
Unofficial Guide to Practical Skills
Zeshan Qureshi (Publisher)
Published on 7. April 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-0-9571499-6-0 (ISBN)
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Description
The Unofficial Guide to Passing Practical Skills follows on from the huge success of The Unofficial Guide to Passing OSCEs. It contains step-by-step illustrated guides to over 50 core practical skills, with over 200 high quality images of the actual procedures being performed. Accompanying mark schemes, and typical exam questions are included to simulate real life assessment. Written by recent graduates, in conjunction with clinical skills staff, senior clinicians, and consulting a facebook group of 16,000 student doctors, we have ensured all core competencies are covered. The interactive format allows for group or solo revision, and handy guidance whilst on the wards. As with all books in the series, this book is an open collaboration with you the reader.
Reviews / Votes
"The once daunting prospect of approaching practical skills can now be overcome by using this refreshingly comprehensive and user-friendly guide.Including both skills focused on by the GMC and an array of additional skills essential in the armory of a junior doctor, this book really is a must have." --Robert Miller (final year medical student)"The Unofficial Guide to Practical Skills is a successful attempt at providing a solid foundation to over 50 practical skills. In addition to core clinical competencies, a number of additional practical skills expected of junior doctors are also detailed. Amongst the numerous practical skills guides available globally, it is refreshing to find a book which brings together many of the appealing features seen in clinical skills guides, resulting in a highly interactive and informative book. This makes the cost of this book a worthy investment and it will no doubt become engrained into the resource portfolio of clinical skills students and act as a summary guide for junior doctors." --International Journal Of Clinical Skills
"This book is far better than others I have previously used for learning and practising practical skills. The best thing about this book are the examiner style mark schemes, which make it obvious how and what to revise, and make it easy to practise the skills. The content is very comprehensive, containing everything you need for exams, with other more interesting and advanced skills as well. It has a great, easy to see layout with useful pictures which makes very clear what you need to know and the techniques you need to use. I am using this now for finals revision and wish I had something like this in earlier years." --Nathan Prost (final year medical student)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Essex
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 286 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
800 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9571499-6-0 (9780957149960)
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Persons
Emily Hotton, MBChB (Dist), BSc (Hons) PhD, MRCOG, is an obstetric registrar and a leader in medical education, teaching on paid courses and within university and hospitals. She has contributed to four textbooks, including editing Unofficial Guide to Practical Skills, and nine peer reviewed journal articles.
Author
Women's and Children's Research, Southmead Hospital; Translational Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Paediatric Registrar, London Deanery, UK
Content
Contents 1. Simple Patient Assessments 1.1 Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate 1.2 Oxygen Saturation 1.3 Blood Pressure 1.4 Lying and Standing Blood Pressure 1.5 Ankle Brachial Pressure Index 1.6 Blood Glucose 1.7 MRSA swab 1.8 Body Mass Index 1.9 Nutritional Assessment 2. Acute Patient Management 2.1 Immediate Life Support 2.2 Choking 2.3 Sizing and Fitting a Hard Collar 2.4 Airway Management 2.5 Administering Oxygen 2.6 Intravenous Cannulation 2.7 Setting up a Giving Set 2.8 Blood Transfusion 2.9 ECG Interpretation 2.10 Fundoscopy 2.11 Central Venous Lines 3. Blood Tests 3.1 Phlebotomy 3.2 Blood Cultures 3.3 Arterial Blood Gas 3.4 Blood Gas Interpretation 4. Medication Administration 4.1 Intramuscular Injections 4.2 Subcutaneous Injections 4.3 Intradermal Injections 4.4 Intravenous Drugs 4.5 Drug Administration via Nebuliser 4.6 Operating a Syringe Driver 5. Medicine and Surgery 5.1 Simple Dressing Change 5.2 Knee Joint Aspiration 5.3 Nasogastric Tube Insertion 5.4 Diagnostic Pleural Tap 5.5 Diagnostic Ascitic Tap 5.6 Lumbar Puncture 5.7 Proctoscopy 5.8 Flexible Sigmoidoscopy 5.9 Instruments 5.10 Suturing 5.11 Surgical Gowning and Gloving 6. Urology 6.1 Urinalysis 6.2 Male Urethral Catheterisation 6.3 Female Urethral Catheterisation 6.4 Suprapubic Cathetersation 7. Paediatrics 7.1 Peak Flow 7.2 Inhaler Technique 7.3 Preparing Baby Formula Milk 8. General Skills 8.1 Hand Washing 8.2 Infection Control 8.3 Manual Handling 8.4 Death Certification