Updated, revised, and expanded, this fourth edition of a 'survival manual' for new teachers offers the most current thinking in nursing education, from practical nursing, to baccalaureate and master's programs. It also serves as a comprehensive guide for novice educators in classroom and clinical teaching settings. Chapters offer helpful strategies for making clinical assignments, preparing lectures and seminars, all aspects of testing and grading, supervision, facilitating group study, selecting textbooks, guiding independent study, and helping students improve their writing skills.

This fourth edition also features best practices and lessons learned from partnerships between university and clinical settings, and contains new strategies for conducting online teaching, including the use of technology. Specific indicators help educators identify appropriate lessons for different course levels. The guide additionally provides links to online resources in each chapter, including some with revised templates for checklists and rubrics.

Key Features

• Distills best practices and lessons learned from academic and clinical world partnerships
• Serves as a quick refresher for the experienced educator reentering a classroom or clinical teaching assignment
• Addresses new cross-disciplinary 'team' approach to assessment and intervention
• Features links to online resources in each chapter, including revised templates for checklist and rubrics along with a digital adjunct for educator use
• Authored by noted national and international experts in nursing education

Take this pocket reference to clinicals on the job for quick access to nursing skills! Based on Perry & Potter's market-leading Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 7th Edition, Mosby's Pocket Guide to Nursing Skills & Procedures, 7th Edition presents 83 key skills in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format. Step-by-step instructions include full-color photos plus rationales explaining why to use specific techniques. With the latest in evidence-based practice, this book helps you perform basic nursing skills safely and effectively. Also available on Skyscape for use on any hand-held device!

• A clear, two-column format presents skills with rationales for each step explaining why to use specific techniques.


• A gloving logo identifies skills in which clean gloves should be worn or gloves should be changed in order to minimize the risk of infection.


• Safety alerts highlight important information for patient safety and effective performance of skills.


• Reporting and recording guidelines include a bulleted list of what should be documented in the patient records.


• Unexpected outcomes and related interventions help you troubleshoot potential problems and take appropriate actions to address them.


• Alphabetical organization of skills makes it easy to find information quickly.


• A convenient pocket size and spiral binding allow the book to fit easily into your coat pocket and to stay open on the page you want.

• New full-color design and illustrations help you follow step-by-step directions more easily.


• Completely updated content is based on Perry & Potter's market-leading text, Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 7th Edition, for the latest in evidence-based care.

Griffin, a speech and language therapist, and Sandler, a specialist teacher who has designed toys for children with special needs, presents 300 simple ideas for developing communication skills with children with autism and other communication difficulties, for use by parents, care-givers, and other professionals. Most of the activities use everyday toys and household objects, and are designed to be fun for both adults and children The activities are grouped in sections on food games and cooking ideas, party toys such as balloons and light-up toys, social games such as movement and singing, outdoor games, and educational games and books. The book also provides record sheets, and lists of organizations, web sites for buying toys online, sites for more ideas. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Scholars of English, drama, and communications emphasize links and interfaces between different visual media and between visual and literary media. Among their topics are prison films and the Troubles, the evolution of feature-length Irish films during the 1990s, Rachel Giese's The Donegal Pictures, photography and nostalgia in Christina Reid's The Belle of the Belfast City, representing and performing femininity during the 19th and 20th centuries, and Guinness as a signifier of Irish cultural transformation. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

In this collection of 17 essays, academics and practitioners give theories and practices of social justice education, complete with lessons in the text and handouts on the accompanying CD-ROM. Fully updated to reflect current thinking, this covers the theoretical foundations, including ways to use them design and to facilitate social justice education courses and 'conversations' about being social justice educators and knowing the needs of students. The rest of the text is comprised of curriculum designs for twenty-first century racism, white privilege and globalism; sexism, heterosexism, and transgender oppression; and religious oppression, classism, ableism and ageism. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)