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As beef and cattle production progressed in nineteenth-century America, the cow emerged as the nation's representative food animal and earned a culturally prominent role in the literature of the day. In Cattle Country Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped onto society's broader struggles with colonization, environmentalism, U.S. identity, ethnicity, and industrialization. Dolan examines diverse texts from Native American, African American, Mexican American, and white authors that showcase the zeitgeist of anxiety surrounding U.S. identity as cattle gradually became an industrialized...
At the tender age of eleven, Elaine Colton moved to Newport, Rhode Island, to live with her Navy civilian engineer father. Life had already been difficult for Elaine, having lost her mother at an early age; she desperately needed a friend to stand by her side. Instead, she got not one, but "fifteen" friends who supported her from childhood through adulthood for the next fifty years. Warm, witty, and full of love, "The Newport Girls" chronicles Colton's extraordinary lifelong relationship with her closest girlfriends. Beginning in 1952, Colton relates meeting Leenie Callahan, a girl who lived across the street, and how the two soon became best friends. They expanded their friendship circle in...
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For courses in Fundamentals of Nursing LPN/LVN. Part of the Prentice Hall LPN/LVN-specific series. Looking at the practice of nursing from the LPN/LVN point of view, this streamlined but comprehensive text explains to students what they need to know and do in order to deliver safe and effective nursing care in a variety of settings and functions. It focuses on the information and essential skills that will help ensure clinical and NCLEX-PN test-taking success, as well as addresses the LPN/LVN scope of practice and relationship to the registered nurse.
- Fully compliant to the new curriculum prescribed by the Indian Nursing Council - Comprehensive presentation of historical background of nursing and health care policies in Indian. - Primary prevention of communicable diseases like H1N1 and COVID-19 - Two new appendixes: A. Diagnostic testing, and B. First Aid and Emergencies - New Topics added: - Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Universal Immunization Program, and Biomedical Waste Management regulations in India. - AYUSH, and Accreditation agencies like NABH - Organ donation, confidentiality of patient records regulations in India - Indian National Health Policy 2017, Code of Ethics for Nurses in India, medicolegal issues in health care in India
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