Skills category: 6777 books
Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook
Eighth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
The classic million-copy bestselling handbook on reading aloud to children--revised and updated for a new generation of readers
Recommended by "Dear Abby" upon its first publication in 1982, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic for more than three...
Drug Calculations for Nurses
Context for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
This innovative text uses a 'common sense' approach to introduce students to real-life medication problems. Featuring a range of exercises and assessments and supported by an interactive companion website, this is the perfect handbook for anyone seeking to improve their numeracy skills for medication administration.
by Alison Spires, Martina O'Brien, Kirsty Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Managing medicines can seem a daunting prospect for new nursing students, but is a crucial skill they must develop from day one to provide safe care to their patients. This book specifically supports first-year, pre-registration students in meeting the required competencies for medicines management...
The Girl Outdoors
The Wild Girl’s Guide to Adventure, Travel and Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
An adventurous best mate in book form, The Girl Outdoors offers up support and knowledge and empowers the reader, whether she's thinking about cycling the length of Vietnam or just needs some help fixing her bike. Packed with stunning photography, the book is organised into four main parts:
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by Theodora Papatheodorou, Paulette Luff, Janet Gill
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Child Observation for Learning and Research is an exciting new text, providing a thorough grounding in the methodology, practice and interpretation of observing children.
The authors draw on their experience and expertise in childcare, education, social work and research to introduce the fundamental...
Socially Responsible Literacy
Teaching Adolescents for Purpose and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book offers a new vision for teaching literacy to adolescents that moves beyond reading for its own sake and toward reading as a way to motivate students to connect with their world. The authors draw on the voices of adolescent readers to discover how teachers can encourage their students to...
by Mitchel Schwindt, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Test taking success reveals strategies allow the motivated student to answer more questions correctly. Students will learn how to predict what answer is being asked and techniques on how to answer questions on unfamiliar material. Learn the cognitive strategies to master the art of test taking and...
by Stephanie Macceca
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Help students read about social studies content and build their historical thinking skills! This 2nd edition resource was created to support College and Career Readiness Standards, and provides an in-depth research base about content-area literacy instruction, including key strategies to help students...
by Stefan Verstappen
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2012
This program uses role-playing games and demonstrations to involve children and helps create a high level of interest.
These games teach children survival skills without causing anxiety or a loss of innocence. Children do not have to understand all the reasons why something is wrong, they just...
by Liz Lawson, Dawn Hennefer
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Correct medicines management for adults is a crucial skill that adult nursing students must develop in order to provide safe care to their patients. This book specifically supports pre-registration students in meeting the required competencies for medicines management needed to pass formal assessment...
Mentoring in Nursing and Healthcare
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Mentoring in Nursing and Healthcare is a practical, interactive resource that promotes active participation and enhances a deeper level of understanding of mentorship. It explores what is meant by the process of mentoring, addresses what a mentor is, what the role entails, and gives practical help...
Passing Calculations Tests in Nursing
Advice, Guidance and Over 400 Online Questions for Extra Revision and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
With an easy-to-use format, this book is all you need to face calculations tests with confidence and pass the first time. It teaches simple numeracy skills that will stand you in good stead, both during your initial nurse training and your career in practice. This new edition now includes tests for...
Stay Alive - Best Survival Kits, Lists & Ideas eShort
Make the best survival kit with these great ideas for clothes, food & emergency supplies.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In this excerpt from Stay Alive! Survival Skills You Need, John D. McCann teaches you how to prepare an effective survival kit and addresses the main component groups for a kit.
Stay Alive - Survival Shelter and Protection from the Elements eShort
Learn about your body’s thermoregulation, what protection it needs and how to build a storm shelter for protection.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In this excerpt from Stay Alive! Survival Skills You Need, John D. McCann explains how the body loses heat and how a proper shelter helps prevent that loss.