The book includes descriptions of more than 300 medicinal plants and their close relatives. Each entry gives a short summary with a description of the plant, the geographical origin, therapeutic category, historical and modern uses, active ingredients, and pharmacological effects. More than 500 full-color photographs assist in the identification of the plants. It is an essential reference guide for health care professionals — doctors, nurses, and especially pharmacists — or anyone with an interest in medicinal plants and their uses.

    Major advances in the specialty, primarily within the malignant haematology area, have been reflected in this thoroughly revised new edition. Agencies such as NICE have influenced the prescribing of chemotherapeutic and other related drugs, and there have also been updates from the British Committee for Standards in Haematology and other guidelines for malignant disease, thrombosis and haemostasis.This Handbook includes the main differential diagnoses and relevant investigations that will help junior doctors to arrive at a definitive diagnosis. The management of the patient is provided in a way that allows the junior to initiate treatment while waiting for review of the patient by a senior member of staff. A bestselling Oxford Handbook, this is the indispensable companion for all those caring for patients with blood disorders.

    teaches the basic design of medical terminology and how to easily remember, pronounce, and apply the meanings of all the prefixes, roots and suffixes that combine to form over 11,000 complex medical terms in only 14 hours!

    It provides hints, tips and practical advice on aspects such as placements, reading research, living as a student and the nursing profession as a whole.

    The book includes 1,000 enriched color images and photographs, a glossy insert with detailed images by Anatomical Chart Company in a glossy insert, 68 appendices, and cut thumb tabs for quick A-to-Z reference. More than 46 leading consultants from health professions and nursing contributed to the enhancements of this edition.A bound-in bonus CD-ROM includes the features of the print edition in fully searchable format, over 48,000 audio pronunciations, approximately 50 anatomical animations, plus a free version of Stedman's Plus Medical/Pharmaceutical Spellchecker (a $99.00 value).

    With so many young men lost in the Great War, including her own brothers, her life is empty and her future without hope. Until, desperate to break out of her mundane existence, she decides to take up the position of nursery maid in the London home of acclaimed playwright Harold Berridge.Befriended by the actress Maud Ling and thrown into the glamorous but fickle world of cinema, Phyllis falls passionately in love with Maud’s young brother Teddy. But Teddy’s heart lies elsewhere, and when tragedy strikes the Berridge household a heartbroken Phyllis is forced to leave.Six months later, Phyllis has started to rebuild her life but her world is turned upside down once more when is invited to a party at Maud Ling’s film studios. For there she falls under the spell of the charming but devious American actor, Denver Towers, with disastrous consequences. . .

    Completely revised and updated, the 3rd Edition of this popular resource features more than 1,200 classroom-tested, NCLEX-style questions that reflect the latest advances in medical technology as well as the most recent guidelines and standards of care for nursing practice. An easy-to-follow format organizes information into 24 content areas. Each question provides answers and rationales for correct and incorrect responses and strategies for how to develop your critical thinking skills. For an interactive approach, use the BONUS CD-ROM with two, 75 question course exit exams. I honestly feel that every incoming student nurse should have a copy of the Fundamentals Success book because it familiarizes students with what their fundamental tests will be like. Who wouldn't benefit from knowing what their test is going to look like? Being prepared with Fundamentals Success meant I hit the ground running. I aced my first test when most of my classmates were facing their first ever academic failures. Nursing school is nothing like anything I have ever done before, memorizing text books will do little to prepare you to be a critical thinker. To succeed you must be able to apply the knowledge in multi-step process...the nursing process The FA Davis books take you there and they do it quickly, because we nursing students needed to know it yesterday - Corrie Cyre, Hillsborough Community College Southshore Student Nurses Association President Click Here for a Special Mail-In Rebate Offer

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    Written specifically for Australian and New Zealand enrolled nurse students, this long awaited new edition reflects the changes and challenges in contemporary enrolled nurse practice as well as the additions and modifications that are occurring in nursing curricula. Tabbner's Nursing Care: Theory and Practice 5th edition has been written, reviewed and edited by the people who educate the enrolled nurse and continues to provide enrolled nurse students with the most comprehensive resource available.

    For every manager, getting the most from their team is paramount in achieving superior results. BelbinOCOs vital area of management research supersedes the usual preoccupations with qualifications and experience, considering instead the Team Role behaviours which shape everyday interactions in teams.Management Teams: Why they succeed or fail is an account of the experimental study of management teams at Henley Management College from which BelbinOCOs unique Team Role theory developed. Now in its third edition the original theory has been fully updated and rewritten in parts by the author, with chapter summaries and updated illustrations. This is the original book by Meredith Belbin, offering the only authoritative explanation of how BelbinOCOs world-famous Team Role language came into being.Download and print a free, full-page summary of Team Roles with their icons, descriptions, strengths and allowable weaknesses from http: //www.belbin.com/books/books.htmR. Meredith Belbin was formerly Chairman of the Industrial Training Research Unit. A founder Member of Belbin Associates, he is also Visiting Professor and Honorary Fellow of Henley Management College.Related TitleBelbin: Team Roles at Work, 2e, ISBN: 978-1-85617-800-6