Ultimate Guide to U.S. Special Forces Skills, Tactics, and Techniques

Ultimate Guide to U.S. Special Forces Skills, Tactics, and Techniques
Author: Jay McCullough
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 1360
Release: 2011-03-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1626367388

Everyone knows that members of the U.S. Special Forces are the top-shelf, crème de la crème, A-Number-Ones, specially hand-picked people to train and serve as the avant garde of the largest, most well-funded military on the face of the earth. But that doesn’t happen overnight! There are special training procedures—over and above basic training—that turn a swabbie into a SEAL, a grunt into a Green Beret, or a runt into a Ranger. Collected here for the first time is official information on USSF: • Sniper training • Reconnaissance • Intelligence and interrogation • Guerrilla warfare • Nocturnal operations • Fighting counter insurgencies • And more! With hundreds of photographs and illustrations demonstrating proven tips and techniques, The Ultimate Guide to Special Forces Skills, Tactics, and Techniques provides everything a warrior needs to know to be fighter-ready and strong.

Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques - E-Book

Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques - E-Book
Author: Anne G. Perry
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 1363
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323796532

Learn clinical nursing skills and prepare for success on the Next Generation NCLEX® Examination! Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 10th Edition provides clear, step-by-step guidelines to more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills. With more than 1,200 full-color illustrations, a nursing process framework, and a focus on evidence-based practice, this manual helps you learn to think critically, ask the right questions at the right time, and make timely decisions. New to this edition are NGN-style unfolding case studies, preparing you for the changes to the NCLEX exam. Written by respected nursing experts Anne Griffin Perry, Patricia A. Potter, Wendy Ostendorf, and Nancy Laplante, this trusted text is the bestselling nursing skills book on the market! - Comprehensive coverage includes more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced nursing skills and procedures. - NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN)-style unfolding case studies include answers at the back of the book, providing optimal preparation for the Next Generation NCLEX Examination. - Rationales for each step within skills explain the why as well as the how of each skill, and include citations from the current literature. - Clinical Decision Points alert you to key steps that affect patient outcomes and help them modify care as needed to meet individual patient needs. - Unique! Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions sections highlight what might go wrong and how to appropriately intervene. - Clinical Debrief at the end of each chapter provides case-based review questions that focus on issues such as managing conflict, care prioritization, patient safety, and decision-making. - More than 1,200 full-color photos and drawings make it easier to visualize concepts and procedures. - Five–step nursing process format helps you apply the nursing process while learning each skill. - Coverage of QSEN core competencies is incorporated into each lesson, including the areas of delegation and collaboration, reporting and recording, safety guidelines, and considerations relating to teaching, pediatric, geriatric, and home care. - Unique! Using Evidence in Nursing Practice chapter covers the entire process of conducting research, including collecting, evaluating, and applying evidence from published research. - F NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN)-style unfolding case studies include answers at the back of the book, providing optimal preparation for the Next Generation NCLEX Examination.

The Ultimate Guide to U.S. Army Survival Skills, Tactics, and Techniques

The Ultimate Guide to U.S. Army Survival Skills, Tactics, and Techniques
Author: Department of the Army
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 1403
Release: 2007-08-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1628733179

Drawing from dozens of the U.S. Army's official field manuals, editor Jay McCullough has culled a thousand pages of the most useful and curious tidbits for the would-be soldier, historian, movie-maker, writer, or survivalist—including techniques on first aid; survival in the hottest or coldest of climates; finding or building life-saving shelters; surviving nuclear, biological, and chemical attacks; physical and mental fitness, and how to find food and water anywhere, anytime. With hundreds of photographs and illustrations showing everything from edible plants to rare skin diseases of the jungle, every page reveals how useful Army knowledge can be.

Perry & Potter's Canadian Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques- E-Book

Perry & Potter's Canadian Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques- E-Book
Author: Shelley Cobbett
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 1298
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323872972

Perry & Potter's Canadian Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques, 2nd Edition helps equip you with the skills you need to successfully care for patients within the Canadian social and institutional context. Offering comprehensive coverage of more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills, this textbook features nearly 1,000 full-colour photographs and illustrations, a nursing process framework, step-by-step instructions with rationales, and a focus on critical thinking and evidence-informed practice. New to this edition are unit openers, safety alerts, documentation examples, COVID-19 precautions and protocols, and case studies and questions for the Next-Generation NCLEX®.

Canadian Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques E-Book

Canadian Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques E-Book
Author: Shelley Cobbett
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 1267
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1771722126

- NEW! Fully revised for a Canadian classroom includes Canadian statistics, references and resources, protocols, documentation standards, delegation rules, Canadian nursing best practice guidelines, metric measurements, and more! - NEW! All topics, skills, and sample documentation conform to Canadian provincial and territorial scopes of practice and Canadian standards in nursing practice. - NEW! Inclusion of Canadian concepts Person-Centred Care, Evidence-Informed Practice, Interprofessional Collaboration and Delegation and Care in the Community. - NEW! Greater emphasis on cultural assessment/considerations and caring for Indigenous and vulnerable populations. - NEW! Thoroughly revised chapters reflect Canadian practice and guidelines including Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management, Palliative Care, Cardiac Care, Vascular Access and Infusion Therapy, Oral Nutrition, and Prevention of Skin Breakdown and Wound Care. - NEW! Enhanced and updated art program includes 70 new figures.

Special Operations Forces

Special Operations Forces
Author: United States, Government Accountability Office
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2007
Genre: Special forces (Military science)
ISBN: 9781422397954

Ultimate Guide to U.S. Army Combat Skills, Tactics, and Techniques

Ultimate Guide to U.S. Army Combat Skills, Tactics, and Techniques
Author: Jay McCullough
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 961
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1616080108

Nearly 1,000 pages of instruction on how to fight and win— from the team that created The Ultimate Guide to U.S. Army Surivival Skills, Tactics, and Techniques.