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The Unofficial Guide to Practical Skills - Ebook
About This Book
The unique and award-winning Unofficial Guides series is a collaboration between senior students, junior doctors and specialty experts. This combination of contributors understands what is essential to excel on your course, in exams and in practice â as well as the importance of presenting information in a clear, fun and engaging way. Packed with hints and tips from those in the know, when you are in a hurry and need a study companion you can trust, reach for an Unofficial Guide.
Designed for medical students, nurses, junior doctors and other healthcare professionals, The Unofficial Guide to Practical Skills contains step-by-step guidance to over 50 core practical procedures. Information is easy to follow and procedures are explained clearly â along with expert practical tips.
This book covers the essential skills you'll need throughout your course and for the OSCEs. It also provides a succinct, day-to-day reference for those in practice.
- Wide range of procedures covered â more than any other book of its kind
- Accompanying mark schemes and typical exam questions to simulate real-life assessment
- Fully illustrated with over 200 color photos/illustrations
- Model answers so you can check how well you are performing
- Content aligned to the latest GMC/MLA requirements
- Additional stations covering lateral flow tests, PPE, using a hospital bed
- Standardisation of different scenarios
- New COVID guidance
- More answers to examiner questions in each scenario
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Series Editor Foreword
- Introduction
- Acknowledgement
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- 1. Basic Patient Assessment
- 2. Blood Tests
- 3. Acute Patient Management
- 4. Medication Administration
- 5. Medicine and Surgery
- 6. Urology
- 7. Paediatrics
- 8. General Skills
- Index