Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions UK Edition - Elsevier eBook on Vitalsource, 1st Edition
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
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For the first time, a fully UK edition of this popular reference work, uses English spelling and terminology, and metric measurements. Medical, nursing, allied health and complementary therapy terms are included, and appendices cover UK guidelines, bodies and organisations. Extensive illustrations and helpful electronic support material.
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- UK spelling and terminology, and patient-friendly definitions
- Over 20,000 entries
- Full-colour illustration section
- Full-colour clinical photograph section for easy identification of conditions
Website:
o colour illustrations, with and without labels, for self-testing
o clinical photographs in full colour
o downloadable spellchecker o ‘Word of the Day’ o useful weblinks
- Metric measurement system.
- Prefixes and suffixes
- SI units and the metric system
- Normal values
- Nutrients
- Drugs: the law, measurement and drug groups in common use
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Useful websites
- Chemical symbols and formulae
- Radionuclide Applications
- Resuscitation Council Life Support algorithms
- Chronological development and eruption of teeth
- The Nursing and Midwifery Council: The Code: Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics for Nurses and Midwives 2008
- Career development: curriculum vitae
- Research, evidence-based practice and web sources.
Appendices
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How to use this dictionary
Colour sections
Illustrations
Clinical photographs
A-Z entries Appendices Appendix 1 Prefixes and suffixes
Appendix 2 SI units and the metric system
Appendix 3 Normal values
Appendix 4 Nutrients
Appendix 5 Drugs: the law, measurement and drug groups in common use
Appendix 6 Abbreviations and acronyms: medical terms and related organizations
Appendix 7 Useful websites
Appendix 8 Chemical symbols and formulae
Appendix 9 Radionuclide applications
Appendix 10 Basic Life Support (BLS)
Appendix 11 Chronological development and eruption of teeth
Appendix 12 The Code: Standards of conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives (2008)
Appendix 13 Career development via your curriculum vitae (CV). Personal development and structured networking
Appendix 14 Research, evidence-based practice and web sources
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Chris Brooker, BSc, MSc, RGN, SCM, RNT, Author and Lecturer, Norfolk, UK
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