MiniMENTALs On-The-Go Coloring Book

MiniMENTALs On-The-Go Coloring Book

Author: Sue Chastain

Publisher:

Published: 2016-01-22

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780692622322

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Note: Cover thumbnail is sideways because this is a top-bound book, but Amazon will only show the spine on the left for the thumbnails. Sorry! Restore Sanity with 50 Miniature OrnaMENTALs Coloring Pages for Grown-Ups When life gets crazy, restore your sanity with MiniMENTALs On-the-Go Coloring Book! MiniMENTALs are miniature versions of OrnaMENTALs(tm) hand-drawn coloring designs by Sue Chastain. When you're on the go, just grab your book of MiniMENTALs and get coloring! These are smaller, simpler coloring designs that you can color in when you only have a few minutes to spare. And the pocket-size book means you can keep it with you to enjoy coloring anytime, anywhere. So what are you waiting for? Grab your pencils or pens, your MiniMENTALs book, and escape the madness with coloring--wherever you are! 50 five by five inch coloring designs. Designs range in complexity from simple to moderate. Includes a mix of mandalas, patterns, and scenes. Pocket-size book goes with you everywhere. Pass the time mindfully while out and about or at home. Tablet-style top binding for left- or right-handed coloring. Writing space for you to jot notes or journal your coloring. Printing is one-sided to accommodate wet media. Suitable for colored pencils, markers, or colorful pens. Hand-drawn designs are digitally enhanced for the highest line quality. Themes and motifs include: Marker Pens Coffee and Tea Fleur de Lis Moon and Stars Hearts and Love Flowers Fish Underwater Starfish and Sea Anemone Owls Dragonflies Butterflies Frogs Turtles Leaves Paisley Peace Sign Sugar Skulls Margaritas and Flip-flops Puppies and Kittens Rosettes Geometric and Abstract Patterns and Mandalas Visit suziqcreations.com for printable samples, previews and more information.


Evidence-Based Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice

Evidence-Based Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice

Author: Marie Boltz, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, FGSA, FAAN

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2016-03-28

Total Pages: 751

ISBN-13: 0826171672

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This new edition of one of the premier references for geriatric nurses in hospital, long-term, and community settings delivers current guidelines, real-life case studies, and evidence-based protocols developed by master educators and practitioners. With a focus on improving quality of care, cost-effectiveness, and outcome, the fifth edition is updated to provide the most current information about care of common clinical conditions and issues in older patients. Several new expert contributors present current guidelines about hip fractures, frailty, perioperative and postoperative care, palliative care, and senior-friendly emergency departments. Additionally, chapters have been reorganized to enhance logical flow of content and easy information retrieval. Protocols, systematically tested by more than 300 participating NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Health system Elders) hospitals‚ are organized in a consistent format and include an overview, evidence-based assessment and intervention strategies, and an illustrative case study with discussion. Additionally, protocols are embedded within chapter text, providing the context and detailed evidence for each. Chapter objectives, annotated references,and evidence ratings for each protocol are provided along with resources for additional study. New to the Fifth Edition: Reorganized to enhance logical flow of information and ease of use Updated and revised Includes new contributions from expert educators and practitioners Provides new chapters on perioperative and postoperative care, general surgical care, care of hip fracture, palliative care, and the senior-friendly emergency department Key Features: Includes PowerPoints and a test bank for instructors Delivers evidence-based, current guidelines and protocols for care of common clinical conditions in the older person Illustrates the application of clinical protocols to real-life practice through case studies and discussion Edited by nationally known geriatric leaders who are endorsed by the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing and NICHE Written for nursing students, nurse leaders, and practitioners at all levels, including those in specialty roles


Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders

Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 0309049393

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The understanding of how to reduce risk factors for mental disorders has expanded remarkably as a result of recent scientific advances. This study, mandated by Congress, reviews those advances in the context of current research and provides a targeted definition of prevention and a conceptual framework that emphasizes risk reduction. Highlighting opportunities for and barriers to interventions, the book draws on successful models for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, injuries, and smoking. In addition, it reviews the risk factors associated with Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, alcohol abuse and dependence, depressive disorders, and conduct disorders and evaluates current illustrative prevention programs. The models and examination provide a framework for the design, application, and evaluation of interventions intended to prevent mental disorders and the transfer of knowledge about prevention from research to clinical practice. The book presents a focused research agenda, with recommendations on how to develop effective intervention programs, create a cadre of prevention researchers, and improve coordination among federal agencies.


Fractured Minds

Fractured Minds

Author: Jenni A. Ogden

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-02-17

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0198038275

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Fractured Minds introduces the reader to clinical neuropsychology through vivid case descriptions of adults who have suffered brain damage. At one level, this is a book about the courage, humor, and determination to triumph over illness and disability that many "ordinary people" demonstrate when coping with the extraordinary stress of a brain disorder. On another level, it is a well-referenced and up-to-date textbook that provides a holistic view of the practice of clinical neuropsychology. Included are reader-friendly descriptions and explanations of a wide range of neurological disorders and neuroscientific concepts. Two introductory chapters are followed by 17 chapters that each focus on a specific disorder and include research, clinical assessment, rehabilitation, and a detailed case study. Disorders range across the full spectrum from common ones such as traumatic brain injury and dementia, to rare disorders such as autotopagnosia. Each of the 16 chapters retained from the first edition has been revised to reflect current research and clinical advances. Three new chapters on multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and Huntington's disease incorporate discussion of important current topics such as genetically-transmitted diseases, genetic counseling, gene transplantation, functional neurosurgery, and the complex ethical issues that go hand-in-hand with these new techniques. This informative and engaging book will be of interest to students of clinical psychology, neuropsychology, and neurology, health professionals who work with neurological patients, neurological patients and their families, and lay readers who are simply fascinated by the mind and brain.


Food Additives

Food Additives

Author: A. Larry Branen

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2001-11-01

Total Pages: 1058

ISBN-13: 0824741706

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Offering over 2000 useful references and more than 200 helpful tables, equations, drawings, and photographs, this book presents research on food phosphates, commercial starches, antibrowning agents, essential fatty acids, and fat substitutes, as well as studies on consumer perceptions of food additives. With contributions from nearly 50 leading international authorities, the Second Edition of Food Additives details food additives for special dietary needs, contemporary studies on the role of food additives in learning, sleep, and behavioral problems in children, safety and regulatory requirements in the U.S. and the European Union, and methods to determine hypersensitivity.


Lishman's Organic Psychiatry

Lishman's Organic Psychiatry

Author: Daniel David

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-04-02

Total Pages: 972

ISBN-13: 0470675071

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The new edition of this classic textbook has now been extensively revised by a team of five authors, yet it follows the tradition of the original single-authored book. It continues to provide a comprehensive review of the cognitive, emotional and behavioural consequences of cerebral disorders and their manifestations in clinical practice. Enabling clinicians to formulate incisive diagnoses and appropriate treatment strategies


Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Author: M. Filippi

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 8847022347

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"Why are there no effective treatments for my condition? Why do researchers exclude patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis from enrolling in clinical trials? Please let me know if you hear of studies that I might be allowed to enter or treatments that I could try for my condition. " Thus, in recent years, the sad lament of the patient with primary progressive MS (PPMS). This variant, often in the guise of a chronic progressive myelopathy or, less commonly, progressive cerebellar or bulbar dysfunction, usually responds poorly to corticosteroids and rarely seems to benefit to a significant degree from intensive immunosuppressive treatments. In recent years, most randomized clin ical trials have excluded PPMS patients on two counts. Clinical worsening devel ops slowly in PPMS and may not be recognized during the course of a 2-or 3-year trial even in untreated control patients. This factor alone adds to the potential for a type 2 error or, at the very least, inflates the sample size and duration of the trial. In addition, there is mounting evidence that progressive axonal degeneration and neuronal loss (rather than active, recurrent inflammation) may be important components of the pathology in this form of the disease. Although contemporary trials are evaluating whether PPMS patients may benefit from treatment with the ~-interferons and glatiramer acetate, preliminary, uncontrolled clinical experi ence suggests that the results may not be dramatic.


Mental Health Outcome Measures

Mental Health Outcome Measures

Author: Graham Thornicroft

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 3642802028

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Mental Health Outcome Measures provides an authoritative review of measurement scales currently available to assess the outcomes of mental health service intervention. The excerpt of summaries by leading writers in the field assess the contributions of scale in areas including mental state examination, quality of life, patient satisfaction, needs assessments, measurement of service cost, global functioning scales, and social disability. These chapters provide a critical appraisal of how far such scales have been shown to be reliable and valid, and provide valuable insights in to their ease of use. This book will provide an invaluable reference manual for those who want to take research on mental health services, and for those who need to interpret this research for policy, planning, and clinical practice.


Endocrinology of Aging

Endocrinology of Aging

Author: Emiliano Corpas

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13: 012819667X

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Endocrinology of Aging: Clinical Aspects in Diagrams and Images presents chapters in a way that allows the reader to incorporate concepts and complex facts in a visual way. As the global population becomes older, the need for a deeper understanding of geriatric pathology increases, and with it, there becomes a greater need to access educational resources on the endocrinology and metabolism of aging. According to the United Nations, the number of people aged 60 years or over in the world is projected to be 1.4 billion in 2030 and 2.1 billion in 2050, hence this is a timely resource. Divided according to specific endocrine and metabolic systems, providing evidence-based content Addresses physiological changes that alter the pathophysiology of the clinical picture Considers the patient transitioning from young adult to elderly, discussing endocrinological challenges to discern physiology from pathology Focuses on age as an essential factor for diagnostic and endocrine management