Critical situations in acute and emergency care are one of the great clinical challenges because of the uncertainty, high stakes, time pressure, and stress that are involved. This book provides a comprehensive outline of all the human factors issues relevant to patient safety during acute care. Following an initial section discussing the basic principles of human behavior and decision making, the various influences on safe patient care are discussed in depth. These are divided into three i...

To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into the day-to-day actions carried out in your company. That means channeling resources into the right efforts, achieving the right balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone pulling in the same direction. How to keep all this on track?Identify critical gaps in your strategy execution processes, focus on the most important choices you must make, and understand what's at stake i...

Curse of Zyanya is the sequel to the Harrington Curse as the criminal world reporters return to investigate further activities with the cursed mirrors. This time, they discover the origins of the mirrors and with danger and strange phenomenon around every corner. Ruth Ashley, the psychiatric nurse, is invited back to help with enquiries as Fiona and Harrison investigate a strange murder, while Samantha and Elliot travel to Spain, delving into families past also linked to the mystery of the...

Daniel Hewitt, a computer programmer and games expert, tells his own story of how he decides to perfect the ideal games for his friends and uses them as his characters in each venture. His idea works until his girlfriend, Kim, disappears into one of the games, and his creations go disastrously wrong. His whole concept of reality becomes confusing as he continues to create the perfect game.

Most of the following stories have been written in Scotland and Sweden. My research for the Harrington curse took place in Aberlady near North Berwick, Scotland. My latest work, Eight Skulls of Teversham, was written partly in Inverness, taking in the atmosphere of the misty hills of Scotlands highlandssuch a beautiful sight to behold. Double exposure was also created with a location of Scotland in mind, taking me back to my ancestors, the Scott clan, and the famous Sir Walter Scott. The s...

The Harrington curse goes back a few generations and affected the Harrington family in a big way, it was said that Annabelle Harrington went missing and cursed three mirrors before she disappeared. The mirrors were discovered in an attic and each given to three members of the family, it was then that horrific events took place that led to death itself. Horrible visions and blood curdling screams took place in Harrington Manor. Emma an owner of one of the mirrors, was a descendant of Annabe...

In the 21st century the world had hit a crisis with mental health, the demands for caring for people with mental health conditions were dire. Few people wanted to take responsibility for anyone with any mental health problems, in the United States of America alone people with serious mental health conditions were falling through the cracks in the system. Victims had very little sympathy shown to them and often landed in emergency rooms, county jails and on the city streets. These so called...

The definition of cursed is damned. A curse is an appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone, to invoke supernatural powers in order to bring harm to someone. In ancient times, this was used in witchcraft or other forms of medieval sorcery. Cursed is the combined story of the Harrington curse, the curse of Zyanya following the trail of a curse that has lasted centuries and finally is revealed in a massive conclusion at the end in final chapter of Cursed. Never has there been...

Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting and control. In addition to the more traditional diagnostic control systems, Simons identifies three new control systems that allow strategic change: belief systems that communicate core values and provide inspiration and direction, boundary systems that frame the strategic domain and...

This study, spanning c. 1980 to 2016, offers an alternative critical perspective of the poetic works of the acclaimed Spanish poet Ana Rossetti. At its core, it explores the presence of Posthumanism and the mystical in late 20th and early 21st Century Iberian poetics, and more specifically, how Rossetti's more recent poetry expresses the same tendency toward a transcultural and posthuman model that is simultaneously essentialist and deconstructive. The books examines modern Iberian mystici...

"Energy Joy" presents a visionary trek into uplifting life on Earth - NOW - because it's evolution time! By revealing the missing, better half of stress, author Robert Simon Siegel contributes a refreshing and inspiring new understanding of its remarkable evolutionary purpose. One intriguing discovery interrupts business as usual to elevate humanity into more exciting and healthy realms beyond mere survival. The knowledge that we each have a fascinating energy 'engine' inside of us has bee...

Black Identities and Media in the Twenty-First Century presents original scholarly essays, drawn from a range of theory-based applications and methodologies, that analyze media representations, effects, and practices relating to Black communities and their varying identities, with particular attention to attributes such as gender, sexuality, class, and ability status. By surveying newsprint, television, social media, podcasts, and more, this innovative collection explores intersec...