📢 Calling all ACP Educational Supervisors! Don't miss the final ACP supervisor training (virtual) session on 12 January 2024 (1:30-5pm). This is essential for supervisors who will be signing-off ACP portfolios in Spring/Autumn 2024!
Book your place here:
https://t.co/jYxT5ZvGqH
GHNHSFT Emergency Departments are recruiting! 😀
Senior Sister (Band 7) & Sister (Band 6) in Pediatric Emergency Care.
PLUS the innovative Rapid Care Practitioner (Band 6) (open to registrants with either the NMC or HCPC).
See tweet below for links: @svjamesecp @ACPMForrest
Stroke neurologist case of the day : 70 yo afib on Coumadin comes in for left sided hemiparesis. Last seen 3 hours prior to arrival found on the floor. Dense hemiplegia involving arm and leg. No other focal findings. Ct head negative. CTA negative. INR 3.0
Today sees the formal launch of the National PEWS chart.
It's been in development since 2018, piloted in a number of sites and demonstrated feasibility, usability and credibility (reduction in event rates in pilot sites versus national trend)
https://t.co/g8wQORLzFT
Please share this link with other ACPs working in Emergency Departments in England:
https://t.co/HOJRmU87Cl
Calling all EM ACPs, this survey is for you! Please take the short time to complete this workforce audit of all English EDs ACPs as part of a PhD research
Thank you to each and every one of you who has watched and reposted this video. 💜
If you haven’t shared it already, please do, so we can raise as much awareness of the issues facing our members and their patients as possible.
Help to #ResuscitateEmergencyCare
Word of the day is ‘struthonianism’: the act of burying one’s head in the sand; an attitude of ‘Problem? What problem?’.
From the Latin ‘struthio’, ‘ostrich’.
Humeral intraosseous access is our favourite go-to for immediate vascular access when venous access is delayed
But moving the arm to allow other procedures eg. thoracostomy can deform the needle or dislodge it
Here's how to prevent it
Video 5 min 40 sec
https://t.co/PT1MaF0xOe
NEWS | Important info ahead of the Junior Doctors’ industrial action starting Friday. Temp. changes at Cheltenham A&E from Thursday 10 Aug (8am). Please read and share: https://t.co/AM3Rzi4Kbu
Monday was another damning day for the government at the Covid Inquiry.
It is becoming clearer what the recommendations from the Inquiry are likely to be…
But there is also a bigger question raised about criminality…
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