
By Janice M. Morse and Janice Morse
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Presents a discussion of the process of implementing a fall prevention program in an institution using the Morse Fall Scale. This title offers information for understanding how the scale works, and for evaluating the incidence, frequency, and severity of falls with rates of prevention. It also features an appendix and a research section.

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Published October, 2008
By Esther Thorson and Jerry C. Parker
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Demonstrates the extent to which digital technology can serve as an efficient form of distributing health-related information. This book addresses: the role technology can and will play in health communication; how new media can be used to improve health literacy; and, how patients can learn about health-related issues and health care.

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Published September, 2008
By Margaret Dexheimer Pharris, Susan Dandridge Bosher, Susan Bosher and Margaret Pharris
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Helps nurse educators, administrators and graduate students recruit, educate and graduate culturally diverse nurses for a diverse population. This book addresses barriers to success for nursing students from culturally diverse backgrounds in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It analyzes institutionalized racism in nursing education.

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Published August, 2008
By Patricia D'Antonio
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Offers a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing and the health care history. Contributors represent many different disciplinary backgrounds. Regular sections include scholarly articles, reviews of the best books on nursing and health care history, invited commentaries, and abstracts of new doctoral dissertations.

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