8:00-9:00   Sit-down morning Handover only for ITU doctors (seminar room)

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8.30-9.00    Morning handover in SCBU and HDU from Nurse in charge to Doctors

 

9.00-10.00  Teaching/Meetings for all Junior Doctors (every day but Monday, seminar room)

 

 

10.00 Morning Huddle. Structured run-through/board-round of sick patients, planned procedures, staffing levels, bed status across SCBU, HDU, ITU. Charge nurses from all areas, ITUc & LDc registrars and all 4 consultants expected to attend.

 

Mornings.   Daily ward rounds in ITU. Twice a week in SCBU/HDU (PNW has a paper ward round on Monday and Thursday afternoon, see separate information from Gosia Radomska).

 

Usually time to go round on your own first to examine and review, then do a walk round with consultant +/- ITUc (although this can vary from consultant to consultant and whether you are familiar with the patients). 

 

Fluid/infusions prescribing: day time case-loading doctors to prescribe fluids/PN and infusions (e.g. morphine, inotropes) on the fluid charts during ward round or anyway before the end of the shift (maintenance fluids and continuous infusions will be changed overnight)

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20.00-21.00 Evening ITU handover (seminar room)

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22.00 Evening Huddle. Structured run-through/board-round of sick patients, planned procedures, staffing levels, bed status across. Charge nurses, ITUc and on-call consultant expected to attend.

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