Introduction
Chapter 1: How a Hospital Works
                    Outpatient versus inpatient care
                    Community versus teaching hospitals
                    Private and staff patients
                    Nursing units and specialty services
                    Nursing unit personnel
                    Physician teams
                    Getting admitted to the hospital
                    Night call
                    Ward routines from a patient's perspective

Chapter 2: How to do Stuff
                    The chart review
                    Orders
                    Medications and prescriptions

Chapter 3: Writing Notes
                    Admission notes
                    Internal medicine daily progress notes
                    Discharge notes
                    Surgery
                    Obstetrics
                    Pediatrics
                    Neurology
                    Psychiatry

Chapter 4: Procedures
                    Preparing for any procedure
                    Introduction to phlebotomy and IV placement
                    Performing venipuncture
                    Placing IV's
                    Blood culture
                    Arterial blood gas
                    Electrocardiograms
                    Lumbar puncture
                    Nasogastric tube (NG) and Dobhoff placement
                    Placing a urinary (Foley) catheter
                    Procedure notes
                    Local anesthesia

Chapter 5: Bedside Tests
                    Urinalysis
                    Gram stain

Chapter 6: How to be Organized and Compulsive
                    Organizing your data and your schedule
                    RJL's essential reading list
                    Presentations