Rosa De Angelo and Ellen McCarthy are about to become two of the newest victims of SEAS - Severe Environmental Allergy Syndrome. Haunted by dreams of orbs in the night, they wake up to news reports of UFO swarms and alien abductions by the thousands. Separated from their families, Rosa and Ellen are ushered into isolation tent cities established to prevent the public from having any further exposure to the growing number of SEAS victims. With the SEAS pandemic, coupled with increased seismic activity, and climate change threatening Earth, United States President Barbara Unger is searching for human salvation. She is contacted by two alien species, the Grays and the Guardians, both offering conflicting methods of action to save Earth. The Grays offer to transport of up to one million humans to their planet, Nuur, mostly women of childbearing age as a safety measure to save humanity. The Guardians insist the Grays plan to use humans to create a dangerous hybrid species, that the diminished state of Earth is only temporary, and it will survive this crisis. Knowing the Grays have manipulated us while the Guardians ulterior motives are unknown, President Barbara Unger will ultimately have to decide who is friend and who is foe. Will she place the fate of the human race into the hands of the Grays or Guardians? Porter thrusts us right into the action. Ordinary people caught in a terrifying scenario must take extraordinary measures to save their children, themselves, and possibly Earth. This is a real Science Fiction thriller and a great read that will introduce you to a group of confused, frightened residents of Kathy Porter's Planet Earth. Readers will never feel the same about the occasional ringing in their ears.
One year ago the Grays abducted over half a million humans, taking them to their home planet Nuur to be used as lab rats. The experiments failed. The human DNA failed to yield the superior hybrid race the Grays planned to create and repopulate their planet. Humans were no longer needed. Abandoned, they await their fate. Earth, led by President Barbara Unger, has joined forces with the Galactic Alliance, focusing all efforts toward rescuing the human hostages. On Nuur as Rosa De Angelo launches a possible escape route the Ja, a species from a nearby planet, curtail her efforts with a warning. The Ja claim Nuurians, the original inhabitants of Nuur, have been in hiding for over a century. The Nuurians avoided the scientific experiment that mutated the Grays and have now emerged from their asylum to reclaim their planet. The Nuurians plan the genocidal annihilation of all Gray and foreign inhabitants to return Nuur to the magnificent planet it once was. Unable to contact Earth and with civil war upon them, escape is impossible. Rosa must prepare her people to fight for survival. Will rescue come in time? Seemingly facing a common enemy, will the humans take a stand and fight alongside the Grays, their captors? Or should they attempt to befriend the Nuurians and perhaps win their freedom. Who is the true enemy? Rosa suspects there is a third more devious enemy is at work. Can Rosa uncover a clandestine plot in time to spare millions of human and alien lives? How Hard Would You Fight For Freedom?
Two alien races vie for the fate of Earth in Kathy Porter's thrilling sci-fi epic, Gray/Guardians. Wracked with environmental disaster and disease, humanity must decide whether to listen to the Grays, extraterrestrials who offer safe harbor on their planet, or the Guardians, who claim the Grays are using people as guinea pigs. The fate of mankind hangs in the balance in this chill-a-second novel.
In addition to updated references and case studies, the Second Edition includes new chapters on crisis management and innovation leadership. Each chapter provides guidance for contemporary and aspiring leaders in managing the ever-changing complexities o current and future healthcare systems. The growing necessity to manage unplanned change and undertake predictive and adaptive leadership roles is now a fundamental skill set and this workbook allows readers to understand the strategies to become a more effective leader in today's healthcare environment."--BOOK JACKET.
Provides leaders in the healthcare industry with the skills they need to ensure that their organizations are guided accurately and effectively through periods of transformation. As rapid changes continue to affect the healthcare system, this text offers strategies for handling challenges that arise in healthcare organizations to better assist leaders in creating a healing environment for both the providers and consumers of health care.
Innovation Leadership: Creating the Landscape of Healthcare focuses on the unique skills related to leading the innovation process in healthcare. This unique text relates leadership skills and attributes necessary to guide organizations and people through the process of innovation in a way that ensures successful innovation outcomes. This contributed text provides a variety of iewpoints on leadership in light of the various formats and tool-sets necessary to assure successful innovation.
Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions addresses the current emerging issues facing healthcare leaders and practitioners who spearhead evidence-based innovation. This text is truly unique in that it systematically addresses innovation and evidence from the perspective of both a leader and a practitioner within the context of healthcare. Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions was written by healthcare leaders for current and future innovation leaders. The content is organized to walk the learner through the foundations of evidence, innovation, and leadership. The text is divided into four sections covering evidence and innovation leadership, sources of new evidence, how to lead and measure, and synthesis between theory and practice. This text seeks to be a catalyst for disruptive innovation in healthcare in terms of content as well as how we educate the next generation of healthcare leaders." -- from back cover.
Appreciative Leadership: Building Sustainable Partnerships for Health explores how newly trained graduates and experienced leaders can leverage an intersdisciplinary approach focused on the strength of their teams to transform healthcare in today’s complex environment. T
This text provides an introductory perspective of evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare. The need for explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients leads the list of the goals of today’s healthcare leader. The Second Edition of this best-selling text has been completely revised and updated and contains new chapters on Evidence-based Regulation and Evidence and Innovation.
Quantum Leadership: Transdisciplinary leadership in complex systems Quantum Leadership: Building Better Partnerships for Sustainable Health, Fourth Edition skillfully prepares graduate students to thrive in a world of healthcare reform, complexity, and essential caring service. The Fourth Edition focuses on the current concepts of leadership, data, and research related to the complexities of leadership. The text also emphasizes the importance of principle-driven approaches and minimizes specific procedure-based solutions. This text is a seminal work around the complexity leadership as it applies to healthcare. There are very few other references that have the clarity, depth, and detail essential to enumerate this topic in healthcare organizations. It is especially valuable for graduate programs and DNP programs as it provides a foundation for contemporary leadership and emphasizes the characteristics necessary to lead complex organizations. The Fourth Edition features an additional chapter on the complexity of leadership in health care reform in an effort to incorporate the newest requirements of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act in a manner that is relevant to leadership development and capacity. Case studies found within each chapter help reinforce translational work while new application exercises found in the "The Quantum Workbook" are an excellent supplement for learning. Additional updates to the text include: chapter podcasts, additional translational and learning material related to chapter case studies. Lastly, all references have been revised and updated to reflect the most current evidence around learning leadership.
Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools. Leadership in Nursing Practice: Changing the Landscape of Healthcare, Second Edition provides nursing students with the leadership skill-set they will need when entering the field. This text distinguishes between leadership and management and emphasizes translation applications that prepare the student for transition into leadership roles. Leadership in Nursing Practice covers many different topics including leadership, transitioning to the professional role, time management, finance/fiscal management, communication/negotiation, ethical decision making, career management, and much more! Features: Definition of Theoretical Underpinning Strengths and Weaknesses of different approaches Case Scenarios Figures/Tables Key Points Real-life Examples End of Chapter Assessments
Leadership in Nursing Practice: Changing the Landscape of Health Care, Third Edition provides nursing students with the leadership skill-set they will need when entering the field.
Porter Carlson's frightening abduction from his home in the middle of the night by a strange man, fulfilled an ancient eighteenth-century promise. Porter's best efforts to reason with his captor fell on deaf ears. The words "You must fulfill the promise" spoken on that fateful night, filled Porter with an unsettling sense of doom and sent his heart spiraling. Experience Porter's adventures and heartaches, as his captor forces him through a curtain of light and into a series of frightening events in unfamiliar territory. As terrifying shadows of the past continue to emerge, Porter must reach deep within for courage and rely even further on his faith. Does an ancient relic hold the secret as to why he was taken and what challenges must he face as he finds himself fighting for his very life? Follow him through actual bone-chilling historical events that will leave you searching.
Introducing a comprehensive approach to invigorate project leadership, this book provides a framework – the OUtCoMES Cycle – for developing, managing, advancing, and optimizing engineering and analytics projects. All too often, issues of moral hazard and completion bias prevent engineering and analytics managers and team leaders from asking the critical question 'What’s the problem?', before committing time, energy, and resources to solve it. This book draws attention to the definition, structuring, option consideration and ultimately the addressing of the right problems, exploring the OUtCoMES Cycle framework that facilitates and energizes systematic thinking, knowledge sharing, and on-the-fly adjustment with an explicit focus on the maximization of value and ROI. Each chapter includes discussions and lessons in analytical and engineering problem identification, problem structuring, iterative problem development (mental and computational) and problem resolution, at least three embedded real-world case studies, and a closing 'Practitioner’s Recap' to contextualize key chapter takeaways. Written by a team of established academic scholars and practicing analysts and engineers, this is an accessible and culture-shifting action guide for instructors interested in training the next generation of project and analytics leaders, students of analytics and engineering, as well as practicing project leaders and principals.
Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care, Fifth Edition provides students with a solid overview and understanding of leadership in today’s complex healthcare delivery system. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.
Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care, Sixth Edition focuses on the issue of leadership within the shifting landscape of health care.
Quantum Leadership: Transdisciplinary leadership in complex systems Quantum Leadership: Building Better Partnerships for Sustainable Health, Fourth Edition skillfully prepares graduate students to thrive in a world of healthcare reform, complexity, and essential caring service. The Fourth Edition focuses on the current concepts of leadership, data, and research related to the complexities of leadership. The text also emphasizes the importance of principle-driven approaches and minimizes specific procedure-based solutions. This text is a seminal work around the complexity leadership as it applies to healthcare. There are very few other references that have the clarity, depth, and detail essential to enumerate this topic in healthcare organizations. It is especially valuable for graduate programs and DNP programs as it provides a foundation for contemporary leadership and emphasizes the characteristics necessary to lead complex organizations. The Fourth Edition features an additional chapter on the complexity of leadership in health care reform in an effort to incorporate the newest requirements of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act in a manner that is relevant to leadership development and capacity. Case studies found within each chapter help reinforce translational work while new application exercises found in the "The Quantum Workbook" are an excellent supplement for learning. Additional updates to the text include: chapter podcasts, additional translational and learning material related to chapter case studies. Lastly, all references have been revised and updated to reflect the most current evidence around learning leadership.
A new and updated version of this best-selling resource! Jones and Bartlett Publisher's 2011 Nurse's Drug Handbook is the most up-to-date, practical, and easy-to-use nursing drug reference! It provides: Accurate, timely facts on hundreds of drugs from abacavir sulfate to Zyvox; Concise, consistently formatted drug entries organized alphabetically; No-nonsense writing style that speaks your language in terms you use everyday; Index of all generic, trade, and alternate drug names for quick reference. It has all the vital information you need at your fingertips: Chemical and therapeutic classes, FDA pregnancy risk category and controlled substance schedule; Indications and dosages, as well as route, onset, peak, and duration information; Incompatibilities, contraindications; interactions with drugs, food, and activities, and adverse reactions; Nursing considerations, including key patient-teaching points; Vital features include mechanism-of-action illustrations showing how drugs at the cellular, tissue, or organ levels and dosage adjustments help individualize care for elderly patients, patients with renal impairment, and others with special needs; Warnings and precautions that keep you informed and alert.
Porter Carlson's frightening abduction from his home in the middle of the night by a strange man, fulfilled an ancient eighteenth-century promise. Porter's best efforts to reason with his captor fell on deaf ears. The words "You must fulfill the promise" spoken on that fateful night, filled Porter with an unsettling sense of doom and sent his heart spiraling. Experience Porter's adventures and heartaches, as his captor forces him through a curtain of light and into a series of frightening events in unfamiliar territory. As terrifying shadows of the past continue to emerge, Porter must reach deep within for courage and rely even further on his faith. Does an ancient relic hold the secret as to why he was taken and what challenges must he face as he finds himself fighting for his very life? Follow him through actual bone-chilling historical events that will leave you searching.
In the twenty-first century, sustainability has come to the forefront of the debate regarding the responsibilities of corporations and the roles they play in society. Society holds them accountable, so businesses need to develop and execute sustainability strategies that consider the social, economic, cultural, and natural dimensions of the business environment. Young, Dhanda, and Hollenhorst combine experience in business and environmental studies, introducing students in both disciplines to the value of sustainability. When sustainability is fully realized and implemented well by corporations, it can help develop and retain creative, dedicated employees that will drive a bottom-line strategy to save costs and a top-line strategy to reach a new consumer base.
Many brands, including Boots, Hoover and Kelloggs, were named after their founders whilst others have less obvious origins; for instance, did you know that Velcro comes from velours and crochet, the French words for velvet and hook? This entertaining book by Kathy Martin explores the stories behind the brands, their names and their founders. Bursting with fascinating facts and period advertising, this must-read book will appeal to everyone interested in advertising, social history, food and famous names.
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