Research Methods for Nursing and Healthcare

By: John Maltby
Publisher: Pearson Custom Publishing
Year: 2010, PDF 8.8 Mb

Research Methods for Nursing and Healthcare is an essential introductory text for all nursing and healthcare students coming to research methods for the first time or those nurses and healthcare staff wishing to improve their skills in this area. The book includes comprehensive coverage of the main research methods topics, and provides guidance on how to understand and apply research techniques.

Everyday nursing examples are used throughout to explain research methods concepts and their relevance to practice. Simple self-assessment tasks are included at the end of chapters; the tests can be undertaken individually, or within groups, to assess the student's understanding of the concepts and skills being learnt.

Research Methods for Nursing and Healthcare takes the fear out of research methods for all nursing and healthcare professionals.

Excellent introductory text that brings interest to research methods for student nurses. Dr Aimee Aubeeluck, Deputy Director: Graduate Entry Nursing, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy University of Nottingham \"I think this is one of the most readable books on research I have read......

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The Nurse Mentor's Handbook: Supporting Students in Clinical Practice

By: Danny Walsh
publisher: Open University Press
year: 2010, PDF 2.3 Mb

All nurses have a duty, via their professional code of conduct, to pass on their knowledge and this book is the ideal companion text for all new and trainee nurse mentors. This book provides a unique guide to strategies and ideas to help devise and enhance learning opportunities for their students.

With a practical and accessible style, the book answers all those questions that mentors may have about the mentoring role, including: \tHow can I create a good learning environment? \tHow should I assess students in practice? \tHow do I support failing students? \tWhat should I include in my mentors portfolio? The book includes cases, quotes from practitioners, strategies, tools and interventions that you can use in clinical practice.

The Nurse Mentor's Handbook is centred around the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) mentor standards, and is easy to relate to nurse mentor courses and the requirements for effective updating

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E-Health Systems Quality and Reliability: Models and Standards

By: Anastasius Moumtzoglou
publisher: IGI Global
year: 2010, pages: 399,

Healthcare professionals and patients hold fundamentally different views with respect to the content of quality in healthcare as related to the reliability of systems and services. E-Health Systems Quality and Reliability: Models and Standards addresses the reason, principles and functionality of health and health care systems and presents a novel framework for revealing,

understanding and implementing appropriate management interventions leading to qualitative improvement. It also provides evidence on the quality and reliability of telemedicine and reviews standards and guidelines for practicing medicine at a distance.

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Organic Chemistry 5th Ed. by William H

By William H. Brown, Christopher S. Foote, Brent L. Iverson, Eric Anslyn
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Number Of Pages: 1272
Publication Date: 2008-01-10
ISBN-10 : 0495388572, 77.2 MB, rared SWF

Description:
An excellent introduction for chemistry, biology, and premed majors, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Fifth Edition, delivers cutting-edge coverage that is packed with student-friendly features. Offering a clear presentation, the book offsets reaction mechanisms in a stepwise fashion and emphasizes similarities between related mechanisms. And, for the first time, it introduces organic chemistry of sulfur and phosphorus.

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Fifth Edition, is renowned for its unified mechanistic themes, emphasis on biological examples, use of applied problems from the pharmaceutical field, and unrivaled full-color visuals. The new fifth edition features increased coverage of bioorganic chemistry, expanded in-text learning tools, and even stronger media integration--including ORGANIC OWL, its powerful Web-based homework system.

Numerous resources help ensure student success in the course, including a running margin glossary, an in-text study guide, and more in-chapter examples than any text on the market. The text also emphasizes how-to skills throughout and is packed with challenging synthesis problems as well as medicinal chemistry problems.

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The Doctor's Guide to Overseas Training

By Overseas doctors
Publisher: Medco
Number Of Pages: 900
Publication Date: 2001-07-01
File Size : 5 MB Type : PDF

Description: This is an important book for all Doctors aspiring to work or train in different countries. The book gives comprehensive information and step by step guidelines for general and specialist training opportunities in USA, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Whether you want to know about USMLE, CSA, Residency, TOEFL, PLAB, IELTS, Jobs, Visa, Books or any other important topic, you will find answer in this book.

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PDF For 100 Questions & Answers About Prostate Disease

by : Kevin R. Loughlin
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: 2006
File Size : PDF
File Type : 1,6 MB

By providing both the doctor's and patient's view, this book gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options.

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Sex Hormones and Immunity to Infection

By Sabra L. Klein, Craig Roberts
Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 319
File Size : 2.969 MB
File Type : rar'd pdf with cover & bookmarks


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Why sex matters
Among human and nonhuman animals, the prevalence and intensity of infection typically is higher in males than females and may reflect differences in exposure as well as susceptibility to pathogens.

Elevated immunity among females is a double-edged sword in which it is beneficial against infectious diseases but is detrimental in terms of increased development of autoimmune diseases.
The present book critically reviews the evolutionary origin and the functional mechanisms responsible for sexual dimorphism in response to infection. It emphasizes the value of examining responses in both males and females to improve our understanding about host-pathogen interactions in both sexes.

The contributors are experts in their specific disciplines which range from microbiology and immunology to genetics, pathology, and evolutionary biology.

The book aims at bringing insight to the treatment and management of infectious diseases; it delineates areas where knowledge is lacking and highlights future avenues of research.

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Kaplan Medical USMLE Step 1 Qbook (Kaplan USMLE Qbook)

Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing; Study Gd edition (August 31, 2004)
ISBN-10: 0743262387

Description
Are you ready for Step 1 of the USMLE?
USMLE Step 1 Qbook from Kaplan Medical -- -the leading provider of test preparation for medical licensure -- provides you with 850 high-yield exam-style questions, plus Kaplan Medical's highly effective test-taking strategies.

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100 Questions & Answers about Hysterectomy

By Delthia Ricks, Lloyd B. Greig
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 180, Date: 2006-12-25
ISBN-10 : 0763734632

Six hundred and thirty-three thousand women undergo hysterectomy each year in the United States. Whether you or a loved one is considering or undergoing hysterectomy for medical or personal reasons, the options and information about hysterectomy can be overwhelming.

This invaluable resource offers the guidance and advice you need. Written by a prominent obstetrician and gynecologist and by a consumer advocate and consultant to the industry, 100 Questions & Answers About Hysterectomy gives you authoritative, practical answers to your pre- and post- surgery questions, sources of support, and much more.

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Vaginal Hysterectomy By Shirish S. Sheth, John Studd

By Shirish S. Sheth, John Studd
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Pages: 392, Date: 2001-11-08
ISBN-10 : 1901865436,  pdf. rar 39.27 MB

Advances in laparoscopic technology have led to new interest in the vaginal approach to hysterectomy, which has many proven benefits for patients. The authors here caution that this technology helps in only a percentage of cases. Experts explain the indications and contra-indications for the vaginal approach, discuss preoperative assessment procedures and offer an evidence-based elucidation of vaginal hysterectomy.

With a full profile of the potential complications, morbidity and mortality associated with the vaginal approach, Vaginal Hysterectomy provides a well-balanced appraisal. It is an essential text for practicing gynecologists, surgeons, consultants and postgraduates.

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Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research, Second Edition

By David Collett
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Pages: 408, Date: 2003-03-28
ISBN-10 : 1584883251
11.21MB RARed PDF

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Critically acclaimed and resoundingly popular in its first edition, Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the many developments and advances--particularly in software--made in the field over the last 10 years.

Now, more than ever, it provides an outstanding text for upper-level and graduate courses in survival analysis, biostatistics, and time-to-event analysis. The treatment begins with an introduction to survival analysis and a description of four studies that lead to survival data. Subsequent chapters then use those data sets and others to illustrate the various analytical techniques applicable to such data, including the Cox regression model, the Weibull proportional hazards model, and others.

This edition features a more detailed treatment of topics such as parametric models, accelerated failure time models, and analysis of interval-censored data. The author also focuses the software section on the use of SAS, summarising the methods used by the software to generate its output and examining that output in detail. All of the data sets used in the book are available for download from www.crcpress.com/e_products/downloads.

Profusely illustrated with examples and written in the author's trademark, easy-to-follow style, Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research, Second Edition is a thorough, practical guide to survival analysis that reflects current statistical practices.

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Davis's Basic Math Review for Nurses with Step-by-Step Solutions

By Vicki Raines
Publisher: F A Davis Co
Pages: 361, Date: 2009-06-08
ISBN-10 : 080362056X, Rar'd PDF 16.5 MB's Full

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This title offers a path to conquering the math skills essential for nursing success...and reducing the anxieties math often induces! Step by step, skill by skill...students progress from simple to complex calculations, building their proficiencies and testing it along the way.

It's perfect for course review and quick reference. Each chapter begins with a pretest to determine the mastery level of the skills presented in that chapter. For each chapter, there are explanations with concrete examples, followed by practice problems.

For every problem, step-by-step solutions help students see where their mistakes occurred and how to correct them. Four comprehensive tests assess mastery of basic math skills and math related to nursing-specific applications.

A chapter test concludes each section. Test-taking tips help students learn how to apply their math knowledge better and reduce test-taking anxiety. A special color highlights the key terms in each skill section and explains how to work through problems. Bonus! A quick-reference, two-color, laminated bookmark features the rules for rounding, changing decimals to percents and percents to decimals, ratios, and other important calculations.

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Handbook on Business Information Systems

By Angappa Gunasekaran
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Pages: 960, Date: 2010-04-27
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9812836055, PDF 7.32 MB

Description:
This handbook covers the vast field of business information systems, focusing particularly on developing information systems to capture and integrate information technology together with the people and their businesses.

Part I of the book, Health Care Information Systems , focuses on providing global leadership for the optimal use of health care information technology (IT). It provides knowledge about the best use of information systems for the betterment of health care services. Part II, Business Process Information Systems , extends the previous theory in the area of process development by recognizing that improvements in intra-organizational business processes need to be complemented by corresponding improvements in inter-organizational processes. Part III deals with Industrial Data and Management Systems and captures the main challenges faced by the industry, such as the changes in the operations paradigm of manufacturing and service organizations. Finally, Part IV, Evaluation of Business Information Systems , discusses the empirical investigation into the adoption of systems development methodologies and the security pattern of the business systems along with the mathematical models.

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PDF For Mechanical Ventilation: Clinical Applications and Pathophysiology

By Peter J. Papadakos MD, B. Lachmann MD PhD
Publisher: Saunders, Pages: 688, Date: 2007-08-29
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0721601863, PDF (15.57MB)

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One of the key tools in effectively managing critical illness is the use of mechanical ventilator support. This essential text helps you navigate this rapidly evolving technology and understand the latest research and treatment modalities.

A deeper understanding of the effects of mechanical ventilation will enable you to optimize patient outcomes while reducing the risk of trauma to the lungs and other organ systems.

* A physiologically-based approach helps you better understand the impact of mechanical ventilation on cytokine levels, lung physiology, and other organ systems.
* The latest guidelines and protocols help you minimize trauma to the lungs and reduce patient length of stay.
* Expert contributors provide the latest knowledge on all aspects of mechanical ventilation, from basic principles and invasive and non-invasive techniques to patient monitoring and controlling costs in the ICU.
* Comprehensive coverage of advanced biological therapies helps you master cutting-edge techniques involving surfactant therapy, nitric oxide therapy, and cytokine modulators.
* Detailed discussions of both neonatal and pediatric ventilator support helps you better meet the unique needs of younger patients.

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A Dictionary of Science, 6th Edition

By Elizabeth A. Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 912, Date: 2010-03-26, ISBN-10 / ASIN: 019956146X
ISBN-10 (eBook): 1615835407,

Description:
Hailed as "handy and readable" (Nature) and "well worth browsing" (New Scientist), this best-selling dictionary contains 9,200 alphabetically organized entries on all aspects of chemistry, physics, biology (including human biology), earth sciences, and astronomy.

In addition to a wealth of reliable, up-to-date entries, users will find useful short biographies of leading scientists, full-page illustrated features on subjects such as the Solar System and Genetically Modified Organisms, and chronologies of specific scientific subjects including plastics, electronics, and cell biology.

This new edition includes expanded coverage of global warming, forensic science, astrophysics, quantum theory, and the solar system. Supported by over 200 diagrams and illustrations, the Dictionary of Science also contains recommended web links for many entries, accessed and kept up to date via the companion website.

 Finally, it has appendices on SI units, fundamental constants, geological time scale, a simplified classification of the plant and animal kingdoms, and the periodic table. Both concise and wide-ranging, this volume is an ideal reference work for students or for a home library.

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A Dictionary of Science, 5th Edition

By John Daintith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 896, Date: 2005-09-16
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0192806416, rar PDF 6 mb

Description:
This best-selling dictionary contains over 9,000 entries on all aspects of science. It provides comprehensive coverage of biology (including human biology), chemistry, physics, the earth sciences, and astronomy.

The entries are supported by over 200 clear diagrams and illustrations, and fully cross-referenced for ease of use. Other features include short biographies of leading scientists, full page illustrated features on subjects such as the Solar System and Genetically Modified Organisms, and chronologies of specific scientific subjects including plastics, electronics, and cell biology.

Both concise and wide-ranging, this dictionary is an ideal handy reference work for students, and a great introduction for non-scientists.

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Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2nd Edition

By Teresa Atwood, Peter Campbell, Howard Parish, Tony Smith, John Stirling, Frank VellaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA, Pages: 736, Date: 2006-08-24
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0198529171, PDF 5 mb

Description:
The Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology provides a comprehensive survey of current biochemistry and molecular biology. Over the last few years, the language of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has expanded enormously to the extent that few scientists can expect to be familiar with all aspects of it. This is partly due to the Genome projects and the successive -omics projects which have provided comprehensive information about genes, the functions of gene products, and cellular processes.

At the same time, terms from other subject areas appear increasingly in the biochemical literature. The popular Dictionary has been comprehensively reviewed and updated to include many important new concepts and words.

The entries are short but informative, providing up-to-date information on a broad range of topics, including definitions for selected terms from Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Chemistry, Genetics, Immunology, Mathematics, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Systems Biology, and Toxicology.

There are over 21,000 main entries, which give details of biochemical substances and the processes in which they are involved, define methods and concepts in molecular biology, and give definitions of biochemical symbols and abbreviations. It points out pitfalls where terms are often confused. It explains the precise syntax of biochemical terms, such as Greek letters and other formatting, which are lost when searching the Internet. In addition the dictionary is illustrated with over 900 chemical structures.

The Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will serve as an invaluable reference for biochemists and molecular biologists seeking information outside their own fields, and for those wishing to revisit fundamental principles.

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The Respiratory System (The Human Body)

By Kara Rogers
Publisher: Rosen Educational Publishing
Pages: 288, Date: 2010-08-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 161530147X, PDF 4 MB's Complete

The human body’s ability to withstand environmental factors and the physical stress of daily life is just as remarkable as its ability to overcome illness and injury. The organs and mechanisms that allow the human body to function are the subjects of this informative and insightful series.

Covering everything from anatomy to physiology to the possible diseases and disorders of several major regions of the human form, these books allow students to learn in detail the systems that are germane to day-to-day activity. Diagrams and illustrations complement the text and help the reader visualize the workings of major organs and structures.

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Encyclopedia For Scientists, Mathematicians, and Inventors

An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed the World (Lives and Legacies Series)

By Doris Simonis, Publisher: Oryx Press
Pages: 256, Date: 1998-12-02
ISBN-10 : 1573561517, rar'd html, 4.17 MB

Description:
The first of four volumes in the landmark Lives and Legacies Oryx Press series, Scientists, Mathematicians, and Inventors profiles approximately 200 men and women who changed the world by leaving lasting legacies in their fields. It fills a gap in the biographical reference shelf by offering far more than basic facts about a scientist's life and work--each entry describes not only the immediate effects of the individual's discoveries, but their impact on later scientific findings as well.

Each entry contains a timeline listing important dates in the biographee's life as well as a bibliography of the most important works on the subject.

A master timeline chronicling major events in scientific exploration and an annotated general bibliography are also included.

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PDF For The Encyclopedia of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse

By Mark S. Gold, Christine Adamec
Publisher: Facts on File, Pages: 359, Date: 2010-07-30
ISBN-10 : 0816077096, PDF, 1.894 MB

Description:
A collection of comprehensive resources for understanding and coping with the complexities of modern health and social concerns. It provides an objective overview of the essential facts and wider social ramifications that have been established by experts about the afflictions covered.

Alcoholism afflicts individuals of all social groups and age levels, although young adults have the greatest risk for addiction to alcohol. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, more than 51 percent of Americans—more than 125 million people over 12 years of age—reported being current drinkers in 2007.

That same year, an estimated 1.3 million people received treatment for the use of alcohol, and another 1.4 million received treatment for using both alcohol and illegal drugs, while roughly 19.3 million others who needed treatment did not receive it.

The Encyclopedia of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse examines the history of alcohol and alcoholism, providing detailed information about alcohol abuse and dependence. It explains the process by which alcohol dependence emerges, contributing factors, how to recognize alcohol dependence, what treatments are available, and the health impact if it is left untreated.

Topics covered include the environmental and genetic factors for alcoholism, psychiatric illnesses associated with it, and the various social issues connected to alcohol use, ranging from lost work days to domestic violence. Appendixes include directories of national agencies and organizations, state agencies and organizations, child protective service agencies, mental health agencies, and statistics on alcohol use and abuse.

Topics include:

* Adolescents and drinking
* Alcohol and the elderly
* Alcohol-related child neglect and abuse
* Alcohol-use disorders
* Driving while intoxicated
* Effects of alcohol and alcohol use in men and women
* Emergency treatment
* Families and alcohol
* Pregnancy and alcohol
* Psychiatric disorders
* Smoking and alcohol
* Underage drinking.

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