Joyce Williams – författare

Are you a starting work in critical care? Are you an experienced nurse but need to check guidelines and best practices? This is the indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems faced by nurses working in this specialty.This book will help you to

Organise your job and yourselfAssess patients and communicate with themGet clinical information on a wide range of conditionsWhat to do in emergency

This UPDATED edition:

Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the fieldPhysiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basisBoxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career.

Part of the A Nurse’s Survival Guide series

The Chimney Sisters is a hilarious comedy about four sisters from West Virginia. The interest of the reader is captured by the antics of CiCi, Julie, Sally, and Diana who left the family farm and are forced by lifes circumstances to return to their roots in the country. As the story begins the reader sees Julie and CiCi trying to survive after they lose their lifes savings to two gigolos. Then Julie remembers her gigolo ex-boyfriend told her where he would hide his money from his ex-wife and the IRS. They are able to buy back the family farm and get their Momma out of the rest home where she was placed when she became ill with Alzheimers Disease. Their lives should be perfect now, but they discover their childhoods are rooted in a grossly dysfunctional family. Some families have skeletons in their closets, but the sisters discover their family skeletons are buried in the old well behind the farmhouse. Their chore is to keep family secrets buried and to hold onto their recovered fortunes. The book is an easy read for anyone who can stop laughing long enough to finish it.