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Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing, Tenth Edition sets the foundation for nursing excellence by addressing the key concepts of contemporary professional nursing, including caring, health promotion, clinical reasoning, nursing informatics, evidence-based practice, ethics, and advocacy. Every chapter reflects the latest nursing evidence, standards, and competencies, as well as the increasing emphasis on aging, wellness, safety, interprofessional practice, and home- and community-based care. New QSEN features provide opportunities for readers to develop their clinical-reasoning abilities, and make connections to nursing practice. Written with a consistent, approachable style, this book incorporates the skills that a nurse needs to know within the nursing process, so students can see how to apply the concepts they are reading about. KEY TOPICS: UNIT 1 The Nature of Nursing; Historical and Contemporary Nursing Practice; Evidence-Based Practice and Research in Nursing; Nursing Theories and Conceptual Frameworks; Legal Aspects of Nursing; Values, Ethics, and Advocacy; UNIT 2 Contemporary Health Care; Health Care Delivery Systems; Community Nursing and Care Continuity; Home Care; Electronic Health Records and Information Technology; UNIT 3 The Nursing Process; Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning; Assessing; Diagnosing; Planning; Implementing and Evaluating; Documenting and Reporting; UNIT 4 Health Beliefs and Practices; Health Promotion; Health, Wellness, and Illness; Culturally Responsive Nursing Care; Complementary and Alternative Healing Modalities; UNIT 5 Lifespan Development; Concepts of Growth and Development; Promoting Health from Conception Through Adolescence; Promoting Health in Young and Middle-Aged Adults; Promoting Health in Older Adults; Promoting Family Health; UNIT 6 Integral Aspects of Nursing; Caring; Communicating; Teaching; Leading, Managing, and Delegating; UNIT 7 Assessing Health; Vital Signs; Health Assessment; UNIT 8 Integral Components of Client Care; Asepsis; Safety; Hygiene; Diagnostic Testing; Medications; Skin Integrity and Wound Care; Perioperative Nursing; UNIT 9 Promoting Psychosocial Health; Sensory Perception; Self-Concept; Sexuality; Spirituality; Stress and Coping; Loss, Grieving, and Death; UNIT 10 Promoting Physiological Health; Activity and Exercise; Sleep; Pain Management; Nutrition; Urinary Elimination; Fecal Elimination; Oxygenation; Circulation; Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance. MARKET: This title is intended for use in fundamentals of nursing courses in the nursing curriculum.

Offer a consistent, seamless skills component
Because the Berman textbook and Skills books are written by the same author team, fundamentals students experience a seamless presentation, style, and experience throughout. Contact your Pearson representative to package Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing, Tenth Edition with the authors' Skills in Clinical Nursing, Eighth Edition ISBN: 013399743X.

This is a student supplement associated with: Pharmacy Technician, The: Foundations and Practice, 2/e
Mike Johnston ISBN: 0132897598

The Language of SQL, Second Edition
Many SQL texts attempt to serve as an encyclopedic reference on SQL syntax -- an approach that is often counterproductive, because that information is readily available in online references published by the major database vendors.
For SQL beginners, it's more important for a book to focus on general concepts and to offer clear explanations and examples of what various SQL statements can accomplish. This is that book.
A number of features make The Language of SQL unique among introductory SQL books.
First, you will not be required to download software or sit with a computer as you read the text. The intent of this book is to provide examples of SQL usage that can be understood simply by reading.
Second, topics are organized in an intuitive and logical sequence. SQL keywords are introduced one at a time, allowing you to grow your understanding as you encounter new terms and concepts.
Finally, this book covers the syntax of three widely used databases: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle. Special "Database Differences" sidebars clearly show you any differences in syntax among these three databases, and instructions are included on how to obtain and install free versions of the databases.
This is the only book you need to gain a quick working knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
Learn How To...

Use SQL to retrieve data from relational databases

Apply functions and calculations to data

Group and summarize data in a variety of useful ways

Use complex logic to retrieve only the data you need

Update data and create new tables

Design relational databases so that data retrieval is easy and intuitive

Use spreadsheets to transform your data into meaningful displays

Retrieve data from multiple tables via joins, subqueries, views, and set logic

Create, modify, and execute stored procedures

Install Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, or Oracle

Contents at a Glance
1 Relational Databases and SQL 2 Basic Data Retrieval 3 Calculated Fields and Aliases 4 Using Functions 5 Sorting Data 6 Selection Criteria 7 Boolean Logic 8 Conditional Logic 9 Summarizing Data 10 Subtotals and Crosstabs 11 Inner Joins 12 Outer Joins 13 Self Joins and Views 14 Subqueries 15 Set Logic 16 Stored Procedures and Parameters 17 Modifying Data 18 Maintaining Tables 19 Principles of Database Design 20 Strategies for Displaying Data
A Getting Started with Microsoft SQL Server B Getting Started with MySQL C Getting Started with Oracle

"Leadership and Supervision in Child Care Centers" is an excellent guide for anyone interested in a leadership role within a child care organization. This informative guide covers the importance of good communication and professional behavior and how the leader can serve as an agent of change. It includes detailed information on developing and implementing effective supervisory and staff orientation programs, with numerous sample documents and schedules for reference.

LEGAL OFFICE PROJECTS is designed to utilize a project-based approach to completing legal office activities that involve legal document preparation, layout, formatting, Internet research, and transcribing. The setting for the projects is a law firm where the student serves as a floating legal assistant for a number of diverse individuals practicing various types of law. The projects allow a hands-on approach to legal document preparation.

Lone Star Politics delves into the state's rich political tradition by exploring how myth often clashes with the reality of everyday governance. Explaining who gets what and how within the state, this Nacogdoches author team provides an engaging narrative on the evolution of Texas politics, utilizing the comparative method to set Texas in context with other states' constitutions, policymaking, electoral practices, and institutions.

Responding to user demand, Ken Collier, Steven Galatas, and Julie Harrelson-Stephens have split or added chapters to provide more in-depth coverage of much-desired topics, including the legislature and legislative process, the governor and bureaucracy, parties and organized interests, as well as fiscal, criminal justice, and social policy. In addition, new chapter objectives and critical thinking questions reinforce learning and encourage analysis.

Beyond more depth and breadth, the new third edition now features a full-color design. Lone Star Politics delivers well-crafted and colorful content without breaking the bank.

This text is an unbound, binder-ready edition.

Weygandt, Managerial Accounting, 6th Edition gives students the tools they need to succeed, whether as accountants or in other career paths. The authors present the fundamental concepts of managerial accounting in an easy-to-understand fashion in a decision-making framework for a one semester, undergraduate managerial accounting course.

With an expanded emphasis on student learning, Weygandt Managerial Accounting 6th Edition demonstrates how invaluable management accounting information is to business decision-making. The author team of Weygandt, Kimmel, and Kieso provide students with pedagogy that helps develop decision-making skills, so students can be successful as future business professionals.

Students using Weygandt Managerial Accounting, 6th Edition with WileyPLUS take more initiative in their learning so you'll have a greater impact in the classroom.

WileyPLUS sold separately from text.

Manufacturing Processes provides an excellent introduction to today's manufacturing processes, as well as an overview of automated manufacturing systems. The text concentrates on the five major types of industrial materials: metals, plastics, ceramics, woods, and composites. It provides thorough coverage of the forming, separating, fabricating, conditioning, and finishing processes related to each material. The text includes a chapter covering the materials and manufacturing processes used in packaging finished goods.

2 Books in 1!
- Q&A Course Review
- NCLEX(R) prep

Assure your mastery of maternal and newborn nursing knowledge while improving your critical-thinking and test-taking skills. An easy-to-follow format parallels the content of your course, topic by topic, resulting in maternal and newborn content made manageable.

Over 1,250 multiple-choice and alternate-format questions help you build your confidence. Rationales for both correct and incorrect answers as well as test-taking tips help you critically analyze the question types. Plus, the two, 90-question exams on DavisPlus help you assess your progress.

Thoroughly updated, the 2nd Edition offers an increased emphasis onalternate-item format questions, including fill-in-the-blank, select-all-that-apply, and ordered response.

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Delivers the critical-to-know content in two ways--in print and as an audio book.

Meets the challenge of limited course time by efficiently organizing information in bulleted lists, flow charts, diagrams, tables, clinical pathways, and concept maps.

Allows you to download the audio chapters to listen to the text anytime, anywhere.

Features a biopsychosocial approach which encompasses physiology, psychological adaptation, and social and cultural influences on childbearing, and emphasizes nursing implications and care of patients and families.

Introduces two unfolding case studies in Unit 2, one low-risk, one high-risk that are further developed in subsequent chapters through "Tying It All Together" boxes, which summarize the key elements in each chapter.

Uses pedagogical tools to organize and highlight important concepts including....

Unit and chapter objectives

Key terms

Nursing diagnoses and nursing outcomes

Critical Component boxes

Cultural Considerations boxes

Medications boxes

Concept Maps

Evidence-Based Practice guidelines in all chapters related to nursing care

Clinical pathways

Professional standards of care and position statements

Glossary

Learn for retention and medical language fluency - watch the MLL 2.0 lecture video then reinforce your learning through the MLL 2.0 activities Features over 1,100 flash cards in all--in the book on perforated/tear-out pages and online. Meets the needs of multiple learning styles. Uses color coding of word parts that correspond to the flash cards to reinforce learning.

Corresponding to the 9th edition of Ignatavicius, Workman, and Rebar's Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care, this thoroughly updated study guide provides you with a thorough review of core med-surg content while also developing your clinical judgment and clinical reasoning skills. Completely revised with a fresh emphasis on interprofessional collaboration, NCLEX-style questions, and core textbook content, it helps facilitate a deeper understanding of the core textbook content to ensure that you are thoroughly prepared for med-surg exams, the NCLEX Examination, and safe nursing practice.

Provides a thorough review of core textbook content

while uniquely developing your clinical nursing judgment skills.

UNIQUE! Emphasis on clinical nursing judgment prepares you to confidently make safe and effective decisions in clinical practice.

UNIQUE! Renewed emphasis and focus on core textbook content helps you focus limited study time on learning core medical-surgical content from the textbook, rather than searching for content from other sources.

UNIQUE! Stronger emphasis on NCLEX Exam question formats, including alternate-item formats, familiarizes you with NCLEX question formats to better prepare for the NCLEX Examination.

Answer key in the back of the book facilitates self-study and remediation

NEW! UNIQUE! Focus on nursing concepts and exemplar disorders

helps you overcome content saturation by focusing on broad concepts and how they are exemplified in disorders.

NEW! UNIQUE! Focus on interprofessional collaboration includes application of the Core Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPEC, 2016) in every chapter.

NEW! Thoroughly revised and updated throughout to match the changes in the 9th edition of the Ignatavicius textbook.

The Menu: Development, Strategy, and Application offers an indispensable business resource for creative culinarian and hospitality manager students transitioning into careers. This text bridges understanding and action by avoiding a prescriptive approach in favor of recommendations and examples of best practices that bolster the creative process. Contextual exercises throughout each chapter help today's student actively transform learning into relevant, career-based skill sets. Following a logical sequence, the text addresses American Culinary Federation competencies such as Beverage Management, Business and Math Skills, Food Preparation, Nutrition, Purchasing and Receiving, and Sanitation.

The bones are the consistent structure of learning objectives, summaries, and questions that support the clear, accurate, and organized presentation of the content.

The connective tissue is the art and highly readable text, by two masterful teachers and an experienced physician assistant, which puts infectious disease front and center and highlights contemporary topics such as the human microbiome.