This collection of the works of nine scholarly authors affiliated with UOP School of Advanced Studies includes topics such as: Part I: The Delphi Primer, Part II: Mixed Methods, Part III: Qualitative, Part IV: Quantitative, and Part V: Research as Art. Please visit our website for chapter summaries, author bios, and additional details. Come journey with us to become refractive thinkers.
The Refractive Thinker is an anthology of doctoral research designed to improve business results. Topics for Vol. IV include ethics, leadership, and various global concerns currently affecting today's business landscape. Discover additional answers to consider and the many pearls of wisdom offered within these pages. Continue the journey with us to become refractive thinkers.
Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest years. Orchestrated by business leaders and engineers, almost all former military men, the fair reflected a business-military-engineering model that envisioned a promising future through science and technology's application to everyday life. But not everyone at Chicago's 1933 exposition had abandoned notions of progress that entailed social justice and equality, recognition of ethnicity and gender, and personal freedom and expression. The fair's motto, "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms," was challenged by iconoclasts such as Sally Rand, whose provocative fan dance became a persistent symbol of the fair, as well as a handful of other exceptional individuals, including African Americans, ethnic populations and foreign nationals, groups of working women, and even well-heeled socialites. Cheryl R. Ganz offers the stories of fair planners and participants who showcased education, industry, and entertainment to sell optimism during the depths of the Great Depression. This engaging history also features eighty-six photographs--nearly half of which are full color--of key locations, exhibits, and people, as well as authentic ticket stubs, postcards, pamphlets, posters, and other it
- NEW! Consolidated, revised, and expanded mental health concerns chapter and consolidated pediatric health promotion chapter offer current and concise coverage of these key topics. - NEW and UPDATED! Information on the latest guidelines includes SOGC guidelines, STI and CAPWHN perinatal nursing standards, Canadian Pediatrics Association Standards, Canadian Association of Midwives, and more. - NEW! Coverage reflects the latest Health Canada Food Guide recommendations. - UPDATED! Expanded coverage focuses on global health perspectives and health care in the LGBTQ2 community, Indigenous, immigrant, and other vulnerable populations. - EXPANDED! Additional case studies and clinical reasoning/clinical judgement-focused practice questions in the printed text and on the Evolve companion website promote critical thinking and prepare you for exam licensure. - NEW! Case studies on Evolve for the Next Generation NCLEX-RN® exam provide practice for the Next Generation NCLEX.
Media reform plays an increasingly important role in the struggle for social justice. As battles are fought over the future of investigative journalism, media ownership, spectrum management, speech rights, broadband access, network neutrality, the surveillance apparatus, and digital literacy, what effective strategies can be used in the pursuit of effective media reform? Prepared by thirty-three scholars and activists from more than twenty-five countries, Strategies for Media Reform focuses on theorizing media democratization and evaluating specific projects for media reform. This edited collection of articles offers readers the opportunity to reflect on the prospects for and challenges facing campaigns for media reform and gathers significant examples of theory, advocacy, and activism from multinational perspectives.
Select nursing interventions with the book that standardizes nursing language! Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), 7th Edition provides a research-based clinical tool to help you choose appropriate interventions. It standardizes and defines the knowledge base for nursing practice as it communicates the nature of nursing. More than 550 nursing interventions are described — from general practice to all specialty areas. From an expert author team led by Howard Butcher, this book is an ideal tool for practicing nurses and nursing students, educators seeking to enhance nursing curricula, and nursing administrators seeking to improve patient care. It's the only comprehensive taxonomy of nursing-sensitive interventions available! - More than 550 research-based nursing intervention labels are included, along with specific activities used to carry out interventions. - Descriptions of each intervention include a definition, a list of activities, a publication facts line, and references. - Specialty core interventions are provided for 53 specialties. - NEW! 16 NEW interventions are added to this edition, including health coaching, phytotherapy, management of acute pain, and management of chronic pain. - UPDATED! 95 interventions have been revised. - NEW! Five label name changes are included.
- NEW! Updated content throughout, notably methods of measuring competency and outcomes (QSEN and others), ambiguous genitalia, pediatric measurements, guidelines, and standards as defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics, and clear definitions of adolescent and young adult, keeps you up-to-date on important topic areas. - NEW! The Child with Cancer chapter includes all systems cancers for ease of access. - NEW and UPDATED! Case Studies now linked to Nursing Care Plans to personalize interventions, while also providing questions to promote critical thinking.
Pastoralists’ role in contemporary Africa typically goes underappreciated and misunderstood by development agencies, external observers, and policymakers. Yet, arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), which are used predominantly for extensive livestock grazing, comprise nearly half of the continent’s land mass, while a substantial proportion of national economies are based on pastoralist activities. Pastoralists use these drylands to generate income for themselves through the use of livestock and for the coffers of national trade and revenue agencies. They are frequently among the continent’s most contested and lawless regions, providing sanctuary to armed rebel groups and exposing residents to widespread insecurity and destructive violence. The continent’s millions of pastoralists thus inhabit some of Africa’s harshest and most remote, but also most ecologically, economically, and politically important regions. This study summarizes the findings of a multi-year interdisciplinary research project in pastoral areas of Kenya and Ethiopia. The cultures and ecology of these areas are described, with a particular focus on the myriad risks that confront people living in these drylands, and how these risks are often triggered by highly variable rainfall conditions. The authors examine the markets used by residents of these areas to sell livestock and livestock products and purchase consumer goods before turning to an analysis of evolving livelihood strategies. Furthermore, they focus on how well-being is conditioned upon access to livestock and access to the cash economy, gender patterns within households and the history of development activities in the area. The book concludes with a report on how these activities are assessed by people in the area and what activities they prioritize for the future. Policy in pastoral areas is often formulated on the basis of assumptions and stereotypes, without adequate empirical foundations. This book provides evidence on livelihood strategies being followed in pastoral areas, and investigates patterns in decision making and well being. It indicates the importance of livestock to the livelihoods of people in these areas, and identifies the critical and widespread importance of access to the cash economy, concluding that future development activities need to be built on the foundation of the livestock economy, instead of seeking to replace it.
Communicating for Success, third edition, is a core textbook for Introduction to Communication courses and gives students an overview of the subfields of Communication Studies and how these areas provide practical, fun, and immediate applications to students pursuing a wide variety of career paths, as well as practical instruction in public speaking for success on today’s social media platforms. This fully updated third edition focuses on the key communication competencies recommended by the National Communication Association, including verbal and nonverbal communication, listening, interpersonal communication and conflict resolution, group and organizational communication, public speaking, leadership, and the roles of social media, technology, culture, gender, and ethics in communication. With a vibrant and engaging design, this volume is packed with applied features including practical scenarios and examples, key terms, discussion questions, sample activities, learning objectives, and more. A concentrated focus on the influence of communication on careers in business, education, and healthcare is highlighted in a two-page career spread at the end of each chapter and takes lessons beyond the classroom. New features in this edition include a greater focus on public speaking in the workplace; emphasis on demographic and behavioral factors in audience analysis; and increased discussion of issues of social justice and equity. Online resources for instructors include PowerPoint slides and an Instructor’s Manual with guidance on how to use the book’s activities in both in-person and online courses.
Select nursing interventions with the book that standardizes nursing language! Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), 8th Edition provides a research-based clinical tool to help you choose appropriate interventions. It standardizes and defines the knowledge base for nursing practice as it communicates the nature of nursing. More than 610 nursing interventions are described — from general practice to all specialty areas. From an expert author team led by Cheryl Wagner, this book is an ideal tool for practicing nurses and nursing students, educators seeking to enhance nursing curricula, and nursing administrators seeking to improve patient care. It's the only comprehensive taxonomy of nursing-sensitive interventions available! - 614 research-based nursing intervention labels — with 60 new to this edition — are included, along with specific activities used to carry out interventions. - Specialty core interventions are provided for 57 specialties. - Descriptions of each intervention include a definition, a list of activities, a publication facts line, and references. - NEW! 60 interventions are added to this edition, including several related to the care of patients with COVID considerations. - UPDATED! Approximately 220 existing interventions have been revised.
Communicating for Success, 2nd edition, focuses student learning on the key communication competencies recommended by the National Communication Association. With a vibrant and engaging design, this introductory volume is packed with applied examples, features, and exercises; the text and accompanying Web content offer practical scenarios, key terms, discussion questions, sample activities, learning objectives, and more. A concentrated focus on the influence of communication on careers in business, education, and healthcare is highlighted near the end of each chapter and takes lessons beyond the classroom. This new edition features broader discussion of communication’s relation to social media and technology, culture, gender, and ethics.
Based on an extensive review of the newspaper, medical and social science literature, the authors propose a comprehensive typology of maternal filicide, answering the question - Why? What would drive a mother to kill her own child?. These mothers are not a homogenous group. In obvious ways, intervention strategies should differ for a teenager who denies her pregnancy and then kills her newborn and a mother who kills her two toddlers out of mental illness or to further a relationship. This typology will help to distinguish the different cases that commonly occur and the patterns they follow in order to make more effective prevention and treatment planning possible.
31 Days of Down Syndrome: A Handbook for Special Families By: Cheryl and Ray Patterson Having someone in your family with special needs can be a challenge for some. With this book full of tips on how to cope with these needs and how to deal with other’s reaction, this firsthand experienced family will guide you on your journey, specifically those with Down Syndrome. This experience, a sudden change in life, can be emotionally over-whelming, draining, and the most fulfilling moment a family can experience. The Patterson family provides real world experience of what is yet to come and help those realize that this is the more heart-warming event of their lives.
Need a few bright ideas for your next youth group meeting? No need to panic! "Youth Spirit 2" is filled with great suggestions you can use to create meaningful programs and build community. Just like the first volume "Youth Spirit" (1551452472), this book was created with you in mind. Start with the themes you will find here, then tailor-make your program to suit your group. New leaders will find helpful information to get started; experienced leaders will find the flexible program ideas inspiring. "Youth Spirit 2" will quickly become an indispensable part of your youth ministry resource library.
Come take a mythical journey with Henry from The Village of Yore and the many colorful characters of The Golden Palace on their quest to unlock the palatial gates of the corporate Ivory Tower. Dr. Cheryl Lentz has cleverly offered an allegorical tale that demonstrates the lessons learned when leaders in organizations fail to listen and serve the needs of their stakeholders. These lessons emerge through the eyes of such characters as Nada from The Village of Not Likely, Earl from The Village of That's the Way We've Always Done It, and Merlin from The Village of Calm and Clarity. Join them as well as King William III and The Royal Academy of Bean Counters as they journey toward understanding the elegant simplicity of effective leadership, unlocking the secrets to The Golden Palace Theory of Management along the way. This revised second edition offers a companion workbook for discussion, reflection, and refractive thinking. The purpose of this workbook is to examine each character within this allegorical tale and their leadership qualities more closely. Take a leap of faith and follow us in our journey. Perhaps you may recognize some old friends along the way.
Come take a mythical journey with Henry from The Village of Yore and the many colorful characters of The Golden Palace on their quest to unlock the palatial gates of corporate Ivory Towers. Dr. Cheryl Lentz has cleverly offered an allegorical tale that demonstrates the lessons learned when leaders in organizations fail to listen and serve the needs of their stakeholders. These lessons emerge through the eyes of such characters as Nada from The Village of Not Likely, Earl from The Village of That's the Way We've Always Done It, and Merlin from The Village of Calm and Clarity. Join them as well as King William III and The Royal Academy of Bean Counters as they journey toward understanding the elegant simplicity of effective leadership, unlocking the secrets to The Golden Palace Theory of Management along the way. This revised second edition offers a companion workbook for discussion, reflection, and refractive thinking. The purpose of this workbook is to examine each character within this allegorical tale and their leadership qualities more closely. Take a leap of faith and follow us in our journey. Perhaps you may recognize some old friends along the way.
Sparkling surf lapping on palm-lined beaches, red tile roofs blanketing earth tone buildings, coyote and deer roaming in nearby canyons, dolphins dancing among spouting whales in the seas--Santa Barbara provides an appealing sensory overload few can resist. In-depth and eclectic, this guide shows readers Santa Barbara's colorful past, little-known attractions, best accommodations and delicious local cuisine, intriguing day trip information, and more.
Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery: Clinical Practice and Surgical Atlas is the third and final single-volume medical reference and surgical atlas for the ob-gyn subspecialities. Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and Gynecologic Oncology have already been signed
Publish date: April 5, 2022. Join foreword writer Amberly Lago and contributing scholars in their presentation of their doctoral research findings regarding effective work life balance strategies. Refractive thinker scholars share current research and their words of wisdom regarding lessons learned from our recent global pandemic regarding the challenges of work life balance as this discussion continues to shape the business landscape.around the world. Are you in the know regarding the most up-to-date and effective strategies in your field of study? Come join us to be part of the conversation of future success in business leadership around the world.
The latest volume of the peer-reviewed academic chronology collects the writings of doctoral scholars who dare to think differently in search of new applications and understandings of social responsibility.
This collection of the works of nine scholarly authors affiliated with UOP School of Advanced Studies includes topics such as: Part I: The Delphi Primer, Part II: Mixed Methods, Part III: Qualitative, Part IV: Quantitative, and Part V: Research as Art. Please visit our website for chapter summaries, author bios, and additional details. Come journey with us to become refractive thinkers.
The Refractive Thinker is an anthology of doctoral research designed to improve business results. Topics for Vol. IV include ethics, leadership, and various global concerns currently affecting today's business landscape. Discover additional answers to consider and the many pearls of wisdom offered within these pages. Continue the journey with us to become refractive thinkers.
Celebrate the diffusion of innovative refractive thinking through the writings of these doctoral scholars as they dare to think differently in search of new applications and understandings of social responsibility of Research Methodology. Dr. Patricia A. D'Urso & Dr. Audrey Ellison - explore how to communicate successfully to motivate effectively. Dr. Sheila G. Embry examines how to bridge the job satisfaction gap on what U.S. federal leaders ned to know. Dr. Danielle J. Camacho & Dr. Jill M. Legare review going green - how to motivate leaders to embrace environmentally sustainable business practices Dr. Ernest Jones discusses the five steps to navigating the social exchange perspective landscape. Dr. Joseph A. Gioia, PsyD. & Dr. Temeaka Gray, PsyD. explore motivation and address job-related stress and ensuring effective communications as best HRM practices. Dr. Annie Brown - explores using qualitative methods to discover reasons for leaders' failure. Dr. Neil Mathur & Dr. Cheryl Lentz - examine effective motivation and communication strategies for faculty in higher education: blurring the lines between business and academia. Dr. Leo Flemming-Farrell, Dr. Elmer Hall & Dr. Judy Blando - explore the implementation of new TQM programs, communications and adapting to change. Dr. David M. Mula & Dr. Eric L. Patterson - uncover what motivates employees to resign and the effects of turnover. Unlike most academic books that merely define research, The Refractive Thinker(r) offers unique application of research methodologies from the perspective of multiple authors - each offering a chapter based on their specific expertis
This anthology celebrates the accomplishments of the doctoral scholars contained within these pages: to include topics such as university endowments in financial crisis (Dr. Ellen Beatie), the influence of religion (Dr. Joe Hage), researching close to home (Dr. Ronald Charles & Dr. Cheryl Lentz), better Understanding a case study (Dr. Bryan T. Shaw & Dr. Xavier Bruce), mortgage lending practices to minority borrowers (Dr. Coleen James), delphi (Dr. Elmer Hall & Dr. Edgar Jordan), knowledge sharing (Dr. Bethany Mickahail & Dr. Kate Andrews), transformative learning (Dr. Dan Santangelo), moving through the great recession (Dr. Susie Schild), and the concept of our greater purpose (Dr. Cheryl Lentz). The intent is to provide a forum for them to share their thoughts and expertise as they contribute to our expanse of knowledge in pursuit of the tenets and philosophies of higher learning. The title of this book was chosen intentionally to highlight the ability of these doctoral scholars to bend thought, to converge its very essence on the ability to obliquely pass through the perspective of another. The goal is to ask and ponder the right questions, to dare to think differently, to find new applications within unique and cutting edge dimensions, ultimately to lead where others may follow or to risk forging perhaps a new path entirely. Join us as we venture forward into this world of questioning what we see around us. We hope you enjoy the journey. The Refractive Thinker: where discriminating scholars publish.
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