With a unique focus on exemplary, completed DNP capstone projects, this book delivers key information on designing, constructing, and completing a high quality capstone project. It demonstrates the impact that a well-conceived capstone project can have on facilitating change and addresses all program, administrative, policy, and clinical issues that DNP students may encounter during the capstone process. The book examines a variety of capstone projects from across the U.S.--quality improvement projects, strategic plans, advocacy, clinical case narratives, and other innovations--that demonstrate efficacy in clinical nursing practice outcomes and positive impact upon the health care environment.

The book analyzes the components of these exemplary capstones to demonstrate how each has provided leadership for change in practice, promoted interdisciplinary collaboration, contributed to advocacy and policy change, and enhanced quality improvement in health care systems.

Key Features:

• Focuses on a wide range of exemplary, completed DNP capstone projects
• Provides a roadmap for excellence in creating capstone projects
• Analyzes components of capstones that have effected positive change
• Includes strategies for implementing evidence-based practices for nurses and other health care providers
• Highlights DNP leadership and resulting positive changes in clinical practice

'This book provides research about how students use digital tools to write, both in and out of school settings, as well as discusses issues and concerns related to the use of these learning methods'--

Discusses the origins of monster legends, including Bigfoot, vampires, and sea monsters.

This monumental work is considered to be one of the most profound expressions of Zen wisdom ever put on paper, and also the outstanding literary and philosophical work of Japan. It is a collection of essays by Eihei Dogen (1200–1253), founder of Zen’s Soto school.

Kazuaki Tanahashi and a team of translators that represent a Who’s Who of American Zen have produced a translation of the great work that combines accuracy with a deep understanding of Dogen’s voice and literary gifts. This volume includes a wealth of materials to aid understanding, including maps, lineage charts, a bibliography, and an exhaustive glossary of names and terms—and, as a bonus, the most renowned of all Dogen’s essays, “Recommending Zazen to All People.”

With a fierce war raging and resources running low, the U.S.S Enterprise has been assigned a sensitive diplomatic mission - to enlist aid from the alien race known as the Gorn. But the Gorn have a crisis of their own, a brewing revolution in their ranks. And when it comes to the Federation, some of the Gorn have long memories...

Capturing the austere beauty of the Zen masters' manner of teaching---their earthy style, humor, and humanity---Zen's Chinese Heritage is an intimate and profound human portrait of the enlightened Zen ancients, and an unprecedented look into the depths of this rich cultural heritage.

In this new edition with even more valuable material, Ferguson surveys twenty-five generations of Zen masters, moving chronologically through successive generations of ancestral teachers, supplementing their core teachings with history, biography, and starkly beautiful poetry. In addition to giving the reader the engaging sense of the 'family history' of Zen, this uniquely valuable book paints a clear picture of the tradition's evolution as a religious, literary, and historical force.

'Highly Recommended. This excellent book is at once a history and an anthology of this fascinating tradition and includes many koans, anecdotes, and stories. This splendid repository should give instruction and pleasure to the general reader as well as to the professed Buddhist.' ---Library Journal.

'An indispensable reference. Ferguson has given us an impeccable and very readable translation.'---John Daido Loori

'Clear and deep, Zen's Chinese Heritage enriches our understanding of Buddhism and Zen.'---Joan Halifax

Relegated to a retirement home for old monsters, Dracula, the mummy, the Invisible Man, and others break out to help save Castle Frankenstein from being turned into condominiums.

BUSINESS MATH, 17E provides comprehensive coverage of personal and business-related mathematics. In addition to reviewing the basic operations of arithmetic, students are prepared to understand and manage their personal finances, as well as grasp the fundamentals of business finances. BUSINESS MATH, 17E prepares students to be smart shoppers, informed taxpayers, and valued employees. Basic math skills are covered in a step-by-step manner, building confidence in users before they try it alone. Spreadsheet applications are available on the Data Activities CD, and a simulation activity begins every chapter. Chapters are organized into short lessons for ease of instruction and include algebra connections, group and class activities, communication skills, and career spotlights.