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Ready for RICA: A Test Preparation Guide for California's Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (2nd Edition)
This book offers prospective teachers all of the information they need in order to pass the written version of California's Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA) examination This book offers a comprehensive review of all thirteen of the content areas that the RICA tests along with a sample test, with answers for practice. The introduction includes an overview of the test, plus tips and clues for pre-test study, pointers for how to structure essay answers, hints for how to “think like the test preparers,” and more. For prospective educators working to pass California's Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA) examination. .
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Physician Assistant: A Guide to Clinical Practice: Expert Consult: Online and Print (Physician Assistant)
Heres the only book dedicated to giving you the complete information that you need to become an effective Physician Assistant and maintain those high standards in practice. This up-to-date edition covers all aspects of the physician assistant profession, the PA curriculum, and the PA's role in practice, all in an easy-to-use textbook format that features convenient tables and clear illustrations, as well as case studies and clinical application questions. Youll find this book invaluable throughout your course of study, when entering the job market, and as an excellent reference in clinical practice. And, with this Expert Consult title, youll be able to search the entire contents of the book, online, from anywhere. - Covers all the core competencies that you need to master for year one or for recertification, so you can excel.
- Gives you the information you need on all of the rotations and practice areas that are open to you to help you make the right decisions.
- Offers practical Pros and Cons box for each rotation and area of practice to aid in day-to-day decision making.
- Utilizes a fresh new two color format for better visual guidance.
- Focuses on clinical information with case studies included at the end of each chapter.
- Includes a new chapter on evidence-based medicine to prepare you for daily practice.
- Provides Expert Consult access so you can search the entire contents of the book, online.
- Includes a new chapter on Physician Assistants in international medicine to keep you on the cutting edge.
Your purchase entitles you to access the website until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. If the next edition is published less than one year after your purchase, you will be entitled to online access for one year from your date of purchase. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should access to the website be discontinued..
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Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures (5th Edition)
Striking a unique balance between skills and theory, Intercultural Competence provides readers with the background and confidence to succeed in today's multi-cultural environment. Blending both the practical and the theoretical, the concrete and the abstract, this book is both enjoyable to read and thoroughly researched. By clearly explaining different theories and the significance of cultural patterns and having readers practice what they learn via examples in the book, Intercultural Competence better prepares readers to interact in intercultural relationships. The book also provides a discussion of important ethical and social issues relating to intercultural communication. The authors cover American multiculturalism as well as global cultural issues. For anyone interested in intercultural communication..
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Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills
This market-leading, user-friendly textbook provides complete coverage of nearly 150 nursing skills in a streamlined, step-by-step, visual format. More than 860 full-color photos and drawings clarify key concepts, bringing important procedures and techniques to life. The nursing process framework helps put nursing skills in the context of care delivery and rationales for key steps help you understand why specific techniques are used. - The nursing process provides a consistent framework that helps you understand where skills fit into the broader context of patient care.
- A section on standard beginning and completion protocols is printed on the inside front cover so that routine steps are not repeated throughout the text.
- Similar skills are covered together, to reflect the way they are commonly taught.
- Easy-to-follow, 2-column format lists key steps for each skill with appropriate rationales to help you understand and remember why specific techniques are used.
- Over 860 full-color photographs and drawings clearly show how key procedures and specific steps are performed.
- Nurse Alerts bring important safety issues or critical steps to your attention.
- A Glove logo provides a visual reminder of when to apply clean gloves.
- Sterile Gloving instructions are highlighted in easy-to-spot, bright blue type.
- Delegation Considerations provide essential guidance for delegating a skill to unlicensed assistive personnel.
- Special considerations include age-related, home care, and long-term care issues.
- Communication Tips help you prepare and support clients for procedures.
- An Evidence-Based Practice section in each chapter summarizes a relevant nursing research study and its findings, explaining its application to best practice.
- New skills cover Neurological Assessment; Application of Antiembolism Stockings and Sequential Compression Device; Obtaining Blood Pressure from Lower Extremity by Auscultation; Electronic Blood Pressure Measurement; Urine Screening for Glucose, Ketones, Proteins, Blood, and pH; and Teaching Clients Self-Injection, Breast and Testicular Self-Examinations.
- NCLEX® examination-style review questions for each chapter prepare you for the exam and include the new alternate-item format questions.
- Cross-references to Nursing Skills Online direct you to the appropriate module and lesson for skills included in the course.
- A View Video icon reminds you to watch more than 80 video-clips from Mosby's Nursing Skills Videos on the Evolve® website.
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Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies (Medical Assisting: Administrative & Clinical Competencies)
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Handbook of Competence and Motivation
This important handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative review of achievement motivation and establishes the concept of competence as an organizing framework for the field. The editors synthesize diverse perspectives on why and how individuals are motivated in school, work, sports, and other settings. Written by leading investigators, chapters reexamine central constructs in achievement motivation; explore the impact of developmental, contextual, and sociocultural factors; and analyze the role of self-regulatory processes. Focusing on the ways in which achievement is motivated by the desire to experience competence and avoid experiencing incompetence, the volume integrates disparate theories and findings and sets forth a coherent agenda for future research. .
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So Smart But...: How Intelligent People Lose Credibility - and How They Can Get it Back
This fascinating book demonstrates that to be a good communicator and therefore an effective manager, a person must have five qualities in order to be viewed as totally credible–competence, character, composure, sociability, and extroversion. While some executives seem to possess all these qualities and be born with savvy communication skills, Weiner shows how anyone can find ways to make measurable improvements in how they present themselves that will enhance their credibility..
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