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Developing your interpersonal skills and establishing your brand as a professional early in your academic career will directly affect your future success. With its unique, interactive worktext format, Colbert/Katrancha's CAREER SUCCESS IN HEALTH CARE: PROFESSIONALISM IN ACTION, 4th Edition, helps you sharpen your interpersonal skills to showcase yourself as a top-performing student as well as a top-quality job candidate. Drawing from their many years of teaching, clinical experience and conducting workshops concerning the behavioral domain, the authors deliver a worktext packed with real-life examples, clear direction and step-by-step assistance in assessing your current state of professionalism and creating effective action plans for improvement. Equipping you with both academic and life skills, the text helps you reach your full potential.

With a strong emphasis on hands-on learning, this highly practical text helps you develop the phlebotomy-related knowledge and skills you need to become a confident, competent health care professional. The Fifth Edition accelerates learning by following key topics immediately with relevant exercises, integrating workbook elements and textbook content to deliver a complete learning experience. The text covers the latest professional standards and competencies while thoughtfully connecting them to the realities of practice today. Step-by-step guidelines for more than 20 collection procedures are provided, along with real-life scenarios and prompts emphasizing the phlebotomist's legal and ethical role in patient care decisions. Full-color photographs highlight important steps and relevant equipment, while illustrations depict anatomical components critical to proper technique. In addition, the digital edition includes videos and interactive exercises ideal for today�s learners.

Algebra is like a foreign language for many students. They have difficulty translating the words, their definitions and how it applies to problem-solving. Tussy/Gustafson's ELEMENTARY AND INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA, 6th Edition, addresses these concerns, giving you the tools needed to understand the language of algebra. Strategy and Why explanations in the worked examples show the "how" and the "why" behind problem-solving. Algebra is not just about the x -- it's also about the WHY. The text contains many opportunities to apply the algebraic skills you have learned to solve a wide variety of interesting real-life applications using a six-step problem-solving strategy. In combination, the text and WebAssign will guide you through an integrated learning process that will expand your reasoning abilities as it teaches you how to read, write and think mathematically using the language of Algebra.

Gain a solid understanding of Newtonian dynamics and its application to real-world problems with Pytel/Kiusalaas' ENGINEERING MECHANICS: DYNAMICS, 4E. The text focuses on both fundamental principles and important problem-solving techniques. The authors clearly introduce critical concepts using learning features that connect real problems and examples with the fundamentals of engineering mechanics. You learn how to effectively analyze problems before substituting numbers into formulas -- a skill that benefits you tremendously as you encounter real life problems that do not always fit into standard formulas. This book's concise presentation is complemented by a useful Student Study Guide that clarifies concepts and includes guided solutions to a number of additional equilibrium problems.

Spielvogel's WESTERN CIVILIZATION: VOLUME I: TO 1775, 12th Edition, makes history come alive. Over 1 million students have used this text to succeed in their Western Civilization course. Updated with the most current scholarship, the text is packed with primary source features that highlight real voices from the past, a variety of end-of-chapter study tools to help you prepare for exams, colorful maps, vivid photographs and visuals and dramatic firsthand historical accounts -- bringing to life the stories of the people and events that have shaped Western civilization. In addition, MindTap equips you with anywhere, anytime digital learning tools.

Helps you equip you with the inspiration and knowledge you need to make a difference solving environmental issues.

Learn Microeconomics YOUR Way with McEachern/Dolar's ECON MICRO, 7th Edition! This text's easy-reference, paperback textbook presents course content through visually-engaging chapters. With the textbook or on its own, MindTap allows you to learn on your terms. Read or listen to textbooks and study with the aid of instructor notifications, flashcards and practice quizzes. Track your scores and stay motivated toward your goals. Whether you have more work to do or are ahead of the curve, you'll know where you need to focus your efforts. The MindTap Green Dot will charge your confidence along the way. When it's time to study, everything you've flagged or noted can be gathered into a guide you can organize.

Written by law enforcement veterans with extensive experience in all areas of policing, this book blends practical information with pertinent theory. It presents examples from small and large police departments throughout the world as well as essays from respected law enforcement practitioners who delve into crucial policing issues and challenges.

This edition from the acclaimed franchise clearly presents core financial accounting concepts within a meaningful business context, using engaging learning features that ensure a relevant, innovative learning experience. The authors demonstrate how accounting is more than just data or black-and-white rules. Updated content addresses the latest development and tools in corporate accounting today -- from using data analytics effectively to understanding the impact of discounts and sales in retail accounting. The online learning platform CNOWv2 provides practice opportunities to ensure you understand and can apply key accounting principles. Prepare for immediate success on exams and advancements in your business career as you learn how to apply the key information that accounting provides to make critical business decisions.

Gray's PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, 5e, offers a compelling look at the current state of knowledge about mental disorders from a social work perspective. The author's accessible narrative includes detailed, realistic vignettes of situations social workers commonly encounter in clinical practice, and offers strategies for building on clients' strengths, resilience and insights about social workers' roles in working with the mentally ill. Part of the Cengage Empowerment Series, the up-to-date 5th edition summarizes the current state of knowledge about mental disorders, including a thorough integration of the DSM-5-TR. It also integrates the core competencies and recommended practice behaviors outlined in the 2022 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) set by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

Providing an introduction to criminal justice research and enhanced by examples, research, applications, and built-in study tools, this book focuses on helping readers to do research.

Embark on a journey towards becoming a culturally competent counselor with Neukrug's THEORY, PRACTICE, AND TRENDS IN HUMAN SERVICES: AN INTRODUCTION, 7th Edition. It provides an in-depth exploration of the human services profession, covering crucial areas such as professional issues, major theories and working with diverse client populations. Major content areas include professional issues; standards in the profession (skill standards, ethics, accreditation and credentialing); characteristics of the effective helper; history and current issues in human services; counseling theory; helping skills; human development; couples, family and group helping; community systems, consultation and supervision; and research, testing and evaluation. The final chapter explores career development, offering insights into the career counseling process. The book is further distinguished by its emphasis on experiential learning, unique use of personal vignettes and focus on the development of the helper.

The student workbook is designed to help you retain key chapter content. Included within this resource are chapter objective questions, key-term definition queries, as well as multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank and true-or-false problems.

Relatable, student-centered content combined with essential academic-skill instruction make the new six-level Reflect series unique. As students interact with the engaging content, they not only master English but also navigate their place in the world. Reflect builds students' confidence and helps them achieve their academic, professional, and personal goals.

Incorporating the thinking, feeling and behaving dimensions of human experience, the Eleventh Global Edition of Corey's best-selling text offers an easy-to-understand guide to help you compare and contrast the therapeutic models expressed in counseling theories. This wide-ranging text provides a thorough introduction to major theories including psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt, reality, behavior, cognitive-behavior, family systems, feminist, postmodern and integrative approaches. With his trademark style, the author also demonstrates how each theory can be applied to two cases ("Stan" and Gwen ), providing valuable practical insights and helping you learn to integrate the theories into an individualized counseling style. In addition, the text features engaging media resources, available through MindTap, such as case-focused videos to help bring the material vividly to life.

The updated 16th Global Edition of Whitney/Rolfe's bestselling UNDERSTANDING NUTRITION presents the core information of an introductory nutrition course for majors, with active learning that prepares students for their future careers. An overarching goal of the text is to help readers learn to distinguish valid nutrition information from misinformation. In addition to providing accurate information, the text encourages readers to understand the connections between concepts, evaluate the pros and cons of an argument, detect inconsistencies and errors, solve problems, and identify the relevance of information.

Welcome to the world of psychology--and a journey through the gateways to mind and behavior. Led by authors who get rave reviews from students and instructors alike, Gateways 16e addresses instructor calls for a text that is easily customizable for the specific content covered in individual courses. Each chapter begins with learning outcomes grounded in Bloom¿s Taxonomy and ends with a section connecting the content to important career-relevant skills. The new edition of Gateways is fully compatible with APA guidelines such as the new Introductory Psychology Initiative and includes new resources such as guided notes for students with limited experience navigating college-level textbooks. Cutting edge research and world events such as Covid-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement have been woven throughout the text in the same conversational style that readers have come to appreciate. Experience the fun of discovering Psychology with INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY: GATEWAYS TO MIND AND BEHAVIOR, 16th Edition.