An ancient religious relic.An atheist.An innocent accident.A battle for Humanity.Cain has become a pawn in a bloody tug of war between Heaven and Hell, that's raged on since the dawn of time.Lilith, an innocent mixed into the war holds the key to Cain's heart.She now dangles in Purgatory, just out of his reach.Will Heaven or Hell win out or will her love fuel his rage?***Warning: This book is a cliffhanger and contains graphic scen...

This mystery, intrigue, and adventure story may be only a year or two away from real-life events. Two women scientists intend to capture DNA samples of discovered remarkable life forms within vents existing in the deepest ocean depths.The older and brilliant scientist reflects only on the mission — while the younger, who is both bright and certified blond bombshell, is incessantly seeing every situation in terms of its sexual implications — or sexual potential.The vents the...

In this volume, Steven Evans reports on a quarter century of work-work that resulted in a commercial product known as the PACE System. An advanced clinical management system, PACE links all care delivery set tings and reaches across multiple episodes. It offers capabilities critical to managed care, including care planning and clinical pathways, the critical pathway analyzer and clinical repository central to outcomes-based care, and more. The pages that follow describe the PACE project, f...

THE AMAZING TRUE STORY—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA true story full of drama, love, insurmountable odds, and miraculous triumph experienced by ordinary people who rose up to answer the call to help an innocent child, about one woman in particular who looked beyond her own limitations to say yes to the impossible.Sharon Stevens, twice divorced, barely making enough to support herself, would never claim to be an angel. Early in life, perilous situations were t...

Wound CareIn this course, you will study wound healing, wound care, contaminated wounds, and burns. Information you read in this course will aid you in maintaining and improving the health of a patient.This course is part of our Injuries and Emergencies series.Includes a questions and answers section at the end of each lesson.Full illustrations and diagrams included.Lessons:- Wound Healing and Wound Care- Contaminated Wounds- Bu...

Health institutions are investing in and fielding information technology solutions at an unprecedented pace. With the recommendations from the Institute of Medicine around information technology solutions for patient safety, mandates from industry groups such as Leapfrog about using infor mation systems to improve health care, and the move toward evidence based practice, health institutions cannot afford to retain manual practices. The installation of multi-million dollar computerized heal...

Are you mentoring students? This is an indispensable handbook for: - both new and experienced mentors seeking practical advice - academic staff who deliver mentorship programmes - link lecturers who support mentors in practice. - Guidance and tips on supporting and assessing - Understanding accountability – mapping to NMC standards - Skills focus, using case studies - Hints, tips, insights and humour - Supporting the student with a disability - Using simulated learning - The role of the si...

This book provides a broad base of information intended to guide professional nurses in pursuing a travel nursing career. Written by a seasoned practitioner, the book includes tips on how to enter the field of travel nursing, negotiate assignment contracts, increase pay, improve benefits and enhance travel assignments.The guide is designed to provide quick access to needed information, and shows nurses how to acquire representation from a staffing company, how to arrive well-prepar...

Written by experts from around the globe (USA, Europe, Australia and Asia) this book explains technical issues, digital information processing and collective experiences from practitioners in different parts of the world practicing a wide range of telenursing applications including telenursing research by professionals in the field. This book lays the foundations for the globalisation of telenursing procedures, making it possible to know that a nursing service could perform on a patient an...

This 4th edition of Introduction to Nursing Informatics is designed for use by practicing nurses and students in undergraduate programs of study. It presents the fundamental concepts of Nursing Informatics, and includes a number of contributions from leading experts who have practiced in the field of informatics over a number of years. The information is presented and integrated in a purposeful manner to encourage you to explore key concepts, starting with the fundamental concepts and then...

Challenges in Professional Supervision draws on the latest research and theory to explore issues, trends and developments in supervision work.The provision of excellent supervision is strongly linked to improved performance and staff retention. In this book, supervision is examined across a broad range of settings, addressing concerns common to a range of professions, including health, social work and counselling. The book is divided into two sections: the first describes ...

This series is directed to health care professionals who are leading the transformation of health care by using information and knowledge. Launched in 1988 as Computers in Health Care, the series offers a broad range of titles: some addressed to specific professions such as nursing, medicine, and health administration; others to special areas of practice such as trauma and radiology. Still other books in the series focus on interdisci plinary issues, such as the computer-based patient reco...