Every Day is Game Day

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Abstract When her mother’s obsession with televised sports collides with family gatherings, Lindsay Walters encounters a complex conflict situation. Her experience studying family communication provides opportunities to explore the issues and help her family find compromise and understanding.  ,...

A Communication Privacy Management Analysis of an End of Life Admission

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Sample As individuals age, privacy concerns adapt and change, in conjunction with developmental and life-course changes (Petronio, 2002). Some of these changes can be identity-threatening and hard to talk about for aging seniors. For example, having to rely more on family for finances and bill pa...

Leaving the Nest Five Steps to Survival in College and Your Future Career

Author(s): Nikole Knight

Too often even students who are close to graduation have not yet made sense of the process and are not yet secure in how college will help them be successful in their future. Leaving the Nest: Five Steps to Survival in College and Your Future is written for students who are presently in college w...

Helping Patients Get What They Need: Persuading Health Care Providers of Perceived Threat and Positive Outcome Expectations

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Sample Health care provider-patient relationships are the cornerstone to effective health care. Patients enter into these fiduciary relationships expecting that health care providers will offer the best care possible to the patient. As patients, traditionally, we have been socialized to passively...

Introduction to Humanities

Author(s): Tamara Hill

Spinal Radiology Lab Manual

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Finding Strength in Methodology: Confronting Trauma and Embracing Love for a Sibling with Severe Disabilities

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Abstract The following is a layered account of loving and leaving a sibling with severe mental disabilities. While traditional research ethics separate the researcher from the subject to ensure impartiality, autoethnographies treat the researcher as the subject and embrace personal narratives as ...

Questions for the Soul 4th Ed.

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"This book is intended as an introduction to philosophy. It is a thoughtful collection of writings on different philosophical discourses by different philosophers. The book presents philosophy as sustained reflection on the questions that most profoundly and deeply concern the life of a human being ...

Breaking Bad News During Physician-Patient Interactions

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Abstract The manner in which physicians deliver bad news can drastically affect patients’ satisfaction with care, psychological outcomes, and subsequent behavioral outcomes (e.g., commitment to therapeutic regimens, follow-up visits). Physicians who are unprepared for the difficult task of breaki...

Foundation of Biology: Laboratory Manual for General Biology I

Author(s): Sarah Warrington

Foundation of Biology Laboratory Manual: Laboratory Manual for General Biology I was created with a threefold purpose: 1.   To build a strong foundation for cell biology through laboratory exercises. 2.   To build skills in following written instructions and in making careful observations. ...