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A practical introduction to the process of designing, doing and writing up research with children and young people.

Accompanied by 47 drawings on 47 folded sheets in envelope.

An entrepreneur takes the calculated risk in the internal cost-benefit analysis and gathers the factors of productionlabor, land, and capitalto generate a self-sustaining profitable business. To gather these resources, including the people necessary to succeed, effective communication is required. The ability to inspire and motivate others to join in the vision is crucial. Whether it is to acquire their labor, intellect, capital, or simply their beliefs and cooperation, the talent to convey the vision via written and oral media will assist in achieving success. Persistence, determination, attitude, and the ability to communicate are the keys to success. All communication be it business, government, personal is between people. The ability to convey thoughts, ideas, information, and motivation is the key to achieving progress and success. Managers of organizations have the basic job of gathering and distributing information, motivating and inspiring team efforts toward a goal, and making decisions. Internal communication takes place within people in an organization, owners, managers, supervisors, and employees. External communication takes place among the company and outside people, customers, vendors, and creditors. Effective communication is essential to accomplishing these goals. Communication skillsboth written and oralare learned skills achievable by all. They are the keys to success, and all business leaders possess them. All our communication skillsoral and writtenand power come from learned behaviors, awareness, and observations of others. Whether it is to inspire, motivate, or acquire cooperation and involvement in an investment appeal, credit application, or sales presentation; to communicate in a clear, understandable manner will greatly contribute to success. Effective communication is positive and assertive. It influences the audience in a mutually beneficial way that creates the you win, I win scenario. This ability will share the vision and inspire others to work with you rather than for you. To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy (Sun Yat-Sen). Entrepreneur Communication accompanies the others in the series The Entrepreneurs Edge I & IIFinding the Money; Economics, Entrepreneurship, EthicsThe Es of Business; The Entrepreneur ManagerThe Business Mans Business Plan; and The Entrepreneurs GuideTo Start, Grow, and Manage a Profitable Business to help fill the toolbox of every entrepreneur and manager.

Our neighbors on other planets look with puzzlement at the United States, located on the beautiful planet Earth. Despite amazing knowledge, discovery, and skill, healthcare delivery in this country is expensive, episodic, not customer-friendly, and much better for citizens with lots of money than those with less. Can this country find the resolve to embrace change, learn from other planets (or at least other countries and industries on this planet), and create an optimistic future for an ideal delivery system? In a picture story that embraces disruption and transformation, this journey through time and space offers a humorous exploration of the weaknesses of the American healthcare delivery system. Bless This Mess asks how we might re-imagine how we teach, how we care, and how we put an end to health disparities ... and get us closer to the holy grail of a believable understandable bill! The challenge is ours. Will we take it?

With collaboration of Dr. Jan Foster, Consulting Editor, Drs. Landry and Fowler has created a current clinical look at nursing interventions for cardiovascular disease. They have invited authors from top institutions to contribute reviews on the following topics: Evidence-Based Strategies for Late Stages of Heart Failure; Cardiovascular Risk Reduction: A Pharmacotherapeutic Update for Antiplatelet Medications; Comprehensive Nursing Management for Cardiac Valvular Dysfunction; Recovery Management After Cardiothoracic Surgery: Nursing Priorities; Cardiovascular Disease Management in Minority Women: Special Considerations; STEMI and NSTEMI: Medical and Surgical Interventions; Nursing Management for Patients Post-Operative Cardiac Device Insertion & Minimally Invasive Procedures; Acute and Chronic Nursing Management of Atrial Fibrillation; Hospital Discharge Teaching for Patients with Peripheral  Vascular Disease; Acute and Chronic Hypertension: Advanced Nursing Management; and Culinary Medicine: Patient Education for Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes. Readers will come away with the clinical updates they need to improve outcomes in cardiovascular patients.

If you work in operations, finance or marketing in any part of the public transport sector, this book was written for you. Adam Simmons provides a set of practical business planning tools aimed at developing a business in the public transport sector, primarily - railways, ferry, long distance bus/coach and air transport services. Business planning is a combination of many closely intertwined management disciplines, so chapters include advice on pricing and product strategy, marketing, linear programming, regression analysis, queuing theory and investment appraisal techniques as well as economics. All have impact on assessing changes in supply, demand, revenue and costs, so it is important to be aware of these techniques and understand how what they monitor affects the overall health of any business. Using globally sourced examples, Adam demonstrates how these methods can be applied across the industry and are relevant to more than a single country, region or city.

The Robotics Program: A How-to-Guide for Physician Leaders on Starting Up a Successful Program builds on the concept that successful programs can be differentiated from unsuccessful programs by seven core elements. Dr. Loftus describes his personal journey as a physician executive in developing a surgical robotics program for a large healthcare system. He demonstrates how to incorporate the seven core elements in the development, implementation and sustainability of a robotics program. Reader Comments: "It was truly outstanding and an interesting read. I think it's a great guide for any physician trying to lead a robotics program." "I've finished reading your book, and I found it amazing. I think it's not only a guide for starting a robotic program, but also a guide for starting any program." "I will use all the tips you give for leadership .... It was an inspiring reading."

Written in everyday language for non-statisticians, this book provides all the information needed to successfully conduct nonparametric analyses. This ideal reference book provides step-by-step instructions to lead the reader through each analysis, screenshots of the software and output, and case scenarios to illustrate of all the analytic techniques.