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This digital document is an article from Pediatric Nursing, published by Jannetti Publications, Inc. on September 1, 1997. The length of the article is 4170 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Purpose: To compare the effects of heparin versus normal saline flush solutions on the duration of patency of peripheral IV catheters in neonates. Methods: A quasi experimental design compared the outcomes in 87 infants who were 32 weeks or greater gestation at birth. Thirty-three received heparin and 54 received normal saline. Results: There were 159 starts among the subjects. No statistically significant difference in duration of patency between the groups was found. The duration was significantly longer for term than preterm infants and for insertion in scalp, arm, or hand than for leg or foot. Conclusions: Gestational age and site of insertion were the only predictor variables related to duration of patency for IV catheters.

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Title: The use of heparin and normal saline flushes in neonatal intravenous catheters.
Author: Marilyn Krueger Paisley
Publication: Pediatric Nursing (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1997
Publisher: Jannetti Publications, Inc.
Volume: v23Issue: n5Page: p521(5)

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There are few remaining topics in the Christian church that can raise a more vehement and diverse response than divorce. For the last thirty years, the church seems to have watched from the sidelines as the number of failed marriages within its membership has risen to reflect statistics alarmingly similar to the secular world.

Rather than addressing the reality that even some Christian marriages will end in divorce, church leaders have responded with a generally confusing mixture of ignoring the problem, or admonishing those struggling with bad marriages to simply figure out a way to remain in the marriage. These diametrically opposed tactics may seem to provide a comprehensive solution, but in fact leave in isolation the continually growing population of divorced Christians who must deal with this emotionally and spiritually charged life experience. Divorced but Not Forsaken: Experiencing God's Healing as Marriage Ends is the book that I needed to read as I was seeking answers during my own divorce.

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Mahoning Valley Poetry gathers together the poetry ofnearly 100 writers who live and work in Northeast Ohio.It's hard tocategorize the poets in this collection: these poems were authored bydoctors, nurses, teachers, foundry workers, auto assemblers,housewives, politicians, students, and bikers.It's hard tocharacterize the diversity of poetry being written by people in theMahoning Valley as well, except to say that there's a kind of pulserunning through it, a pulse that reverberates with humor, toughness,compassion, and brutal honesty.In this book you'll find traditionalpoems about nature, contemporary poems of urban life, and radicalpoems about the nature of sexual attraction and the meaning of death.Celebrate the Mahoning Valley--celebrate the poetry that smolders likethe sulphur sky. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Health Care Financing Review, published by Superintendent of Documents on March 22, 2009. The length of the article is 7278 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Using data from 335,249 Medicare beneficiaries who responded to the 2007 Medicare Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS[R]) survey, along with data from 22 cognitive interviews, we investigated the reliability and validity of an instrument designed to assess beneficiaries' experiences with their prescription drug plans. Composite measures derived from the instrument had acceptable internal consistency and sufficient plan-level reliability to inform consumer choice, quality improvement, and payor oversight. These measures were positively associated with members' overall rating of the plan and their willingness to recommend the plan. Moreover, each was independently useful in predicting beneficiaries' global ratings of their plan. This instrument can be an important tool for helping beneficiaries to choose a plan that best meets their needs.

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Title: Psychometric properties of an instrument to assess Medicare beneficiaries' prescription drug plan experiences.(Survey)
Author: Steven C. Martino
Publication: Health Care Financing Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2009
Publisher: Superintendent of Documents
Volume: 30Issue: 3Page: 41(13)

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This collection brings together more than twenty writersconnected to the commercial fishing industry.Their works celebratetheir livelihoods--the hard work, the beauty, the fishing community,and the grave dangers of their work.This book is essential readingfor anyone interested in the realities of commericial fishing. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Trial, published by Association of Trial Lawyers of America on September 1, 1994. The length of the article is 2801 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Ann Brown, new chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), hopes during her tenure to bring together disparate groups to work jointly towards making products safer and to make her agency very visible and proactive. Brown realizes her agency is data-driven and wants to improve information-gathering on unsafe products while concentrating on vulnerable groups such as children and the elderly who will be most adversely impacted if products are unsafe.

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Title: The new, improved CPSC: under Ann Brown, a consumer protection revival. (Consumer Product Safety Commission) (Interview)
Author: Julie Gannon Shoop
Publication: Trial (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1994
Publisher: Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Volume: 30Issue: n9Page: 22(5)

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From Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale characters to Lewis Carroll's "Wonderland" and Emily Dickinson's poetic imagery, the writings and lives of some of the world's most celebrated authors indicate signs of autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Through analysis of biographies, autobiographies, letters and diaries, Professor Julie Brown identifies literary talents who display characteristics of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and uncovers the similarities in their writing that suggest atypical, autistic brains. Providing close readings of authors' works, Brown explores writing processes, content, theme, structure and writing style to reveal the underlying autistic traits that have influenced their writing. The book provides an overview of ASD and common threads in autistic writing followed by an illuminating exploration of how these threads are evident in the literature of both well-known and lesser known authors. This groundbreaking study of autism in literature will be of interest to anyone with a professional or personal interest in literature or the autistic mind. ... Read more

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An outstanding presentation for any literary collection
Writers on the Spectrum is for any college-level library strong in literary analysis. It shows how the writings of some of the world's most celebrated authors indicate signs of autism and Asperger Syndrome, considering structure, content and writing style in its exploration of an autistic perception of life. A range of writers are considered in an analysis identifying signs of autistic perceptions of life and themes of alienation, making this an outstanding presentation for any literary collection.

A Remarkable Analysis of Authors With Asperger's
Lewis Carroll. Hans Christian Andersen. Emily Dickinson. What do these writers have in common? They almost certainly had Asperger's Syndrome. So did Melville, Yeats and Sherwood Anderson. Other research has identified these writers as being on the autism spectrum; Brown analyzes their writing to find common traits in style.

Brown found that writers with Asperger's had the ability to stay focused on the writing task for long periods of time; that they frequently had a hard time physically getting the words onto paper- the authors examined all wrote before the advent of computers- because writing is a linear process and many people with autism excel in the visual/spatial realm rather than linear processes; that a lot of them used a collage process to write- rather than starting at the beginning and writing straight through til the end, they wrote bits and pieces of different scenes and then arranged them later; that they sometimes wrote by borrowing phrases and making allusions to other works; they sometimes had gaps and leaps that are understandable to them, but not to a neurotypical reader; they are better at description and detail than they are at character development; they make heavy use of symbolism; they break rules of established writing to good effect. The writers she analyzes, one per chapter, all have these characteristics. Some of them have changed the look of literature- Andersen's fairy tales can have some very unhappy endings, Dickinson's poems didn't fit the established `ABAB' patterns, Carroll played with words like they were shiny toys, Sherwood Anderson was the first to use the form of linked short stories to create a novel.

But, do all authors on the spectrum write this way? Well, no. Most may, but not all. I know of writers who have had an Asperger's diagnosis who excel at characterand have no problem writing about emotion fluently. Perhaps these authors are not as far along the spectrum as Brown's examples are; perhaps there is just as much variation between people on the spectrum as there is between neurotypicals.

A fascinating book that may change how you look at books and the people who write them.
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