To our students:
Thank you for inspiring us to write this text.
To our families:
Thank you for your support and sacrifice.
Your encouragement kept us on track.
To our friends and colleagues in the Nursing Department at CCRI:
Thank you for supporting us in this endeavor. It has been a privilege and pleasure working with you.
To Jennifer Palmunen:
Thank you for co-authoring the first edition of this text.
Without your perseverance and wisdom, this edition would not be possible.
You have our deepest gratitude.
To the marvelous team at Jones & Bartlett Learning:
Thank you for your help in making this text a reality. You are a hardworking, dynamic, and professional group of people. It has been a pleasure collaborating with you on this project.
To future and practicing nurses, we hope this text makes safe practice a little easier.
We wish you success.
"A good book is a lighthouse; a wise person is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!"