The Catalog
Books Built From Experience.
Written to Be Used.
Dickson Keanaghan is an independent publishing house built around a simple conviction: the best books should do more than communicate ideas. They should help people understand something better, do something better, or live something better.
Our books are organized into two growing libraries.
The Nursing & Healthcare Education Library, published primarily through The Mindful Nurse Press, brings decades of clinical practice, classroom teaching, and healthcare education to nurses, students, instructors, and other healthcare professionals. Its books range from ACLS, BLS, and PALS study resources to nursing workbooks, medical reference materials, and puzzle-based study books designed to make learning and review more useful—and sometimes more enjoyable.
The Four Pillars Library explores a different kind of education: how to build a serious and meaningful life around faith, responsibility, work & wealth, and legacy. These books examine the principles, habits, obligations, and ideas that help individuals govern themselves, build productive lives, care for what has been entrusted to them, and leave something worthwhile behind.
Different subjects. Different readers. The same publishing philosophy.
Field-Tested, Then Published.
Dickson Keanaghan does not begin with theories about what readers might need. Our books grow out of work that has already been done—in classrooms and hospitals, in businesses and families, and through decades of teaching, writing, working, building, and living.
That experience comes first. The book comes afterward.
It is the standard that has guided the house for more than four decades: create books grounded in experience, written with clarity, and made to be used.
Dickson Keanaghan titles are distributed worldwide through Ingram and are available through booksellers, online retailers, libraries, and other book-distribution channels.
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The Nursing & Healthcare Library — Michele G. Kunz
Study guides, workbooks, quick-study charts, and strength-building reads by nursing educator Michele G. Kunz, MSN, ANP, RN — created to support the nurses who support everyone else.
ACLS Certification Exam Q&A with Explanations
2026 Edition—updated for the 2025 AHA Guidelines. 101 carefully developed multiple-choice questions with detailed answer explanations, progressing from essential ACLS concepts to advanced clinical scenarios and integrated megacode-style decision-making. Coming September 2026.
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ACLS Made Clear Workbook
A practical class-prep guide for healthcare professionals, current for the 2025 AHA Guidelines. Focused, manageable activities—high-yield ACLS review, cardiac rhythm practice, medication review, megacode preparation, and sample questions—to help you prepare before class and reinforce essential knowledge.
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PALS Certification Exam Q&A with Explanations
2026 Edition—updated for the 2025 AHA Guidelines. 101 multiple-choice questions with clear, detailed explanations reinforcing pediatric assessment, respiratory emergencies, shock, cardiac rhythms, medications, electrical therapy, cardiac arrest, and effective team response.
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PALS Made Clear Workbook
A practical class-prep guide, current for the 2025 AHA Guidelines. Organizes pediatric assessment, respiratory and shock review, cardiac rhythm practice, and sample questions into focused activities that build a clearer, more systematic approach to pediatric emergency care.
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BLS Certification Exam Q&A with Explanations
2026 Edition—updated for the 2025 AHA Guidelines. 101 multiple-choice questions with clear, practical explanations covering high-quality CPR, AED use, ventilation, airway emergencies, adult and pediatric response, and team dynamics—reinforcing not only what to do, but why it matters.
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BLS Made Clear Workbook
A practical class-prep guide, current for the 2025 AHA Guidelines. Turns the essentials—CPR quality, AED review, airway and ventilation basics, and sample questions—into focused practice for class, written testing, hands-on skills evaluation, and real-world emergencies.
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Zombie Notes Study Charts®
The fast and painless way to devour your studies! Concise, to-the-point study guides for new learners and seasoned professionals alike. Since 1985, Michele and Joseph Kunz have simplified complex medical topics into accessible, easy-to-memorize content essential for academic and career success.
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The Art of Mindful Nursing Primer
A Nurse’s Blueprint for Mastering Life, Advancing Your Career, and Achieving Professional Excellence. Practical wisdom, emotional nourishment, and tools to stay centered, resilient, and connected to your purpose.
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The Art of Mindful Nursing Affirmations
Daily affirmations crafted for nurses—words of encouragement, strength, and self-compassion to carry through every shift and beyond.
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The Art of Mindful Nursing Lexicon
A curated collection of terms, definitions, and language that shapes mindful nursing practice—bridging clinical knowledge with compassionate care.
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The Art of Mindful Nursing Mnemonics
Easy-to-remember memory aids designed to help nurses retain essential concepts, protocols, and best practices for mindful, confident care.
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Puzzle-Based Study Books
Learn it. Recall it. Reinforce it. Have some fun while you’re doing it.
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Notes on Nursing
Unlock the timeless wisdom of Florence Nightingale. The first-ever Annotated Nursing-Student Edition of Nightingale’s seminal work, edited by Michele G. Kunz, offering unparalleled insights and contemporary perspectives for today’s nursing students.
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The Four Pillars Library — Joseph C. Kunz, Jr.
Field-tested blueprints for building wealth, strength, and a life that actually works — drawn from more than four decades of building, failing, learning, publishing, teaching, and investing.
Money’s Dirty Little Secrets
A blunt guide to money, freedom, responsibility, and building wealth that serves a life worth living — how money really works, why ordinary people stay stuck, and what it takes to build independence.
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The Four Pillars of a Well-Built Life
A field manual for faith, responsibility, work, and legacy. A life doesn’t collapse all at once — it collapses one neglected pillar at a time. It is rebuilt the same way.
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The Making of a Rich Life
A modern philosophy of money, wealth, and responsibility — not a book about chasing money, but about understanding it. Wealth is not the end; a rich life is the point.
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The Builder’s Life Series
Essays on building a life that holds, in four volumes — Faith. Responsibility. Work & Wealth. Legacy. A serious, clear-eyed series for people willing to carry responsibility.
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Home-Based Business Companion Series
Choose it. Start it. Make it work. A practical three-book series drawn from four decades of real ownership — from idea selection to startup, customers, cash flow, and first-year survival.
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The Grace Effect Series
How faith, responsibility, and quiet strength rebuild the person you’re meant to become — three hope-filled books for people rebuilding after loss, hardship, or disappointment.
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The Success Lexicon
Plain-English rules for money, mastery, and a life that compounds. Success isn’t an accident — it’s a vocabulary. Learn the words, master the principles, change your life.
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The Legacy Code
12 rules for winning at what really matters. Legacy isn’t something you leave behind — it’s something you live on purpose every single day.
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The Builder’s Guide to Faith
Formation, strength, and inner structure for a life that holds. Not a devotional or a collection of clichés — faith treated as a structure you build into your life.
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