for anyone who is interested in reading a horrific account of life in a hospital when the hurricane hit, i highly recommend this book. The life and death decisions that had to take place are absolutely third world. A fantastic and dark read for sure.
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https://www.amazon.com/Five-Days-Memorial-Storm-Ravaged-Hospital/dp/0307718964
I had the best intentions to stay keto/low-carb during the first trimester, but my nausea was so crippling and the only thing that I could keep down was salt & vinegar chips. So I lived on those and sugar free vitamin water for basically 8 weeks. The remainder of my pregnancy was low-carb once my Hyperemesis Gravidarum subsided.
Check out the book Real Food for Pregnancy - There is a lot of science showing that you really only need about 50g of glucose while the baby is in utero. After that, you can eat as low-carb as your body feels comfortable eating. (And as low-carb as your doctors are okay with you being given your medical situation.)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0323551122/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_YA8ZRF6K5TEMM2T342D9?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 This is the book my program had in our book packages. It has EVERY single NANDA approved nursing diagnosis you can use with a patient. It's really good to have when learning nursing diagnosis.
To use the book in the front pages (green section) you can look up a medical diagnosis and it will list possible nursing diagnoses. Then you can go to the back pages (listed in alphabetical order) and find that nursing diagnosis and it will tell you possible goals and outcomes and interventions you can use. You can't just pick random ones, relate them to your patient.
The only things I can stomach right now are bread and cheese, potatoes, cheerios and fruit. And Ensure. My diet is typically 75% plant based (lots of veggies, whole grains, legumes) so its radically different from what i'm used to. FWIW the same thing happened to me in my first pregnancy and after about 16 weeks I was able to go back to my normal diet with no problems. If you or your husband wants to get scientific about it, I've heard good things about Real Food for Pregnancy, which is evidenced based nutrition for pregnant people. Even this author, who is a nutrition expert, says that the first trimester is all about survival!
This is what my teacher told us to get. I have cited it several times for other classes without issue
Hey. For Patho, I turned my professor's outlines into Quizlet flashcards, would print those off, and glue them on notecards. I think everyone in my fam helped me flip through them and study. Also, I recorded each lecture on my phone (I may use MS Onenote for recording in the future) and relistened a few times and wrote notes to make sure I understood the material.
My classmate liked Osmosis (I didn't want to pay for the membership). She also met with a tutor twice a week to go over lecture notes.
I've heard good things about the "Pathophys Made Incredibly Easy" book. It's $19 to rent off Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Pathophysiology-Made-Incredibly-Easy-%C2%AE/dp/145114623X/ref=mp_s_a_1_10?keywords=pathophysiology+made+incredibly+easy&qid=1561857321&s=gateway&sr=8-10
Best of luck with your class 🌷🌷
A nutritionist suggested I read the book "Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition." It has good suggestions about how to eat to for optimal mom and baby health.
If you want to start, though, why not start now? Why wait a few weeks?
Get this book if you don’t already have access to it on Elsevier. It makes care plans so easy.
I don't want to talk too much and sound overbearing, but I found this book really helpful when trying to understand what I should be eating/not eating when pregnant: https://www.amazon.ca/Real-Food-Pregnancy-Prenatal-Nutrition/dp/0986295043
In my experience it's really hard to eat when you're pregnant sometimes as there can be so many aversions, so do what you can and be gentle with yourselves inshallah
I’m a couple weeks ahead of you, these two books so far have been helpful. So many myths out there and felt like we’re head of the curve by figuring out diet and then some falsity checks
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In the US, fully 42% of food-borne illness is from fresh fruits + vegetables (primarily leafy greens), but there are never warnings to avoid fresh produce in pregnancy.
I recommend grabbing a copy of Real Food for Pregnancy by Lily Nichols
I highly recommend this book. It actually says to eat as much fatty seafood as you want (high selenium in them cancels out the toxicity of mercury), and eating liver is extremely important to fetal development. Highly recommend!
That this book existed. It's my Bible (although there's no way I could follow it during my first trimester). Real Food For Pregnancy
I have never been low carb during pregnancy but this book has come highly recommended by my midwives. I’ve found it very practical and helpful. The author also has a book specifically for those with GD.
That did not work so well with Katrina. Generators did not support hospital AC systems. And many of the circut break boxes they supplied power too were flooded. Those 4,000 Army helicopters did not evacuate all the patients at Memorial hospital. https://www.amazon.com/Five-Days-Memorial-Storm-Ravaged-Hospital/dp/0307718964?asin=0307718964&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
In this book. https://www.amazon.com/Five-Days-Memorial-Storm-Ravaged-Hospital/dp/0307718964
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
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Sheri Fink talks about how the backup generators were on the 1st floor
which flooded and stoped working. There are 479 people on ventilators in hospitals. https://ldh.la.gov/Coronavirus/
Assuming they learned from Katrina and regularly maintained/tested the generators.
Check this book out sometime. https://www.amazon.com/Five-Days-Memorial-Storm-Ravaged-Hospital/dp/0307718964/ref=nodl_
The whole situation is one of the most horrific examples of incompetence, indifference, and greed, along with some people being put into a position to have to make some impossible ethical decisions.
I just started reading It Starts with the Egg this past weekend and so far I'm really enjoying it. I really love knowing there are practical ways I can help my chances of a successful pregnancy and since I'm getting close to TTC I actually wish I had read this a little earlier on and started making changes a few months ago.
Another book I'd highly recommend is Real Food for Pregnancy. The author does seem to touch on similar themes as ISWTE, but goes in depth into nutritional science as well. I think those two books are going to be my guiding lights through preconception and pregnancy.
Also, great choice about TCoYF. I recommend that book for every woman, regardless of their plans on getting pregnant. It is just such a wealth of information on how our reproductive system works. I wish I had read it as a teenager, honestly!
I’ve been vegetarian most of my life and that also excluded eggs. Since becoming pregnant I incorporated eggs because of choline after reading about it in this book. What I’ve found really helps is to boil them. Eggs disgust me but I started buying pasture raised eggs and I boil two a day to put sliced on toast with butter and salt and pepper, it’s really really helped make eating them tolerable.
[TASK] $3 for this book: Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 11e REAL PDF OF BOOK submitted just now by Diggity_McG
I'm not looking for the epub version. I already have that and it sucks. Epub is a crap format for a textbook. I need the actual book as a pdf instead as the formatting makes more sense for this book and the epub is actually missing things from the print edition.
Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 11e 11th Edition
by Betty J. Ackley MSN EdS RN (Author), Gail B. Ladwig MSN RN (Author), Mary Beth Flynn Makic RN PhD CNS CCNS CCRN (Author)
ISBN: 978-0323322249
I have the book Rapid Interpretation of EKG's it definitely starts with basics, but the format just didn't do it for me.
I much prefer the book ECG Workout it is basic but explains very well and has amazing practice problems, hundreds of them. Previous editions are nearly the same and can be found for very little money.
Link to amazon. you can buy used for for like $70.
A phenomenal book to read about how one hospital in New Orleans dealt with the devastation of Katrina is Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. From the synopsis: "In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos.
After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths.
Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting, unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader into a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing."
The Saunder's book isn't appropriate for someone who hasn't started taking nursing classes yet. It would make a great companion to what you learn in school, but there's a reason it's an NCLEX review book and not a textbook. If you really want to get ahead, I would do review of physiology/pathophysiology instead. Having a really thorough understanding of how the body works-- all of the organ system functions, the conduction system of the heart and circulatory system, etc. will be really beneficial when you start getting more into the pathophysiology/nursing classes. When you understand why and how things go wrong, the nursing management of those conditions will make perfect sense to you. I've really found "Pathophysiology Made Incredibly!" to be a really good resource for this. It provides the information in a way that's easy to understand exactly what's going on, and also gives an overview of diagnostic tests and treatment.
You may benefit from using the Saunders book to teacher yourself new material after you've taken your first nursing course, but I think you need to take a nursing fundamentals course before using a source like that. If you do choose to use it, I wouldn't recommend going farther than the fundamentals section.
Someone else also mentioned learning lab values and indications-- I'll second that. Just knowing the normal ranges for electrolytes and what could cause them to go up or down will be really helpful to you.
Get a copy of Bate's. Not everything in it is relevant to EMS, but it covers a TON of physical exam techniques not taught in EMT class and almost all of them are things that you can do as an EMT.
Whatever you do, don't go looking for it on the internet for free. It's definitely not available on many torrent sites as a PDF. I also definitely don't have a PDF version that I could send you if you're interested. cough
My advice would be to study up on physical exam. It's an area most in EMS are not proficient in. You don't have to be a Paramedic to perform a good physical exam.
I really like "Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination" and apparently the 5th edition is available online at Barnes and Nobel for only $1.99?? Can't beat that lol
You could also check out, "Bates' Guide to Physical Examination". Amazon
Hold your horses. If you're talking about OLD versions of Gray's anatomy, then you would be right. Most places that sell Gray's sell the older editions (or remakes of the classic older editions). However, the CURRENT editions of Gray's Anatomy are the some of the most complete and accurate anatomical textbooks in existence.
Here is a link to the most recent version of Gray's available. Be aware: this is not light reading.
2 other great ECG books
ECG Interpretation Made Incredibly Easy!
12-Lead ECG: The Art of Interpretation
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0763712841/ref=oh_details_o07_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Nope, palsy (Taking ataxic for example) are characterized by spastic, random, meaningless hiperflexions that tend to follow a certain chorea. (Comes from choreography because they do little dances that differentiate one from another)
I say it's Parkinson's because they do a kind of "Coin counting" hand gesture and have slow periods where all their motor movements are slow and are in a near stupor state.
Sources: http://www.amazon.com/Bates-Physical-Examination-History-Taking/dp/0781785197/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308217113&sr=1-7 and Dr. Quant, my Internal medicine/infectology specialist at the public hospital I do shifts at.
How about the book Gray's Anatomy, where the rest of that stuff gets it's name.