MRCP Paces Ethics and Communication Skills

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Radcliffe Publishing, 2006 - Medical - 234 pages
New primary care organisations are demanding personal and practice-based professional development plans to underpin revalidation of clinicians' professional registration or accreditation of practices. This workbook is unique in showing the reader how to combine and integrate the two and matches national guidelines that explain how to apply guidance in real life for maximum effect. With action plans key facts and references it emphasises how to prioritise learning needs provides examples of plans and focuses on a variety of clinical and organisational topics. It will enable general practitioners nurses therapists and practice managers to design and apply personal development plans as individuals and as multidisciplinary practice teams.
 

Contents

Basic medical ethics
1
Following a heart attack
79
29
82
ulcerative colitis
87
Obesity advice
91
The poorly compliant patient
95
10
98
Man wanting to selfdischarge
101
Speak with daughter about mothers death
152
Father diagnosed with Huntingtons disease
157
Stopping ventilation and organ donation
162
Transplant 1 The living donor
168
18
173
Parkinsons disease
177
Requesting a postmortem
180
Seeking consent from a relative
187

Delay in review
105
Obtaining consent for a specialist procedure
108
Warfarin and the pregnant woman
111
Withdrawal of consent
114
Worried about infection after blood transfusion
118
Patient requesting cannabis
121
Recruiting a patient into a clinical trial
125
16
127
The aggressive patient
128
discussion with the patient
131
Herbal therapy for angina
135
Discussions with relatives
140
Talking about PEG insertion
144
My father is MRSA positive
148
The Jehovahs Witness
191
21
194
Discussions with colleagues
195
The hepatitis C positive doctor
200
The needle stick injury
205
Bullying
210
The distressed medical student
214
discussion with the nurse
218
The offensive doctor
221
Appendices
224
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227
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