New Releases by Tina Sinatra

Frank Sinatra seemed to have it all: genius, wealth, the love of beautiful women, glamorous friends from Las Vegas to the White House. But in this startling and remarkably outspoken memoir, his youngest daughter reveals to us an acutely restless, lonely and conflicted man. Through his marriages and front-page romances and the melancholy gaps between, Frank Sinatra searched for a contentment that eluded him. For the first time Tina writes candidly about the wedge his manipulative fourth wife, Barbara Marx, drove between father and daughter. MY FATHER''S DAUGHTER, with its unflinching account of Sinatra''s flaws and foibles, will shock many of his fans. At the same time, it is a deeply affectionate portrait written with love and warmth, a celebration of a daughter''s fond esteem for her father and a respect for his great legacy. The world remembers Frank Sinatra as one of the giants of the show business. In this book from someone inside the legend, Tina Sinatra remembers him as something more: a father, and a man.

"The purpose of this ongoing practice change project is to ascertain the effectiveness of concept mapping as a teaching strategy to facilitate critical thinking skills in the baccalaureate level nursing student. An in-depth literature review of topics related to the concept of critical thinking was performed. The research identifies several strategies to improve critical thinking in students as well as in new graduate nurses. All of the studies performed identified some degree of dissatisfaction with the critical thinking skills of nursing students in the beginning of their careers as student nurses or the critical thinking skills of new graduate nurses. Recommendations for further research on the concept of critical thinking and methods for enhancement is recommended by all of the research studies identified. Many of the studies discussed critical thinking skills in the student in the beginning and at the end of their nursing programs in order to improve critical thinking in students and also to provide recommendations for curriculum revision involving critical thinking (Spelic, Parsons, Hercinger, Andrews, Parks, & Norris, 2001, Shin, Lee, Ha & Kim, 2006, Hoffman, 2006, Paul, 1995, Khosravani, Manoochehri, & Memarian, 2005, Castellino & Scheuster, 2005, King & Shell, 2002). Among many of those recommendations was the use of concept mapping to improve critical thinking skills. The nursing process is currently being utilized in the proposed research setting with the completion level students. The current practice change project compares the utilization of the nursing care plan and concept mapping as a teaching strategy to enhance critical thinking skills in baccalaureate level nursing students in the clinical setting." -- Abstract.