The second edition of The Hands-On Guide for House Officers is a practical book for junior doctors and medical students making the transition from Medical School to life on the Wards. This book tells you how to prepare for the actual daily rigours of hospital life and is an essential guide for surviving your first year as a doctor. The Hands-On Guide for House Officers covers both the personal aspects of being a doctor and the day-to-day reality of responding to acute emergencies, dealing with common calls and carrying out practical procedures. It tells you: · what to expect in the first week · how to prescribe and give drugs · how to run your own night rounds, tone down your bleep and get more sleep · how to organize paperwork and work through the mass of hospital forms · how to arrange your finances, understand tax and maximize your pension · how to practise evidence-based medicine · how to discharge patients, talk to fraught relatives · how to select a computer, start your own medical database and organize your next job · how to insert central lines, perform chest drains and read ECGs · how to manage GI bleeds, overdoses and oliguria · how to prepare diabetic patients for surgery The first edition of this best-selling book helped thousands of anxious doctors through their first year. Why not see for yourself how it can help you?!

The Hands-on Guide for House Officers (Hands-on Guides)

Medical Books

Donald, Anna

Stein, Mike

Muthu, Vivek

Medicine

Wiley/Blackwell

After evidence based medicine - how to implement the recommendations in clinical practice? This book draws together the key issues, with seminal chapters from leading thinkers, including criteria for implementation; evidence based practice for providers; health economics; decision analysis; and closing the gap between research and practice

Getting Research Findings into Practice

Haines, Andrew

Reference

BMJ Books

Based on Trisha Greenhalgh's course on teaching evidence based health care, this workbook can be used as a stand alone self learning book, either for groups or individuals. The different units covering areas such as decision analysis and diagnostic testing each contain a published paper with exercises for the user, and critical appraisal checklists. It will act as a complement to the best-selling How to Read a Paper.

Evidence-Based Health Care Workbook: For individual and group learning

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

This volume in the Critical Care Focus series addresses the issue of infection control and antibiotic resistance in the Intensive Care Unit and includes discussion of the problem of infection facing intensive care staff, includes measures to control infection, the emergence of resistance to antibiotics and the policies that can be used to reduce this. In addition, the incidence of catheter related infection and its prevention is addressed.

Critical Care Focus 5: Antibiotic Resistance and Infection Control

SCULLY

Galley

Nursing

Although this book is aimed primarily at the final-year medical student about to begin his/her first house job, it will also prove invaluable to house officers already on the job. The book will provide finalists with real openings for action in their work so they can perform with confidence and ease. It aims to bridge the gap between the theoretical knowledge gained at medical school and the practical know-how of being a doctor on a daily basis. Reading this book should ameliorate the feeling of panic that invariably paralyse finalists as they begin their first house jobs.

Hands-On Guide for House Officers

About to start the Foundation Programme? Making the transition from medical school to professional life?
The Hands-on Guide to the Foundation Programme, Fifth Edition is a practical guide for medical students and foundation doctors, dealing with the many challenges of the programme. With hints, tips and realistic advice on various aspects of the course, from self-care to prescribing, this guide provides invaluable support, with up-to-date information on postgraduate training and recruitment, practical management skills and career pathways to help build confidence, enabling you to hit the ground running.
This edition features newly expanded sections on emergencies, psychiatric evaluation, the Situational Judgement Test, and the common calls and conditions you will encounter on a daily basis. The Hands-on Guide to the Foundation Programme is a perfect companion to assist the junior doctor in preparing for the intellectual and emotional challenges of the foundation years. Take the stress out of the Foundation Programme with The Hands-on Guide!

The Hands-On Guide to the Foundation Programme (Hands-on Guides)

Stein, Michael

Hill, Ciaran Scott

Chavda, Selina J.

Blackwell Pub.

Part of the Blackwell foundation programme collection The Hands-on Guide for Junior Doctors is a practical book for junior doctors and medical students making the transition from medical school to life on the wards. It contains new material to reflect the changes in PRHO training and the development of foundation programmes.  This book tells you how to prepare for the actual daily rigours of hospital life and is an essential guide for surviving your first year as a junior doctor. It covers the personal aspects of being a doctor, outlining the realities of ward life including paperwork, self-care and guidance sections on arranging your finances and organising the next job.  It also provides the day-to-day reality of clinical life such as responding to acute emergencies, common ward calls, drug prescribing and carrying out practical procedures.

The Hands-on Guide for Junior Doctors (Hands-on Guides)

Are you about to start the Foundation Programme? Do you know what to expect and how to thrive? The Hands-on Guide for Junior Doctors, Fourth Edition, is the ultimate, practical guide for junior doctors and medical students. It helps you tackle the emotional, intellectual and physical demands of being a new doctor and allays common insecurities to help you make the most of your time in clinical practice. This book tells you how to prepare for the daily rigours of hospital life, and will help you meet the required standard. It provides advice on getting started in placements, and helps you develop confidence, with tips on what to do as a junior member of the hospital team, and how to deal with common calls and emergencies. There is also an invaluable chapter on how to perform the practical procedures you’ll be assessed on. With the Foundation Programme such a demanding process, both physically and emotionally, this book also provides the kind of information you don’t get at medical school, for example, how to look after yourself throughout your training. Take the stress out of the Foundation Programme with The Hands-on Guide!

The Hands-on Guide for Junior Doctors

Scott Hill, Ciaran

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Donald, Anna. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Donald, Anna