What should I eat, and where can I find it?
Which products are the most Atkins-friendly?
Are there hidden dangers in seemingly "acceptable" foods?

Now Food Shopping the Atkins Way is Easier Than Ever!

Whether you're one of the millions already losing weight and feeling great thanks to the remarkable Atkins Nutritional Approach™ or you are just discovering the healthy benefits of a low-carb lifestyle, shopping for food need no longer be a daunting process.

The Atkins Shopping Guide contains everything you must know to stock your pantry with the right foods, while avoiding products devoid of nutrients and full of sugar and white flour.

With foods clearly arranged by category, this indispensable handbook takes you aisle-by-aisle through the supermarket, putting helpful information at your fingertips. It also provides useful pointers for shopping at "superstores" and natural foods retailers, all in a handy format portable enough to carry in your pocket or purse.

So throw away that misguided food pyramid chart and stop counting fat grams and calories. With The Atkins Shopping Guide, confusion about the right way to eat will be a thing of the past, as you follow the proven Atkins path to healthy living!

Author: Atkins Health & Medical Information Serv
Mass Market Paperback:  432 pages
Company: Avon  (2004-04) (2004-04-27)
ISBN: 0060722002
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This innovative resource teaches you the critical thinking and assessment skills you need to build customized care plans based on each patient's unique needs. Its step-by-step approach guides you through the process, helping you formulate a nursing diagnosis based on known information and assessment findings; identify the appropriate nursing diagnosis; and create a care plan that includes desired outcomes, interventions, and evidence-based rationales. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook is an essential care planning resource you will turn to again and again throughout your nursing education and career.

• Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis.
• Includes examples of and suggested NIC and NOC interventions and outcomes for each care plan.
• A convenient A-to-Z organization in Sections I and II helps you quickly locate key information.
• Evidence-based practice information is incorporated throughout.
• Includes complete coverage of pediatric, geriatric, and multicultural considerations, as well as home care and client/family teaching guidelines for each condition.
• A Care Plan Constructor on the Evolve website helps you create customized plans of care.

• Features the most up-to-date 2007-2008 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, including approximately 15 new, 20 revised, and 5 replacement diagnoses.
• Provides a more detailed explanation of NIC and NOC taxonomies and their use in care planning.
• Explanations of assessment versus action interventions help guide you to the correct choice of intervention.
• Covers important information on concept mapping.
• Patient/Family Teaching sections offer expanded wellness and health promotion information.
• Clustered wellness nursing diagnoses are quick and easy to locate.
• Includes the latest evidence-based nursing rationales.

Author: Betty J. Ackley, Gail B. Ladwig
Paperback:  960 pages
Company: Mosby  (2007-06-28)
ISBN: 0323048269
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2007 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner

Now you can get back to the part of your job that matters most...caring for your patients! Primary Care: A Collaborative Practice, 3rd Edition is a focused and thorough primary care reference that covers a multitude of adult disorders and related issues. It presents disorders alphabetically so you can quickly find what you're looking for and it addresses disorders and issues not usually found in other primary care books including barotrauma, rehabilitation, and domestic violence. Plus, each disorder is discussed from a primary care perspective, so you are given the information you need to treat your adult patients in a caring, cost-effective manner.

• Diagnostic and Differential Diagnosis Boxes aid in test selection and diagnosis.
• Includes easy-to-find special icons for Emergency and Physician Referral Boxes to indicate conditions that require immediate referral to a specialist or emergency room.
• Health Promotion Content in many sections highlight the importance of health teaching and health promotion in the care of patients.
• Management sections incorporate evidence-based recommendations including specialty organization guideline recommendations and current, ongoing research findings.
• Collaborative format recognizes the importance of comprehensive, cost-effective collaborative patient care.
• Features a 10-page, 4-color plate section with high-quality photos of physical findings.
• Thoroughly covers cardiac conditions and office emergencies, areas not usually discussed in detail in other primary care texts.

• Includes a new introductory unit concerning the business and practical aspects of nurse practitioner practice.
• New Collaboration in Research chapter contains information regarding the clinical partnership or collaboration with academic colleagues.
• New Population-Based Care chapter addresses the fact that health care systems are beginning to become more community focused. The role of the health care provider is expanding to provide programs that focus on community needs.
• New Chronic Disease Management Teams chapter provides current research-based information regarding a team-oriented approach to care of the patient with chronic health issues.
• New Reimbursement chapter addresses the financial issues facing the NP in private practice.
• New Infectious Diseases unit addresses the most current health care issues in primary care, including mutating infections and emerging infectious diseases.

Author: Terry Mahan Buttaro, JoAnn Trybulski, Patricia Polgar Bailey, Joanne Sandberg-Cook
Hardcover:  1504 pages
Company: Mosby  (2007-06-28)
ISBN: 0323047424
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This well-known guide teaches pharmacists and pharmacy students how to more effectively and efficiently research, interpret, utilize, organize, and distribute drug information.

Author: Patrick M. Malone, Karen L. Kier, John Stanovich
Paperback:  768 pages
Company: McGraw-Hill Medical  (2006-04-20)
ISBN: 0071437916
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For more than 100 years doctors have been coming to us for advice. Now you can, too.

The Merck Manual has traditionally provided exclusive, up-to-the-minute information to doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Now, with this special Home Edition, the general public can access virtually the same critical data contained in the physician's version -- but in everyday language and a reader-friendly format.

With contributions from nearly 200 internationally respected medical experts, this fully revised edition offers vital, easy-to-understand information about almost every known medical issue, including:

• AIDS • cancer • eating, digestive, and nutrition disorders • heart disease • mental illness• pediatric care -- including a new chapter on early-childhood development• sexual dysfunction• terminal illness• viruses and infections

...and much more. Featuring original illustrations and diagrams, an A-Z listing of brand-name and generic drugs, and an appendix of medical resources, The Merck Manual -- Home Edition is published as a not-for-profit service by Merck, a world leader in breakthrough medical discoveries with a long commitment to making the world a healthier place.

Author: Mark H. Beers
Paperback:  1952 pages Bargain Price
Company: Pocket  (2004-05-04)
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Author: Charles F. Lacy, Lora L. Armstrong, Morton P. Goldman, Leonard L. Lance
Paperback:  1938 pages
Company: Lexi-Comp  (2008-05-30)
ISBN: 1591952360
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This book's design, content review, and test questions have been updated and carefully organized to help the student prepare for this important test.

Author: Mary E. McDonald
Paperback:  400 pages
Company: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.  (2003-11-21)
ISBN: 0763724874
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Handbook of Usability Testing, Second Edition, is a nuts-and-bolts guide for beginners, loaded with tips and tricks for effectively testing products of all types. From software, GUIs, and technical documentation, to medical instruments and exercise bikes, no matter what type of product, readers will learn to design and administer reliable tests to ensure that people find it easy and desirable to use.

• Requires no engineering or human factors training
• A rigorous, step-by-step approach--with an eye to common gaffes and pitfalls--saves months of trial and error
• Liberally peppered with real-life examples and case histories taken from a wide range of industries
• Packed with extremely usable templates, models, tables, test plans, and other indispensable tools of the trade

The Second Edition will be fully updated--30% revised, with 100 new pages. Chapters will be reorganized to reflect more current industry practices, outdated terminology will be updated, and more varied examples provided. Many individual chapters will also be heavily revised to reflect current best practicies. The companion website will include additional case examples samples and templates beyond those already provided within the print product.

Author: Jeffrey Rubin, Dana Chisnell
Paperback:  348 pages
Company: Wiley  (2008-05-12)
ISBN: 0470185481
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• Easy-to-follow disorder-based organization that surveys the full range of organ system disorders treated in pharmacy practice
• Knowledge-building boxed features within chapters, consisting of: Clinical Presentation & Diagnosis, Patient Encounters, and Patient Care and Monitoring Guidelines
• A standardized chapter format
• Laboratory values expressed in both conventional units and Systemé International (SI) units

Author: Marie A. Chisholm-Burns, Barbara G. Wells, Terry L. Schwinghammer, Patrick M. Malone, Jill M. Kolesar, John C. Rotschafer, Joseph T. DiPiro
Hardcover:  1671 pages
Company: McGraw-Hill Medical  (2007-07-24)
ISBN: 0071448802
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Millions of people around the world have already discovered the Atkins Nutritional Approachâ„¢ and the remarkable benefits of controlling carbohydrates. Now it's even easier to join the revolution, lose weight, and get healthy the proven Atkins way!

With less of the underlying science and more practical information, The Atkins Essentials gets to the meat of the most popular and effective weight control program ever, providing the basic skills necessary to enable you to lose and keep losing unwanted body fat -- and to keep it off forever!

Providing clear, concise answers to your questions and concerns, The Atkins Essentials is ideal for anyone seeking a healthier lifestyle. For those new to Atkins, it is a quick and effective way to get started -- and for those already on the program, it offers indispensable tips on eating out, stocking your pantry, and more.

Simply put, it is Atkins made easy:

• The ABCs of doing Atkins
• An effective two-week launch into weight-losing mode
• Personal modifications to slow or speed weight loss
• Helpful listings of acceptable and unacceptable foods and
• Fourteen days' worth of delicious, controlled-carb eating ...

And much more!

So get ready to look great and feel great the Atkins way -- it's easier than ever before!

Author: Atkins Health & Medical Information Serv
Paperback:  368 pages
Company: Collins Living  (2005-01-01) (2004-12-28)
ISBN: 0060748168
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