The latest edition of this text is the go-to book on rapid response systems (RRS). Thoroughly updated to incorporate current principles and practice of RRS, the text covers topics such as the logistics of creating an RRS, patient safety, quality of care, evaluating program results, and engaging in systems research.Edited and written by internationally recognized experts and innovators in the field, Textbook of Rapid Response Systems: Concepts and Implementation, Second Edition

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

Examining the First World War through the lens of the American SouthHow did World War I affect the American South? Did southerners experience the war in a particular way? How did regional considerations and, more generally, southern values and culture impact the wider war effort? Was there a distinctive southern experience of WWI?Scholars considered these questions during “Dixie’s Great War,” a symposium held at the University of Alabama in October...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

Fearing that things had gone cold in the bedroom, Vivian takes her girlfriend Gabrielle on a blind date. What Gabrielle doesn’t know is that the restaurant Vivian is taking her to is actually a swinger’s club. As Gabrielle is seated with Vivian at a table, another couple is soon seated with them. Little does Gabrielle and Vivian know that this will be one of the hottest nights of their lives.

Prosecutor Jessie Black has an airtight case against Tyrone Nash, a gang thug who shot a man behind a bar in West Philly. But what should be an easy trial turns complicated when Nash somehow intimidates her eyewitness, and he recants his testimony on the eve of the trial. Now Jessie's only move to stop the killer from walking is to call a witness she had hoped to avoid—Reggie Tuck, a smooth-talking jailhouse snitch who claims Nash confessed to him during a short time they shared a cell. Wo...

A powerful corporation. A legal system bought and paid for. A prosecutor willing to risk everything for justice.In a courthouse hallway, Assistant District Attorney Jessie Black runs into an old law school friend. Jessie is excited to catch up with Kelly . . . until she realizes the lawyer is terrified.Kelly is representing grieving parents against a large corporation whose failure to meet safety standards caused a child's death. The company stands to lose ...

After years prosecuting murderers, Assistant District Attorney Jessie Black doesn't think there's anything that can truly disturb her. She's wrong.When a distraught teenage girl shows up out of nowhere, demanding to talk, Jessie thinks the girl looks familiar but can't quite place her. The girl claims her father was murdered and the police are letting the killer get away with it. Jessie feels for the girl, but investigating murders is the role of the police departm...

They are the witches that couldn't be burned, but the Hunters will never stop trying…Daphne is a normal girl, until she isn’t.At the start of the new school year, her biggest problems are fitting in with her new foster family, making friends at her new school, and maybe even finding a boyfriend.But then she finds out she’s a witch, the witch hunts never really ended, and she and her real mother are being hunted by the descendants of the ori...

When you close the door of a luxury sedan, the resulting deep, satisfying thud feels like an absolute guarantee of safety and superior craftsmanship. But that precise sound is entirely artificial, engineered over thousands of hours. Before the 1980s, car doors sounded like cheap tin cans snapping shut. As safety regulations increased, manufacturers realized that consumers did not judge safety by crash test ratings, but by the tactile, auditory feedback of the vehicle's hardware. This fasci...