This title is directed primarily to health care professionals outside the United States. it is a comprehensive text for nurse practitioners that integrates the required clinical skills with professional and theoretical issues in one book. It uses a systems approach to cover the most frequently presenting problems that the nurse practitioner will encounter. The scope of the book then widens to include psychological and emotional problems as well as the special needs of children and those patients with chronic health problems. Using a practical approach the content is based on current best...

Nathan was full of uncertainties growing up as a child. Yet the one thing he knew with absolute certainty was that he was not a farmer. How could he explain to his parents that he held no interest for his family's lifestyle? How could he make them understand that he wanted more in his life? Succumbing to his daydreams daily was his only comfort. However, while lost in his dreams, all seemed to go wrong around him. Some of the daily wrongs left Nathan clueless, clueless as to what happened-and clueless as to why these things always happened to him. It made him feel like a constant...

Aspiring artist, Laura Whitney, blinded by a lightning strike, receives a dual cornea transplant from a "medium" who died during a seance she was conducting. Although her sight was restored, Laura's life becomes fraught with mysterious incidents and untimely deaths of people in her life. Her struggle to combat an evil "spirit" from biblical times, brought forth at that same seance, make an intriguing and thrilling tale.