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Had Geriatrics, Orthopaedics and Vascular Surgery. Overall both high work load but opportunities to do theatre work or procedures if being proactive. For night shifts we have Hospital at night who cover majority of nursing bleeps and can do IV access and advise the inexperienced nurses. This can be less useful for surgical night cover and ends up being escalated to the F1/F2 on call.
Vascular is well staffed generally and had all breaks on this job. General Surgery cover can be very busy especially when Seniors are in theatre, ensure you go to theatre if you have concerns. Urology patients overnight can be extremely unwell as tertiary urology pt and can be difficult to escalate. Overall had opportunities for audits, research publications and assisting in theatre for training applications.
Workload Rating
7/10
Examples of Tasks
Bloods/Cannulas, ECG Interpretation, X-Ray Interpretation, Verify Death
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