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Paperback: 158 pages
Publisher: Scion Publishing; illustrated edition edition (April 15, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1859962823
ISBN-13: 978-1859962824.

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General practitioners place particular emphasis on evidence-based medicine. This new title summarises the key areas of evidence-based medicine and provides many examples thus making it an ideal revision guide for trainee GPs. Practising GPs will also benefit from the book as clinical governance becomes part of the revalidation process proposed by the government and GMC.

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Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve; 2 edition (January 30, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416605177
ISBN-13: 978-1416605171.

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The framework for teaching is a research-based set of components of instruction that are grounded in a constructivist view of learning and teaching. The framework may be used for many purposes, but its full value is realized as the foundation for professional conversations among practitioners as they seek to enhance their skill in the complex task of teaching. The framework may be used as the foundation of a school’s or district’s recruitment and hiring, mentoring, coaching, professional development, and teacher evaluation processes, thus linking all those activities together and helping teachers become more thoughtful practitioners.

The actions teachers can take to improve student learning are clearly identified and fall under four domains of teaching responsibility: Planning and Preparation, the School Environment, Instruction, and Professional Responsibilities. Within the domains are 22 components and 76 descriptive elements that further refine our understanding of what teaching is all about. The framework defines four levels of performance–Unsatisfactory, Basic, Proficient, and Distinguished–for each element, providing a valuable tool that all teachers can use.

This second edition has been revised and updated and also includes frameworks for school specialists, such as school nurses, counselors, library and media specialists, and instructional coaches. Comprehensive, clear, and applicable to teaching across the K–12 spectrum, the framework for teaching described in this book is based on the PRAXIS III: Classroom Performance Assessment criteria developed by Educational Testing Service and is compatible with INTASC standards.

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Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (June 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781744776
ISBN-13: 978-0781744775.

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As an educator, you know how important it is to equip tomorrow’s nurses, physician assistants, and physical therapists with the tools they need to make sound clinical choices—and to ensure that those choices are based on solid clinical evidence.

This user-friendly guide demystifies the often-confusing topic of research, and helps your students use the most current research tools to hone their diagnostic and assessment skills, refine their therapeutic choices, and improve outcomes for their patients.

Guide your students to a clearer view of evidence-based nursing practice… • Clear, accessible content helps students locate the most clinically relevant evidence from current studies, assess the value of that evidence, and teach the basics of evidence-based practice to others. • Step-by-step “how to” approach helps students ask the right questions and critically appraise evidence, while explaining the principles that guide study funding and the generation of sound evidence. • Practical examples let your students see evidence-based decision-making at work in healthcare practice and education. • The latest information dissemination methods help students develop the skills needed to communicate key evidence to colleagues, the media, and health policy makers both locally and globally. • A free CD-ROM with 40 evidence reviews spanning five clinical specialty areas shows students what works and why—and provides ample opportunities for self-paced study and review. • Motivational quotes throughout the text provide insight and inspiration. • Valuable CE credits are available to users answering a series of incisive questions on the CD-ROM.

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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 11 edition (December 3, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0073526525
ISBN-13: 978-0073526522.

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The original text that set the standard for introduction to art courses across the country, Art Fundamentals has guided generations of students through the essential elements of art as well as the rich and varied history of their uses. This eleventh edition has been carefully revised to expand and clarify concepts throughout the text, while adding new material on developing ideas, critical thinking, and time and motion.

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Hardcover: 848 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 4 edition (July 2, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416043926
ISBN-13: 978-1416043928.

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Covering all advanced practice competencies and roles, this book offers strategies for enhancing patient care and legitimizing your role within today’s health care system. It covers the history of advanced practice nursing, the theory behind the practice, and emerging issues. Offering a comprehensive exploration of advanced practice nursing, this edition also adds a focus on topics including the APN scope of practice, certification, and the ethical and legal issues that occur in clinical practice.

• The development of all major competencies of advanced practice nursing is discussed: direct clinical practice, consultation, coaching/guidance, research, leadership, collaboration, and ethical decision-making.
• Advanced practice competencies are discussed in relation to all advanced practice nursing and blended CNS-NP roles (case manager, acute care nurse practitioner), highlighting the shared aims and distinctions of each role.
• In-depth discussions on educational strategies explain how competencies develop as the nurses’ practice progresses.
• A chapter on research competencies demonstrates how to use evidence-based research in practice, and how to promote these research competencies to other APNs.
• A conceptual framework shows the clear relationship between the competencies, roles, and challenges in today’s health care environment.
• Practical strategies are provided for business management, contracting, and marketing.

• Comprehensive information covers the essential competencies of the new Doctor of Nursing Practice degree.
• More exemplars (case studies) provide real-life scenarios showing APN competencies in action.
• A new chapter shows how to provide reliable and valid data to substantiate your impact and justify equitable reimbursement for APN services, also enhancing your skills in quality improvement strategies, informatics, and systems thinking.
• Information on telehealth considerations covers the new sources of electronic healthcare information available to patients and describes how to counsel them on using reliable resources.

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Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 4 edition (August 4, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0787984922
ISBN-13: 978-0787984922.

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Hardcover: 248 pages
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco; 3rd edition (October 5, 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060628391
ISBN-13: 978-0060628390.

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Paperback: 152 pages
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press; 5th edition (July 30, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594601518
ISBN-13: 978-1594601514.

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Wydick s Plain English for Lawyers–now in its fifth edition–has been a favorite of law students, legal writing teachers, lawyers, and judges for over 25 years.

In January 2005, the Legal Writing Institute gave Wydick its Golden Pen Award for having written Plain English for Lawyers. The Legal Writing Institute is a non-profit organization that provides a forum for discussion and scholarship about legal writing, analysis, and research. The Institute has over 1,300 members representing all of the ABA-accredited law schools in the United States. Its membership also includes law teachers from other nations, English teachers, and practicing lawyers.

The LWI award states: ‘Plain English for Lawyers . . . has become a classic. Perhaps no single work has done more to improve the writing of lawyers and law students and to promote the modern trend toward a clear, plain style of legal writing.’

In 2003 Wydick retired after 32 years on the law faculty of the University of California, Davis. But he still teaches his favorite course — a seminar in advanced legal writing for third-year law students. For the past eight summers he has also lectured at the International Legislative Drafting Institute presented in New Orleans by the Public Law Center, a joint venture of Tulane and Loyola law schools. There the audience consists of lawyers and non-lawyers from abroad who earn their living drafting legislation in many different languages. ‘Teaching at the Institute,’ Wydick says, ‘is a precious opportunity to learn how much we English-users have in common with people who write laws in other languages.’

How does the fifth edition of Plain English for Lawyers differ from its predecessors? It remains (in size only!) a little book, small enough and palatable enough not to intimidate over-loaded law students. ‘Most of the text remains the same,’ Wydick says, ‘but in the past seven years I ve learned some new things about writing in English, and I want to share that with the readers.’ In addition, the exercises at the end of the chapters are different (a welcome change for long-time teachers who are tired of the old ones). Finally, the teacher’s manual includes additional exercises that teachers can give to students who want or need extra practice.

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Paperback: 642 pages
Publisher: Aspen Publishers; 3 edition (January 19, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735540241
ISBN-13: 978-0735540248.

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A favorite among law students and professors alike, the Examples & Explanations series is ideal for studying, reviewing and testing your understanding through application of hypothetical examples. Authored by leading professors with extensive classroom experience, Examples & Explanations titles offer hypothetical questions in the subject area, complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topic, and compare your own analysis.

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Hardcover: 728 pages
Publisher: W. H. Freeman; 4th edition (August 4, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 071677478X
ISBN-13: 978-0716774785.

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In the #1 bestselling brief text, The Basic Practice of Statistics (BPS), Moore brings the data analysis approach to the one-term course, with an accessible, fun style that helps students with limited mathematical backgrounds utilize the same tools, techniques, and interpretive skills working statisticians rely on everyday.

This extraordinary new edition of Moore’s classic offers a number of innovations, including briefer chapters, a new problem-solving process, a wealth of new exercises, and new all-in-one place StatsPortal, with all the electronic tools instructors and students need.

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