By Tracy Churchill - Clinical nurse and founder - Nurse professional advancement Tracy Chuchill Many people think Nurses and Doctors are kind, compassionate and fair to ALL people. After 15 years of working in the emergency department, I believe that this claim of fairness could be a baseless myth. In the healthcare system, we are… Continue reading Why Nurses and Doctors ARE Unfair
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WRaP EM meets CardMedic
Dr Rachael Grimaldi - Senior Anaesthetic Registrar; Co-founder and CEO, CardMedic 1. CardMedic is a multipurpose flexible digital communication tool. It looks to have been created out of a need for clear communication and the ability to connect with our critically unwell patients during COVID. How do you think the programme helps clinicians meet this need? While on… Continue reading WRaP EM meets CardMedic
ED Muso’s – Music, Medicine and Connection
Dr Clare Skinner - Director of Emergency Medicine at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital in Sydney Q+A November Conversation with Clare Skinner on ED Muso on Oct 30th The ED Musos project is growing from strength to strength. What do you think it is that attracts all of your colleagues to come and perform with the group… Continue reading ED Muso’s – Music, Medicine and Connection
“I need a goat” – by Anna Ballantyne
Anna Ballantyne - Clinical Nurse Consultant in Emergency Medicine In this reflective piece, our nursing colleague, Anna Ballantyne shares her experience of some practices and strategies that help to sustain her through her most testing ED shifts. She describes the challenges faced in contexts such as triage, time-pressured work-ups and flow, and gives some helpful… Continue reading “I need a goat” – by Anna Ballantyne
Podcast – Learning from medical error
In this episode Mel Rule interviews FACEM Dr Kim Hansen who is the Director of Emergency at St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital and a Senior Staff Specialist in EM at The Prince Charles Hospital. Her particular interests within EM include quality improvement and patient safety, especially monitoring and learning from adverse events. She has been… Continue reading Podcast – Learning from medical error
Once upon a nightshift
By Tracy Churchill A story about how a small gesture can have a big impact Once upon a night shift, I went into the ED tea room. It was 2am and a doctor was sitting hunched over on the table with his head in his hands. He didn’t look up when I entered the room. … Continue reading Once upon a nightshift
Podcast – Incivility and its impact on our ability to provide good patient care
This podcast was recorded at the ACEM ASM last in November 2019. We delayed the release given we were all focussed on our COVID response. However we felt that now you might want an occasional change of pace from COVID. Mel Rule interviews FACEM Clare Skinner who is the Director of EM at Hornsby Kuring-Gai… Continue reading Podcast – Incivility and its impact on our ability to provide good patient care
The email no clinician wants to receive…
“Private and confidential – Notice of a referral to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency” Is there a more terrifying subject heading sitting in your email inbox? Perhaps, but I have (fortunately) yet to encounter it. I was a recipient of such an email, and it was devastating. The details of the case aren’t really… Continue reading The email no clinician wants to receive…
Podcast – Part 2 of Staff Wellbeing in the COVID-19 era
In this episode we discuss tips for maintaining individual wellbeing in the face of COVID-19, how to support our colleagues overcome the stress and anxiety generated by this pandemic and how to tackle that sense of loss autonomy that we all feel to some degree in the context of this pandemic. Some take home points:… Continue reading Podcast – Part 2 of Staff Wellbeing in the COVID-19 era
Podcast – A departmental approach to Health Care Worker Wellbeing during COVID-19
In this WRaPEM podcast we have Dr Una Harrington, Dr Melanie Rule, Dr Charlie McNabb and Dr Ashwini Amaratunga discussing: 1. How we can adapt our approach to Health Care Worker Wellbeing in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic 2. Ideas for how to approach Health Care Worker Wellbeing at a departmental level in the… Continue reading Podcast – A departmental approach to Health Care Worker Wellbeing during COVID-19
