Health Assessment

Individuals suffering from psychiatric or substance use disorders sometimes display any one of a number of frightening behaviors: verbal outbursts, physical threats and even violence. Security guards must frequently deal with such individuals in locations as varied as hospital emergency rooms, shopping malls, places of business and isolated warehouses in the middle of the night. In this comprehensive guidebook, Ellis Amdur and William Cooper offer security guards a comprehensive set of strategies to keep themselves, those they are protecting and the general public safe, while functioning at...

Conquer the ANCC AGPCNP Exam: Your Guide to the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care NP Board Certification is a focused and practical resource for nurse practitioners preparing for the certification exam. This concise overview is designed to complement more comprehensive textbooks and review courses, not replace them. Rather than attempting to cover every detail, it helps readers zero in on the essential clinical principles and high-yield topics most relevant to adult-gerontology primary care. Chapters cover a wide range of foundational subjects, including health promotion, chronic disease ...

This book should be required reading for anyone in the medical profession who wishes to become and examining Committee Member to Determine Incapacity. It explains the duties, responsibilities, pros and cons of the profession. There is also a section describing each states requirements for becoming an Examining Committee Member and the websites where applications are accepted.

The COVID-19 outbreak highlights the ongoing threat to global health posed by emerging infectious diseases. As the crisis fades away, attention has turned towards the lessons to be learned for preparedness and response to emerging infectious diseases. Before 2009, national pandemic response actions were guided by global risk assessment and pandemic phases. This changed after the experience of pandemic A(H1N1)2009. Countries have now been advised by the World Health Organization to base response actions on their own assessment of national pandemic risk and severity and the corresponding ...

Conquer the CDR DTR or NDTR Exam is a concise study guide designed to help candidates review key nutrition and dietetics concepts for the Dietetic Technician, Registered (DTR) and Nutrition and Dietetics Technician, Registered (NDTR) exams. Covering nutrition science, food service management, medical nutrition therapy, public health nutrition, and regulatory policies, this book provides a structured summary of essential topics to help readers focus their study efforts effectively. This guide is not a comprehensive textbook and does not contain practice questions or detailed case studies. ...

Any approach based on monitoring bodily functions is not useful. Whether the bodily function techniques use technology or supposedly trained experts, none of them are skillful in detecting deception. This book advocates for Credibility Assessment using a method created and proven in three practical domains: intelligence, consular, and commercial executive recruiting.

Achilles Tendinitis can be debilitating for months or years. Nearly all orthopedic problems can be healed if we learn how to minimize or eliminate pressure on the area that hurts, as well as to minimize or eliminate strain to the area that hurts. This book informs the listener what the heel is telling you, why it is telling you this, and exactly what to do about it.