good clinical guide to bring to clinicals?

[jb32]

Hi Everyone,

I just started clinicals and constantly had questions as I went through the motions. One thing I think would be helpful would be if there were some sort of book/guide that I can bring with me to clinicals, that has the element of Patho, where I can look up different diseases, signs and symptoms, causes, risks, but also has nursing type information (i.e. interventions, what I can do as a nurse, etc.). Does anyone know of a book like that? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[jump2thamoon]

Mosbys PDQ for the RN. Its so small it fits in your pocket.

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

We always have a minimum of five textbooks at clinical with us, including drug reference book, a diagnostic tests book, a couple of nursing diagnosis handbook (with rationales) and a med/surg book. There are eight in our group and we take turns with each of us bringing one of the above, so we have all five without anyone having to lug them all around. Then we share.

One of the nursing diagnosis handbooks I really like is Patient Care Standards by Susan Martin Tucker (et al). It is out of print but you can get it pretty inexpensively on AbeBooks or Amazon. Just get the year 2000 version. It goes all the way back to the 70s and those aren't really all that up to date.

[Scrubmouse RN]

RN notes and Jarvis's Physical Assessment pocket book.