12 minutes ago - Book PDF A Guide to Effective Studying and Learning: Practical Strategies from the Science of Learning | In contrast with other texts in the field, which offer advice based on intuition or opinion, A Guide to Effective Studying and Learning is the first text of its kind to be based on learning research. Covering understanding, innovation, creativity, and collaboration &amp teamwork, this practical guide introduces readers to the actual science of learning. It uses demonstrations to help students understand how recommended techniques actually work and short format and action lists to show them how to apply the science to their own learning.
 

17 minutes ago - Read ebook PDF Contemporary Health Promotion in Nursing Practice | In Contemporary Health Promotion in Nursing Practice, Bonnie Raingruber describes why nurses are positioned to model healthy behavior to the general public, and how they can promote health to their clients and community. This text emphasizes the nurse8217s role in health promotion, and illustrates how healthy behaviors, like weight management, positive dietary changes, smoking cessation, and exercise, are more likely to be adopted by clients if nurses adopt these same behaviors. This is the most up-to-date health promotion text available, and includes detailed sections on: 8226 Innovations, regulations, and policies developed in recent years that changed health promotion practice 8226 Health disparities 8226 Health literacy 8226 Alternative and complementary healing 8226 Effective methods of promoting health and increasing client adherence to healthy behaviors 8226 Standardized ways of evaluating health promotion interventions 8226 Entrepreneurship 8226 Information technology and 
 

15 minutes ago - Book PDF Medical Coding: What It Is and How It Works | In clear and straightforward language, Medical Coding: What It Is and How It Works, Second Edition provides an overview of the evolution of medical coding and all the various coding systems, how they relate, and how they function. Reasoning and consequences of the delayed ICD-10 implementation are explained along with a sound overview of the ICD-10-CM and PCS classification systems. For those contemplating a career in the coding field, this book is ideal as a basic orientation. Other individuals in healthcare management and administration will also benefit from a basic understanding of how coding works. Unlike other publications that focus only on coding, this book integrates coding guidelines and principles into the billing and reimbursement process, giving the student a more practical foundation in the rationale for correct coding. Healthcare fraud and abuse is addressed as well, to assure that readers understand ethical concerns inherent in coding for reimbursement. Instructor 
 

11 minutes ago - PDF READ ONLINE Medical Coding: What It Is and How It Works | In clear and straightforward language, Medical Coding: What It Is and How It Works, Second Edition provides an overview of the evolution of medical coding and all the various coding systems, how they relate, and how they function. Reasoning and consequences of the delayed ICD-10 implementation are explained along with a sound overview of the ICD-10-CM and PCS classification systems.For those contemplating a career in the coding field, this book is ideal as a basic orientation. Other individuals in healthcare management and administration will also benefit from a basic understanding of how coding works.Unlike other publications that focus only on coding, this book integrates coding guidelines and principles into the billing and reimbursement process, giving the student a more practical foundation in the rationale for correct coding. Healthcare fraud and abuse is addressed as well, to assure that readers understand ethical concerns inherent in coding for reimbursement.Instructor 
 

19 minutes ago - PDF The complete guide on chronic kidney disease.: chronic kidney disease: The efficient and best way of getting rid of chronic kidney disease for good, and all you need to know about it. | In chronic kidney disease (CKD), kidney function gradually declines over time. Kidney failure is a serious condition that can strike at any time.If you have chronic kidney disease, you are experiencing a progressive decline in kidney function. In your urine, your kidneys remove waste and excess fluids from your blood. A buildup of fluid, electrolytes, and wastes in the body of someone with advanced chronic kidney disease can be extremely dangerous.There may be no obvious signs or symptoms in the early stages of chronic kidney disease. It's possible that you don't even realize you have kidney disease until the disease has progressed significantly.When dealing with chronic kidney disease, the goal of treatment is to reduce the rate of kidney damage by addressing the underlying cause. Even if the underlying cause is eliminated, kidney damage may still progress. In the absence of dialysis or a kidney transplant, chronic kidney disease can progress to end-stage renal failure, which is 
 

18 minutes ago - PDF READ ONLINE Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience | In Brain &amp Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, authors Bob Garrett and Gerald Hough showcase the ever-expanding body of research into the biological foundations of human behavior through a big-picture approach. With thought-provoking examples and a carefully crafted, vibrant visual program, the text allows any student to appreciate the importance and relevance of this field of study. New features to the Sixth Edition include fully revised learning objectives, a streamlined box feature program, an expanded collection of foundational animations, and updated research on timely topics such as drugs and addiction, sex and gender, and emotions and health.
 

6 minutes ago - Read ebook PDF Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience | In Brain &amp Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, authors Bob Garrett and Gerald Hough showcase the ever-expanding body of research into the biological foundations of human behavior through a big-picture approach. With thought-provoking examples and a carefully crafted, vibrant visual program, the text allows any student to appreciate the importance and relevance of this field of study. New features to the Sixth Edition include fully revised learning objectives, a streamlined box feature program, an expanded collection of foundational animations, and updated research on timely topics such as drugs and addiction, sex and gender, and emotions and health.
 

20 minutes ago - PDF READ Rabbit Medicine and Surgery: Self-Assessment Color Review, Second Edition (Veterinary Self-Assessment Color Review Series) | In both the UK and US rabbits are the third most popular mammalian pet after cats and dogs. This has led both to the expectation of high quality veterinary care and great improvements in the medical and surgical management of rabbits. Rabbit Medicine and Surgery: Self-Assessment Color Review covers a wide range of topics from basic biology and husbandry to advanced diagnostic, medical, and surgical techniques. It is a practical, easy-to-read, and illustrated reference book useful in the clinical setting to help diagnose and treat clinical cases. It is also useful as a revision guide to test the knowledge of those taking examinations in exotic animal medicine. This new edition offers an increased emphasis on more advanced diagnostic and imaging techniques as well as recent advances in emergency care, analgesia, and surgery. Written by practitioners with many years of experience treating rabbits, this edition includes 230 new and updated cases in random order, as they would be 
 

7 minutes ago - PDF Both Sides Now: A Journey From Researcher to Patient | In Both Sides Now an internationally recognized researcher in neurogenetic disorders shares her personal and professional journey. Having been a member of the team that discovered the first Parkinson8217s disease-causing gene mutation in the synuclein protein, she realizes she is developing symptoms of the very disease she had researched. Only after facing a disease that can cause complete dependency is she able to forge her independence. It is the story, too, of the new perspective her lifelong fear of birds takes on when she learns that the gene she helped discover is responsible for song learning in the male zebra finch.
 

3 minutes ago - PDF READ Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic) | In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession s ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and