Operating Department Practice

This page will help you get more out of your Library resources for your assignments, projects and dissertations in Operating Department Practice

• Choosing your sources - first steps

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How to choose the most appropriate source for your research

• Finding print books and ebooks using the Library Catalogue

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Links to books provided by the University Library. Includes textbooks, dictionaries and encyclopedias.

A collection of key textbooks including:

Aulton's Pharmaceutics

Bailey & Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology

Calculations and Pharmaceutics in Practice

Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics

Community Pharmacy

Dale's Pharmacology Condensed

Drug Discovery and Development

Evidence-Based Practice Across Health Professions

Foundations for Health Promotion

Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy

Gould's Pathophysiology for the Health Professions

Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology

Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine

Mims' Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Pathophysiology: The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults and Children

Pharmaceutical Analysis

Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Pharmacy OSCEs and Competency-Based Assessments

Pharmacy Practice

Psychiatric Drugs Explained

Rang & Dale's Pharmacology

Research Methods in Pharmacy Practice

The Top 100 Drugs

Trease and Evans' Pharmacognosy

Underwood's Pathology: a Clinical Approach

Wheater's Functional Histology

 

Additional access instructions:

Make sure to register as a student


fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

What:

  • Contains full text books in many subject areas.

Why:

  • A search performed on this platform will search the full text of all titles using your keywords. It will retrieve individual chapters on your topic.

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fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

What:

  • MedicinesComplete is an online platform which offers access to world-leading drug and healthcare resources. MedicinesComplete is a unique collection of clinically-proven, unbiased pharmaceutical information providing practical guidance and insight to pharmaceutical and clinical practitioners, researchers, and regulatory professionals. Includes:
  • British national formulary
    British national formulary for Children
    Pharmaceutical excipients
    Stockley's drug interactions

Why: 

  • The information in these texts supports clinical decision making in the use and administration of drugs and medicines.

How:

 

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Independent Research - beyond the basics

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Referencing

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Guidance and support for referencing in APA7 and links to information on reference management software

Your Subject Team

 Hannah Britcher

Faculty Librarian

email hannah.britcher@port.ac.uk

 Marie Smith

Assistant Faculty Librarian

email Marie.smith@port.ac.uk