Book Recommendation! Great for medic students.

[Sasha]

Before going to my clinical i stopped at a bookstore and picked up Lipincotts Critical care nursing pocket guide. I've been flipping through it and it's an amazing source of information. It explains disease processes,what goes on, how to recognize and how to treat it. it is a nursing guide, but medicine is medicine and the body is the same in and out of the hospital. thought i would share for the paramedic st udents!

 

[sir.shocksalot]

Before going to my clinical i stopped at a bookstore and picked up Lipincotts Critical care nursing pocket guide. I've been flipping through it and it's an amazing source of information. It explains disease processes,what goes on, how to recognize and how to treat it. it is a nursing guide, but medicine is medicine and the body is the same in and out of the hospital. thought i would share for the paramedic st udents!

Personally I am not a big fan of pocket guides, I'm a bit of a tool and bring full sized references with me to work. I'll see if my local borders or school bookstore has it and I might peruse my way through it and see if it is something I would use. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Sasha]

I'm a major fan of pocket guides, they're a lot easier to flip through at redlights than textbooks. I leave my InforMed Critical Care pocket guide in my car for that reason.

This book, however, is not so much a pocket guide. It calls itself a pocket guide but you'd have to have waaay huge carpenterish pockets to carry this book around in your pocket. It's like the size of one of those black and white composition books.

The more I flipped through it, the more I recommend it. It's a really great book, I'm in love!

 

[HatchetHarry]

Sup guys im about to hit the midterm in an 8 month accelerated medic program that has a reputation for putting out sub-par medics so im taking my own steps to make sure im not one of them. We are using the Nancy Caroline Emergency Care in the Streets textbook which IMO isnt very good. Ill look into that nursing pocket guide but what are some other supplemental books? Has anyone ever read "The Streetmedics Handbook" it sounds pretty interesting but might be something I should wait to read until after I take the NREMT.

I currently have
Brady Drug Guide for Paramedics(pocket guide)
Brady Success for the Paramedic - has practice exams for each chapter

looking for some more books but there are alot of options on amazon and Im not sure what to get

 

[marineman]

I keep my pocket guide in the rig to read while we're posting (if you call it something else it's where we park in a neutral spot away from our station) I don't like having a full size textbook flying around the rig so I read a textbook at the station and the pocket guide in the rig. I'll have to take a look at that one sasha, I'm turning into a book :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored:.