Helen Wells, the author of the Cherry Ames stories said, “I’ve always thought of nursing, and perhaps you have, too, as just about the most exciting, important, and rewarding profession there is. Can you think of any other skill that is always needed by everybody?”—from the forward by Harriet Schulman Forman, RN, EdD, Series Editor
In the 1940s, Helen Wells created Cherry Ames, the longest-lived series of young adult books about nurses. It follows Cherry as she grows from student nurse to chief nurse, all the while developing friendships, pushing the limits of authority, leading her nursing colleagues, and solving mysteries. Cherry was created as an intelligent, brave, quick-witted, and devoted nurse.
The series begins with an eighteen-year-old Cherry Ames, who leaves her hometown and enters nursing school to embark on a lifetime of adventures. Included in this Cherry Ames four-book boxed set are:
Student Nurse: Where eighteen-year-old Cherry Ames takes her first steps on the road towards becoming a nurse. She begins three years of training at Spencer Hospital.
Senior Nurse: Cherry tackles tough decisions about her future responsibilities as a nurse during wartime. Cherry also completes her final year of training.
Army Nurse: Cherry Ames and her Spencer classmates join the Army Nurse Corps, undergo demanding basic training, and are sent to a base hospital in Panama to work. While there Cherry runs afoul of army regulations.
Chief Nurse: Still in the Army Nurse Corps with her Spencer hospital unit, Cherry, having been promoted to chief nurse, organizes an evacuation hospital on a Pacific jungle island and is tested under fire.
This four-book set features the identical design and sense of adventure and patriotism as when they were first published. With fully illustrated color covers and a soft-finished hardcover format, these books can be a great addition to your home or as a gift to friends or next generation nurses.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Healing Massage
The pleasure of massage can be a profound experience that helps to nurture, soothe, and comfort an individual. Massage can help one reconnect with his/her body and relieve stress and pain.
Healing Massage brings together the ancient healing practices of the East with Western massage techniques to heal both mind and body. Step-by-step, practitioners can help people unwind with a simple healing massage.
Many common ills are a consequence of our modern lifestyle and working practices. Sitting for long periods, staring at the computer or television screen, or working in a noisy environment can lead to sore eyes, muscle aches and stiffness, tension, and headache. This can lead to colds, cough, and flu. The accupoints in this guide can alleviate many of these symptoms and strengthen the body’s resistance to infection.
Delve into aromatic sensuality with rose-scented body scrubs and hot-oil Ayurvedic massage, try accupressure for pain relief, and soothe your mind with Eastern visualization techniques that have empowered and healed the spirit for thousands of years.
Healing Massage goes over how to:
• ease headaches
• boost fertility
• alleviate insomnia
• ease abdominal pain
• ease mild palpatations
• relax muscles and tendons
Detailed strategies teach ways to ease blocked sinuses, and reduce toothache and tensions in the jaw. Approaches also alleviate oedema, fluid retention, and bronchitis.
Areas go over reflex zone therapy. This branch of reflexology teaches how to release tension in the neck, spine, head, shoulders, solar plexus, ears, and eyes through the bottom of one’s foot. It also offers information on sea stones, which are placed between the toes to open the reflex zones in the feet.
In addition, topics touch on the important role of massage when working down the back. This section reviews several acupoints to strengthen the respiratory tract and help prevent coughs and colds. It also reveals that acupoints allow the practitioner to influence the flow of Chi energy. Each acupoint could either calm an over-energetic flow of Chi, or stimulate a sluggish one.
The chapter on massage on the move reveals that physical and emotional tension builds when one is sitting at a desk, traveling, or even standing in a queue. It offers several techniques on how to calm anxiety, boost energy, or treat an ailment.
This book teaches the five elements of Chinese Medicine, which include the heart, lungs, liver, spleen, and kidneys. It discusses that Chinese medicine draws together all aspects of nature and combines the elements, the seasons, and bodily systems into one unifying theory.
Beautifully illustrated, this book offers several photographic images and techniques to help practitioners give massages that touch both the heart and soul.
Healing Massage brings together the ancient healing practices of the East with Western massage techniques to heal both mind and body. Step-by-step, practitioners can help people unwind with a simple healing massage.
Many common ills are a consequence of our modern lifestyle and working practices. Sitting for long periods, staring at the computer or television screen, or working in a noisy environment can lead to sore eyes, muscle aches and stiffness, tension, and headache. This can lead to colds, cough, and flu. The accupoints in this guide can alleviate many of these symptoms and strengthen the body’s resistance to infection.
Delve into aromatic sensuality with rose-scented body scrubs and hot-oil Ayurvedic massage, try accupressure for pain relief, and soothe your mind with Eastern visualization techniques that have empowered and healed the spirit for thousands of years.
Healing Massage goes over how to:
• ease headaches
• boost fertility
• alleviate insomnia
• ease abdominal pain
• ease mild palpatations
• relax muscles and tendons
Detailed strategies teach ways to ease blocked sinuses, and reduce toothache and tensions in the jaw. Approaches also alleviate oedema, fluid retention, and bronchitis.
Areas go over reflex zone therapy. This branch of reflexology teaches how to release tension in the neck, spine, head, shoulders, solar plexus, ears, and eyes through the bottom of one’s foot. It also offers information on sea stones, which are placed between the toes to open the reflex zones in the feet.
In addition, topics touch on the important role of massage when working down the back. This section reviews several acupoints to strengthen the respiratory tract and help prevent coughs and colds. It also reveals that acupoints allow the practitioner to influence the flow of Chi energy. Each acupoint could either calm an over-energetic flow of Chi, or stimulate a sluggish one.
The chapter on massage on the move reveals that physical and emotional tension builds when one is sitting at a desk, traveling, or even standing in a queue. It offers several techniques on how to calm anxiety, boost energy, or treat an ailment.
This book teaches the five elements of Chinese Medicine, which include the heart, lungs, liver, spleen, and kidneys. It discusses that Chinese medicine draws together all aspects of nature and combines the elements, the seasons, and bodily systems into one unifying theory.
Beautifully illustrated, this book offers several photographic images and techniques to help practitioners give massages that touch both the heart and soul.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Pharmacology Demystified
Being able to administer the correct medication and correct dosage at the correct time are only some of the beginning aspects in patient safety. Nurses have many responsibilities throughout the day and though they are consumed with several tasks, it is vital that a nurse should have a clear understanding of what medications their patients are taking. It is a crucial part to the success of their patients’ health.
Pharmacology Demystified focuses on the practical aspects of pharmacology in order to master medications and battle the most complex issues nurses deal with on a daily basis. This self-teaching guide comes with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each chapter, and a final exam. It includes:
• ways to properly store drugs
• how to prepare and administer all types of drugs
• how to identify the signs of patients’ reactions to drugs
• how drugs are selected to treat diseases that affect different organ systems
Areas touch on topics like cardiac circulatory medications, skin disorders, endocrine medications, and disorders of the eye and ear. It also reviews the differences between over-the-counter and prescription drugs, as well as prescription and medical abbreviations.
A section on the principles of medication administration teaches that it can be “tricky” and “dangerous” to apply drugs to a patient unless the proper precautions are followed. This guide teaches the traditional “five rights” of drug administration, which are the right patient, right drug, right dose, right time, and right route to make sure the patient is given the best care possible.
Easy enough for beginners, but challenging enough for advanced students and professionals, Pharmacology Demystified is an effective refresher, introductory text, or classroom supplement.
Pharmacology Demystified focuses on the practical aspects of pharmacology in order to master medications and battle the most complex issues nurses deal with on a daily basis. This self-teaching guide comes with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each chapter, and a final exam. It includes:
• ways to properly store drugs
• how to prepare and administer all types of drugs
• how to identify the signs of patients’ reactions to drugs
• how drugs are selected to treat diseases that affect different organ systems
Areas touch on topics like cardiac circulatory medications, skin disorders, endocrine medications, and disorders of the eye and ear. It also reviews the differences between over-the-counter and prescription drugs, as well as prescription and medical abbreviations.
A section on the principles of medication administration teaches that it can be “tricky” and “dangerous” to apply drugs to a patient unless the proper precautions are followed. This guide teaches the traditional “five rights” of drug administration, which are the right patient, right drug, right dose, right time, and right route to make sure the patient is given the best care possible.
Easy enough for beginners, but challenging enough for advanced students and professionals, Pharmacology Demystified is an effective refresher, introductory text, or classroom supplement.
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