About this product: When it comes to managing the care of a patient receiving conscious sedation/analgesia during a short-term therapeutic, diagnostic, or surgical procedure, this easy-to-follow book is an ideal clinical reference. It covers everything you need to know - from practice guidelines for administering sedation, to pre-sedation requirements, intra-procedure monitoring and documentation, and discharge criteria. Detailed sections discuss the basic concepts of medications, administration techniques, potential complications and emergencies, monitoring parameters, developing a credentialing program, legal implications, and patient discharge, as well as separate chapters on pediatric and geriatric sedation. The book also provides practical learning tools such as sample documentation forms, learner feedback, and questions and answer sections.
Thorough content provides all the key, essential information needed for a complete understanding of moderate sedation/analgesia in practice.
Detailed sections address the basic concepts of medications, administration techniques, potential complications and emergencies, monitoring parameters, developing a credentialing program, legal implications, and patient discharge.
Learning tools focus on practical implementations, such as sample documentation forms, learner feedback, and questions and answer sections.
A chapter on Pediatric Sedation presents the latest techniques and recommended guidelines for the proper management of this special population.
The latest JCAHO Standards for Sedation and Analgesia are included to assist nurses and institutions with meeting these standards.
A new chapter on geriatric sedation focuses on specific considerations for older adults receiving moderate sedation.
A new chapter on risk management and legal issues provides important guidelines for understanding the scope of practice as it pertains to administering and monitoring patients receiving moderate sedation/analgesia.
More in-depth discussion on aspects of care examines topics such as the role of the RN in monitoring the patient, the standards of care as applied to all types of facilities, and the discharge criteria within the PACU.
About this product: The book focuses on literacy instruction for students with disabilities within inclusive settings. Little has been written about this important topic. The book provides strategies and examples of implementing research-based effective practices within inclusive settings. First, it will focus on literacy instruction for all students, including those with severe cognitive disabilities. Second, it will incorporate the six key components of effective literacy instruction identified by the Reading First Initiative (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, text comprehension, and oral language) throughout the book, providing teachers with practical ways to incorporate these into daily instruction. Finally, it will focus on literacy instruction within inclusive settings, about which there is little written that addresses the needs of students with a range of disabilities.
About this product: Strategies for gradually effecting social change are often dismissed as too accommodating of the status quo. Ann-Marie E. Szymanski challenges this assumption, arguing that moderation is sometimes the most effective way to achieve change. Pathways to Prohibition examines the strategic choices of social movements by focusing on the fates of two temperance campaigns. The prohibitionists of the 1880s gained limited success, while their Progressive Era counterparts achieved a remarkable—albeit temporary—accomplishment in American politics: amending the United States Constitution. Szymanski accounts for these divergent outcomes by asserting that choice of strategy (how a social movement defines and pursues its goals) is a significant element in the success or failure of social movements, underappreciated until now. Her emphasis on strategy represents a sharp departure from approaches that prioritize political opportunity as the most consequential factor in campaigns for social change.
Combining historical research with the insights of social movement theory, Pathways to Prohibition shows how a locally based, moderate strategy allowed the early-twentieth-century prohibition crusade both to develop a potent grassroots component and to transcend the limited scope of local politics. Szymanski describes how the prohibition movement’s strategic shift toward moderate goals after 1900 reflected the devolution of state legislatures’ liquor licensing power to localities, the judiciary’s growing acceptance of these local licensing regimes, and a collective belief that local electorates, rather than state legislatures, were best situated to resolve controversial issues like the liquor question. "Local gradualism" is well suited to the porous, federal structure of the American state, Szymanski contends, and it has been effectively used by a number of social movements, including the civil rights movement and the Christian right.
About this product: Centered on the most recent, scientifically-based practices, Teaching Strategies for Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities, 1/e, comprehensively details everything that pre-service teachers need to effectively teach students with mild to moderate disabilities. This text includes not only empirically validated instructional strategies, but an array of relevant topics, such as the application of technology to the field and implications for changing demographics within U.S. schools. Each chapter in the book follows a pattern of instruction, by providing key topics, key questions, scenarios, "Technology Spotlights," teacher tips, summary statements, and review questions. This consistency in format throughout the text helps facilitate learning for both instructor and student. Each chapter also includes the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) standards that are addressed within the chapter, helping instructors align course content to accreditation standards.
About this product: The official handbook of Moderation Management, a non-profit, national self-help program that supports moderate drinking as a reasonable and attainable recovery goal for problem drinkers. Based on her own unsatisfactory experience with abstinence-based programs, Kishline offers inspiration and a step-by-step program to help individuals avoid the kind of drinking that detrimentally affects their lives.
About this product: In defending the idea of honest inquiry, Susan Haack takes on the usual suspects: cognitive relativists, radical feminists, multiculturalists, self-styled neopragmatists such as Richard Rorty, sociologists of science, literary theorists--"a great revolutionary chorus announcing that disinterested inquiry is impossible, that all supposed 'knowledge' is an expression of power, that the concepts of evidence, objectivity, truth are ideological humbug." Although some readers will inevitably be reminded of works such as Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt's Higher Superstition, Haack's Manifesto stands out because of its distinctively philosophical orientation. The chief villains--Richard Rorty, Sandra Harding--are philosophers, as is the tutelary deity of Haack's enterprise, C.S. Peirce. Particularly worthwhile is "'We Pragmatists...': Peirce and Rorty in Conversation." Constructed from passages from the two philosophers and the occasional intervention by Haack herself, this dramatic dialogue painlessly illuminates not only the surface similarities of Peirce's pragmatism and Rorty's neopragmatism but also their profound disagreements. Also included are interesting but somewhat tangential essays on metaphor's role in science, affirmative action, and the future of the academy.
Although Haack is known in philosophical circles for her work in the forbiddingly technical areas of epistemology and the philosophy of logic, the 11 essays contained in her Manifesto are forthright, clear, and laced with pleasingly wry humor. (It is not every professor who would give an essay the title "Confessions of an Old-Fashioned Prig.") Regrettably, she shares the fondness of her philosophical hero Peirce for ugly neologisms: "preposterism" and "foundherentism" are two of hers. --Glenn Branch
Key Topic: This valuable resource and reference provides brief, hands-on, research-based methods for facilitating access to the general education curriculum for students with special learning and behavioral needs.
Key Benefits: It is designed to provide information to teachers about challenges students with mild/moderate disabilities face in learning classroom curriculum, and to help these teachers learn how to provide accommodations and adaptations that address students’ educational needs. It's divided into four sections: Addressing Learning Problems, Accessing General Education Curriculum, Assessment, and Content Area Accommodations. Each section beings with a discussion of the topic and explains why students with disabilities experience difficulty learning, followed by several suggestions that address students’ specific learning difficulties.
Market: General Education teachers working with students that have special learning and/or behavioral needs.
About this product: For undergraduate and graduate courses in Moderate and Severe Disabilities. Moderate and Severe Disabilities: A Foundational Approach is an exciting new text that provides a strong foundation for students, teachers, families, and service providers who work with persons with moderate and severe disabilities. Readers will review classic articles that provide a foundation for best practices, describes the evolution of practices over time, and demonstrates how best practices are built on a strong research base. Activities and performance-based assessments throughout the text allow the reader to demonstrate understanding of key concepts, appropriate programming, and issues that affect the lives of persons with moderate and severe disabilities. Topics covered in the text include inclusive practices in the school and community, curricular and functional assessment, the relationship of functional skills to general education core content, systematic instruction, longitudinal transition, self-determination, and basic human rights.An overview of the best practices for working with persons who have moderate and severe disabilities, this cimprehensive book encourages readers to develop their own appreciation for these individuals, and demonstrates how to effectively collaborate with educators, families, and professionals in a variety of settings.
About this product: Kiss alcohol craving and binge drinking goodbye with alternative medicine! Moderate Drinking - Naturally! will show you how to do just that - exploring nutritional and ancient european, homeopathic, chinese and ayurvedic remedies to cut your craving and control your drinking. It's the first and only book to look into alternative medicine to prevent alcohol abuse and it's a fascinating and informative read.
You'll not only beat craving and bingeing, you'll love this book because it offers a holistic, healthy approach to you and your drinking - nurturing your physical, psychological and spiritual health as well. When you lead a balanced, wholesome lifestyle and feel relaxed and well mentally and physically you have no desire to drink alcohol.
This unique book is a breakthrough for drinkers and has started a revolution among drinkers and healthcare professionals worldwide!
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