Author: Annette Wetherly
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426980779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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A personal memoir, by a seasoned nurse practitioner living and working independently in remote, isolated indigenous communities of the Arctic, Labrador, Western and Northern Canada. Graphically shows self-reliance, descriptions of local cultures and personalities and the understanding of the health care needs of the indigenous people and how their health has been affected by historical happenings. She worked onboard ships and visited lighthouses and treated animals. In between working contacts in the north she participates in volunteer health care in indigenous Latin American communities and exercises her knowledge of language, culture and the desire to travel. Returning to urban living in Victoria at sedentary occupation, which involved committee work with employment equity and multiculturalism. Magnetism and Call of the North draws her back twice demonstrating her love of challenge and adventure. An exciting, engaging, entertaining, instructive and stimulating book, which some read twice and others cannot put down.
Author: Manuel James Birch
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1420870513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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“Snow Angels and the Two Pearls” is a story of 10-years in a young man’s life. A simple view of an extraordinary life lived between heaven and earth. It begins with a traffic accident on Christmas Eve that kills an 8-year old boy’s parents, his faith, his heart and his innocence. Embittered with a childhood lost, Billy McClure makes it to Vietnam to kill his demons and instead makes a friend, Elliot. During a raucous R&R weekend in Bangkok, Billy saves a local woman from an attack in an alley. She gives him two pearls as a gift of thanks, telling him to give the pearls to the two great loves of his life. Billy doesn’t feel capable of great love, capable of any deep love at all. Back in the jungle, Billy watches as a mortar blast cuts Elliot in half. Another loved one of Billy taken, so brutally. Wounded in action, Billy has mixed feelings about going home for Christmas. His Grandparents meant the world to him, but there were also daily reminders of his young parents deaths. His long journey home, his entire life is filled with malaise and miracles, dangers and angels. And two black pearls.
Author: Robert L. Wears
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472437845
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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Health systems everywhere are expected to meet increasing public and political demands for accessible, high-quality care. Policy-makers, managers, and clinicians use their best efforts to improve efficiency, safety, quality, and economic viability. One solution has been to mimic approaches that have been shown to work in other domains, such as quality management, lean production, and high reliability. In the enthusiasm for such solutions, scant attention has been paid to the fact that health care as a multifaceted system differs significantly from most traditional industries. Solutions based on linear thinking in engineered systems do not work well in complicated, multi-stakeholder non-engineered systems, of which health care is a leading example. A prerequisite for improving health care and making it more resilient is that the nature of everyday clinical work be well understood. Yet the focus of the majority of policy or management solutions, as well as that of accreditation and regulation, is work as it ought to be (also known as ‘work-as-imagined’). The aim of policy-makers and managers, whether the priority is safety, quality, or efficiency, is therefore to make everyday clinical work - or work-as-done - comply with work-as-imagined. This fails to recognise that this normative conception of work is often oversimplified, incomplete, and outdated. There is therefore an urgent need to better understand everyday clinical work as it is done. Despite the common focus on deviations and failures, it is undeniable that clinical work goes right far more often than it goes wrong, and that we only can make it better if we understand how this happens. This second volume of Resilient Health Care continues the line of thinking of the first book, but takes it further through a range of chapters from leading international thinkers on resilience and health care. Where the first book provided the rationale and basic concepts of RHC, the Resilience of Everyday Clinical Work breaks new ground by analysing everyday work situations in primary, secondary, and tertiary care to identify and describe the fundamental strategies that clinicians everywhere have developed and use with a fluency that belies the demands to be resolved and the dilemmas to be balanced. Because everyday clinical work is at the heart of resilience, it is essential to appreciate how it functions, and to understand its characteristics.
Author: EVELYN MATTHEWS
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1644685426
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
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A missionary family is called by the Lord to work among natives in the lands of beautiful lakes and glistening snow in northern Canada (1960s). It is the true story of their joys, triumphs, discouragements, challenges, and heartbreak. It tells of the transforming power of God in these precious souls, of their love for God and the bond of love that grows with them through Jesus Christ. May it help readers to see the beauty in the lives of these people through the grace of Jesus Christ, to love them, pray for them and the work continuing in the North. To God be the glory.
Author: Audra Lilly Griffeth
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146915532X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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A Birthmark, A Princess, A Special Destiny in Romantic Novel, A King's Daughter FORT WORTH, Texas- A red birthmark on the face of a newborn baby daughter turns its mother, a Queen into a suspicious, if not superstitious, woman. Queen Charlotte, wife to King Edward, gives birth to her child, but upon knowing that the mark will not go away immediately loses faith in everything and turns away from A King's daughter. Audra Lilly Griffeth's exciting story is potent with the romance attendant on royalty and how its members fare when a twist of fate condemns them or one of their members to a commoner's fate but is destined to come back to the fold. And thus, the story unfolds... Born Princess Eva Kathleen Wellington, Eva is loved by the Queen's servant Lady Margaret, when her mother continues with her passionate denial of her daughter's defect. Although it may have turned out worse, Princess Eva's story is proof of a more romantic, benign fate that is perhaps the antithesis to the Queen's unfounded fears of having a "defective" and cursed infant. In any case, a cosmetic cure could have been eventually found except that there was no hiding the Queen's strange behavior towards her newborn for too long. Sad and concerned for the Princesses' future, Lady Margaret arranged a fake kidnapping in a nearby forest when King and Queen are off on a state to visit another kingdom. When news of "kidnapping" reaches them two days after the fact, the Queen is unaffected while the King is in depair and does not fully recover even after the birth of two sons and another daughter to continue his line. Meanwhile, Eva and Lady Margaret, as Evanlynn and Mary Engleton (mother and daughter), prosper as nest they could in Margaret's grandparent's dairy farm. Fate takes another surprising turn when Sir Daniel, a trusted officer of the King, befriends Margaret and unwittingly influences her to reveal their existence to the King. The King is overjoyed and Evanlynn shows the truth of her genetic make-up by naturally adapting to a set of strange, new circumstances. With a flair for a well-turned out plot which generates its own set of unique circumstances, Griffeth then sets in motion a whirlwind of love, repentance, acceptance and a more special destiny for the entire kingdom that would not have been possible had it not lost a Princess to the vagaries of natural physical form.
Author: Sean Ryan Stuart
Publisher: CCB Publishing
ISBN: 1926918789
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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"Red Snow" is a fast paced action adventure involving a former Army Special Forces officer turned CIA agent. His journey takes him all over the world as he fights rogue Russian SPETSNAZ forces in Afghanistan and later in the USA. His quest brings him in contact with fierce mujahidin warriors in their search for independence and at the same time, Jeremy Grant (our hero), relives the horrors of war in Vietnam. His mission continues after his CIA retirement due to severe injuries suffered in Afghanistan. His many treks take him throughout Afghanistan, Pakistan, Germany, France, Russia, and eventually back to San Francisco and his new job with the United States Customs Service. His new job, as the Chief of Intelligence for the law enforcement division, leads him to a new conflict with his old arch-nemesis Oleg V. Kolkov, formerly of Afghanistan and now a major participant in Russian Organized Crime (ROC) in California. Continually betrayed and followed by his enemies throughout his travels, Jeremy must use his training and experience to defeat them. This exciting and sometimes romantic adventure will remind you of land based "Hunt for Red October." About the Author Sean Ryan Stuart is a southern boy by birth and heritage, however as the only son of a professional military man he traveled extensively throughout the world. His personal military experience includes six years in the Air Force and seventeen in the US Army as a counterintelligence special agent. Addition-ally, he worked with various local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in his varied career. This association with civilian law enforcement extended up to and included his last seven years in the military. Mr. Stuart has had extensive training in the field of security, investigations, narcotics, counter-terrorism and linguistics. He is fluent in five languages and has also been used as a technical advisor in Hollywood. Mr. Stuart is currently living in California and is teaching specialized subjects. He is also the author of dozens of articles on Russian Organized Crime and other related subjects. His recently published book "'Das Haus' The House and the Son of the Rabbi" has been adapted into a screenplay and is currently being developed into a movie.
Author: Carol Gino
Publisher: aaha! Books
ISBN: 1889853038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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With uncompromising honesty, Carol Gino strips the TV image to reveal the gritty truths of a nurse's life.
Author: Guo ZiYuan
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1637071787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 713
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In order to repay the debt her mother owed her, she had come to pay them, and had suffered all the humiliation and torment, from being a daughter to being a lowly maid. He loved and hated her, and the pleasure of revenge clouded his eyes and blinded his heart. "Big Bro, can you not be so hypocritical?" "No matter, taking care of me is your responsibility!" The president of the black department is ruthless and ruthless, but he is also a villain...
Author: Jack Canfield
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1453275304
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Most people don't become nurses because of the pay, working conditions, or the convenient hours. Men and women become nurses because they want to make a difference in the lives of others through the use of their compassionate skills and hard work. Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul, Second Dose, underscores why nurses enter the profession . . . and why they stay.
Author: Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350234397
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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"Some playwrights have a gift to amuse; Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has a darker gift. Anyone with romantic notions of Chinese culture will be unsettled by the jagged, unsentimental portrait of modern urban China."(Chicago Reader) Poetic and devastating, sensuous and politically acute, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Plays explore the forces of global capital as they explode within the lives of everyday people in contemporary China. This volume collects together the three plays in the series, including Cowhig's exploration of the human cost of development in China's socialist market economy (The World of Extreme Happiness), of justice and revenge amidst ecological and economic catastrophe (Snow in Midsummer), and the tale of the trade in blood that brought the AIDS crisis to rural China (The King of Hell's Palace). In addition to Cowhig's plays, the volume includes a host of supplemental materials including an editorial preface and three (previously published) brief essays responding to each play by the editor, Joshua Chambers-Letson; a new introduction by theatre/performance scholar and dramaturg Christine Mok that explores the key themes in Cowhig's body of work; a summary discussion between Cowhig, Chambers-Letson, and Mok, on Cowhig's process and the political and aesthetic currents animating her work. The World of Extreme Happiness: "Fearless, zippily-paced, and satirical . . . Cowhig forces us down the long hard look path" (Independent) Snow in Midsummer: “Gripping and affecting... graceful and impassioned” (Times) The King of Hell's Palace: "A medical-scandal drama that we can't afford to ignore" (Telegraph)
