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• Package of Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary Thumb-indexed Version+ Taber'sPlus DVD + Taber's Electronic, Version 4.0 on DVD

  
  To thrive in the ever-changing world of health care, you need a respected, trusted, and cutting-edge, cyclopedic resource. In hand, online, or on a mobile device, turn to Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 21st Edition, anytime, anywhere! Taber's 21 is today's most comprehensive health science dictionary. Under the editorial direction of Donald Venes, MD, MSJ, a team of expert consulting editors and consultants, representing every branch of health care, worked with the Taber's in-house editorial staff to ensure that the content reflects the state of the art.
  
  Cyclopedic entries that offer more than just definitions. More than 60,000 reader-friendly definitions, including 3,000 brand-new terms and 7,000 revised terms. Over 1,000 full-color illustrations in the book and DVD combined. More than 600 Patient Care Statements. Caution Statements with new, easy-to-find icon. Dozens of Allied Health and Nursing Appendices.
  
  Every print copy of Taber's 21 features the Taber'sPlus DVD. This multimedia toolkit offers a wealth of interactive activities, clinical tools, and resources including Taber's World Tour, an exploration of the dictionary's many features. Explore through sight & sound 1,000 images and hundreds of terms with their definitions and pronunciations. Taber's Audio Clear and precise pronunciations for 30,000 terms.
  
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• Medical Terminology: A Living Language (3rd Edition)

  Bonnie F. Fremgen, Suzanne S. Frucht

  

  Boasting a streamlined and reorganized format, the Third Edition provides users with a consistent and logical system to help them build their understanding of medical terminology as it relates to the human body. This book maintains a real-world focus that relates medical terminology to various health professions, thereby capturing the users interest and providing information about potential future health careers. This information is reinforced with various additional study resources that include exercises, a Companion Website, and a CD-ROM free with the book. New to this edition are: redistribution of the Pharmacology chapter throughout the book, Revised Special Topics chapter, Expanded Professional Profile feature, Updated medical terms, Professional Journal exercises, End-of-chapter review list. Practice exercises have also been revised. This book also boasts an abundance of artwork and superior pedagogical package that includes practice exercises and activities, Chart Note Transcription exercises, Med Term Tips, case studies, Pronunciation Practice, Professional Journal, "Getting Connected" multimedia extension exercises, and word building tables. All health professionals and medical terminology students.

  
   

• Medical Terminology: A Programmed Learning Approach To The Language Of Health Care

  Marjorie Canfield Willis

  
  This product contains a student access code for courses that have adopted the WebCT or Blackboard online course for Willis: Medical Terminology: A Programmed Learning Approach to the Language of Health Care. The text provides a concise, self-directed approach to studying and learning medical terminology. Geared toward efficient memorization, a sequential method of study is employed that provides immediate feedback through dissemination of information, with diagrams, illustrations, and a programmed reinforcement and review. Includes an introduction to the basic term components and covers the rules of pronunciation, spelling, and formation. Features include medical record analyses, four-color illustrations and a user-friendly style. To further assist learning, a starter set of flashcards and a CD-ROM with questions and answers, illustrations, pronunciations and chapter reviews are included.
  
   

• Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary -Thumb-Indexed Version

  
  Detailed illustrations, full-color images and tables are cross-referenced from their entries and bring the outstanding definitions to life. With 56,000 terms in all, Taber's 19th is the most comprehensive health science dictionary available.
  
   

• Mosby's Tour Guide to Nursing School: A Student's Road Survival Kit

  Melodie Chenevert RN BSN MN MA

  
  This highly praised, popular "tour guide" provides students with a realistic, yet humorous description of the "journey" through nursing school. Easy-to-read and practical, it offers useful advice and guidance for coping with and making the most of the nursing school experience. Helpful suggestions and strategies are provided for time management, improving study habits, surviving clinical rotations, and balancing school, work, and family obligations.

  • Provides a light-hearted and practical approach to getting through nursing school.
  • Uses an easy-to-follow "road trip" theme throughout.
  • Endorsed by the National Student Nurses Association.
  • Offers down-to-earth advice and suggestions for improving time management and test taking skills, forming support and/or study groups, and improving oral and written reports.
  • Describes effective strategies for dealing with stressful situations such as failure, procrastination, and depression.
  • Addresses challenges like balancing school, work, and family obligations.
  • Includes appendixes that provide useful information on resources for NCLEX review, questions and answers on the computerized NCLEX-RN exam, sources of scholarships and loans, and U.S. and Canadian nursing organizations.

  • Includes new chapters on the effective use of the Internet and online sources for research and study, and o
  
   

• Transcultural Nursing: Assessment & Intervention, 4e

  Joyce Newman Giger, Ruth Elaine Davidhizar

  
  This unique resource addresses specific assessment and intervention strategies needed for clients from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Part 1 provides a systematic model of nursing assessment and intervention which takes into account six cultural phenomena: communication, space, social organization, time, environmental control, and biological variations. In Part 2 these six cultural phenomena are systematically applied to the assessment and care of individuals in specific cultures. Since the first edition this book has been praised as a quick reference, user-friendly assessment tool for use with clients in diverse clinical settings.

  • Features Giger and Davidhizar's Transcultural Assessment Model, with a full chapter devoted to each of the six aspects of cultural assessment, to help the reader apply this model to any client of any culture.
  • Presents critical thinking questions at the end of each chapter to help students apply the assessment framework in practice.
  • Includes an expansion of the spiritual component throughout, with an emphasis on various religions.
  • Offers clarification of some of the biological variations for select cultural groups.
  • A holistic overview of genetics helps readers understand genetics and genetic based diseases that are cultural, racially, and ethnic based.

  • New chapter on Afghan Americans provides timely an
  
   

• McGraw-Hill Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests

  Denise D. Wilson

  

  Critical testing information and key clinical protocols in the palm of your hand

  McGraw-Hill's Manual of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests focuses specifically on what you need to know to understand the test, educate the patient, and provide safe, effective care before, during, and after the test. In addition, this easy-to-use clinical companion is the only text to actively incorporate evidence-based practice features throughout, both in test monographs and appendices-a major advantage that enhances your ability to apply the book's content to your daily practice.

  Features:

  • A cohesive 5-part organization covering the full range of laboratory tests, diagnostic tests, laboratory/diagnostic assessments of body function, education, and screening
  • Time-saving alphabetical organization of tests with handy thumb tabs
  • Full-color icons that highlight the organization of each test, and clearly identify important features throughout
  • Skill-sharpening references to national guidelines, including JCAHO
  • Full coverage of clinical interventions/implications
  • Essential insights into the possible meanings of abnormal values and contraindications
  • Key references that pertain to evidence-based practice
  • Timely appendix on the increasing use of evidence-based practice
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• Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (Indexed Version, Book 2.0 Windows and Macintosh) with CDROM

  
  Text and CD-ROM package of a Brandon/Hill Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health List selection, featuring color illustrations, leather binding, and 56,000 terms. The CD-ROM is a electronic version of the text with added features such as cross-referencing. In display case. The CD-ROM is also available separately, and the text was listed in week 2001-14.
  
   

• Skeletal System (Flash Paks)

  Flash Anatomy

  
  The Skeletal System consists of 164 pages in a spiral-bound format wit h Volumes 1, 2, and 3, upper 7 lower extremities, and joints ligamen ts. This Flash Pak is an introduction to the skeletal system, illustra ting each bone in the body from head to toe. In addition, this set als o includes a special chapter covering the joints and ligaments. These cards denote the innervation, movement, and arterial supply of each jo int and ligament.
  
   

• Medical Acronyms, Eponyms and Abbreviations (Consumer Version)

  Marilyn Fuller Delong

  
  From antibiotic-associated-colitis (AAC) to zoster immune plasma (ZIP), this handy pocket guide helps you translate those tricky acronyms and abbreviations. Over 1,500 new medical acronyms, abbreviations and eponyms with the complete terms that they represent have been added to the completely revised third edition. Covers all medical specialties plus nursing, administration, quality assurance, diatetics, pharmacy and lab.
  
   

• Nursing Calculations

  J. D. Gatford, N. Phillips

  
  This best selling book reviews that basic arithmetic required to calculate drug dosages accurately and quickly - an essential skill for every nurse. Example are drawn from clinical practice. Explanations and graded exercises (with answers) cover the calculations required to administer injections, tablets and mixtures, to dilute solutions, to arrive at different drip rates and to administer paediatric dosages safely. In this new edition all drug usage material has been reviewed and updated. New exercises have been added to added to assist in the learning process.
  
   

• Nursing Theorists and Their Work

  Martha Raile Alligood PhD RN ANEF, Ann Marriner Tomey PhD RN FAAN

  
  This modern classic presents authoritative, up-to-date descriptions and analyses of 28 nursing theories in a clear, succinct format. With the addition of two new international theorists, it now provides a comprehensive presentation of 33 nursing theorists and their work. Extensive, updated bibliographies at the end of each chapter, split into primary and secondary sources, direct the reader to excellent resources for further study. Each chapter guides the reader through an expert overview of a specific theory-some reviewed and validated by the theorists themselves-in a logical chapter organization that makes information easy to follow. Its comprehensive and thorough approach, objective critiques, clear writing style, and consistent organization combine to make this new edition of Nursing Theorists and Their Work ideal for theory instruction at both the BSN level and the graduate level..