Author: Robert H. Coombs
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: professionals, impaired, drug
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2000-05-05
List price: $30.50
ISBN-10: 0674001745
ISBN-13: 9780674001749
Drawing on more than 120 personal interviews with addicted physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, attorneys, and airline pilots and those who treat them, Robert Coombs gives us a startling picture of drub abuse among "pedestal professionals."
Author: Miriam Austin
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: impaired, flexibly, poses, wimps, yoga
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1999-12-12
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0806943394
ISBN-13: 9780806943398
Crave yoga’s benefits--but feel afraid to look "weird?" Think yoga requires you to look like a pretzel? Now there’s a friendly, full-color, hand-holding, one-step-at-a-time, few-minutes-a-day way to get started. It meets you right where you are, with three different approaches to fit your needs. Instant Yoga gets you going immediately with 15 practice sessions for any time of the day, even when there’s only a few minutes to spare. Run through a sequence and the workout’s over! FixIts offer solutions to specific problems, such as a sore neck, back pain, those aching feet
Author: Patricia Hollora
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Keywords: recovery, addiction, story, nurse, impaired
Number of Pages: 337
Published: 2009-02-03
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1427798621
ISBN-13: 9781427798626
On June 28, 1996, Patricia Holloran’s life changed forever when Drug Control confronted her for the theft of narcotics from the hospital where she worked. So begins a journey that will change everything about what she knows about herself and the world of addiction. As a nurse in a labor and delivery unit, Holloran was working full time on the night shift and taking care of her three children, her husband, and her severely disabled father. She started to take Stadol, a narcotic ten times stronger than morphine, to help her sleep. She kept taking it because she could not stop. Putting a face o
Author: Daniel Ling
Publisher: Alex Graham Bell Assn for Deaf
Keywords: impaired, children, hearing, language, spoken, foundations
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1988-12
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0882001655
ISBN-13: 9780882001654
Author: Ellen D Taira
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: maintain, function, interventions, strategies, impaired, elderly, mentally
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 1991-08-29
List price: $36.96
ISBN-10: 1560241683
ISBN-13: 9781560241683
Provide effective support and sensitive care for the most vulnerable segment of the elderly population--those with mental impairment--with the helpful methods and practical strategies outlined in this invaluable new book. Because of the increasing number of older persons with memory impairments, mental health problems, and Alzheimer’s disease, it is clear that interventions to delay the loss of function in mentally impaired older adults are desperately needed. The Mentally Impaired Elderly offers optimistic guidelines for caregivers of the mentally impaired elderly and demonstrates through t
Authors:G. Young, Allan Ropper, Charles Bolton,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: perspective, clinical, consciousness, impaired, coma
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 1997-12-01
List price: $98.95
ISBN-10: 0070723710
ISBN-13: 9780070723719
This comprehensive resource examines every aspect of coma, including related anatomy, physiology, neurochemistry and pharmacology, new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, and decision making--and presents a clear clinical and investigative approach to the syndromes of impaired consciousness. It’s unqiue blending of neuroscience with sound clinical practice and modern management strategies creates a text that’s eminently useful in daily practice, providing effective management strategies that respect medical, legal and ethical principles. More than a scholarly text, this title ad
Authors:Marion Hersh, Michael A. Johnson,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: blind, people, impaired, visually, technology, assistive
Number of Pages: 725
Published: 2008-03-28
List price: $269.00
ISBN-10: 1846288665
ISBN-13: 9781846288661
Equal accessibility to public places and services is now required by law in many countries. In the case of the vision-impaired, it is often the use of specialised technology which can provide them with a fuller enjoyment of all the facilities of society from large scale meetings and public entertainments to the more personal level of reading a book or making music. In this volume the engineering and design principles and techniques used in assistive technology for blind and vision-impaired people are explained. Features: • instruction in the physiology of the human visual system and method
