Meet the legal and ethical challenges you will face as a healthcare professional in ambulatory outpatient and clinical settings. The eighth edition of this text guides you through legal concepts and the law, ethical issues, and the emerging area of bioethics to prepare you to treat your patients with understanding, sensitivity, and compassion.

This bestselling textbook provides a solid foundation in anatomical and physiological principles relevant to communication sciences and disorders.

*A to Z revision of a bestseller (250,000 in print); the bible of a proven, highly effective therapeutic technique. *Enjoys worldwide popularity; off-the-shelf and text sales are bolstered by author workshops and frequent MI training events. *Reorganized around the co-creators' evolving framework for teaching and implementing MI.

*Strong demand for MI titles: originally developed for treating addictions, the approach is now widely used throughout mental health and health care. *Value-added on...

THIS ENLIGHTENING AND ALARMING book deserves a wide readership among doctors but also among politicians, health administrators, and drug and medical device regulators.’— Kerry J Breen, Adjunct Professor –Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University

Concise, clearly written, and vibrantly illustrated, Langman’s Medical Embryology, 15th Edition, makes complex embryology concepts approachable to help you build the clinical understanding essential to your success in medical practice, nursing, or other health professions. Hundreds of full-color illustrations clarify the stages of embryonic development with rich detail, and engaging learning features, clinical examples, and online review questions ready you for the challenges ahead on your ...

From learning how to perform research to mastering the critical appraisal of research reports for use in practice, Polit & Beck’s Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice, 12th Edition, emphasizes the critical role of research in today’s changing healthcare field and empowers students to confidently utilize research capabilities to improve patient outcomes and enrich their professional careers. AJN award-winning title with the new edition authored by Jan...

Put yourself in the box seat at exam time ...The days of cramming dry anatomical facts are over. It's time to look at anatomy as an opportunity to appreciate a fascinating world of relationships and interconnections.Featuring:The complete spectrum of systematic and topographic anatomy: clearly structured and vividly presented, featuring superb high-quality imagesA combined text and atlas: takes into account a variety of species, an ideal resource for developing a comprehensive understanding o...