Well, about a million years ago I was a new houseman in Dorset and it was Mr Pope, the old charge nurse who taught me most of these basic skills, even though he wasn't supposed to do most of them. I'll raise a glass to his shade for he must have been pushing up the daisies these many years.
We used to have a little book called the House Officers Vade Mecum that we used to look up stuff like dosages in, but I suppose HO's these days distain such auch aids. Too busy studying Practice Management and being taught the empathy and common sense that they should have had anyway.
You haven't lived until you've done a manual evac. or 30!
Where are the Mess Bars of yesteryear?
....subsides growling...