Cons General Practice Locum at Forbes

General Practice doctor working ED/Ward Overnight. Duties include handover with day doctor, onsite in ED 1730–2300 then on-call overnight, inpatient care, ED presentations, postop care, documentation, rapid response/trauma/cardiac arrest coverage, checking pathology and radiology results, surgical assisting, and supervising junior staff and registrars.

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Face-to-face clinical handover with day doctor at 1730 – 1800 and 0730 – 0800 in the Emergency Department.

You will be required to be onsite from 1730 to 2300. The on call doctor overnight is expected to attend the hospital when requested to attend by Nursing staff.

Provide medical care to inpatients, complete discharge summaries and review admitted patients as requested.

Provide onsite medical care to patients presenting to the emergency department.

Provide medical care to admitted postoperative patients.

Complete contemporaneous and comprehensive clinical documentation in eMR.

Provide and lead clinical review, rapid response, trauma and cardiac arrest services across the facility

Check pathology and radiology results in the ED results message centre ordered by any doctor, follow-up and document management plans for any results needed further action and review any patients returning for follow-up of results.

Provide surgical assistance in theatre when required.

Participate in the training and supervision of students, junior medical officers and registrars.

Participate in morbidity and mortality meetings, MDT meetings and other clinical meetings as requested.

ED/Ward Overnight