What this book owns, and how four domains fit fifteen pages
A fifteen-cell horizontal strip, one numbered cell per page, each tinted by its lane: cross-domain, GI and hepatic, hematology and oncology, assessment.
The scope contract
| OWNS | BORROWS | DOES NOT COVER |
|---|---|---|
| Upper and lower GI bleeding | Every reference range and critical value, from Book 7 | Laboratory tables of any kind |
| Peptic ulcer and perforation | Isolation and precaution mechanics, from Book 4 | Personal protective equipment sequence |
| Bowel obstruction | Drug class logic, from Book 5 | Drug suffix families |
| Appendicitis and peritonitis | Every calculation, from Book 6 | Drip rates and titration math |
| Acute pancreatitis | Shock classification, from Book 9 | Shock stages and hemodynamic profiles |
| Inflammatory bowel disease | Obstetric coagulopathy, from Book 12 | The two Book 1 red-flag survey pages |
| Ostomy assessment and teaching | Pediatric sickle cell, from Book 13 | Serology marker interpretation |
| Cirrhosis, portal hypertension, ascites, encephalopathy, varices | Delegation frameworks, from Book 3 | Nurse Practice Act variation by state |
| The hepatitis types by transmission route | Clinical judgment loop mechanics, from Book 2 | Bowtie and matrix construction rules |
| Anemias by mechanism; sickle cell crisis | ||
| Thrombocytopenia and consumptive coagulopathy | ||
| Transfusion reactions | ||
| Leukemia and lymphoma; the neutropenic patient | ||
| The oncologic emergencies | ||
| Chemotherapy and radiation nursing, including extravasation |
The split
Pages 3 and 4 are cross-domain, because the behavior this book teaches is one behavior. Pages 5 to 7 are GI and hepatic, because those two fail candidates on pattern recognition and reward two compare pages. Pages 8 to 11 are hematology and oncology, because those fail candidates on speed and reward a clock, a triage board, an exhibit, and a case. Pages 12 to 15 are assessment, weighted ten GI and hepatic items against eight heme and oncology items so the deeper teaching gets the harder questions.
How to read the devices
- Margin note is an aside worth remembering, never a tested fact on its own.
- Watch out always names patient harm.
- Memory hook is a mnemonic spelled out in full.
- Takeaway is the one sentence that survives the page.
- → BOOK 07 · P4 is a pointer chip. It means another book owns that content and this book will not reprint it.
Standing rule for this book: every transfusion procedure claim on any page is verified against current AABB Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services, and every point where institutional policy legitimately varies is labeled on the page rather than smoothed over.
☐ I know which book owns lab values.
Takeawaythis book teaches escalation, and it points rather than reprints.
Every value → BOOK 07 · P3. The red-flag survey → BOOK 01 · P48.