Authors:Mary Ann Hogan, Margaret M. Gingrich, Mary Jean Ricc
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: amp, hall, nursing, reviews, prentice, rationales, balance, electrolytes, acid, base, fluids
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-12-25
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0132240793
ISBN-13: 9780132240796

Essential for course review and NCLEX review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of fluids, electrolytes, and acid-base balance. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post-tests with rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts. Unique to Prentice Hall’s Nursing Reviews & Rationales Series, a comprehensive CD-ROM and Companion Website, available free of charge, provide additional review. Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering balances and imbalances of sodium, potassi

Authors:Mary Ann Hogan, Mary Jean Ricci, Donna Taliaferro, Sa
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: nursing, fundamentals, rationales, amp, hall, reviews, prentice
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-09-02
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0132240785
ISBN-13: 9780132240789

Essential for NCLEX, course and competencey review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of nursing fundamentals. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post chapter tests with comprehensive rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts and new test-taking strategies.  Content includes all of the "need-to-know" facts covering the nursing process, physical assessment, communication, professional standards, health promotion through the lifespan, and more.

Authors:Jean M. Larson, Mary Meyer,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: therapeutic, horticulture, intergenerational, sourcebook, gardening, together, generations
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2006-05-11
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1560223200
ISBN-13: 9781560223207

Bring a Sensory Garden to life in a structured therapeutic horticulture program!Intergenerational gardening programs bring the generations together. This book presents a tested, hands-on, easy-to-use activity plan that benefits the development of relationships between adults over 70 and school-age children. It shows how to limit frustration for both groups, how to plan activities that are functional and non-contrived, and how to assure that the interaction between elders and children is rewarding and pleasant for both. The activities rely on inexpensive, readily available tools and resources a

Authors:Donna Niday, Jean Boreen, Joe Potts, Mary K. Johnson,
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Keywords: reflecting, coaching, guiding, second, beginning, teachers, mentoring
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2009-01-22
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 1571107428
ISBN-13: 9781571107428

The first edition of Mentoring Beginning Teachers was named an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association’s Choice magazine in 2000. The expanded second edition—packed with insights, anecdotes, and updated research—provides mentors with a road map for helping new teachers become confident, reflective educators. The collaborative model outlined in the book is enlightening and rewarding for the mentor and the novice alike.   The authors have incorporated the latest findings on all aspects of mentoring—from preparing to be a mentoring guide or coach to school culture

Authors:Jean Franco, Mary Louise Pratt, Kathleen M. Newman,
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: contemporary, interventions, post, essays, passions, selected, critical
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 082232248X
ISBN-13: 9780822322481

Authors:Jean-Pierre Banâtre, Pascal Fradet, Jean-Louis Giavi
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: selected, revised, september, invited, computer, issues, general, science, france, michel, international, paradigms, programming, workshop, upp, saint, mont, unconventional
Number of Pages: 367
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $67.00
ISBN-10: 3540278842
ISBN-13: 9783540278849

Unconventional approaches to programming have long been developed, in various niches and out of curiosity, and they constitute a reservoir of alternative avenues to deal with unknown programming challenges. New paradigms of programming are currently experiencing a renewed period of interest and growth to cope with problems from specific application domains. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Unconventional Programming Paradigms, UPP 2004, held at Le Mont Saint Michel, France, in September 2004. The 26 revised full papers presented

Authors:Jean-Pierre Briot, Jean-Marc Geib, Akinori Yonezawa,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: japan, selected, june, papers, lecture, science, computer, notes, tokyo, obpdc, parallel, based, distributed, computation, workshop, france, object
Number of Pages: 349
Published: 1996-08-29
List price: $82.95
ISBN-10: 3540614877
ISBN-13: 9783540614876

This book contains a refereed collection of revised papers selected from the presentations at the France-Japan Workshop on Object-Based Parallel and Distributed Computation, OBPDC’95, held in Tokyo in June 1995. The 18 full papers included in the book constitute a representative, well-balanced set of timely research contributions to the growing field of object-based concurrent computing. The volume is organized in sections on massively parallel programming languages, distributed programming languages, formalisms, distributed operating systems, dependable distributed computing, and softwa