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IM BOOTCAMP 2016 - How to See Patients Daily

Published on Jul 11, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

How to see patients daily

ubc IM Bootcamp 2016  |  M. Lam, Nephrology PGy-5

OBJECTIVES

  • Understanding your role and tasks
  • Scheduling your day
  • Workflow
  • Discharges and Follow-up
  • New Consults
  • #ProTips
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IM Jr - Your Role

  • Team Workhorse: hands-on patient care
  • "Most Responsible Housestaff"
  • Patient + family updates
  • Coordinating Tests/Consults/Care
  • Teaching
  • Learning

IM Jr - Your Tasks

  • Know the patient in and out
  • Ensure adequate workup
  • Follow-up on investigations
  • Facilitate d/c planning + paperwork
  • Update Sr + Attending
  • Be a team player
  • Teach med students
  • Reading around cases

Workflow

  • Team Coordination + Supervision
  • Discharge + flow planning with PCC/CNs
  • Team scheduler
  • Teaching
  • High level reading
  • Difficult discussions
  • All-round extra pair of hands

Typical Day Schedule

  • Morning
  • Noon rounds
  • Afternoon
  • Home
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Typical Day Schedule

AM preparation: coffee, list, overnight labs, sickies
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Typical Day Schedule

AM handover: cases, images, issues
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Typical Day Schedule

Reviewing New Cases: team efficiency
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Typical Day Schedule

(+/- Team Rounds: more team efficiency)
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Typical Day Schedule

Seeing Patients: off into the wild (-2hrs)
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Typical Day Schedule

Noon Rounds: nom nom nom
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Typical Day Schedule

Afternoon time: stable Pts, procedures, d/c planning, updates
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Typical Day Schedule

Day's End: team check, handover, setup, reading list

Workflow

  • sickest patients
  • planned discharges
  • geographical efficiency
  • *issues-based rounding
  • ~15 minutes/patient
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Workflow

Chart, Vitals, MAR: often the hardest things to find
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Workflow

Updates: overnight, consultants, nursing, allied health
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Workflow

Notes: ID, issues + relevant changes, clinical reasoning, housekeeping
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Workflow

The Patient: observe, listen, examine, update

Workflow

Review: lines/tubes/movements

Workflow

De-medicalize: fluids, meds (po), lines, ambulate
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Workflow

mental discharge checklist: outstanding barriers

Workflow

Phone calls: tests, consults (early), family
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Notes

full note vs. update note vs. clinical summary
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Notes

"The One-liner"
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Notes

clinical reasoning + anticipatory medicine
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Discharges + Follow-up

  • Prescriptions +/- faxing
  • Follow-up appointments + labs
  • BCMA Discharge form
  • Discharge summary (dictate)
  • GP phone calls

New Consults

  • Triage
  • Setting up: pre-reading (history + reference)
  • "3 visits" --> "2 visits"
  • Impression, differential, plan
  • Orders
  • Case Review
  • Reassessment + handover
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#ProTips

Things to make life easier
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#ProTips

anti-entropy: be organized in your own way
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#ProTips

Avoid switchboard: on-call schedules, cell phone paging
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#ProTips

Avoid switchboard: common extensions

#ProTips

Avoid switchboard: secret extensions
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#ProTips

Optimize your phone: hospital numbers
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#ProTips

Pick Up The Phone: expediting tests
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#ProTips

Pick up the phone: Call People!
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#ProTips

defend your territory: find a computer and keep it
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#ProTips

Avoid Walking: Tubing

#ProTips

Avoid Walking: Telephone Orders (limit use)
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#ProTips

Befriend the Unit Clerk... but never be above doing it yourself

#ProTips

technology: learn how to fax / photocopy / print
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#ProTips

Know what's urgent... and what can wait
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#ProTips

eat.  Just do it.  Sames goes for bodily functions.
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#ProTips

Suffer together: a team is a team is a team
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#ProTips

Know your resources... and use them regularly
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#ProTips

run. jump. play.

#ProTips

Know your EMR: PCIS tricks (external)
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#ProTips

Know your EMR: SCM tricks (external)

#ProTips

balance: talk to your patients - discover who they are
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Questions?

Clear as Mud
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