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

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

Care Less Lives: The Story of the Rights Movement for Children in Care

Catch22

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

Quality Matters in Children's Services brings together authoritative research to explore critical concerns for those working with vulnerable children, young people and their families. Subjects covered include reunification, stability and wellbeing, kinship care, educating vulnerable young people, child protection, domestic violence and parental substance misuse, the participation of disabled young people and advocacy services. 
Mike Stein discusses key issues for policy and practice in the development of quality services including identifying and sustaining quality through involving stakeholders, integrated working and quality services, the development of policies, procedures and organisational processes and carrying out quality assessments, training and workforce reform.
This book is essential reading for practitioners, senior staff, commissioners, managers and anyone involved in developing quality children's services.

Quality Matters in Children's Services: Messages from Research

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

The journey to adulthood is a big step for most young people. However, for young people leaving care it may be far more difficult, coping with major changes in their lives, at a younger age, especially if they lack preparation and support. "Young People's Pathways from Care to Adulthood" explores the journey from care to adulthood through the main challenges they face - being in settled accommodation, fulfilling their potential in education, employment or training, and achieving good health and a positive sense of wellbeing. For each of these pathways this will include a comprehensive review of what research studies reveal about the problems young people encounter, how they may be supported on these pathways in meeting these challenges, and how the services they receive may promote their resilience, helping them to fulfil their potential as young adults. This is an essential book for all those who work with young people from care, including social workers, personal advisers, counsellors, teachers, policy makers, researchers and students.

Young People Leaving Care: Supporting Pathways to Adulthood

Parenting & Relationships

Jessica Kingsley Pub

Linking both theory and practice, this text examines the issue of how children are to be looked after if they cannot live in more traditional family units.

Understanding Residential Child Care

Business & Money

Frost, Nick

Mills, Sue

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Arena

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