Table of Contents

1: The hospital team
Nursing in the UK, an admission, a job interview
2: In and around the hospital
Directions, the porter's office, on the ward
3: Hospital admissions
A patient record, bad handwriting, admitting a patient
4: Accidents and emergencies
Shock, instructions, emergency helpline
5: Pain
Areas of referred pain, questions to assess pain, pain chart, pain relief
6: Symptoms
Night coughing, researching symptoms, a helpline call, mystery syndromes
7: Caring for the elderly
The effects of ageing, a care home, assessing a patient
8: Nutrition and obesity
Nutrition, vitamins and minerals, food intake, eating disorders
9: Blood
The heart, forensic analysis, blood types, blood tests, blood pattern analysis
10: Death and dying
The body after death, breaking bad news, report of a death
11: Hygiene
MRSA, a hygiene report, test results, a hygiene inspection
12: Mental health nursing
Tourette syndrome, famous people suffering from mental illness, a case conference, schizophrenia
13: Monitoring the patient
Taking readings, hypothermia, a coma patient, a scan
14: Medication
Dosages, drugs which have changed history, patient medication
15: Alternative treatments
Medicinal plants, wild treatments, healers

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