These colorful characters of the 1930s and ’40s lived life’s circumstances as adventures. They lived at a time when they were called upon to build a city and a history-making dam, to grow a fledgling spit of a town in the desert into what would become the world-famous Las Vegas. They were rugged individuals on a desert frontier living ordinary lives during an exceptional time in our history and rose to the occasion. They survived Prohibition, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and made wartime sacrifices. Along the way and by chance, they bumped into a number of famous personalities. John or Is It Fred John or Is It Fred A Glimpse of the Jensen Family Saga
A rich compendium of Western art by women, this book also contains essays which examine the many economic, social, and political forces that have shaped the art over years of pivotal change. The women profiled played an important role in gaining the acceptance of women as men's peers in artistic communities. Their independent spirit resonates in studios and galleries throughout the country today. Photos.
The Career Mystique shows that most Americans-men and women-continue to embrace the myth that hard work, long hours, and continuous employment pay off, even though it is out of date and out of place in twenty-first-century America. Phyllis Moen and Patricia Roehling argue that the lock step arrangements around education, work, family, and retirement no longer fit the realities and risks of contemporary living, yet the roles, rules, and regulations spawned by the career mystique remain in place. This books shows that ambiguities and uncertainties about the future abound in boardrooms, in offices, and on factory floors, as Americans face the realities of corporate restructuring, chronic job insecurity, and double demands at work and at home. Moen and Roehling show the career mystique for what it is: a false myth standing in the way of creating new, alternative workplaces and career flexibilities. Based on research funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the National Institute on Aging.
An enlightening overview of major aspects of African history, including colonial Africa, slave trade, blacks in the post-emancipation South, blacks during the Reconstruction, and blacks in urban America.
This issue of Nursing Clinics of North America, Guest Edited by Patricia Burkhart, PhD, RN, at University of Kentucky, will focus on Pediatrics. Article topics will include: adolescent risky behavior, diabetes, abusive head trauma, obesity and asthma, preventive care, disaster care for school children.
“This book is an excellent tool to guide APRNs and their collaborators in healthcare education into conversations about ethical action within the complex challenges of their work.” –Daniel McGinty, EdD Dundon-Berchtold Institute for Moral Formation & Applied Ethics University of Portland “What a wonderful way to see advanced practice nursing as neither black nor white but instead as a myriad of colors in which to hone principled and just care as our Code of Nursing intends.” –Laurel Hallock-Koppelman, DNP, APRN, FNP-C Assistant Professor, School of Medicine Oregon Health and Science University “Infused with wisdom and clarity, this textbook is a must-read for APRNs of all practice environments and levels of experience. As a clinical ethicist, I was deeply impressed by how much I learned within the pages of this book.” –Kayla Tabari-House, MBE, RN, HEC-C Clinical Ethicist, Providence St. Joseph Health Healthcare delivery can present ethical conflicts and dilemmas for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs)—nurses who already have a myriad of responsibilities in caring for patients. Ethical Case Studies for Advanced Practice Nurses improves APRNs’ agility to resolve ethical quandaries encountered in primary care, hospital-based, higher education, and administration beyond community settings. Through case studies examining various types of ethical conflicts, the authors empower APRNs and students with the critical knowledge and skills they need to handle even the most complex dilemmas in their practice. By applying a set of criteria and framework, this book guides APRNs to use critical thinking to make ethically sound decisions. TABLE OF CONTENTS Case Study #1: Defensive Medicine Case Study #2: STI Confidentiality Case Study #3: Substance Use in Pregnancy Case Study #4: HPV Vaccine Refusal Case Study #5: Abortion Case Study #6: Prostate Cancer Screening with Prostate-Specific Antigen Case Study #7: Administration of Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics Case Study #8: Depression Screening in Adolescents Case Study #9: Treatment of Resistant Anxiety Case Study #10: COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescence Case Study #11: Medical Emancipation Versus Confidentiality in Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People Case Study #12: Childhood Obesity Case Study #13: Dementia and Stopping Driving Case Study #14: When to Transition to Palliative Care Case Study #15: Prescription Refill Dilemma for Patient and Spouse in Financial Straits Case Study #16: CRNA Labor and Delivery Epidural Pain Management With a Language Barrier Case Study #17: Violence, Suicide, and Family Dynamics With Medical Complexity Case Study #18: Psychiatric Acute Concerns and Fall Risks Case Study #19: Telehealth Case Study #20: Guiding a School of Nursing Through COVID-19 Focusing on Clinical Placements Case Study #21: Emergency Department Closure Decision-Making: Health System and Community Impact Case Study #22: Ethical Dilemmas in School of Nursing Leadership Pre-COVID-19
Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 3, Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness, places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world. Volume 1, The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters, pursues the reconstruction of the religious environment in which Islam arose and develops an intertextual approach to studying the Qurʾānic religious milieu. Volume 2, The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands, examines the reception of pre-Islamic legacies in Islam, above all that of the Iranians. The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands
Diamondoids are cage-like, ultra stable, saturated ringed hydrocarbons, which have a diamond-like structure consisting of a number of six-member carbon rings fused together. Adamantane is the cage compound prototype and the simplest diamondoid molecule. Diamondoids Molecules aims to present these fascinating substances in a novel fashion. The more intriguing facets of diamondoid molecules are comprehensively exposed and discussed, bringing state-of-the-art information to the reader, along with the history, fundamentals and perspectives of diamondoid science and technology.This groundbreaking book, especially devoted to diamondoid molecules, is of critical importance to the global techno-scientific community, and will be of great interest in many research fields such as chemistry, physics, material science, geology, and biological sciences. Moreover, it will attract readers from industrial, government and environmental agencies as well as scholars.
Your first years of work are critical. You need to quickly build your skills and navigate your career path. Inspire Your Career: Strategies for Success in Your First Years at Work helps readers fast track their way to a successful career. This down-to-earth, insightful book will provide readers with: * Advice on a wide range of topics, such as: how to find mentors, how to build a network and how to deal with conflict; * Opportunities to reflect and learn more about themselves; * A summary of helpful tips at the end of each chapter; and * Practical examples and illustrative stories throughout the book. Inspire Your Career will empower and inspire you to discover your greatest potential at work.
In her persuasively argued study, Patricia Pulham astutely combines psychoanalytic theory with socio-historical criticism to examine a selection of fantastic tales by the female aesthete and intellectual Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935). Lee's own definition of the supernatural in the preface to Hauntings questions the nature of the 'genuine ghost', and argues that this figure is not found in the Society of Psychical Research but in our own psyches, where it functions as a mediator between past and present. Using D.W. Winnicott's 'transitional object' theory, which maintains that adults transfer their childhood engagement with toys to art and cultural artifacts, Pulham argues that the prevalence of the past in Lee's tales signifies not only an historical but a psychic past. Thus the 'ghosts' that haunt Lee's supernatural fiction, as well as her aesthetic, psychological, and historical writings, held complex meanings for her that were fundamental to her intellectual development and allowed her to explore alternative identities that permit the expression of transgressive sexualities.
Each unit builds the fundamental concepts required to effectively treat older adults and teaches how to help them to reach their highest level of welness regardless of their physical disorder.
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