Practitioners Books

few psychologists can cite 3 legal cases that have shaped their profession, but everyone is aware of tarasoff. the tarasoff case, and the subsequent statuatory responses in duty to warn or duty to protect, has had a lasting effect on the field. the book briefly describes many of the events that led up to the tragedy. the book briefly discusses the california precedent and subsequent statutes. the book briefly discusses some of the ethical and legal considerations of psychologists when working with such patients. i wish that the author had included greater detail in the historical accounts (especially decision-making processes and errors of clinicians), legal arguments and previous precedents, the nature of the nation-wide legislative responses. i wish that a thorough discussion of how to ethically and legally meet the requirements of tarasoff in a manner that might preserve the therapeutic relationship and perhaps even provide opportunities for growth would have been provided. i wish that a more thorough analysis would have been provided that examines the potential costs (e.g., angry violent patients not discussing their homicidal plans or premature discontinuation of treatment). overall, a worthwhile read and certainly worth the price, used.

I recently bought this book - I have dozens of Tarot books - What is different about this one is that not only does it give meanings for each card, it teaches you to interpret several cards, taking into account the modified meanings cards take on when seen in combination with others - It teaches you with a question/answer format using 3 spreads, the Bohemian, the Romany, and the Celtic Cross - It is illustrated with Kathleen McCormack's 'Beginner's Tarot Deck', which is colorful, cheery, and has clear symbolism -

As the shortage of nurses increase and the number of professional educators for nurses declines, one wonders what can be done to promote the nursing profession and reverse this trend. The impact that nursing education has on these two phenomena is seriously being investigated as a possible cause and cure to these problems. Nursing education, as the book points out, has always been teacher-centered. Nursing educators also act as the one to promote the nurse into the profession or stop the student's progression. This traditional role is spelled out clearly by Nancy Diekelmann and the other writers in their book, Teaching the practitioners of care: New pedagogies for the health professions. In a profession where curriculum is geared towards developing interpersonal skills and working in groups, students find themselves in an environment that is competitive and isolating. The student's relationships with facility are reported characterized with fear, anxiety and anger.

Interpretive pedagogies, individually known as critical, feminist, phenomenological, and postmodern pedagogies, are a particular approach to schooling, learning, and teaching where the focus is placed on students and teachers working to together to learn in community oriented activities. This book uses research and nursing stories to portray a learning climate where these varieties of interpretive pedagogies weave a smooth transition to a new landscape of learning and teaching in nursing. Interpretive pedagogies promote both student and teacher learning. In nursing, which is quickly changing, this method of education provides for a constant flow of valuable knowledge.

I believe the role of the teacher will become more general, helping students find, interpret, and apply information, instead of the traditional subject matter expert. The educators in the health care professions can look to books like this for valid guidance.

I found myself pondering new thoughts and questions regarding my history of having once been a student nurse. I have to agree with the description of the traditional nursing curriculum of being teacher-centered which fostered isolation, fear and anxiety. Reading this is an explorative journey for the nurse and for nurse educators. It leaves the reader with hope that nursing education can rise to the challenge to integrate new pedagogies. I would recommend this book for the serious reader of educational philosophies.

This is a good, basic trademark treatise for a lawyer. I can't understand, however, why the vendor is charging $[...] for this book when it is available, new, from the publisher (the Practicing Law Institute) for [......]

This workbook requires some digging to make it work. Definitely not plug and play. If you're looking for something really simple and easy to use this is not it. However, once you dig, the stuff is great!!!

Great book with tons of info that will keep you informed and educate

excellent if you are using echo first time. there is also tables for every lb/kg and dog/cat also common problems that you can see.

Mr. Haskins does a great job of summarizing in brief the basic history of Vodou and it's journey from West African tribal society to the New World through the transportation of slaves. He also gives some contemporary accounts of voodoo and hoodoo as practiced in the USA and how it compares (more likely contrasts) with it's West African roots. It is incomplete in that he does not go into any great detail concerning the religious aspects of Vodou still practiced in the USA and concerns the bulk of the book with modern Hoodoo practices and conjures. Yet it is an informative and enjoyable read overall and I recommend it as long as the reader combines the information contained herein with more gleaned from other sources in order to better round out their understanding of this complex and vibrant tradition.

I think I can speak for my classmates when I say there are better Nursing Diagnosis books. This one is out dated, even the new edition. I purchased a different book by a different author. I am very happy with my new purchase. I intend to donate this one to my school, if they will even take it.

Nursing Diagnosis: Application to Clinical Practice (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins))We're formulating nursing diagnoses in class now. This is the required text, and is very thorough - it really helps the novice figure out the correct diagnosis by major signs and symptoms.

This book looks daunting at first encounter. Each page is crammed with valuable information which sometimes overwhelms the reader. But this is exactly why this book is a gem for me. Other readers find it difficult to follow because they missed the fly leaf which lists all the nursing diagnosis with its corresponding page numbers. In my experience, in order to get the maximum use of this book, go to the fly leaf (the first page after the front cover), look up the nursing diagnosis and its page number. When you get to the right page,voila, all the wonderful information is listed as follows:

Nursing diagnosis->definition->major defining characteristics-> minor defining characteristics-> related factors-> pathophysiologic factors-> treatment related factors-> situational factors->maturational factors->assessment criteria->outcome criteria->general interventions-> and the last is the rationale.

Inside blue boxes are author's notes and errors in diagnostic statements which are very important pieces of information for beginning nurses or students like me. There are also considerations for pediatric, maternal and geriatric patients.

I hope this review is helpful. One last thing, this book does not work for you if you feel hurried. Take your time when you read this book.

I am a bit surprised at some of the negative comments on this book, as I love it most thoroughly. But then again, it is not the right choice for someone who wants to rush through a care plan and give it a loose going over. This book is thorough, comprehensive, and it is dedicated to producing high quality results. These are the reasons that I rely heavily on this book on the floor as the nurse who has to update and revise all the care plans, bringing them into compliance and improving them. This book is for all nursing students and practicing nurses who believe that the care plan carries a significant amount of weight in the nursing process. If you are serious about good results, upgrade from the "less is more" books that shield you from the data to the Granddaddy of Nursing Diagnosis Books.

This is the care plan bible. It makes care plans & paperwork a lot easier.

There is important information in this book but most of us need to see numerical examples to reinforce theoretical concepts. This book really comes up short in this area. It provides some discussion with the formulas/equations it presents but is very incomplete in terms of worked out examples. Yes, including worked out examples might might mean a book three times as long, but the book would then be many, many times more useful to practitioners.

As it currently stands the book can only benefit the super-genius-theoretical types who do not need to see examples to understand OR someone who ALREADY really understands the concepts.

The book rather frequently presents variables or constants without explicitly defining them for the reader (it assumes we know what they mean from the accompanying discussion).

The book gives exercises, but without answers what good are these?

The one thing the book does is make you realize there is a lot you do not know. You can find ideas in portfolio management that exist by reading this book but if you are at all like me you are going to have to look elsewhere for the answers. I have had better luck with Google searches for stuff like Style Analysis.

The book shows how smart the authors are: they know stuff that must of us do not. Unfortunately this is the feeling I get as I read sections of their book. They intend to keep it this way. Bottom line: the book fails to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

I know many have this book and have never read it. Others read this book but never really understand it. However, if you can read it and understand it, it can offer a powerful tool for how to allocate capital. It actually is the basis for most indexing and quantitative methodologies. When applied to fundemental approaches to investment it can be quite powerful.

Sadly, though not enough money managers embrace what this book is trying to say with regards to risk and return.

If you work for one of the top alpha quant shops (Barclays, Goldman, etc.), this text is a the proverbial must read. These are the guys that essentially invented quantitative finance in its modern form, building upon the [only somewhat applicable] concepts of Sharpe and Rosenberg and demonstrating how they can be harnassed to drive alpha. Anybody who has given this text a poor review obviously doesn't work in quantitative finance (chances are they're merely stock-pickers). If you want to understand how to drive alpha and beat the market, this text goes a lot further than explaining the simple concepts of information ratio and tracking error; instead, this book touches on the beauty of multi-factor models and covariance risk management.

Excellent book for whom is looking for a practical approach that at the same time is presented through a rigorous mathematical methodology. The book is absolutely superior over the academic textbooks that usually limit themselves to CAPM and efficient market theory. Grinold and Kahn go much forward and at the same time had managed to clearly and meticulously show the CAPM model, its limitations and the more sophisticated tools developed from it. Beside of showing the active way of managing a portfolio, the serious mathematical presentations through which the different theories such as CAPM are described are very convincing of how difficult it could be to beat the market.

This book is a funny phenomenon in itself: it seems that every portfolio manager keeps a copy on her desk, but nobody I've talked to likes the book, or has even really read it. I read it and had to struggle hard to go from one page to the next. It's one of the WORST books I've ever read in any field. The book attempts to give the reader a comprehensive overview of the portfolio management discipline. Unfortunately, it's extremely dry, to the point of boring the reader to death. A lot of pages are also wasted on topics of dubious value, while important subjects like global management is treated lightly. I highly recommend against this book. It's a waste of money.