"The premier resource for professional nursing practice, Nursing: Scope & Standards of Practice, 3rd Edition, is informed by the advances in health care and professional nursing today. This keystone standard contains 17 national standards of practice and performance that define the who, what, where, when, why and how of nursing practice. The scope and standards of practice inform and guide nursing practice and are often used as a reference for: Quality...

Contains profiles, contextual essays, historical images, and appendices that provide information about the 229 women who have served in Congress from 1917 through 2006.

Information on thousands of scholarships, grants, and prizes is easily accessible in this revised directory and features awards indexed by career goal, major, academics, public service, talent, athletics, religion, ethnicity, and more.

Presents thousands of facts on sports, pop culture, science and technology, U.S. history and government, world geography, and business, and includes a special coronavirus status report, 2023 U.S. election results, and the top ten news topics of the year.

We don't need Big Pharma to keep us feeling young: we already have the tools. Greger breaks down the science of aging and chronic illness, and explains how to help avoid the diseases most commonly encountered in our journeys through life. Physicians have long treated aging as a malady, but getting older does not have to mean getting sicker: there are eleven pathways for aging in our bodies' cells and we can disrupt each of them. Greger presents simple,...

A quick-reference guide to attracting birds and butterflies for gardeners with little experience and time. In the eye of a bird or butterfly, the typical suburban landscape resembles an unfriendly desert. Closely mowed lawns, tightly clipped shrubs, raked-up borders, and deadheaded flowers mean no place to nest, no food to eat, and nowhere to hide. To the humans who live there, this means no bird songs, no colorful butterflies, no dazzling hummingbirds,...

This tenth revised edition contains almost 75,000 quotations from nearly 5000 authors, arranged by subject, and indexed.

Easy recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and desserts that allow you to feel satisfied while you prioritize your health. Don't sacrifice great taste while trying to lose weight.

Contains over four hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the causes, nature, symptoms, treatments, and impact of eating disorders and obesity; and includes a chronology of key events, fact tables and statistics, a directory of resources and websites, and a glossary of fat replacers.