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  • ESSA’s Student Manual for Health, Exercise and Sport Assessment

    • 2nd Edition
    • Jeff S. Coombes + 1 more
    • English
    ESSA’s Student Manual for Health, Exercise and Sport assessment is an essential text for students and exercise clinicians wishing to accredit with ESSA as exercise scientists. Written by former ESSA President Jeff Coombes and clinical exercise physiologist Tina Skinner, this book provides everything students need to achieve competency in ESSA Standard 7, Health Exercise and Sport Assessment. It contains in-depth and well-articulated methodology for all tests, data recording tables and normative values, and case study analyses. Each of the 21 chapters addresses key health and fitness assessments used to evaluate health, fitness and performance. With easy-to-follow practicals throughout, this book has been updated to reflect current best practice and recent advances such as wearable devices and smartphone apps.

  • Atlas photographique et vidéos de dissection du corps humain

    avec 4 heures de dissection filmée et commentée
    • 1st Edition
    • Klaus-Peter Valerius
    • French
    Cet ouvrage innovant, sans équivalent, propose des contenus inédits et inégalés de dissection pas-à-pas. À travers 7 grands chapitres divisés en sous-parties, il étudie, région par région avec intégration des systèmes, la dissection de l’ensemble du corps humain selon un principe de doubles pages et de vidéo commentée associée. Chaque double page fournit : une planche de dissection muette avec structures numérotées, titre et texte descriptif court ;en regard de celle-ci, les légendes associées aux numéros.Cet ouvrage est le pendant indissociable d'un site qui lui est couplé, offrant 4 heures de cours de dissection filmée et commentée, à partir desquelles ont été réalisées les planches de l’ouvrage à un instant t. Chaque planche est donc une capture d'image – un arrêt sur image – de la vidéo avec indication de l'instant dans la vidéo (à côté du pictogramme caméra). La vidéo peut donc être visualisée en mode continu ou à un instant précis.Cet ouvrage s’adresse aux étudiants en médecine, aux étudiants concernés par l'anatomie, aux chirurgiens, ainsi qu’aux praticiens désireux de mettre à jour leurs connaissances sur le corps humain.

  • Success in Practical/Vocational Nursing

    From Student to Leader
    • 9th Edition
    • Patricia Knecht
    • English
    Get the proven guidance you need to succeed in both nursing school and professional LPN/LVN practice with Success in Practical/Vocational Nursing, From Student to Leader, 9th Edition. Focusing on must-have leadership and problem-solving skills, this unique, market-leading text covers the soft skills that are essential for success in nursing school, in the job market, and in professional practice. Topics build on each other in a logical manner, beginning with tools you’ll need for success in class, continuing to the skills needed in LPN/LVN practice, and culminating in the higher-level roles and responsibilities of the LPN/LVN as a leader. The newest feature box on empowerment introduces you to the concepts of self-reflection, self-growth, and power to enhance your student experience and accomplish positive outcomes in nursing school and in practice. Additionally, like in previous editions, Critical Thinking and Try This! boxes are incorporated throughout this ninth edition to challenge you in thinking outside of the box to solve personal, academic, and professional situations. There are also practice review questions at the end of each chapter help you prepare for the NCLEX-PN® examination and chapters on Workforce Trends and Nurse State Practice Acts to help you easily move from the academic to the practice setting. With all its proven guidance and insight, this text is must-have for any LPN/LVN student wanting to find success in today’s demanding healthcare environment.

  • Stories in Ageing

    Reflection, Inquiry, Action
    • 2nd Edition
    • Margaret Webb + 2 more
    • English
    Stories in Ageing 2e presents an insightful collection of personal stories as told by a range of older people, carers, health professionals and family members. This unique resource offers nursing students and health professionals an extraordinary perspective on a range of topics related to ageing, including assisting and caring for the older person, the experience of ageing within a culturally diverse society, sexuality in the later years, maintaining independence at home and positive experiences of ageing. Available as a print or eBook, this valuable resource builds empathy and understanding, and provides examples of innovative approaches to care with a focus on reflection, inquiry and action. The teaching and learning strategies assist in developing skills, attitudes and mindfulness around ageing, with a strong focus on a person-centred and lived approach. A unique multilayered structure also promotes engagement with learners across diverse educational levels, ranging from certificate qualifications through to the undergraduate and postgraduate student. Most importantly, Stories in Ageing provides a much-needed consumer voice for the older person, their families and their carers.

  • Medical Terminology & Anatomy for Coding

    • 4th Edition
    • Betsy J. Shiland
    • English
    **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Dictionaries/Termino... Terminology & Anatomy for Coding, 4th Edition　is unlike any other medical terminology textbook on the market! With interspersed ICD-10 and CPT coding guidelines and notes, electronic medical records, and integrated exercises, it combines anatomy and physiology coverage with the latest medical terminology needed by coders and coding students. The ICD-10-CM classification system serves as the structure for organizing diseases and disorders, with carefully drawn, well-labelled illustrations to help you visualize the associated anatomy. A new Infectious Disease Process Basics　appendix provides the terminology and physiology of infectious diseases. Updated CPT coding information indicates where physician coding differs from ICD-10 coding.

  • Laboratory Testing for Neurologic Disorders, An Issue of the Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 40-3
    • A. Zara Herskovits
    • English
    This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, guest edited by Dr. A. Zara Herskovits, will cover Laboratory Testing for Neurologic Disorders. This issue is one of four selected each year by our Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Milenko Jovan Tanasijevic. Topics discussed in this issue will include: molecular approach to diagnostic testing for children with developmental delay and congenital anomalies, proteopathic and seeding assays (such as RT-QUIC), genetic testing for ALS and FTD, Diagnostic and prognostic testing for Alzheimer’s disease, confounds in the interpretation of paraneoplastic antibody panels, Review of neurologic disease sendout testing at an academic medical center, development of new diagnostic tests for neurologic disorders, assuring quality in laboratory testing for sendout reference tests, diagnostic testing for patients with spinal muscular atrophy, among others.

  • Advances in Cardiovascular Issues, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 47-3
    • Eugene M Dempsey + 1 more
    • English
    In consultation with Dr. Lucky Jain, Consulting Editor, Drs. Dempsey and EL-Khuffash have chosen a wide range of topics in cardiovascular issues that cover new diagnostic techniques and important areas of management, including the role of volume administration, inotropes, and corticosteroids in the setting of cardiovascular instability. These remain critical questions in neonatal care, and authors were selected based on their expertise and ability to provide the reader with the most recent up-to-date evidence upon which to direct intervention. The clinical review articles in this issue will address the relationship between intervention and outcome in preterm hypotension, the management of cardiovascular instability in the setting of pulmonary hypertension and therapeutic hypothermia, and finally ask if it’s time for a definitive trial in the management of PDA. The final article in the issue highlights the clinical trials to date, what trials are currently ongoing, and what the future holds in cardiovascular support for the preterm infant. The reader will come away with the most current information on this topic from international experts including Europe, Canada, USA, and Australia.

  • Les psychothérapies cognitives et comportementales

    • 7th Edition
    • Jean Cottraux
    • French
    Cet ouvrage de référence a été actualisé en profondeur à l’occasion de sa 7e édition, notamment avec le bilan des thérapies comportementales et cognitives (TCC) de troisième vague avec la méditation de pleine conscience. Il intègre les avancées dans le traitement des troubles de la personnalité et des neurosciences. De nouveaux thèmes sont aussi abordés comme l’e-learning, l’e-thérapie, la psychologie positive et le coaching. Cette édition comporte deux nouveaux chapitres : la thérapie cognitive pour la prévention du suicide et l’évaluation de la TCC par la neuro-imagerie cérébrale. Les psychothérapies comportementales et cognitives ont démontré leur efficacité, chez l’adulte, dans les états d’anxiété chronique, les phobies, les attaques de panique, les troubles obsessionnels-compul... les maladies liées au stress, la dépression, les problèmes sexuels, les troubles de la personnalité et la réhabilitation des patients psychotiques chroniques. Son bilan chez l’enfant est également positif. Ce livre, permet aux professionnels de santé mentale, aux médecins ainsi qu’à toute personne intéressée par les TCC, d’en comprendre la théorie et la pratique, avec : – en partie I, les concepts fondamentaux et les méthodes concrètes sur lesquels se fonde la pratique ; – en partie II, la TCC à travers dix-sept situations cliniques très fréquentes, illustrées chacune par une histoire de cas. Des protocoles permettent au clinicien d’intervenir de manière simple et fiable. Le chapitre sur l’autisme fait état des méthodes de prises en charge validées par la Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) : ABA, TEACCH, modèle d’intervention précoce de Denver ; – en partie III, un guide pratique pour comprendre la méthodologie des études contrôlées et des études méta-analytiques, le bilan actuel des résultats des TCC, et leur validation par la neuro-imagerie cérébrale.

  • Gerontological Nursing

    A Holistic Approach to the Care of Older People
    • 1st Edition
    • Caroline Vafeas + 1 more
    • English
    This first edition Australian text aligns nursing care principles and practice to the unique requirements of older people.Written by leading academics and clinicians, Gerontological Nursing: A holistic approach to the care of older people covers the essential skills of gerontological care with a focus on chronic diseases, neurocognitive disorders, mental health, quality of life and healthy ageing, palliative care and bereavement, safety issues, and the role of the caregiver.As nurses play an ever more critical role in supporting the needs of an ageing population, this essential text will enable nursing students to navigate the complexities of older people’s healthcare, promote healthy ageing, and help people to live well.

  • Advances in Surgery, 2020

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 54-1
    • John L. Cameron
    • English
    Each year, Advances in Surgery reviews the most current practices in general surgery. A distinguished editorial board, headed by Dr. John Cameron, identifies key areas of major progress and controversy and invites preeminent specialists to contribute original articles devoted to these topics. These insightful overviews in general surgery bring concepts to a clinical level and explore their everyday impact on patient care.

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