 | Hospital Medicine (Hospital Medicine (Wachter))
Buy new: $88.00 / Used from: $59.00 THE reference for hospital medicine practice. You'll read it cover to cover.
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 | Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking by Lynn S. Bickley
Buy used from: $64.00 You will probably use this for your physical diagnosis class anyway.
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 | Rapid Interpretation of EKG's, Sixth Edition by Dale Dubin
Buy new: $30.51 / Used from: $28.66 The classic on reading 12-lead ECGs. Even if you're an experienced cardiac ICU nurse, you can learn some tricks here.
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 | Practical Aspects of Nutrition Support: An Advanced Practice Guide by Patricia H. Worthington RN MSN CNSN
Buy new: $54.95 / Used from: $17.50 You'll be initiating and monitoring both enteral and parenteral nutrition, and this books explains how.
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 | Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (LANGE Basic Science) by Bertram Katzung
Buy used from: $18.74 This is the pharm book with most bang-for-the-buck. RUN, do not walk, away from any pharm book with the words "advanced practice" or "primary care" in the title. They DO NOT have what you need.
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 | Learning Radiology: Recognizing the Basics: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access by William Herring MD
Buy new: $45.30 / Used from: $62.15 Yep, they'll expect you to be able to see basic anomalies in plain films AND CT ... and getting your head around cross-sectional anatomy is a real challenge if you've never cut up a cadaver. If you have a chance while you're in clinical, attach yourself at the hip to a radiologist for a couple of days and get him/her to do a data dump into your brain.
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 | The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy, 2008 by Jay P. Sanford
Buy used from: $3.99 Yep, you need to be able to figure out how to treat infections empirically while you wait for the sensitivities to get back. Sanford's your guy.
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 | Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple (Medmaster) by Mark Gladwin
Buy new: $23.56 / Used from: $21.49 This is the book that will save you when you don't even have the CULTURE back, never mind the sensitivities. If you're working from a Gram stain, this is your reference.
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 | Clinical Research in Practice: A Guide for the Bedside Scientist by Janet, Ph.D. Houser
Buy new: $54.95 / Used from: $18.00 This book will show you how to use all the stuff you learned in your research class; it really does come in handy when you're trying to convince one of your colleagues to do something different.
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 | Clinician's Pocket Reference, 11th Edition (CLINICIANS POCKET REFERENCE) by Leonard Gomella
Buy new: $31.35 / Used from: $24.14 Initially known as the "Scut Puppy's Guide," this book was first put together for interns getting thrown into hospital practice by the seat of the pants. It is the single most useful book I had in my first year of practice.
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