Cons Emergency Medicine Locum at Cowra

ED Morning Shift: 07:30–16:00 in the Emergency Department, including face-to-face clinical handover with night ED doctor, providing onsite medical care to ED patients, completing discharge summaries, reviewing admitted patients, providing and leading clinical review, rapid response, trauma and cardiac arrest services across the facility, and managing pathology/radiology results and follow-up.

Qualifications/Experience • Current ALS Certificate

Duties • Face-to-face clinical handover with night ED doctor at 0730

• 7:30 – 1600 in the Emergency Department, complete discharge summaries and review admitted patients as requested.
• Provide onsite medical care to patients presenting to the emergency department.
• 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.

Requirements NSW Health: Non-Specialist Medical Locum Pre-employment Mandatory Training Requirements

HETI Locum Mandatory Training Requirements:

• Adult Basic Life Support
• Between the Flags - Tier 1: Awareness, Charts and Escalation
• Fire Safety and Evacuation
• Infection Prevention Strategies for Medical Officers
• Open Disclosure
• Personal Protective Equipment for Combined Transmission Based Precautions
• Privacy – It’s Yours to Keep
• Respecting the Difference: Know the Difference
• Your Role in Safety and Quality
• Violence Prevention and Management for Medical Officers
• eMeds HETI Modules

Travel including Hire Car Organised by Agency with approval from WNSWLHD via Locum Email WNSWLHD-Locums@health.nsw.gov.au ** Please note: Hire cars are difficult in obtaining after hours and on weekends, so it is preferable that all locums travel in standard business times where possible.

Accommodation Organised by facility and advice provided to locum agency

ED Morning Shift