Stay fit: Stay active and eat a healthy diet. Science can’t cure everything: Incorporate other arts Plan ahead: Keeps you sharp and successful Be inspired: to stay motivated, seek inspiration. Take the stairs: This can keep you in shape Worry less: Life is unpredictable; stop worrying Share knowledge: teach or lecture Don’t be money crazy: it won’t get you anywhere. Find a role […]
Type-D patients & Sign-Outs
We all know about personality types like “Type A”, but there are also patient types, especially when it comes to effective communication during shift changes and sign-outs. We all understand the challenges of sign-out, and no one likes to get stuck with a patient who is difficult to discharge or has a hundred questions, especially when […]
EMERGENCY MEDICINE RESOURCES
Emergency Medicine Pocket References A-to-Z EM Pocket Pharmacopoeia & Antibiotic Guide, 4th ed. Tabular, alphabetic and quick to use with side effects and contraindications for each drug. Also tables on toxicities organized by side effect, a complete empiric antibiotic guide, procedural sedation, critical care and more —>> Emergency Medicine 1-Minute Consult Pocketbook, 5th ed. Our […]
Keeping it Old-School
In 2014 all the buzz is about medical information at your fingertips seems to focus on tweets and apps. Some of the emergency medicine periodicals even have a monthly column on tweets and others on apps, but when is the last time you saw them do a pocket book review? Yes, I mean one made […]
Think Twice in Top 50 books of 2012
Well, maybe I exaggerated a bit, but it is in the Top 50 Must-Read Books for Nurses in 2012 While this may be a sometimes humorous account of true stories from the ER, it also reminds us that one bad decision could change our lives. The book is full of pictures, important phone numbers, and a […]
EM/ED resources for EM/ED providers
Welcome to EMresource.ORG. (ERpocketbooks.com has now become EMresource.org in order to reflect our added content). In addition to emergency medicine pocket reference books, we now boast many additional products as well as free educational content aimed primarily at ED and urgent care practitioners. Use the menu on the left or the hotlinks below to browse the site. […]
SUCK IT UP AMERICA
Emergency departments are distilleries that boil complex blends of trauma, stress and emotion down to the essence of immediacy: What needs to be done, right now, to fix the problem. Working the past 20 years in such environments has shown me with great clarity what is wrong (and right) with our nation’s medical system. It’s […]
How to take your ED from Good to Great.
Would you be curious about what is going on in an ER that has Press Ganey scores in the 97th percentile and a waiting list of nurses to select from? Challenges arise in the operation of ERs every day and are met with varying degrees of effectiveness. The Secret Ingredients of the Ultimate ER takes […]
WELCOME TO EMRESOURCE.ORG
“Emergency physicians need to always be looking for trouble. We also love it when we are wrong” – Brady Pregerson, MD “It’s not our patient’s job to prove they are sick. It’s our job to prove they are not.” – Yaron Ivan, MD EMresource.org is a free, no-registration, no log-in website designed for MD’s, RN’s […]