What pocket guides does everyone use?

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Specializes in ER.

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I started GI as a FNP and am working clinic but eventually will work at the hospital and will be rounding on patients as well. I got a standard notebook for notes and just got a tarascon pharmacy guide and wanted to see what other recommendations everyone else had.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Not specific to GI but I use:

Epocrates

UpToDate

Dialysis of Drugs (I'm in nephrology but its very important to renally dose meds)

ACR Criteria

Sanford Guide

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Specializes in Adult Primary Care.

I use UpToDate.

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Specializes in ER.
On 6/22/2019 at 8:48 PM, traumaRUs said:

Not specific to GI but I use:

Epocrates

UpToDate

Dialysis of Drugs (I'm in nephrology but its very important to renally dose meds)

ACR Criteria

Sanford Guide

which sanford guide do you have? the pocket ring or huge one?

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.
13 hours ago, WinterWolf90 said:

which sanford guide do you have? the pocket ring or huge one?

The app

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I work in Primary Care

Cdc vaccine and STDs guidelines

Us taskforce app (AHRQ)

Apea app

Uptodate which gets all/most their drug guidelines from lexicomp

ASCVD app

Fp notebook for a quick and dirty for simple illnesses

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Make your own. Get a little book like notepad (nonspiral bound like https://onplanners.com/notebooks/8-best-notebooks-bullet-journaling) and write down the tricks of the trade (how to prep meds, what people call things, equipment for procedures, necessary forms, etc.) The commercial guides are nice but not practical and are more educational than do this at this time kind of thing. Example is it gives you a diagnostic for the acute ab but doesn't tell you how to order your protocol cause the doc is super busy and you could have labs and urine results back by the time they see the patient. That kind of thing only comes from doing it and asking how it's done and when. And you can write it in a way that you will recognize.

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UpToDate

Epocartes app on my phone

Tarascon pocket pharmacopenia

AMA guide to disease and injury causation ( I work in occupatonla medicine)

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