Nicola Cooper
Author
Publisher
Wiley Blackwell
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Clinical communication underpins safe patient care. The effective health professional sees illness through the patient's eyes and understands what matters most to him or her. Effectiveness means gathering hard clinical data about the physical changes affecting the patient, understanding why the patient is concerned, conveying this to other health care professionals and involving the patient at every stage of management decisions. The evidence for...
Author
Publisher
Blackwell
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Designed to help with the competency assessment in the UK Foundation Programme, this book advises new doctors on note-keeping, time management/organisation, communicating with colleagues, the structure of the NHS, and how to deal with the ethical and legal issues they face.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2018
Description
'The ABC of Clinical Professionalism' considers recent evidence on how healthcare practitioners maintain professionalism including how values are developed and affected by the working environment, the challenges of maintaining personal and organisational resilience and the ethical and regulatory framework in which practice is conducted.
Author
Description
Helping with competency assessment in the UK Foundation Programme, this book considers the fundamental change in training in terms of knowledge skills and attitudes in acute care. It includes case histories and mini tutorials summarising the evidence, as well as covering the basics of physiology and practical procedures.
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Demographic trends confirm what physicians already know - they are spending increasing amounts of time dealing with older patients. This resource provides an introduction to the new and increasing challenges of treating older patients in a variety of settings. Each chapter gives an overview of a key topic in geriatric medicine.
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Being a good clinician is not just about knowledge - how doctors and other healthcare professionals think, reason and make decisions is arguably their most critical skill. This book covers core elements of the thinking and decision making associated with clinical practice from what clinical reasoning is, what it involves and how to teach it.